I’ve been rebuilding a #RaspberryPi installation that supports my classic Mac habit 😄
I used to use the awesome #MacIPGW image which includes a ton of pre-configured software like #netatalk. But it hasn’t been updated in a while so I used it as excuse to start from scratch.
I used this Pi Zero W as my starting point. HDMI video stopped working on it for unknown reasons. I added an Ethernet/USB hub hat and a #TashTalk 2 hat for #LocalTalk devices.
With netatalk, a TashTalk hat, TashRouter, and CUPS on the Raspberry Pi, we can do clever things like share a #ImageWriter II printer over #LocalTalk with an iPhone using AirPrint!
This screenshot was printed from my phone to the ImageWriter II.
Interestingly, this was just fixed in the latest netatalk 2.3.2!
A print is initiated from a device to the CUPS-PDF driver on my #netatalk Raspberry Pi.
The resulting PDF is placed in the AFP share of netatalk/afpd.
An emulated PPC Mac 9.2.2 running the #AppleScript below is watching for new files in that folder and will print them using Acrobat Reader to the #ImageWriterII via #LocalTalk using the MacPalette II driver.
It works, but crashes with dialog that I can't auto-dismiss.
Ethernet killed the LocalTalk Star! 🎶
Here's a Farallon PhoneNET StarController, #free to a good home! Includes the AC adapter. #LocalTalk#GlobalTalk#Retrocomputing
Six #LocalTalk transceivers, #free to a good home. Five from Farallon and one from AESP that has activity lights. Two of them have terminators. #Marchintosh#GlobalTalk
So a post from @mejs about Tekserve in NYC included a photo of three original Macs being used a "Now Serving" digital signage. The screens do look like they're real. Does anyone know of the details on how this worked? What software was used or created? Was it loaded from floppy? How were the numbers incremented by staff? Please please tell me it was LocalTalk!!
on mouseUp
global RepairsMac
answer program "Where is your Repairs Display?"
put it into RepairsMac
end mouseUp
And to increment:
on mouseUp
global RepairsMac
put cd fld "RepairsServing" into temp
add 1 to temp
put temp into cd fld "RepairsServing"
send "put "&temp&" into cd fld Display" to program RepairsMac
end mouseUp
Well, I just placed orders for boards and parts to build a new Lisa 2/5 around my existing Lisa CPU card, the only part of a Lisa I’ve ever owned.
I would never have thought this was possible if it weren’t for the work of @DosFox who recently built the first new Lisa since 1986! Thanks for the inspiration!
I’ll continue this thread as parts roll in. I may ask (beg) if folks have some parts in your bins! 😀
A messy desk with a pile of large green circuit boards to the right of a #AppleLisaClone. In the back is a makeshift display showing a MacWrite document. In the foreground is a letter sized printed page from MacWrite that says “Hello from the Lisa 2/5 running MacWorks Plus” along with many cowdogs at the top and bottom of the page (moof!).
Anyone know if these TurboNet ST PhoneNET adapters require the use of terminators? I thought I remember reading they were built in but maybe not. I’m getting mixed results.
After making some really sketchy repository changes and doing an incantation, I got some X11 sources installed and Mini VMac actually compiled without issue!
And look! It’s speaking AppleTalk (UDP) on my network!! Hahaha this is so weird to me. Should I print something to my AppleTalk ImageWriter II from my handheld? 😅