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CodingItWrong

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My vintage Macs:

  • SE FDHD - System 6.0.7
  • Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh - Mac OS 7.6.1, 8.6, and 9.1
  • Power Mac 7500/100 - Copland D11
  • Power Mac 8500/120 - BeOS 5.0.3
  • Power Mac 9600/300 - Rhapsody DR2
  • G3 Blue & White 350 MHz - OS X Server 1.2, OS X Developer Preview 2 thru 4
  • Pismo 400 MHz - Mac OS 9.2.1
  • G4 mirrored drive door 1.25 GHz - Mac OS 9.2.2 and 10.4.11
  • G5 dual core 2.3 GHz - Mac OS X 10.5.1

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NanoRaptor, to random
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The one true USB3 connector.

CodingItWrong,
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@NanoRaptor USB3-D

vga256, to random
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i just spent an entire day doing 40 pages of speech balloon lettering for the comic book my wife is publishing for her MA

i used to think that there was any job on a computer that i could do, and like. i have finally found the one i could not do day after day.

cartoonists: you have my respect.

CodingItWrong,
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@vga256 so my dad went to elementary school with John Kricfaluci, creator of Ren and Stimpy. He's 100% sure it's the same one because the guy would create comics and my dad would do the speech balloon lettering, and how many John Kricfaluci's that do comics can there be?

CodingItWrong, to random
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To have any chance to use this NeXTstation on a regular basis, I'm gonna need to put the CRT on top of it. Anyone have suggestions for something I could put on top of the slab to prevent the CRT from marking it? Maybe some kind of heavy black foam so it doesn't take away from the aesthetic?

CodingItWrong, to random
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NeXT monitor arrived, works, and the picture is really nice. The borrowed monitor I have has a known issue where the picture is super wobbly for the first 20-30 min it's running (!). By comparison the picture seems somewhat dim too. I didn't realize how much more enthused a good image would make me to play around with NeXT!

Slab is arriving tomorrow from the same seller (testing on a borrowed one today). Hopefully it's in as good a shape!

CodingItWrong,
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@vga256 ooh hey mine is an N4000A!

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NanoRaptor, to random
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Same picture. Same bullshit.

A report card from year 10. It reads in part: English, Grade A, Dana is a very able and talented student who does not always give of her best. This failure to invest much energy in her English prevents her from achieving her full potential although this is not the say that this work is of an inferior standard. Also, Mathematics (Advanced), Grade A, Dana is a keen student but her work lacks discipline. She has a lot of ability but this needs further development.

CodingItWrong,
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@NanoRaptor i tried to find that article but wasn't able to. (other articles on that site about quiet quitting, just not that one.) do you happen to have a link to it? (i wonder if they were shamed into taking it down.) i think it gets at something key about some employers' unhealthy expectations

CodingItWrong, to random
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Putting together a timeline of the history of the web, and I'm not seeing much (in the categories I'm looking in) since 2017. What since then have been the main advancements in the web platform, in your opinion?

CodingItWrong, to random
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Won an auction on a NeXTstation and display (shipping now). It was a good price, but still more than I've spent on my other vintage machines. Watching Jobs' introduction of the NeXT computer to distort my reality so I'm convinced it was a good purchase 😄 https://youtu.be/92NNyd3m79I

CodingItWrong,
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@vga256 just the basic introductory slab; neither 😄 turbo nor color afaict

would love a turbo color and a cube, but i'm telling myself i need to really get good use out of my NeXTs/rhapsodies before that'd be worth the money

i borrowed a full working slab setup from the president of my local computer club; that's what's given me the confidence to buy, since i have known-good components i can test against and use until if/when i find my own

CodingItWrong,
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@vga256 i had had trouble finding next color monitors on ebay before for some reason, but i see 'em today, and yeah, certainly not the same kind of uniqueness

CodingItWrong,
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@hankg very cool! i had the thought the other day "did i hear about NeXT emulators on the web recently" but I forgot to check it out. that will be very fun to try!

CodingItWrong, to random
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Me: starts an eBay customer service chat

eBay Customer Service: "I see you opened an account 18 years ago, thank you for your loyalty."

Me: "Savage!"

NanoRaptor, to random
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Dual layer VHS.

CodingItWrong,
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@NanoRaptor "who knows how that's meant to work."

How that's meant to work: ⌘

CodingItWrong, to random
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Anyone play the old Sierra adventure "Manhunter: New York"? I never hear any references to it. Interesting setting, but maybe not very good? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhunter:_New_York

NanoRaptor, to random
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The quad-package 8-core powermac G5 ran a bit hot.

CodingItWrong,
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@NanoRaptor "1.8 gigahertz. It's not great, but it's not terrible."

CodingItWrong, to random
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Since it sounds like I'm probably one of the only people who has fond memories of a , I should probably get one someday so I can play Lode Runner, Below the Root, and King's Quest 1 on it 🙌

CodingItWrong,
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@vga256 I just learned some about the crazy technical feats Sierra pulled off with IBM money on this podcast episode! https://overcast.fm/+Q4twiwRTw

sinza, to usenet
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What platforms were used in the 80s up to about 1993 or 1994 for Internet servers? It can be #FTP, #Gopher, #telnet, #USENET, the #OldWeb, or anything else that was on the Internet in that era.

My research indicates Solaris was very popular for web servers until Linux took over, and so I suspect it (and SunOS before it) was very popular for the Internet in general, but I'd like to hear from anyone with this sort of experience.

#retrocomputing

CodingItWrong,
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@CGM @sinza I date the origin of the web by Marathon, the Mac FPS game. It was released in December 1994, and I know in 1995 I was browsing rudimentary web pages to download Marathon maps, texture packs, etc.

CodingItWrong, to random
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Was bidding on a CRT monitor, but I was starting to regret it. I just got outbid on it and I think I'm going to let it go. I have a borrowed one now, and it'd really work out better for my storage space if I can do the work to find a compatible flat-panel display (which I do know is a challenge).

NanoRaptor, to random
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Apple IIe limitless future poster, with a lovely cleaned up scan based on an archive.org brochure.

Original brochure at https://archive.org/details/AppleIieBrochureA2f2201/page/n3/mode/2up

CodingItWrong,
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@NanoRaptor Apple II marketing team: "A limitless future."

Steve Jobs: "We'll see about that."

CodingItWrong, to random
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Mica powder does seem to have fixed my MessagePad 2000's problem with sticky rubber coating. I went with black powder so it may be darker than the original.

WARNING: I'm brand new to Newtons so I can't guarantee mica powder will work on yours. If you try, please get advice from others too and test it first.

A container of black LightStone brand mica powder.

CodingItWrong,
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@vga256 got the info from this thread; since i'm just 1 day into it they would know more than me about whether it holds up 😀 https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/cleaning-up-the-basement-and-rediscovered-the-triplets.43698/#post-488606

NanoRaptor, to random
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I don't think I've used my Quadra 605 continuously as much as I have in the last few weeks of taking a wander around from time to time.

So much so I had do actually clean a mouse ball that had become dirty.

What an experience :D

CodingItWrong,
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@NanoRaptor obligatory

CodingItWrong, to random
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Me: "Nothing's changed on Macs since 2007."

2007 MacBook: will not boot off USB, loads 3 GB Linux installer off DVD glacially slowly

CodingItWrong, to random
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Further evidence that I'm putting the history into my computer history hobby: to write a few sentences about the NeXTstation and NEXTSTEP for , I don't trust online summaries, so I'm like "I might as well reread the NeXT book from the start again."

(It helps that I need something to read to calm down before bed.)

CodingItWrong,
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@vga256 keep me posted if/when you read it! i was being serious that i'm rereading it right now, would be fun to share any thoughts together

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