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The first time I saw a Mac was when I started using them at university in 1991. Prior to that my only exposure to computers was the Apple ][ in school. I bought my first Mac in the fall of 1993. I started learning more about Unix in the mid-90s and decided I enjoyed it, and was very excited when OS X was announced. I've been running some version of Unix on my older Macs since about 2002, when Jaguar wouldn't install on my G3. Belatedly, I discovered A/UX as well, and now I maintain its FAQ list. I've posted a list of my hardware below if you are interested.
I'm intrigued by the whole wiki concept, so I've been helping to kickstart this site by creating templates, stubbing in categories and pages, that sort of thing. I don't claim to be a guru, but I hope my efforts have helped.
Potentially interesting things here
List of computers
These are all machines I've actually used for any length of time. If I tried to list every machine that's ever been in my possession, it would be much longer!
Macs
Current
- snoopy: dual 1.8GHz G5, 1.5GiB, OS X 10.3.9
- charliebrown: beige G3 (300MHz 750), 576MiB, Yellow Dog Linux 4.0.1
- schroeder: Quadra 840AV (40MHz 68040), 128MiB, NetBSD 4.0
Idle
- conrad: "Mystic" Color Classic (33MHz 68040), 36MiB, NetBSD 4.0 - bad HD
- shermy: Quadra 650 (33MHz 68040), 32MiB, A/UX 3.1 - rebuilding
- woodstock: SE/30 (16MHz 68030), 80MiB, NetBSD 2.0.2 - no HD
Previous
- ww1flyingace: MacBook (2.0 GHz Dual Core 2), 1GiB, OS X 10.4.10
- a nameless PowerCenter Pro 210 that I first ran Linux on
- Bob Dodge: Centris 650 (25MHz 68040), 24MiB, System 7.1
- a nameless PowerBook 180 running System 7.1
- shermy #1: IIsi (20MHz 68030), 17MiB, A/UX 3.1.1
- shermy #2: Quadra 700 (25MHz 68040), 68MiB, A/UX 3.1
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Other
Current
Idle
Previous
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Retro-computing wishlist
- VGA mod to conrad
- port pkgsrc to A/UX
- improved NetBSD/mac68k SCSI drivers for AV models
- floppy support in NetBSD/mac68k
- find a quad-CPU MaxxBoxx
- get olaf and shermy to work
- design a TT font called Brampton (it's not Toronto but pretty close)
Classic Mac software
I used these a lot and thought they were great titles.
- Games
- Maelstrom, Marathon, SimCity 2000, Spectre VR, Warlords
- Other
- After Dark, Color It!, Kaleidoscope, ResEdit, Word 5.1, ZTerm
- Essential: ed9c3d
- Hot: d23424
- In Progress: e349bb
- Cool: 61c1f8
- Personal: 0039e1
- Project 1: 4c932d
- Project 2: 8f6724
- yellow is fffcc8 / f9de51
- aqua is d1fdfe / 73dffa
- blue is e1e3fc / c0c4f9
- green is e8fde4 / b7f8a5
- pink is f9e3e2 / f2c3c2
- silver is f5f6f5 / d6d6d6
Signatures
- ChristTrekker a2
- ChristTrekker ag
- ChristTrekker at
- ChristTrekker ca
- ChristTrekker ch
- ChristTrekker ge
- ChristTrekker la
- ChristTrekker lo
- ChristTrekker mf
- ChristTrekker mo
- ChristTrekker mt
- ChristTrekker my
- ChristTrekker ny
- ChristTrekker sf
- ChristTrekker to
- ChristTrekker ve
