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#vintagemac

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Sohan Subhash

I'm trying to track down the source of this Macintosh concept image. Does anyone recognize it?

I'm not sure if it's from Frog Design. It's not included in any of the widely shared Macintosh concepts. It's also not featured in Hartmut Esslinger's book Design Forward.

Would appreciate any boosts or leads. #Apple #VintageMac #vintageComputing

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dan 💾

Hey #VintageMac nerds... How do you change the default program that documents open with? I'm drawing a complete blank.

I have two versions of HyperCard on this computer but double-clicking any stacks keeps opening the older one by default.

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David Nelson

So I have this iMac G4 (PowerMac4,2) and I need to decide what OS versions to put on it.

Obviously I’ll do OS 9 for classic things, and 10.4.11 since that’s the latest it can run. But what about any in-between versions?

Thinking about lesser known considerations like “you need version Y to read this particular filesystem” or “version Z is the last to support this AppleTalk feature”. #VintageApple #VintageMac #VintageMacintosh #RetroComputing

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David Nelson

Tonight I picked up an iMac G4 for $60! I always admired this design but never owned one.

This unit is the original 700MHz model with Combo drive. It powers on and everything seems to work.

The seller said it was in an abandoned storage unit that he purchased.

There’s next to no data on it but judging by Safari bookmarks the original owner was a fly fishing fan.

There’s a small iTunes library which I’ll back up before wiping it.

Image of an Apple iMac G4 computer with a flat screen and a rounded base, accompanied by two transparent speakers. The screen is turned off and there is an Apple logo on the front of the base. It is resting on a wooden table.
#VintageApple#VintageMac#VintageMacintosh
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Scott Small 🇨🇦

It's time for a #MARCHintosh retrospective!

Firstly: I've attached a photo of the remaining gifts to the drop box that have come in since the 15th!

Secondly: I've completed a final pass-over of the servers on #GlobalTalk, left my calling card, and a print job for anyone who hasn't had one yet (as long as they have open file shares/printers). Results of that are attached as well.

Finally, the retrospective itself:

It's been an absolutely CRAZY month:
- On Day 1, my SE came home from the workshop with a fully-serviced floppy drive and '030 accelerator...
- ...which I didn't even end up playing with at all, because on Day 2 I bought a Power Mac 6500 for an absolute steal (and I STILL have to explore the other external HD that came with it)
- GlobalTalk completely dominated the month just like it did last year. I rebuilt my QEMU VM for running AIR a couple nights before the start of the month and it's been absolutely rock solid stable ever since.
- I made great progress on my project for the month, archiving my collection of Mac floppies from the early 90's. I'm only about 40% done, so this will continue into April as "bonus content" 😁
- No updates on #Macstodon - but I did verify that it works perfectly fine on Mastodon 4.3 if you manually authenticate by copying the URL to a modern machine, and copying the auth token back to your Mac.

Lastly I want to give thanks to everyone in the #VintageMac #RetroComputing community for making this such a fun event every year! I love seeing all the greetings showing up in my drop box, and to my printer (which is now off for the year - but the PDF printer is available year round!) But I especially want to thank the following folks:
- @kalleboo for TalkCrawler and for putting together an amazing GlobalTalk scavenger hunt!
- @europlus for his hard work on the AIR Administrator's Manual Addendum and VM images for QEMU!
- @scj for the GlobalTalk updater app!
- @theirongiant for 68K Radio, which has been my background music while working on my vintage Macs this month!
- @polpo for creating the ImageScribbler card which made it possible to send print jobs to so many more people this year!
- @dmark for maintaining netatalk, making it possible to share files over AppleTalk directly from my NAS instead of having to keep an old Mac running all the time!
- @DrJosh9000 for jrouter, which I'm looking forward to trying again now that the month is over and I can start messing around with my setup - it's had a lot of bugfixes and updates!
- @_the_cloud and @jimluther , for sharing great knowledge from their time at Apple with the community (and for helping me troubleshoot some crashes)!
- @RonsCompVids , @MuseumJoe , and @mac84tv for putting together the annual MARCHintosh event!

Until next year!

Picture of the desktop of my 6500 showing all the greetings I've received to the dropbox since March 16th
Photo of a BBEdit text document showing which GlobalTalk shares and printers I've been in contact with. First page.
Photo of a BBEdit text document showing which GlobalTalk shares and printers I've been in contact with. Second page.
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Daniel Tufvesson

Wrapping up the last days of #MARCHintosh by giving my Power Macintosh 7600 its very own brand new internal BlueSCSI. Could not make it boot on the ”fast” 10MB/s SCSI port so had to make do with connecting it to the ”standard” 5Mb/s one. Not sure why but it’s good enough and, most importantly, I did not break any plastic pieces in the process! Yay! #vintagemac

Closeup photo of a BlueSCSI v2 mounted in the top internal drive bay of a Power Mac 7600
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