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A G4 Journey
It has been roughly six months since the beginning of this journey – and I certainly didn’t intend for it to take this long. It’s a journey of obstacles, of tinkering and mending, and, in the end, of something that could be called “joy”. To make this short, a journey of finding and putting together a working Power Mac G4.
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Apple PowerBook 3400c
I had mentioned this particular system in my previous post, with the prospect of writing one specifically about it – and here we are. This here will be a summary of my recent experience with the Apple PowerBook 3400c/200, a 1997 vintage PowerPC-based Macintosh laptop.
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Possessing Possessions
What is it with me and keeping old computer hardware? And I don’t mean hardware that’s just slightly out of date, nor things that would commonly be considered vintage or retro. I’m thinking of Pentium II- or III-era PCs and their components: these are way out of date for any real day-to-day usage, but also aren’t really pieces of equipment that might be nice to have for nostalgia reasons, for running old DOS or Windows 9x games. So, what’s the point?
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