PowerBook 540c & Accessories The PowerBook 5oo series was released in 1994 to replace the 100 series introduced in 1991. It was the first redesign of the PowerBook since the introduction of the Duo line in 1992. The series consisted of two models – the 520 and 540. Each included a Motorola 68040 processor (think …
eBay Deal of the Week: Macintosh HDI-20 External Floppy Drive
I just scored a great deal on eBay. The item is a Macintosh HDI-20 external floppy disk drive from 1991. It was originally released for the PowerBook 100 which did not include an internal floppy drive but was revived a couple of years later for the PowerBook Duo series of notebooks that also did not …
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Finally Getting Better
Boy, it's been an interesting month. My coworkers weren't lying when they said that I'd be sick all the time once I had children. Geeze. Between the four of us I think we've been sick since late December. I've been sick, Sally's been sick, Adam's been sick, and Zach's been sick. We've been passing things …
A Second Chance on eBay
eBay has a concept called a Second Chance Offer. It's something that I'd never heard of before until this weekend. Here's how it works. Two people bid on an item. Person A wins the auction over person B. Person A either doesn't pay the seller or decides that they no longer want to purchase the …
Taming Twins: Vegetables & Textures
The boys have been eating solid foods for a little over three months now. They started out simple with pureed vegetables and fruits and slowly worked their way up to table foods. We did things "correctly" and introduced them to vegetables first and fruits second, adding a new food every 3-4 days. Once we exhausted …
Zachary Is Crawling!!!
Zach is crawling now! He's been prepping for it for a while – rocking back and forth, putting his hands out in front of him, and reaching – but he's been working really hard on it since a little before Christmas break. He started pushing up on his back legs while reaching until he sprawled …
Mac Museum Recent Additions
I've been busy on eBay lately picking up new additions for the Mac museum. In the past two weeks, I've purchased the following: Quadra 660AV - One of the first Macs that included video input / output to and from a TV. It also included speech recognition, high quality sound recording, and a CD-ROM drive all …
Babies
Babies are amazing. They can't speak, but they can say so much. They "don't know anything" but they know so much. They are little people. People in training. It's amazing that you can make a baby smile. It's amazing that their little face can go from crying to grinning with nothing but a smile flashed …
Taming Twins: Adventures in Mommy Mode
Adam has reached the stage that many children reach somewhere between six months and a year: Mommy mode. While in Mommy mode, the rules are simple and as follows: Be attached to Mommy at all times. If Mommy detaches, cry. If Mommy vacates the area, cry, crawl towards her. If there is an obstacle, such …
Smart eBaying
The goal for any collection of mine is to collect interesting items for the lowest cost. For the Mac Museum, I generally do this through eBay and Craigslist. Craigslist tends to be cheaper as people either a) don't understand the value of what they are selling or b) don’t care and just want to get …
Relatively Ambitious 