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This site is the result of my own personal research and surfing as well as some small original works - all in an effort to equip my Newton MessagePad 2000 for an upcoming trip to Europe.

This site is built, coded, and served entirely on Apple Macintosh computers.

Speaking of Macs, I also have a modest collection of recent and classic Macs in my home. The complete collection includes:
  • A Blue and White G3/400 - my main design and Internet machine.
  • A 7600 - the web server (running WebStar) this site and all my sites are served from, colocated at a nearby server farm.
  • A Power Computing Power100 - I call it "the 8100" since the differences are so few between it and a stock 8100/100. My program testing, AppleScript debugging, and Newton transfer station (it has serial ports). Also my localtalk-ethernet bridge for printing from the G3. Now that I've got cable modem, the 8100's also my internet router, running IPNetRouter to share via a second nubus ethernet card (salvaged from one of the IIci's below). Quite the workhorse for a 5 year-old mac.
  • An LCII - Still not certain the fate of this little bugger, but the form factor and $5 pricetag suckered me into buying it. Now that it has Ethernet (thanks to WeLoveMacs.com) it's useful as another mail / telnet / network monitoring station. I've put NetBSD on it, and it's not too shabby, even running X apps very slowly over the network.
  • Two IIcis - With enough RAM and Nubus cards between them - including a rare Nubus Ethernet card, I will probably max one out and make it a mail server in the future. For the moment, they are highly effective dust traps.
  • Two Mac SEs - each with a 20 meg hard drive and 800k floppy drives. Both also have PDS thin/thicknet ethernet cards, but I have only one transciever. One was keeping tabs on the network and my headless Linux box as a dedicated terminal, the other was connected via localtalk, running MacMinix. Currently, they are working hard as doorstops and keeping all the spare parts in one place.
  • A Mac Plus - I keep it around just to fiddle with Hypercard 1.0 and format 800/400k floppies for the 512s.
  • A 512ke - 128k ROMs and 800k floppy make it almost as useful as the Plus. I play games and keep my bedroom heated with this one.
  • A 512k - with a gimpy 400k floppy drive and badly burned-in screen, not to mention a damaged case, this one's going to give its innards to a collector somewhere (let me know if you want a 512k motherboard or analog board) and its case is currently in the process of becoming an attractive enclosure for an array of SCSI hard drives, or else a piece of sculpture.


Pictures are coming soon. I swear.


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