I love coming across machines that were loved. This obviously started as an original Mac with 128K, but then got a 512K board, 800k upgrade, and then a New Life SCSI and 4mb ram upgrade. This machine was used for at least ten years. #marchintosh
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Nick Melnick
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mastodon 4.7.3Generating tech debt at a ridiculous pace while innovating forward. Retro @ Home. He/him. Formerly nrmelnick@mastodon.social.
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Well, things just got interesting around here. #retrocomputing #apple
I wonder if the reason I don’t see as much Apple II content on YouTube is that most of them still work. #retrocomputing #apple
Finally got the Booti block storage device working on the Apple /// today, and this thing finally feels useful. I’m not sure what it says that it feels like the entire A3 library fits on like one 32mb volume, but that’s what I’m into. #apple #retrocomputing
I picked up a monitor last night, partially because I wanted a smaller CRT for my Amiga 4000, and partially because it looks like ASSS.
Just an Apple Lisa 2 doing what a Lisa 2 does. #retrocomputing #apple #retrorepair
Well, thats just unnecessary.
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@Bdkl I _love_ this. Very clean design, nice and fast, I'm very impressed especially for a first public version. I don't mind the current connection options, but might start considering having some sort of cloud sync back between this and my phone.
I'll play with it more and report back.
Excellent work.
starting to get the urge to build my own "cyberdeck". honestly, all i really want is a psion 5 or nec mobilepro 780 form factor and keyboard with modernish internals. even rpi 4 level internals seems fine to me.
i want to find something ready to go, i don't think i am ready to hardware hack.
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@_the_cloud love it! My fist Mac was a 512Ke that we got in 87, and I used it until probably 1993. It had a 20mb hard disk, but never had the funds to do upgrades beyond that. Ended up replacing it with a Compaq 386 which was also outdated, but with actual memory and more than monochrome. Hah.
Fun fact for the, like, 5 of us with a #Commodore CBM-II machine – after trying the SD2PET Future and PetDisk Max V2, I plugged in a SDPET+ to the Commodore B128 today, and not only does CATALOG/DIRECTORY work, but I can actually consistently load software again and again. We have a keeper.
Project "make the dryer stop clattering" has completed successfully, the weekend is ON.