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Geek gurl, software engineer, anime, antique radios, computers, lots of vintage Macs, cars, hax, health, rndm gamer, fibro fighter. I like pretty things. Co-founder/co-director of https://springfield.community tech non-profit.
The power of starting with one single helpful thing we can do competently on behalf of others is not to be underestimated. I started fixing dumpster-dived computers for my neighbors in need back in 2023; three years later it's a 501(c)(3) providing free devices and free digital skills education.
I gotta admit, I'm pretty excited about this one. Bob "Dr. Macintosh" LeVitus is one of my favorite tech writers. Books, newspapers, magazines, blogs... you too have no doubt read his work.
He helped folks keep the faith even in some of the darkest times!
youtu.be/BCHMHAiCaMk
The Power Macintoshes on stairs. In the forefront i is a PowerMac G5, two stairs up behind it is a graphite G4. In the back on the landing is a blue and white PowerMac G3.
Three generations of PowerMac, G3, G4, and G5, some of Apple’s best case designs #MARCHintosh
My First #MARCHintosh video of the Year is out!
youtu.be/rjN4kAmt8WQ?...
the bottom of a circuit board with a bunch of pins
I guess my new unexpected #MARCHintosh project is to fix this BlueSCSI I have that arrived DoA back when I bought it.
One of the pins is not connected through, so one bit of each byte is wrong. Is there a pinout for these from pi->DB25 to help me buzz out the pins?
My first #MARCHintosh casualty 🫡
@theirongiant guided me through some percussive maintenance but he's dead, Jim.
At one point I gained “access” to a second phone line and used dual modems for dial up. Could only do it for a couple of weeks on and off, but it was better than a single modem 😄
Possible. The Performa 476 was very noisy right until packets started passing, sounded similar to a modem during handshaking. First time I’ve heard electrical noise like that from an ‘040.
AppleTalk router crashed and cut the Mac Plus off from the internet. Got the router back online, but it wouldn’t pass traffic. Just as I was about to post about it and take a break, it started working. #MARCHintosh
Greetings from 1Bit, RToD, Superbenk, 68kradio, and others.
You know it’s #MARCHintosh when you walk past the basement stair and wonder what’s wrong with the furnace blower and suddenly remember you’re on #GlobalTalk and someone is printing to your ImageWriter II.
Awesome! The images not loading is happening for me also, probably load, connections are currently maxed out.
Darn! It is slow to load, can take upwards of a full minute. My best guess is that it's timing out. Looks like you might be connected through a proxy, depending on the proxy that could cause the connection to time out quicker than the Plus can respond.
Try crackedmac.ddns.net:8080, for some reason the 8080 got cut off when I first posted.
The Cracked Mac Plus survived the bot onslaught and is still, slowly, serving its web site. It saw about 30 visitors since last night. Visit at crackedmac.ddns.net:8080 or crackedmac.ddns.net
link got clobbered crackedmac.ddns.net:8080
Macintosh Plus with a large external hard drive on the side. On the screen is MacHTTP web server showing activity and logs.
Screenshot of the cracked Mac website https://crackedmac.ddns.net:8080
Cracked Mac Website hosted on my ‘cracked’ Macintosh Plus is online at both crackedmac.ddns.net and crackedmac.ddns.net It’s not fast, but it works 😄 #MARCHintosh
Ethernet networking hasn't changed much over the last 35 or so years, besides getting faster, that makes it all much easier. This is really the first vintage Mac stuff I've had time to work on since the move. I got to set up and boot a couple, but no project progress until recently. It feels good 😁
PowerBook 3400c booting Mac OS 8.6
Updating html using BBEdit Lite
Don’t have my PowerBook 165 on the network yet, thus I pulled out the 3400c to update the website hosted on my Mac Plus #MARCHintosh
Kicking off #MARCHintosh with the smallest Mac ever: the Pico Micro Mac!
Check out the video on Level 2 Jeff: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gOS...
Someone is REALLY unhappy that I woke them up after too many years in storage for #MARCHintosh . 😬
If you are playing along with #MARCHintosh and you need modern Wi-Fi support for an old computer, I recommend this: the VONETS VAP11G-300 Wi-Fi Bridge. Set up in a web browser, connect it to Ethernet and USB (for power), and it's transparent. Only downside is the blinky lights.
Macintosh Quadra 700
Sending Mac vibes for #MARCHintosh
Progress made! The Performa 476 got a fresh System 7.1 install along with the Appletalk Router and Gateway Managers. Everything is configured and seems to be working. Plan to finish tonight 😄 #MARCHintosh
The insides of an InageWriter II dot matrix printer with a PCB inside - that’s the ImageScribbler card.
Want a hardware-y way to get your ImageWriter II up on #GlobalTalk in time for #MARCHintosh? Last year I reverse engineered Apple’s LocalTalk option card and made the design available, naming it ImageScribbler: github.com/polpo/images...
and pre-built ones are for sale: jcm-1.com/product/imag...
Getting close to having the Cracked Mac Plus back online. All the working disk images I've found boot 7.5, not 7.1. Digging out a CDROM or my FloppyEmu and installing System 7.1 next, hopefully tonight. #MARCHintosh
A closeup photo of a very very small floppy disk being held in between two fingers. It's blue with a white label that has blue lines.
microdiskette
Macintosh Plus with 4 MB of RAM and running MacOS 7.1.
Macintosh 476 used as an AppleTalk gateway, awaiting a microSD card with the correct image on it.
Wires found, everything connected, Mac Plus troubleshot and booting, AppleTalk gateway offline … misplaced the drive for it and haven’t found the right image yet 😆 #MARCHintosh
Instead of turning a clock into a vintage Mac, I turned a vintage Mac into a clock!, I though it would be fun given its #MARCHintosh The program can be downloaded here: github.com/retrotheory/...
It supports US/EU month day order AM/PM, Invert display, 'grey' background and alarm function
An ATX breakout device that provides screw terminal access to the voltages of a 24 pin ATX power supply. It's encased in a small box that I designed and 3D printed, and the screw terminals are on top, with the voltages labeled.
Why spend $10 on an ATX breakout board when you can instead spend 10 hours with spare parts to make your own?
A piece of 1-bit pixel art on a simulated Macintosh screen. the piece of 512x342 pixels in size, and depicts a wacked-out bit of art showin the giant number "2026" floating in space over a piece of "Globaltalk" text with an Apple logo next to it. Various spacy shit is around the piece, like a nebula behind, a planet with rings, a small black hole, a whole bunch of stylised magnetar lines, clouds, rocks, and black bubbles of possibly vacuum decay. it's signed in the bottom right corner by me, 'nanoraptor'
For Globaltalk, in Marchintosh 2026.
18.5 hours, 1 bit, black and white only.
(Original .pict on a bunch of your globaltalk servers)
