An Unexpected Entry Into The World Of The Macintosh – Part 4 – So, What Can I Do With The G5?

In the previous article, I went over the gist of how I fixed a small problem with my “new” PowerMac G5 – the lack of a boot chime. After a few days of really working with the machine and trying to figure out the reason, I would find out it was really something as simple […]

Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 42: Virtual Boy – Episode Review

Time to get into Season 3 of The Angry Video Game Nerd, and this particular season starts off rather strong with the Nerd’s review of Nintendo’s first true failure of a gaming system, the Virtual Boy. The Virtual Boy is quite the unique console, seemingly designed for virtual reality, it really never got much further […]

An Unexpected Entry Into The World Of The Macintosh – Part 3 – Repairing The Power Mac G5

At this point in our story I had a Power Mac G5, the last of the Power PC based Macintosh computers, in my possession. It worked but with a quirk in that it didn’t make the traditional “boot chime” that (until recently) all Macintosh computers had. This bugged me enough that I set out to […]

An American Look At The BBC Computer Literacy Project – The Battle Plan

In what can only be described as an example of insanity, I mentioned previously my intentions to cover the BBC archive of television programming from the BBC Computer Literacy Project of the early and mid 80’s, and at this stage I think I’m ready to begin tackling this mighty challenge. The BBC archive of programing […]