So this #Newton MessagePad 130 showed up on PayPay Fleamarket for $45. Never seen a Newton go for this cheap in Japan (even with massive a black screen burn spot), and they're rare to show up to begin with.
The photos didn't show the screen, but revealed some bad battery leakage (which was also disclosed in the description), but I figured at least it could be used for parts (my pen on my 120 has lost it's end cap!)
Most of you may already know that #HyperCard was a big influence on Tim Berners-Lee when he created the WWW. We are told that HyperCard missed its chance since it wasn't networked. Without support for connecting up a global network of HyperCard Stacks, it had no chance against the WWW.
Well that was then and this is now. In 2024 we DO have a global AppleTalk network to publish HyperCard Stacks on - #GlobalTalk! The dream is finally a reality!
The GlobalTalk Chat Stack 0.2.0 is released! The preferred HyperCard-based multi-user chat system for the #MARCHintosh#GlobalTalk network.
I've added text escaping courtesy of @uliwitness so you can now type quotation marks without breaking it!
I've also made usernames bold in the chat log, and added a "emoji" feature where you can tack a single character from Susan Kare's classic Taliesin or Cairo fonts to a message.
I managed to get the #MARCHintosh global AppleTalk network working! Neato!!
If anyone wants to add me, “kalleboo.com” as a Host ID. But I will be shutting it down later when I go to bed, don’t quite trust leaving this old machine on 24/7
magine it's 1997 and you're a Japanese businessman. You're traveling the country for work, and want to update your personal web page with photos of interesting things you see. You have an early digital camera you bought, and you have your work-issued PDA, but obviously without a PC such a multimedia task can't be completed? You're going to have to wait until your get back home...
One of the weird things Apple did in the 90’s was when they ported QuickTime to Windows, they ported a chunk of the Mac OS Toolbox as well to support it, including stuff like QuickDraw and the standard file manager dialogs
This meant if you were porting a program from MacOS to Windows, you could use QuickTime to help you along
When @billgoats posted about one of his old HyperCard network chat attempts I was reminded my my old Stacks that used AppleTalk
The dates on all these files have been clobbered so this was some time in the late 90's, before I turned 15
It's a Monopoly clone I made with shops from the Swedish village I lived in at the time. It has purchasable land, chance cards and a "lottery" version of jail
If you are in #Ottawa heads up: September 20th: The Convoy is coming back and this time it’s not about vaccines, it’s full-on satanic panic about #LGBTQ children (thank you Conservative politicians you feckless bullies). They are calling it the 1 Million March For Children - and are encouraging people to rally in their towns across the country. Remember pizzagate in America? This is how that happened. #Canada
A few months ago I took the family on a 5200 km round trip camping trip to Hokkaido and back. We’re a family of 4 and our only car is a Suzuki Spacia kei car, so packing every day was a difficult game of Tetris
Coming back I assumed they’d all be sick and tired of camping, but to my surprise everyone was excited to go camping again, and we’ve gone a few times since. But fitting sleeping bags etc is still difficult
So today I installed a roof rack on our car! Better late than never?
Was reminded of the time I bought an old phone (NEC 600-P) to let my kids play-call each other through a Cisco SPA, and when opening it to install a RJ11 cord, was surprised to find a little piece of paper wedged in under a component, which when opened up reveal a whole schematic to repair the phone.
I wonder how many of these were printed vs how many were ever read by someone to do a repair!
As someone who failed his driver test twice after completing driver ed: this would have been amazing and saved me a lot of frustration and anxiety; and, you should definitely not do this.
My wife got our kids the Blu-ray of the Studio Ghibli anime 耳をすませば/Whisper of the Heart, which heavily features the Japanese version of "Take Me Home, Country Road", which of course the kids instantly latched onto.
I've been slowly trying to ween them onto the proper version of the song (not much luck so far) https://youtu.be/H4JWxOWWsvs
YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1848:
"Beautiful weather. Mr. Hariott's boat & ours left the Brigade to go ahead to #CumberlandHouse#MB. Passed Thoburn's Rapid #TobinLake before breakfast, & got to the Cumberland Portage about two hours after sunset.
"Saturday. Walked across to the Fort this morning. About breakfast time the principal part of the brigade had arrived, but some of the boats did not arrive until near evening, and we consequently could not get far. #MBHistory#CanadaHistory#Books
HARD OFF is my favorite store ever. It’s a Japanese chain of tech thrift stores that will buy your junk and resell it. There’s also OFF HOUSE (clothes/household items), the confusingly unrelated BOOK OFF (used books, games and other media), LIQUOR OFF, etc
I’ll start off by posting some overview photos of what kind of stuff you can find there, and then start following up whenever I find something interesting