Here we have my colour classic running a modern USB Apple keyboard mouse. How you say? Well, a chap called Steve at his site http://www.bigmessowires.com/ makes several unique and quite clever gadgets for vintage mac owners. There is more info on the ADB <> USB converter here: http://www.bigmessowires.com/retro-usb/ but essentially its a hardware converter for…
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Our FPU for the colour classic arrived in the post today. Fingers crossed it speeds up the machine!
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This little gizmo converts USB HID devices to ADB and vice versa. Works really well and as intended.
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Big thank you to mac memories for these rare 30 pin simms. I have now maxed out the colour classic to a whopping 10 megabytes of ram but it will now run open transport meaning when the ethernet cards arrive I can run an IPstack. Installation was simple – remove the trap door and pull…
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The mac idiots RGB to SVGA converter arrived this morning. That meant we could fire up Andy’s IIcx and switch it over to a whole 16 colours!
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CD Drive has arrived! Whoop!
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Phil’s Mac SE runnning from a floppy disk emulator SD dongle with a stack of games.
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