Toshiba T1200XE Power Board Recap

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Upgrading The Backlight on an iBook G3

I’ve had a few projects lately, none of which have gone quite to plan, so here’s one of the successes: installing an LED replacement backlight into my iBook G3 Clamshell. I didn’t take a ton of photos during this project, and it would have been a nightmare to film, so this is just my experience

PEASE Turbo: NetBoot Your Pippin!

The final option I want to show off for running a normal Mac game on a Pippin is actually the first one I discovered. Thanks to a post on Pierre Dandumont’s site, le journal du lapin, I discovered that a piece of official Pippin software, called Pease or Pease Turbo, was capable of connecting the

Using a SCSI Drive with the Pippin

Hello, and welcome to Brian’s Computer Retreat! In the last post, I showed you how to make a Pippin boot CD using base media I created. In today’s article, I’ll show how I created the base image, explain why it’s not really worth it to boot from a hard drive on a Japanese Pippin, and

1994’s MacBook Air: The PowerBook Duo

Hi everyone, and welcome to Brian’s Computer Retreat. In today’s video, we’ll be talking about one of my favorite Macs: the PowerBook Duo. The Duo was Apple’s second attempt at an ultraportable laptop. Released in October of 1992, the Duo 210 and Duo 230 were the successors to the PowerBook 100. Much like the PowerBook

The Fabulous Toshiba Libretto

If I had to choose only one early Windows machine to keep and had to sell all of the rest, I think I’d have to keep my Toshiba Libretto. I know what you might be thinking – yes, my favorite DOS machine is an ultraportable laptop. While I’ve always had a penchant for portable devices,

Making your own Pippin CD

Hello, and welcome to Brian’s computer retreat! In this post, I’ll be continuing my Pippin series for #MARCHintosh, with a demonstration of how to make a CD-ROM designed to boot the Pippin. The video version of this post will go live at Noon EST on 3/12/2021. If you’d like to follow along at home, you’ll

Disassembling the Apple Pippin

Hello, and welcome to Brian’s Computer Retreat! In this episode, my first entry into #MARCHintosh, I’ll show you how to safely disassemble and reassemble the Apple Pippin, so you can do preventative maintenance or modifications to your system. First, plug the Pippin into power and eject the CD-ROM tray. The Pippin takes a few seconds

IBM’s Education All-In-One from 1987

Hi everyone! On today’s video, I’m going to talk about my oldest IBM PC, the PS/2 Model 25. I bought mine on EBay for $150 from a local seller who found it at an estate sale. She overheard another person say that they wanted to buy it and part it out, and decided that she