June 28, 1993: Apple ships the Macintosh LC 520, an “all-in-one” Mac targeted primarily at the education market. The first Macintosh ever shipped with a non-optional 2x CD-ROM drive, it is designed to ...

It might just be a case mod, but we love [Eduard]’s take on a modern Macintosh LC (translation). The donor motherboard came from a disused home server, and the LC came from [Eduard]’s childhood ...

One of the notable side-effects of the very inexorability of technology’s progress is that while in the abstract we know that computers used to be more primitive in the past, it’s only when you ...

There can be few among those of us who produce printed circuit boards, who have not at some point placed a component the wrong way round, or with the wrong footprint. Usually this can be rectified ...

Arriving on this day in 1993, the Macintosh LC 520 was among the first of Apple’s LC 500 series of medium-price Macs. Selling for $2,000, it was particularly popular in educational institutions, a ...

Software developer Doug Brown took the computer apart and discovered that Apple had installed the capacitors in the wrong direction in its 'pizza box' Macintosh LC III computer. Downtown Doug Brown » ...

Did Apple really fit a capacitor backward on the Mac LC III? A multimeter-wielding retro fan has confirmed that, yes – somebody made a mistake decades ago, and a capacitor ended up installed the wrong ...

Multi-platform solutions are increasingly necessary in this modern era of multi-vendor networks and client/server computing. For many users, their "dream machine" would combine a DOS/Windows PC and a ...

Apple I: The Apple I was based on the MOStek 6502 chip, whereas most other “kit” computers were built from the Intel 8080. The Apple I was sold through several small retailers, and included only the ...