Still hard at work on the Laptop Portal. 3 new brands have been added - Samsung, Chicony, and Ergo/Brick. Also, new pages and updates for the following brands: Apple, Jetta, HyperData, IBM, WinBook, NEC, and Dell.
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Another new round of additions to the Laptop Portal. HyperData and MaxTech sections have been added. New pages were also added for the following brand sections: Dell, Toshiba, Alpha-Top, IBM, Jetta, Nan Tan, and Micron.
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Laptop portal additions and updates for the following brands: Apple, NEC, IBM, Nan Tan, WinBook, Toshiba, Compaq, Alpha-Top, AST, Micron, CTX, FIC, and Veridata. Whew! I'm also getting back to updating Macintosh Portal pages to the new site styling, along with improving them as I go.
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Today's leap day update includes a motherload of new documentation on Dell laptops, along with new or updated pages on laptops from Micron, Alpha-Top, AST, and Toshiba.
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Lots of new cap reference photos added, various other things, and of course, laptop portal additions for the following brands: AST, FIC, Alpha-Top, CTX, Dell, and WinBook.
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Laptop portal additions for the following brands: FIC, Alpha-Top, NEC, and AST, along with some other minor stuff.
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The first site update of 2024! This one brings another boat-load of new content. Service Manuals for the vast majority of Apple products from the 68k and PPC era are now up on the Macintosh Portal. New PC pages added on IBM, AST, Apple and WinBook laptops. New section created for Micron laptops, and finally, various other changes and edits.
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Another large round of new content & updates for the Laptop Portal. New sections for NEC and FIC, and updates to the CTX, Jetta, Nan Tan, WinBook, Green and AST sections. There's still a lot more to come though!
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A bunch of new content has been added to the Laptop Portal. Documentation on Alpha-Top/ECS Green laptops, more WinBooks, CTX, AST, and models from misc. brands under the new "Other" page. See the site revision history for a full look at the changes.
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Documentation on Nan Tan laptops added to the Laptop Portal, Mac II pages updated, other small stuff.
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Hello! Thanks for visiting. MacDat aims to collect important vintage hardware reference and repair information from around the web into one central place. The site currently has over 1200 pages and counting!
MacDat's two main areas of focus currently are vintage Macintosh hardware (in general), and vintage PC laptop hardware. I've picked laptops in particular for the PC side of things because there really aren't many good resources for them on the web, especially for the more obscure brands. I also provide capacitor reference info, mainly for Macintosh systems at the moment.
If you have any information, cap reference, images that I could use, or any suggestions for the site, or if you've found an error somewhere, see this page for info on how to reach me, and what exactly could help me out.
For a few reasons. First, I'm just not too good at HTML/CSS. That aside though, I honestly prefer the more retro feel either way. The new web all feels generic, like every site was made by the same person, and I just don't like that very much.
I generally work on the site pretty regularly, but I usually only push changes live once I have a good number of them built up. My goal is two every month, however, this really depends on my general motivation to work on it. This is just a hobby for me after all.
Macintosh Portal - For information about vintage Apple/Mac hardware, this is the place to go.
Laptop Portal - Information on vintage laptop hardware.
Capacitor Reference Library - MacDat's repository for information on capacitor values & replacement for vintage hardware.
Vintage Issues Hub - Index of several different common faults on vintage computers.
3lectr1c's Lounge - My place to put whatever I'd like to. Currently contains a list of online platforms I'm on, and detailed information on my computer collection.
Extras - The dumping ground for anything that doesn't fit anywhere else.
