Well I haven’t posted anything in nearly a year. I have made some new purchases though. I think its time the site got to version 3.0 and I changed tack. Stay Tuned for more Mac-Mann.
Read moreBig Sur
Currently evaluating Mac OS big Sur which looks good on the surface.
Read moreMy favourite waste of time.
Picked up this little machine in a charity auction. Has a hard drive installed and a box of random disks.
Read moreWordworth
Last night was all about doing something practical on a vintage computer so I managed to get hold of a copy of wordworth for the Amiga. Something I used a lot for school work especially gcse. It even prints to my laserjet!
Read moreAmiga 500 Plus
First post in a while and first Amiga post. Last night I performed the drive swap hack so I can boot from DF1 which has a gotek usb drive attached. I will post some updates on my Amiga collection as I have a few nifty bits of nostalgia.
Read moreA little update
Well I has been a while. I have bought loads of new apples including a Twentieth Annversary mac and will attempt to update over the next few weeks. Unfortunately I had to replace the mac-mann server with a Dell but I am looking to resurrect it when funds allow. Here are some photo’s of my…
Read moreIOM DataCentre
Here’s mac mann’s new (old) server running all of Mac-Mann’s services.
Read moreLoads of new stuff
Hi, Just a short post to say there have been many changes at mac-mann. When I get some time I will post a write up. Needless to say the site is now fully resilient with two physical hosting locations and a private/public cloud as well as CDN.
Read moreNew Infrastructure
This week has been an interesting one for Mac Mann. First off I built an AFP to NFS gateway using a Raspberry PI so my old macs running apple talk can share with my other systems via Samba. Also this weekend I moved the mac mann website “in house” on my own private proxmox cloud….
Read more.im
Mac-Mann now has an im domain. IM is the TLD (top level domain) for the Isle of Man. Many thanks to the Isle of Man government for allowing me the manx spelling of Man (Mann). If you are in the market for a short domain whether you are manx or not check out www.nic.im as…
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