Apropos of nothing, I saw a Macintosh Portable in 1997 or 1998 and I was blown away at the display quality. I don’t know if it was actually that good but it seemed incredible at the time.
When I read the title, I immediately thought “shoulda done a PowerBook 100.”
I started laughing when I got to
This article was originally supposed to be titled “Adding Wi-Fi to a PowerBook 100” since that laptop is much more reasonable to lug around, but its logic board died while working on this and I’m in the process of bringing it back to life.
That SCSI analyzer is wild. In the mid 1990s when we were looking to interface with some weird industrial hardware, I heard of such a thing, and heard it was eye-wateringly expensive, but never pursued it because we found a way to do all we needed to over a serial port. I forgot all about it until just now.
Thanks for sharing that write-up. And kudos for thinking to use BlueSCSI for a network interface like that. Neither the result nor the story would have been as good had you settled for serial.
The Desk Accessory was a beautiful finishing touch.
I love this so much. Kudos for persevering with such a tricky project and for rounding it out so completely with the desk accessory.
This is wonderful.
Apropos of nothing, I saw a Macintosh Portable in 1997 or 1998 and I was blown away at the display quality. I don’t know if it was actually that good but it seemed incredible at the time.
It was really good for the time. I had one, and I loved it, but it wasn’t actually useful once the Powerbooks came along.
When I read the title, I immediately thought “shoulda done a PowerBook 100.”
I started laughing when I got to
That SCSI analyzer is wild. In the mid 1990s when we were looking to interface with some weird industrial hardware, I heard of such a thing, and heard it was eye-wateringly expensive, but never pursued it because we found a way to do all we needed to over a serial port. I forgot all about it until just now.
Thanks for sharing that write-up. And kudos for thinking to use BlueSCSI for a network interface like that. Neither the result nor the story would have been as good had you settled for serial.
The Desk Accessory was a beautiful finishing touch.
Good news!