If you’re enjoying your memories of the early Macintosh at the moment, you may enjoy the TV show Halt and Catch Fire. Drama set about 1983 or so. I loved it. #macintosh40th#macintosh
84-24 is a beautiful -- both technically and visually --account of restoring an original #Macintosh. A good cozy engineering read for first morning coffee.
Heeeeeeck yeah. The Raspberry Pi Pico-W transplant into the #BlueSCSI was a success. Loading web sites is pretty dang slow, but it tops out at like 60Kb/sec, not much faster than a 56K modem, not that those existed when this #Macintosh IIci was contemporary. I think the disk driver in the image I used is super slow. I remember seeing a warning in the log file. So going to fiddle with it in the near future, but for now just so glad this is working. Such a neat machine.
Edit: Oh and I forgot to tag @ActionRetro and @mac84tv for all their hard work with Frog Find and such oh and thanks to the #ProtoWeb project too!
I would like to record some game play footage from my XBOX to my M1 MacBook Air. I don’t need a webcam (no wants to see me 😀). I will add some subtitles to it later. I don’t need to stream.
42!! Lucky number! NOT 84! (Even though it came out in '84, that's immaterial!)
The ONLY Macintoshes that ran at 512x384 were the 1990 Mac LC and IIsi with the 12" screen, and the Color Classic and perhaps other related later all-in-ones.
ALL MONOCHROME COMPACT MACS HAD 512x342 RESOLUTION SCREENS.
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.
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.
🛠️🍏 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!
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!
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
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
@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.