#classicmacs — Public Fediverse posts

I miss the days of physical manuals, and Apple’s were really done well.

Reading the 1988 “Macintosh Utilities User Guide”, I was struck by the CloseView chapter, the feature that allows magnifying the screen to help those with visual imparement.

In the manual, that chapter is printed in a much larger font!

It’s touches like that that made me fall in love with the circa-2003 Apple when I bought my first Mac — an iMac G5.

#ClassicMacs #RetroComputing #Apple

(More Classic Macintosh musings….)

One thing that comes through when playing with that Macintosh SE is the thought and care that the people at Apple put into it.

I miss the old Apple, the one that obsessed about every pixel of their UI. Because today, sadly, they just… don’t.

#ClassicMacs #RetroComputing #Apple

I picked up a classic Macintosh (Mac SE) at the SoCal Vintage Computer Festival that was held recently. Since I came into the Mac world about the time of OSX Panther, the earlier “System” stuff was all new to me.

It's been a lot of fun learning about Macs of that era, and comparing them to my experiences with the Amiga, which was my first computer with a GUI.

#RetroComputing #classicmacs

System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4

https://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=7711.0

#HackerNews #System7 #MacMini #G4 #RetroComputing #ClassicMacs #AppleHistory

I’m not a fan of self-boosting, but I realised I was remiss in not putting some hashtags on this post after it started gaining the small amount of traction it has.

For those who boosted or liked the original, I’m not asking or expecting a repeat. I just hope with these hashtags it gets a little more traction to acknowledge the genius of #BillAtkinson, who affected so many lives through the genius work he did.

I know he impacted many aspects of my life through the work he did on the Mac, the original System, and MacPaint, and it seems many others were similarly impacted.

It’s been truly inspiring for me to see Mac legends talk how he put the lie to the saying “Never meet your heroes”, as he seemed to have been a hero to many, and never a disappointment in person.

RIP, Bill. :alogo6:

#RIPBillAtkinson #HyperCard #MystGame #Lisa #ClassicMacOS #QuickDraw #Dithering #AtkinsonDithering #ClassicMacs #ClassicMacintosh #Mac128K #MarchingAnts #MacPaint #FatBits
https://social.europlus.zone/@europlus/114645820628589016

#GlobalTalk #MARCHintosh callout re: PageMaker 4.2...

Does anyone with physical copies of PM4.2 and manuals/books have the 4.2 version of the Aldus PageMaker Script Language Guide?

It might solve a problem for me (and @dillera).

Thanks!

#ClassicMacs #DTP #PageMaker

Airaga base Finder has been periodically crashing/restarting today. The router, being loaded as an extension, continues to operate, but it’s weird because this has so much less installed on it than the main WOzFest HQ AIR node.

Router Manager continues to be vaguely crashy on both, but not really disruptively so.

I’ve done a round of minimising extensions on Airaga base today – will try a few more things in Classic Mac “move things till they improve” mode.

#GlobalTalk #ClassicMacs

#GlobalTalk #RetroMacs #ClassicMacs

I want to be alerted if an AIR node goes down. Sort of like UpTimeRobot for GlobalTalk...

This AIR node is emulated and can’t be pinged (slirp network on Linux).

I’d like something simple to see if the host is running or not.

I can’t port scan UDP as it doesn’t respond, of course.

I was wondering if there was a simple, stable System 7.1-compatible “something” which I could either port scan, or do some other sort of “heartbeat” check on.

1/n

#GlobalTalk #RetroMacs #ClassicMacs Question

I’m trying to run Choosier v1.0 on my emulated Q800 7.1.1 and emulated PPC 9.2.2 machines.

On both, Choosier immediately crashes with a Type 1 error in 7.1.1 and Type 2 in 9.2.2. I’ve downloaded from a different source (Macintosh Garden), same problem.

7.1.1 has AppleTalk v58.x (Choosier requires 53).

Anyone else having this issue?

#GlobalTalk #MARCHintosh #ClassicMacs

So today I came up against a problem with hosting old System components on Netatalk 4 - the propensity for developers to put funny characters in INIT/Extension names to get them to load before others (Extensions usually load alphabetically).

Hidden characters played silly buggers with the ability to copy such files, so I had to put them in an archive and copy them that way.

It’s a read-only share, so no chance of anything failing to extract, but still.

Hey #ClassicMacintosh officionados!

Does anyone remember the name of (or have a photo of) the cooler addon for #ClassicMacs (128, 512, Plus) that inserted a fan in the handle slot to suck air up and out of the passively-cooled macs?

I remember seeing one at university circa 1992, but I can't find any pictures of it.

I'm trying to find it for @[email protected], who wants to develop the equivalent for the iMac G3

#AskFedi #ClassicMac #Macintosh

cc: @NanoRaptor @DosFox

Mac Plus up and running with System 6.0.4 installed from the original media to BlueSCSI. #retrocomputing #classicmacs

Yay, I got the Macintosh Classic II (graciously given by @mediaarchaeologylab ) repaired! Still some stuff to do on it but it actually functions as a computer now. Excited to do some Pascal and HyperCard!

Here's a write up about it:
gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2023-09-09.gmi
https://nytpu.com/gemlog/2023-09-09.gmi
(That's part three, links to the previous two parts at the top there so I don't have to include six links here)

#Mac #ClassicMacs #ClassicMac

Since it's basically impossible to search for anything about classic Macintoshes without getting SEO sludge about modern Macs, does anyone know how I can get files onto this Macintosh Classic II running System 7.1?

I only have USB floppy drives that can't seem to handle Mac format discs. Despite the Mac running System 7 it doesn't seem to have the “PC File Sharing Extension” (but does have just a normal “File Sharing Extension”?) and does just prompt me to reformat when inserting a PC floppy.

I notice there's XMODEM and Kermit extensions along with “Serial Tool” extension so I was thinking I could transfer the PC File Sharing Extension over a serial<->USB adapter but apparently the file Sharing Setup control panel is also missing? Like the “File Sharing Monitor” says I need to enable it in Sharing Setup but I don't see that listed in control panels, and when File->Sharing in finder offers to open Sharing Setup for me nothing happens.

I unfortunately don't have any way to directly hook up to the IDE hard drive either.

#ClassicMac #ClassicMacs #Mac

EDIT: I found a solution. I got a copy of the PC Exchange control panel and loaded it onto an HFS disk image using Mini vMac, and dd'd that image onto a floppy, and can now read PC disks just fine.

New #Gemlog post: Macintosh Classic II Repair — Part 2

gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2023-09-08.gmi
https://nytpu.com/gemlog/2023-09-08.gmi

#Mac #ClassicMacs #ClassicMac

@sotolf @joel @benjaminhollon @pixx

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The Resource Fork was something really unique that the #ClassicMacs did. I haven't seen anything like that today. Even modern macs just use a directory and the GUI makes you think that it's a file (but the command line shows a directory).

New Gemlog post: Macintosh Classic II Repair — Part 1

gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2023-09-02.gmi
https://nytpu.com/gemlog/2023-09-02.gmi

#Mac #ClassicMacs #ClassicMac #Gemlog

I found this old IBM SCSI hard drive that I forgot about. I sort of got it working attached to my PowerBook 520c but the system locked up when I tried to install System 8. More investigation required #retrocomputing #classicmacs

Testing my stash of Macintosh 68k stuff and getting it ready for ebay #retrocomputers #classicmacs