Not sure if you have seen the video for 1999 by Charli XCX but there are some geeky references in it. #imac #netscape
From the ashes!
£50 on facebook saw me obtaining this iMac 24 inch. A strip, clean and replacement internal PSU sees this mac living to fight another day as it was randomly switching off!
IIcx – Restoration
Oldest Mac I own. A IIcx from about 1989. It now switches on and runs thanks to 4 capacitors that needed replacing.
MacOS Mojave
They said it couldn’t be done…MacOS Mojave on a 10 year old mac pro…..
Open heart surgery.
Little job for MacMum. Reports of printer printing faint. New toner didn’t help so a bit of open heart surgery later (stripped it down and cleaned all the optics) MacMum’s printer lives to print another day..
It’s been a while….
…but mac-mann has been upgraded to ubuntu 18 LTS! The automated update didnt go too well and broke apache. However it was quick to spin up a new VM on the Mac-Mann cloud. 🙂
Stay tuned for more updates.
Chris.
Busman’s Holiday
Its been a busy week so far at MAC-MANN.com…the website is now running on a LAMP cluster with MySQL replication. Not bad for £120 in raspberry pi’s.
I have also installed VMWare ESX on my mac pro tower and P2V’d my ubuntu NAS and the original MAC-MANN.com web server.
Stay tuned for more updates. 🙂
AFP
Its been an interesting week. Today I set up an AFP server with NETATALK on ubuntu and a bit of SAMBA. This now means that the old world MACS and new school MACS have a share that can be read from and written to. I used this guide here:
For my next trick, I have bought a raspberry pi which I am going to set up as a NAS for my MAC and PC friends.
PowerBook G3
Below is a picture of my DTP powerhouse – the G3 powerbook. I am going to be running pagemaker and photoshop on it as well as connecting the scanner direct. Running OS 9.2 it is even possible to connect to the internet. 🙂
StyleWriter II
Here’s my new style writer II. Apple’s second attempt at a low cost mono bubble jet printer. Basically a rebadged canon. It only supports local talk so can only be directly connected to a mac with a dedicated printer port. However later versions of OS 7 allowed the printer to be shared on ethertalk networks (which is what I am doing with the LC475 its sat on top of). The printer is quite slow by todays standards but does output quite well. Perfect companion to the colour classic as they were often sold as a bundle.
