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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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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 this one is good. The author is definitely unashamedly critical of Jobs, so I had to set that aside a bit, but it's good historical detail. Interestingly it was written just after they got out of the hardware business, a few years before the Apple question

https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Jobs-Next-Big-Thing/dp/0689121350

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

sharewarewolf, to free
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EDIT: It's taken.
to a good home! One Kensington TurboMouse ADB trackball without a ball. The left button is broken, but the switch still works. It just wobbles a bit.

The tall end of the trackball base with two ADB ports and a small internal locking port. There is an empty square molded into the plastic below each port with nothing written on it.
The underside of the trackball base. The label has been cut to expose the top two screwheads and also the bottoms of the rollers. The model number is obscured by one cut, but below that says Version 4.0

CodingItWrong,
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@dillera @paulrickards @sharewarewolf it's like the anti gift of the Magi

NanoRaptor, to random
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eMate 300.

CodingItWrong,
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@NanoRaptor @nygl what do y'all use the eMate for? I got one with a MessagePad 2000 and I'm trying to decide if I'll use it for anything I won't use my 2000 or 120 for

CodingItWrong,
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@NanoRaptor @nygl great, thanks for giving me validation to do the same 😄

NanoRaptor, to random
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Power Macintoshes G4 in Anthracite, Ultraviolet, Deep Sea, and Cherry.

A promo photo of a Power Macintosh G4 with its polycarbonate case and matching cinema display. Instead of the usual graphite, this version is a deep almost difficult to look at purple violet. Ultraviolet.
A promo photo of a Power Macintosh G4 with its polycarbonate case and matching cinema display. Instead of the usual graphite, this version is a dark, deep green with a hint of cyan blue showing through. Deep Sea.
A promo photo of a Power Macintosh G4 with its polycarbonate case and matching cinema display. Instead of the usual graphite, this version is a deep rich velvet red - Cherry.

CodingItWrong,
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@NanoRaptor YES! UNIRONIC YES!!!

CodingItWrong, to random
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Got a MessagePad 2000 and it works great!

Its finish is sticky, though, as seller reported. I tried what worked on my other stylus: IPA. Tested it on a corner and it got the goop off and doesn't seem to be damaging the underlying plastic.

Newton folks, think this is safe to do across the whole case?

CodingItWrong,
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@vga256 ok, I was wondering why it seemed like the plastic wasn't affected at all. So totally separate plastic and rubber layers, and the rubber has goopified

NanoRaptor, to random
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Macintosh PowerBook G3 Wallstreet.

CodingItWrong,
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@NanoRaptor I have a Pismo for capabilities, I want to get a Lombard for nostalgia since I used to have one, and I want to get a Wallstreet/PDQ for the unique "rainbow logo + swoopy design" combo

CodingItWrong,
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@NanoRaptor you know, i always thought the bit of the logo under the leaf was white to blend in with beige cases. doesn't really work visually on a powerbook

hamin, to retrocomputing
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My iMac G4 came with some games that I haven't seen for download anywhere. Where do people upload these things?

CodingItWrong,
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@kalleboo @hamin once you've uploaded 'em please share a link here too so we know what's new!

CodingItWrong, to random
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Were MessagePad 120s always a bit green, or did they turn that way? Because here one is next to my gray hoodie and blue pants, and it's definitely not blue or gray.

vga256, to retrocomputing
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over one year my retrocomputing storage room went from an organized archive to this disaster. today i’ve had enough. time to sort and clean. 😬

CodingItWrong,
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@vga256 good luck! what are those black things in the center? Macintosh TVs? The black 5000 series I'm talking to @applepc about?

NanoRaptor, to random
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1:30am. Woke from a dream where my job was to catalogue old Macs’ Linnaean names. An extra tall 68040 tower with so many drives was Quadra imperator. I wanted to find the little Q605’s name but got lost in a paper describing something as Tritrinitron osmolskae.

Seriously, the inside of my head…

CodingItWrong,
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@NanoRaptor you gazed into the abyss

CodingItWrong, to random
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So, question about GlobalTalk: is this like… the first time this has been done? If so, GlobalTalk is a great pun 😄

quadra700, to retrocomputing
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Shrine of Apple was a website with beautiful pictures of Apple's products over the years. It is gone now and, sadly, it looks like the product photos were never archived. All I have are these Performa 200 images I grabbed years ago. There is also a book, Iconic, with the photos, but it doesn't appear to be available anymore. Anyone have it?

https://web.archive.org/web/20160324122415/http://shrineofapple.com/the-shrine/

Photo of a Macintosh Performa 200 with floppy drive.

CodingItWrong,
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@quadra700 I've seen Iconic for sale on eBay. I just picked up a copy at my local computer museum at a good price. If anyone is interested I could pick one up next time I'm there and ship it to 'em

NanoRaptor, to random
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Here's a moment I regret, back in 2011. I tried selling cheap, no takers - tried giving most away, nobody was interested enough. One Sydneysider wanted me to bring them all to Sydney so he could look through and pick what he wanted.

Half my collection went off to 'recycling' that day.

A photo of many classic Macs off to be 'recycled'. They're sitting in low winter sun in a trailer. There are Quadras, classics, G3s and Workgroup Servers, a bit of everything good.
A photo of many classic Macs at the recycling centre, stacked up against a wall like they're facing a firing squad. they look huddled together, and scared.
A photo of many classic Macs at the recycling centre after being picked up by a bobcat and crushed into the regular waste.

CodingItWrong,
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@NanoRaptor never knew there was a power Mac in a 950-style case. Guess I need to add the 9150 to my wish list

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    CodingItWrong,
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    @ActionRetro YES! cc @auhim

    NanoRaptor, to random
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    Halo, Ep 4.

    In 2550 we are still around and we are seen.

    CodingItWrong,
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    @NanoRaptor I was just watching Elysium and it was interesting to see that in their Apartheid future at least the poor people have Apple chicklet keyboards.

    NanoRaptor, to random
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    Macintosh Quadra 0605

    CodingItWrong,
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    @NanoRaptor computer on a chip

    NanoRaptor, to random
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    I have a corner of my house that seems to have standing waves from the highway half a block away. If I have no sounds in the house (fridge downcycled, no fans or aircon on, no music) I can't normally hear it, but if I put my head near the floor in one particular corner there's a pulsing sound.

    CodingItWrong,
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    @NanoRaptor i'd absolutely watch this horror movie

    NanoRaptor, to random
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    "And if you gaze long enough into a Vision Pro, the Vision Pro will gaze back into you."

    CodingItWrong,
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    @NanoRaptor

    CodingItWrong, to random
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    @NanoRaptor repost request: At one point you had a photo of a pile of beige dust with an Apple logo in the middle. Now that I have an 8500 this photo really hits home for me and I would love to see it again 😃

    CodingItWrong,
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    @NanoRaptor haha thanks!

    I literally have a note on the back of the 8500 that says "don't mess with me" because every time I open it up to upgrade RAM or use a component in another computer, something goes wrong, and I have to re-disassemble-and-assemble it multiple times

    I used to want an 840av but at this point I think one 800 form factor is enough

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