#vintagemac — Public Fediverse posts
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Picked up this official Apple DB9 <-> Mini-DIN8 adapter from eBay the other day, so that I can have a serial cable for my vintage Macs, in the hope of using it for TechStep diagnostics among other things.
Unfortunately, it's not wired correctly, according to the guide at https://recon-68k.github.io/#serial-adapters-and-cables. And I didn't check the pinout first because my multimeter died (see: https://oldbytes.space/@smallsco/117193190601081442) and I figured it would be fine anyway, after all it's an official part right?
But with it connected to my serial cable (this guy: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0759HSLP1) between my MacBook Pro and my Power Mac 6500, the serial cable got hot - scalding hot - needed-oven-mitts-to-unplug-it hot 🥵 Hopefully nothing got damaged.
(I'd also tried earlier with my IIfx and it did not get hot but it didn't work either)
cc: @jack68k
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Picked up this official Apple DB9 <-> Mini-DIN8 adapter from eBay the other day, so that I can have a serial cable for my vintage Macs, in the hope of using it for TechStep diagnostics among other things.
Unfortunately, it's not wired correctly, according to the guide at https://recon-68k.github.io/#serial-adapters-and-cables. And I didn't check the pinout first because my multimeter died (see: https://oldbytes.space/@smallsco/117193190601081442) and I figured it would be fine anyway, after all it's an official part right?
But with it connected to my serial cable (this guy: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0759HSLP1) between my MacBook Pro and my Power Mac 6500, the serial cable got hot - scalding hot - needed-oven-mitts-to-unplug-it hot 🥵 Hopefully nothing got damaged.
(I'd also tried earlier with my IIfx and it did not get hot but it didn't work either)
cc: @jack68k
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Picked up this official Apple DB9 <-> Mini-DIN8 adapter from eBay the other day, so that I can have a serial cable for my vintage Macs, in the hope of using it for TechStep diagnostics among other things.
Unfortunately, it's not wired correctly, according to the guide at https://recon-68k.github.io/#serial-adapters-and-cables. And I didn't check the pinout first because my multimeter died (see: https://oldbytes.space/@smallsco/117193190601081442) and I figured it would be fine anyway, after all it's an official part right?
But with it connected to my serial cable (this guy: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0759HSLP1) between my MacBook Pro and my Power Mac 6500, the serial cable got hot - scalding hot - needed-oven-mitts-to-unplug-it hot 🥵 Hopefully nothing got damaged.
(I'd also tried earlier with my IIfx and it did not get hot but it didn't work either)
cc: @jack68k
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Picked up this official Apple DB9 <-> Mini-DIN8 adapter from eBay the other day, so that I can have a serial cable for my vintage Macs, in the hope of using it for TechStep diagnostics among other things.
Unfortunately, it's not wired correctly, according to the guide at https://recon-68k.github.io/#serial-adapters-and-cables. And I didn't check the pinout first because my multimeter died (see: https://oldbytes.space/@smallsco/117193190601081442) and I figured it would be fine anyway, after all it's an official part right?
But with it connected to my serial cable (this guy: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0759HSLP1) between my MacBook Pro and my Power Mac 6500, the serial cable got hot - scalding hot - needed-oven-mitts-to-unplug-it hot 🥵 Hopefully nothing got damaged.
(I'd also tried earlier with my IIfx and it did not get hot but it didn't work either)
cc: @jack68k
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Picked up this official Apple DB9 <-> Mini-DIN8 adapter from eBay the other day, so that I can have a serial cable for my vintage Macs, in the hope of using it for TechStep diagnostics among other things.
Unfortunately, it's not wired correctly, according to the guide at https://recon-68k.github.io/#serial-adapters-and-cables. And I didn't check the pinout first because my multimeter died (see: https://oldbytes.space/@smallsco/117193190601081442) and I figured it would be fine anyway, after all it's an official part right?
But with it connected to my serial cable (this guy: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0759HSLP1) between my MacBook Pro and my Power Mac 6500, the serial cable got hot - scalding hot - needed-oven-mitts-to-unplug-it hot 🥵 Hopefully nothing got damaged.
(I'd also tried earlier with my IIfx and it did not get hot but it didn't work either)
cc: @jack68k
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I love the Mac LCIII, so let's try to save this one that someone ran a drill into. Just another normal Saturday noon stream here at the BigBadBench. #ewaste #vintagemac https://youtube.com/live/-zvet5a9AaA?feature=share
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I love the Mac LCIII, so let's try to save this one that someone ran a drill into. Just another normal Saturday noon stream here at the BigBadBench. #ewaste #vintagemac https://youtube.com/live/-zvet5a9AaA?feature=share
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I love the Mac LCIII, so let's try to save this one that someone ran a drill into. Just another normal Saturday noon stream here at the BigBadBench. #ewaste #vintagemac https://youtube.com/live/-zvet5a9AaA?feature=share
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I love the Mac LCIII, so let's try to save this one that someone ran a drill into. Just another normal Saturday noon stream here at the BigBadBench. #ewaste #vintagemac https://youtube.com/live/-zvet5a9AaA?feature=share
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I love the Mac LCIII, so let's try to save this one that someone ran a drill into. Just another normal Saturday noon stream here at the BigBadBench. #ewaste #vintagemac https://youtube.com/live/-zvet5a9AaA?feature=share
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Staying warm in front of the 1-bit glow of the Lisa and the Yule log with MacFLIM.
#RetroComputing #VintageApple #VintageMac #AppleLisaClone #AppleLisa
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My #AppleLisaClone has a new front panel! I got one of the new Lisa 1+2 hybrid panels from Mac Effects, courtesy of @Recta_Pete
I moved the iPad LCD panel over to it and added some custom 3D printed CRT bezel gap fillers to fit the curve.
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On this, the last day of #MARCHintosh, we say goodbye with some After Dark Flying Toasters on my #AmigaCDTV pretending to be a #Macintosh.
#CommodoreAmiga #VintageApple #VintageMac #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #FlyingToasters
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Some Susan Kare originals in Mac Paint on System 6.0.8 in A-Max 2.5 on an Amiga CDTV.
#RetroComputing #VintageComputing #VintageMac #MARCHintosh #CommodoreAmiga #AmigaCDTV #MacPaint
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This composite of two pictures of the same screen beautifully illustrates interlaced video from the Amiga CDTV. They show the screen displaying different fields (in this case 1/50 second). Together, these two fields make up the image you see on the CRT. There is a very noticeable flicker, especially when there’s sharp horizontal color differences between fields.
#CommodoreAmiga #AmigaCDTV #VintageMac #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #MARCHintosh
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“It’s always flow control.” I printed again but instead of the ImageWriter II, I sent it over RS-232 and captured it with CoolTerm. I then sent that file (400K) to the ImageWriter II over serial. The flow control gods were smiling because it worked that time! So, I just need an external print buffer/spooler for CDTV and A-Max 😅
#RetroComputing #VintageComputing #CommodoreAmiga #AmigaCDTV #MARCHintosh #PageMaker #VintageMac
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Printing from PageMaker starts off fine but quickly turns into garbage and starts ejecting pages from the ImageWriter II. I suspect there’s some hardware flow control problems with longer prints.
#RetroComputing #VintageComputing #CommodoreAmiga #AmigaCDTV #VintageMac #MARCHintosh #PageMaker #ImageWriterII
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ZOOM AND ENHANCE ✨ Having this larger display was certainly an upgrade over the built in display of a classic Mac, but then again, lots of flicker! 😵💫
#RetroComputing #VintageComputing #MARCHintosh #CommodoreAmiga #AmigaCDTV #VintageMac #PageMaker
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More CDTV pretending to be a Mac printing shenanigans: PageMaker 1.2! Ahh the logo alone takes me back. There’s a sample document on the disk so let’s try printing that!
#RetroComputing #VintageComputing #MARCHintosh #VintageMac #CommodoreAmiga #AmigaCDTV #PageMaker
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But can we print from the Amiga CDTV pretending to be a Mac Plus with AMax? Yes! Here’s a MacWrite document (in San Francisco font, natch) printing over the “modem port” (Amiga serial) to an ImageWriter II.
#RetroComputing #VintageComputing #MARCHintosh #CommodoreAmiga #AmigaCDTV #VintageMac #MacWrite #MacPlus
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Hey so I got the A-Max cartridge working somehow. I removed and tested three chips, all good. Tried it again and now it’s working! I can plug in the #FloppyEmu into it and access native Mac disk images now. Here’s #MacWrite!
#RetroComputing #VintageComputing #VintageMac #CommodoreAmiga #AmigaCDTV #MARCHintosh
