#powerpc

All of the photos in this set were likely taken circa 1959 and feature locations such as Shiloh, Tennessee, probably Key West, and somewhere in the air...

Cover of the April 1998 issue of MacAddict I was never really a Mac person but if I had been, this is the magazine I would have read. It reminds me of boot/Maximum PC on the PC side. Also, Macs make great

Cover of the May 1998 issue of MacAddict The best way to describe MacAddict would be to compare it to boot/Maximum PC for the PC. It was a magazine for enthusiasts. If I had been aware of it at the time,

Cover of the November 1996 issue of MacAddict I was never really a Mac person. Mainly because I always felt they were overpriced and later on I enjoyed building my own PCs anyway. There also weren't as

Cover of the March 1997 issue of MacAddict MacAddict was very much like a Mac specific version of Maximum PC. I think that it eventually morphed into MacLife but in my opinion it was much, much better

Earlier this week I was trying to install Debian on a old G4 with PowerPC 7400 processor... Obviously I couldn't use the latest Debian release as it doesn't support 32-bit PowerPC... So I downloaded network

Cover of the April 1997 issue of MacAddict The mid 1990s were a pretty bad time for Apple. Their market share was dropping and for the most part their systems were not price or performance competitive

There can be do doubt that the late 1990s/early 2000s were the best of times for Apple's Macintosh line. MacAddict was essentially the Macintosh version of Boot (now Maximum PC). It covered Macs with an

Return from Oblivion Howdy, fellow Hivers. I am back from oblivion. If you've read my last post I told you that my desktop 3D workstation had died and it would be some time before I would ever make another

The years MacAddict was around before becoming MacLife overlap with the best years of the Macintosh. Early 1998 was before the iBook and iMac were introduced and things were still a bit of a mess but big

MacAddict premiered not too long before Steve Jobs returned to Apple and the iMac and iBook were introduced. This led to a relative explosion in Apple's popularity and was the perfect time for an enthusiast

MacAddict was a magazine for Macintosh computers that was roughly equivalent to something like Maximum PC (called "boot" at the time) for the PC. I was not a big fan of Macintosh computers at

Started this journey off with Lubuntu 14.04 Linux with little success so decided to download and burn Lubuntu 16.04, after much faffing about with open firmware and various random crashes before even getting

I am using a PowerPC iMac G5 (1.8ghz) currently with OS X 10.5.8 and a dual boot Lubuntu 14.04.5. This issue I am running into is artifacts on the screen, no sound and no 3d acceleration as the nouveau

This expedition took me out into the wilds of a community garage sale. It was, in fact, my own community and this is an event in which multiple households sell arcane artifacts of often dubious value out

Best Computer Made

MacAddict (April 1997)