MacSnap RAM Upgrade for Macintosh 512Ke
I recently came across an unused Dove Computer MacSnap RAM upgrade on eBay, so I bought it and installed it in my Mac 512Ke to bring its RAM up to 1Mb.
Cidco MailStation as a Z80 Development Platform
posted on may 3rd, 2019
with tags
hardware,
retrocomputing,
and
z80, and last updated on apr 30th, 2021
The Cidco MailStation is a series of dedicated e-mail terminals sold in the 2000s as simple, standalone devices for people to use to send and receive e-mail over dialup modem. While their POP3 e-mail functionality is of little use today, the hardware is a neat Z80 development platform that integrates a 320x128 LCD, full QWERTY keyboard, and an internal modem.
After purchasing one (ok, four) on eBay some months ago, I’ve learned enough about the platform to write my own software that allows it to be a terminal for accessing BBSes via its modem or as a terminal for a Unix machine connected over parallel cable.
Dolch PAC 64
posted on mar 20th, 2018
with tags
hardware
and
retrocomputing
The Dolch PAC 64 is a portable, rugged Pentium-powered PC from the mid 1990s. It was usually used (and can usually be found on eBay) as a “portable network sniffer” complete with multiple network cards supporting multiple media types.
WiFi232 with a Macintosh 512Ke
posted on jun 23rd, 2017
with tags
hardware,
mac,
and
retrocomputing, and last updated on aug 16th, 2020
Back in 2015, I created a BBS for Lobsters that worked in a web browser via WebSockets. After getting an old Mac earlier this year, I wanted a way to access the BBS from the Mac as natively as I could. Adding telnet and SSH frontends to the BBS was not too difficult, but being able to login from my Mac took a bit of work.
Creating a BBS in 2015
posted on apr 2nd, 2015
with tags
retrocomputing
and
ruby, and last updated on mar 28th, 2015
Although it fooled nobody, yesterday for April Fools’ Day, Lobsters users that normally saw a boring list of story titles and links were greeted with a BBS-style interface to the site complete with story and comment browsing, private message reading and sending, and a multi-user chat area.
The BBS remains active at
https://lobste.rs/bbs (you can login as
“guest”).
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