Pinot is a skilled pixel artist and animator who does his work on #vintageComputing hardware, mostly early #Macintosh computers.
He suffered a devastating stroke in 2022 and lost much of his motor control. I’m glad to see him back doing #pixelArt and posting again! Give him a follow on Instagram if you’re there.
🛠️🍏 Next week, our volunteer Andrés will begin assembling a museum replica of the Apple I computer. It's an "open lab," so feel free to get hands-on, as it will take place in the classroom on the 1st floor. All are welcome!
Needs a clean but I'm told it works. Peering inside, no battery leakage and caps look okay - though there's lots of dust. Slight cracks on front cover but otherwise intact.
New video! In the second part of the series, I'm trying to resurrect the Apple Macintosh Performa 630 Power Supply I found to have lots of leaky capacitors in the previous episode.
New video! I'm starting to restore a very interesting Apple Macintosh Performa 630 in the DOS Compatible variant. It has both a 68040 Mac and an IBM compatible 486 PC in one machine. In the first episode of this series, I try to make it safe to run by replacing capacitors on the main board and in the power supply. More to come!
Tant que j'étais sur le #macintosh Performa 460, j'en ai profité pour terminer le paramétrage de la carte réseau Ethernet que j'avais ajouté.
J'ai un ping ! 🎊🎉
Il ne me reste plus qu'à installer un navigateur Web et je vais pouvoir aller surfer sur le net (bon, probablement pas bien vite et que en HTTP sans chiffrement 😅) #retrocomputing
Some #Apple#Macintosh#Performa 630 capacitor shenanigans going on in the Beta lab today. Main board got recapped although none of the caps had leaked. The power supply is not so fortunate, found 2 severely leaky smaller caps and some traces beginning to dissolve in the electrolyte. I think I caught it in time though, should totally be salvageable. #RetroComputing#VintageComputing#InTheLabDoingStuff
@jaruzel@vingtroiseize In 1987, both #Commodore and #Apple were trying to reposition themselves as Serious Computer Companies for Serious Business People who were No Fun.
The exterior designs of the #Amiga 2000 and the #Macintosh II were the respective results. Giant rectangular slabs built around the all-important expansion slots.
Does anyone out there remember the specifics of the Apple engineer that got fired when he got caught trying to hide an image of Britney Spears in some Macintosh ROM? I think I probably read about it in a MacWeek article, but it seems to have sunk beneath the waves where even search engines can't find it anymore…
EDIT: Maybe it was Paula Abdul? At any rate, some singer he was obsessed with!
I don’t suppose anyone has reverse-engineered the old 90ies Apple DocViewer file format? I know someone decoded THINK Reference, but I'm kinda hoping that DocViewer will be better than PDF for extracting structured info from Inside Macintosh.
Sadly there's an MS Word display app called “DocViewer”, so web search is kinda difficult.
Something "new" to explore on the workbench today: a 1995 #Apple#Macintosh#Performa 630 in the "DOS Compatible" variant. It’s a bit of an oddball machine from Apple‘s otherwise quite bland (in my opinion) beige era. It has both a regular 68040 Mac and a full 486/DX2-66 PC inside. Should even be capable of running Windows 95 alongside MacOS 8! Thanks to a very generous donation from @markuspooch I’m going to get to play with it. Thank you! #InTheLabDoingStuff#RetroComputing#VintageComputing
#RetroComputing#Macintosh question about a classic mac (quadra? I think), i have a user who has their thesis stranded on a mid 90s mac like a quadra with what seems to be an ethernet port and likely scsi drive. Whats the best recovery plan? Ftp server software to move files off or some kind of scsi connector to clone the whole drive? Taking advice!, but i'll have to get more exact details and model numbers.
After fielding questions about my TTL video adapter for classic #Macintosh computers at VCF East, I thought it would be a good idea to post a video discussing (broad strokes) how to connect the device and explain some use cases.
Does anyone have a .MOOF copy of the original 128k Macintosh disk sets? I have the DSK format, but looking for the MOOF format since the DSKs i have are not working on original hardware :( #Apple#macintosh