I'm super excited. I've wanted an AT&T 3B2 system forever. Picked up this 3B2/310 tonight from Free Geek Twin Cities. Hopefully I'll be able to get it working.
I'm super excited. I've wanted an AT&T 3B2 system forever. Picked up this 3B2/310 tonight from Free Geek Twin Cities. Hopefully I'll be able to get it working.
Gotta love good ol' 1-bit pixel dithering (ordered, Floyd-Steinberg, etc.)
𝙈𝙖𝙘𝙋𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙩 𝘼𝙧𝙩 𝙁𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙞𝙙-80𝙨 𝙎𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙇𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙨 𝙂𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙏𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙮
We should launch a Europe-wide team effort to collectively acquire this incredible #Macintosh collection—and then thoughtfully distribute it across the continent, making sure it finds the right hands in every corner of Europe.
MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today
I tried vibe coding in BASIC, but it didn’t go well.
Only on #LGR does one casually look at an #Apple1 #mainboard like it's just another board at that #ComputerReset warehouse...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-ZZkZk9QRk&t=23m36s video via @lazygamereviews
Apple-1 Computer, handmade by Steve Jobs [video]
@rasteri @TechTangents speaking of #storage: A main annoyance I found is that whilst there are #IDE -> #SATA adaptors that can just be plonk'd directly onto the mainboard, they are always either single-port or these weird "bidirectional" ones which means instead of a jumper/switch to say what side is the drive have two SATA ports and can only use one at the time.
I know why these adaptors exist, so that there needs to be no manual printed (silkscreen explains everything) and only 1 part be made regardless if IDE-> SATA or SATA->IDE.
Still doesn't make it less annoying.
I guess @rasteri and other #PC104 users can now get the beloved #ISA-#USB #Flashdrive card with native PC104 pinout to stack on boards.
I wounder if anyone got those ISA-USB controllers to work on #Linux distros tho.
I sadly don't have any system with ISA or PC/104 at hand (gotta build one i.e. #tiny486) so I can't test it anyway, but maybe a future revision of the #WeeCee may benefit from such an option (which I think also has the potential to be a good "bridge machine" for people dealing with legacy / industrial systems...
Using #AtariST based #LDWPower to compare #GeekBench values and decide on Apple #MacBookPro #M1Max 10/32 upgrade path. M4 Max seems to be the only viable path.
#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing
I also uploaded the final revision of this PowerBook Duo 2300c foot / rear port cover I designed.
https://www.printables.com/model/1350569-powerbook-duo-2300c-rear-foot-port-cover
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i just got a ton (maybe literally) of vintage mac stuff. G4s and G5s. xServes and xRaids. anyone near Los Angeles? #vintagecomputing #apple
over the years i've become more interested in game/software ephemera than the software itself.
for example, few people under 20 have grown up with a local computer store or brick & mortar store that sells boxed games. biking over to the computer store to line up, pay cash, and buy a game you've been saving for months has become an alien experience.
a few days ago i bought some old PC boxed games from a guy that had them in storage for decades. of all of them, i was the least excited about Millionaire. it looked like the kind of lazy portware that probably started its life as a text simulation on the Apple II and made its way to every godforsaken architecture.
tucked away on the last page of the manual was an absolute treasure: the original VISA transaction record for the day the game was bought, for $52.88, on July 20, 1985 at the Real Canadian Superstore in Edmonton, AB, Canada. This is before Canada had the goods and services tax (GST), and when Alberta was abbreviated to Alta.
the owner stapled it on to the warranty registration card, just in case he had to return it or RMA it some day.
Superstore #1572 is still there, in the north end. while i knew they had always sold video games, i had no idea that they sold IBM XT software way back in 1985.
(for anyone not in Canada, Superstore is a national discount grocery chain.)
even better, no one under the age of 30 will have seen these credit card transaction records. they were made using a "credit card imprinter" - a sliding mechanism that pressed the card number through several layers of invoice and carbon copy paper. The invoice papers were usually two or three layered - a white and pink copy for the business, and a yellow copy went to the customer.
Pictures from one year ago as we were getting set up.
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New video! Testing the Chat64 cartridge which gives you a plug & play instant chatroom on your vintage home computer.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/k7gfhEC5BWg
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/hv8FZE9TzUzW2SS4aRWr6u
has anyone ever come across a video documentary about CorelDraw! and the Corel corporation? it's eluding me on web/yt searches, and *someone* must have done a deep dive on this by now?
The detachable keyboard on the XEGS let me put another keyboard on the stack! I was afraid I was going to have to go build some custom shelving. #FujiNet #Atari #A8 #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #AppleII #TRS80 #Commodore #C128 #C64