WFH - PowerBook G4

I didn't change out the Mac SE/30 for a couple of weeks, but for this week I dug out one of my favorite laptops, the Apple PowerBook G4. Back in the 00s I used a 15" PowerBook G4 and had access to the 12" iBooks, but never got to …

Work from home continues with my Macintosh SE/30

Another week at home, another retro terminal to work from, my 128MB Macintosh SE/30! I've talked about this bad boy a lot in the last few months. It's such a workhorse, and everytime I get on it I'm transported to 1990. The terminal I'm using is...

Assembling my Floppy Emu from Big Mess O' Wires

Back on February 1st I ordered a Floppy Emu from Big Mess O' Wires. The Floppy Emu emulates a floppy disk drive. Floppy disk images can be stored on the SD card and mounted from the Floppy Emu itself. This makes it a lot easier to transfer and...

Upgrading my SE/30 to 128MB of RAM

My trusty Macintosh SE/30 has had 5MB of RAM in it since I installed the SCSI2SD and System 7.1. Now that I have a [modem/ppp] device available, I want to upgrade to System 7.5. From what I've been able to find, I really need at least …

Getting online with my Macintosh SE/30

One of my goals for creating the CHIP wifi modem was to use it as a networking device with my SE/30. Today I tried it out as a modem. My first issue was the fact I didn't have any communication software on the SE/30. Well, I take that …