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Refunds for Those Firebomb Power Adapters

Written on May 09, 2008 by Travis Vocino and 5 people have commented

Remember those old Powerbook adapters? Do you also remember how they used to catch on fire? I didn’t experience it, personally. I did have a friend that swore his PowerBook adapter was out to get him — almost burning his house, car and office to the ground (on separate occasions).
A lot of [...]

Living One Mac Generation Behind

Written on August 20, 2007 by Louis Gray and 55 people have commented

When entering college in 1995, I purchased my first computer that was all mine - a Performa 631CD, with screaming 33 MHz performance and a 68040LC processor. Sporting 8 MB of RAM and 500 MB of hard drive space, I was good to go. But unsurprisingly, I was immediately lapped, not just by the next [...]

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