Vintage Power Macintosh — MacOS 7.6 or 8.1?
Back in the 1990s I was a die hard Apple fan but also being a young student meant I had very limited funds. My primary computer at the time was a Macintosh IIsi in...
Category: Old Stuff
Installing Windows NT 4.0 On A PowerPC
The 1990s were truly an interesting time for computing. If you were a fan of Microsoft Windows NT, you didn’t even need an Intel x86 based computer to run it. The widely popular Windows...
Retro Computing Fun – Paul’s Old Crap
If you’re looking for videos on retro computing hardware and software from the 80s and 90s, check out the Paul’s Old Crap YouTube video series covering various neat computers and programs.
Building A Vintage Windows 95 Pentium PC
Earlier this summer I wrote my Building A Vintage 486 PC guide which documented my hunt for 486 parts and getting MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 installed. For general usability, I found myself running into...
Building A Vintage 486 PC
The 486 PC has a special place in my heart as it was the first real computer my family owned, and the time I spent using it likely fueled my desire to maintain computers...
Looking Back At 90s Internet
Before we get to the actual point of this article, I’ll go ahead and tell my life story. I was born in the early 80s so my first introduction to the Internet came during...
Getting Online With Windows 3.11
There’s nothing quite like that moment when you fire up your copy of Windows 3.11 (for Workgroups of course) and a copy of Internet Explorer so ancient you’d swear it was actually older than...
Hotline – The Glory Days Of P2P
The world of Hotline was pretty exciting in the late 1990’s to early 2000’s. Hotline Comm initially ran the two main tracker servers known as mac.hltracker.com and pc.hltracker.com. Between the Mac and PC users...
