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Working with Vintage Macs
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As readers of Low End Mac know, Macs are durable machines that can remain useable and useful a decade or more after they were manufactured. Whether in use to run legacy applications, old games, repurposed as systems for the kids, or acquired as collector's items, many old Macs can (and do) see service long after the warranty expires.
I deal with older (pre-G3) systems regularly, both through my consulting work and my personal collection, the Vintage Mac Museum. Here are some tips I've found for keeping the old beasts running and exchanging data with current systems.
- Solving Mac Startup Problems
- Vintage Mac Video and Monitor Mania
- Vintage Mac Networking and File Exchange
- Getting Inside Vintage Macs and Swapping Out Bad Parts
More Tips and Suggestions?
I'm sure there are many other tips and suggestions on the topic of
working with old and vintage Macs; write in to the Low
End Mac Mailbag or contact me with your suggestions and we may do a
follow-up to this column with additional ideas.
This article was originally published on Adam's Oakbog website. It has been adapted and reprinted here with his permission.
Adam also publishes The Vintage Mac Museum Blog. If you find Adam's articles helpful, please consider making a donation to his tip jar.
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