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#FreeToAGoodHome is another PowerBook Duo AC adaptor. Model no AA19200. There's a little paper stuck to the rubber antiskid strips on the bottom. :apple_inc:
#Macintosh #PowerBook #RetroComputing #VintageComputers

A dark gray plastic rectangle with a six-color Apple log inset on the body and a cord of the same color coiled against the left side of it. On a bright green background.

#FreeToAGoodHome I have an old PowerBook microphone up for grabs. It's shaped like a first-gen PlainTalk mic, but it has a normal TRS connector on it.
Part no 590-0720-A :apple_inc:
#Macintosh #PowerBook #RetroComputing #VintageComputers

A round, dark gray microphone with a thin cord and a tip ring sleeve connector with a mini DIN style housing, lying on a bright green background.

A closeup of a tip ring sleeve connector with a dark gray plastic housing with the microphone symbol molded into the plastic. On a bright green background.

My Maclock has arrived. System Disk and all!

#Maclock #Macintosh #Apple #vintageApple #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #desktoy #toy #gadget #Mac #giftideas #nerdy #geek #photo #computers #ByteCellar

How do you build a computer that changes the world? Read this book.
#Macintosh #RevolutionInTheValley #NonFictionReads
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/how-the-mac-was-made/

well that wasn't hard after the work to get 7.1.x booting. system 7.0 predates enablers, so patching the boot2/boot3 resources in from 7.1 gets it to boot with the enabler

#Macintosh #ClassicMacOS

qemu mac99, booted into mac os, the about window shows Mac OS on CHRP - System Software 7.0, underneath the about window is the dir listing of the System 7.0 CD

Je viens de téléverser sur #macintosh Garden un jeu Lucky Luke qui n'a jamais été préservé jusqu'à présent : Le Fil qui Chante

https://macintoshgarden.org/games/lucky-luke-le-fil-qui-chante

Some of Frog Designs concepts still look amazing till today. Look at this beautiful keyboard.
#retrocomputing #macintosh #apple #frogdesign #snowwhite #macintoshplus

https://www.designboom.com/technology/hartmut-esslingers-early-apple-computer-and-tablet-designs/

Now with Alan Dye gone, I feel finally the energy to come out with my own convoluted demands. Bring back Hartmut Esslinger as Lead Hardware Designer to fix Apple’s bad hardware design.
#retrocomputing #macintosh #apple #frogdesign #snowwhite #macintoshplus #next

My german ears bleed a bit but very cool to see original reviews from the 1984 Macintosh 128k
#vintagemac #macintosh #retrocomputing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXCaM9fvk8s

it works on real hardware, here's system 7.1 booted on an ibook g3

#Macintosh #ClassicMacOS

an iBook G3, booted into a System 7.1 install CD, the about window reads "Mac OS on CHRP - At Ease 1.1 - System Software 7.1", and ~384MB of RAM present

7x Items sold on Olx (regional):

Mini owners handbook & servicing guide

Apple Macintosh 512k classic user’s guide

Apple Macintosh Hypercard Basics retro manual (without floppy disk)

Mini guide to purchase & DIY restoration

Legrand Suno staircase switch ref. 397206

Books Introduction to Macintosh System 7 + The Apple Macintosh Book

Apple Macintosh 128k screen cover

#olx #apple #macintosh #minibrand #itemsold #shopping #selling #legrand #books #book #manuals

Current status.

#macintosh #retrocomputing

screenshot of MAME running emulated Mac Plus, showing modal dialog box with text: If you purchased Silicon Press™ we thank you heartily. You don't need to read any further. To those who didn't, please be aware that Silicon Press is not "public domain" software. If you want to continue using it, you really should buy it.
And now to those who have knowingly pirated this program, we want to say, please reconsider.
At Silicon Beach Software, Inc. we are trying to bring you quality software at reasonable prices.
Consider also the issue of copy-protection.
Everyone hates it. Everyone asks for software without copy-protection on it. we did our part, now it's up to you. Please help us show that copy-protection is NOT a necessary evil.

am i the only person who grinds through the early seasons of halt and catch fire just so i can get to the holy 4th season and its NeXT Cube

#hacf #next #macintosh #vintageApple #retrocomputing

Yep, this 2.8” display looks like it will fit. Now for planning… #maclock #macintosh #classic #retrocomputing

Un nouvel adaptateur CR2032 pour empêcher les piles d'exploser dans les Macintosh http://dlvr.it/TPZy6L #Macintosh #batterie

jobs demoing a codeless UI using NeXT/OpenStep's Interface Builder at macworld expo in 1997

making games in Adventure Game Studio taught me how fast games can be built when designers spend their time working on scenes and gameplay instead of coding scrollbar and button behaviour

i admire and get inspiration from hypercard for the same reasons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl0CbKYUFTY

i'm trying to implement something similar for my little game construction kit, called Exigy. if you've got UI suggestions on how to do this well, i'm all ears!
https://exigy.org

#exigy #shareware #indiegamedev #macintosh #hypercard

a real joy of mine is seeing how other people decorate and design their craft/studio/workspaces as expressions of their personalities and tastes

last week i drove out of town to pick up a stack of NeXTStations. the elderly gentleman who sold them to me built a homelab inside of his garage. the walls were hung with 20 foot tarps to trap the heat in, and a little space heater kept the space toasty

he proudly related that 100% of the computers found in his lab came from provincial government surplus auctions (think e-waste for govt computers), and none were retail purchases.

the machines were purchased at various times over the past 25 years, and sat in his garage for decades until he decided it was time to let them go. on the day i arrived, he was working on an IBM PS/1 486 SX-33 tower, trying to install DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1

he planned to work on every single machine and sell them one at a time, now that he was retired.

the sgi indy's were definitely his source of pride, and i could see the dollar signs spinning around in his head as he talked about them.

"i'm going to sell 'em for about $2000 each."

i bit my lip and smiled in a hopefully gracious way, thinking: you're out of your fucking mind :)

i ended up hanging out with him for two hours, talking about retrocomputing. i hope there are more folks out there like him out there. it's a weird and fascinating hobby.

#retroComputing #vintageApple #macintosh #sgi

One corner of the garage lab. Several computer monitors and televisions run along the walls on old tables. There are piles of computer parts seemingly everywhere. A kitchen chair with a flowery cushion sits in the middle of the room.

A tall stack of bright blue SGI Indy computers sits along one wall. Opposite of that an elderly man hooks up one of the Indy's to a CRT monitor and keyboard.

Another corner of the computer lab. A white tarp hangs from the wall, and in front of it are Atari ST computers and monitors and televisions. To the left are dozens of macintosh computers in varying condition. A wooden ladder rests against them.

An elderly man in a hat points out the various computers he has stacked under a table. Behind him are dozens of macintosh computers from the 1990s, stacked against a wall.

Turns out I wasn’t getting any video on the Macintosh Plus because the pin that handles video from the motherboard had a broken joint on the analog board. I get a really good image now but the voltages are too low to boot, most likely an issue with the optocoupler which is an easy replacement. #VintageApple #macintosh #vintagecomputer #repair #retrocomputing

Close up photo of the Analog Board showing the cracked solder joint of pin 1 of the motherboard connector.

Photo of the Macintosh Plus screen showing a checkerboard pattern

so in 35+ years of doing pc repair, i've never seen this before 😅

at POST the nextstation complained about a problem with ram slot 6. i figured - hey, probably just a bad ram stick. i'll swap it out and see if it POSTs correctly

i pulled out the ram simm, and a thin shiny thread was stuck to the bottom. i plucked it out and took a closer look.

that's a human hair with two perfectly square ridges in it. the hair was sandwiched between the ram simm and the ram slot in two places.

a blond human pubic hair

it was thick enough to break the contact between the ram and the slot

🤣

#retroComputing #next #macintosh #vintageApple

A blond pubic hair with two perfectly square ridges in it sits on top of a post-it note.

and finally - very predictably, the (second) non-turbo sold to me and labeled as "dead/parts" in fact just had a dead battery.

it boots into firmware just fine, and complains about a bad ram SIMM in slot 6.

#retroComputing #next #macintosh #vintageApple

#macintosh

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