One of the notable side-effects of the very inexorability of technology’s progress is that while in the abstract we know that computers used to be more primitive in the past, it’s only when you ...

It might just be a case mod, but we love [Eduard]’s take on a modern Macintosh LC (translation). The donor motherboard came from a disused home server, and the LC came from [Eduard]’s childhood ...

There can be few among those of us who produce printed circuit boards, who have not at some point placed a component the wrong way round, or with the wrong footprint. Usually this can be rectified ...

Did Apple really fit a capacitor backward on the Mac LC III? A multimeter-wielding retro fan has confirmed that, yes – somebody made a mistake decades ago, and a capacitor ended up installed the wrong ...

Slated for auction June 4, this foam model of a prototype has a vertical screen that predates the iPad’s portrait orientation by some 20 years. If you’re interested in Apple history marginalia, we ...

"Am I the first person to discover this?" is a tricky question when it comes to classic Macs, some of the most pored-over devices on the planet. But there's a lot to suggest that user paul.gaastra, on ...

I use an old LC III that I found at a garage sale, which I upraded to a 2gb Quantum Fireball hard drive from the original 80mb Apple. I partitioned it with Lido 7 (rather than the hacked Disk Utility ...