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Loved Computer Chronicles as a kid (early 1980s, with him and Gary Kildall). Didn't understand a lot of it back then but loved it.

Yeah, I broke down and pre-ordered a Founders Edition. I suppose it's part of the history now, and I do like that it's very self-contained. Never enjoyed the 64's original keyboard, I agreed with people who called it "overinflated." I prefer the 128 keyboard, but then, I also just prefer the...

I've had good luck using an iBook G3 power supply, and those almost grow on trees. (That said, my regular 1400 uses the stock supplied power supply most of the time.)

The instruments and the virtuosity are all great, but I love how he does it all in a tux (and even varies his neckwear).

I've generally found PowerPC upgrades for 68K Macs of questionable value these days. Back in the day they made sense to run software you couldn't run on your otherwise expensive hardware, but nowadays they simply make them into a poor low-end system. I have an Apple 601 card for my Q800 and I...

Texas Instruments wasn't known for pocket computers or portable handhelds, but they did have at least two: the handheld Compact Computer 40, which then was shrunk and modified into the "calculator" TI-74 BASICALC, nevertheless still fully programmable in BASIC and thus qualifies as a stealth...

I'd love a clear one, but mine's an DVT prototype, so that's fine too. :)

I use my Quad for GarageBand and Photoshop, largely. Does great for that.

I've got a Brother HL-2070N laser printer that works great in OS 9.

The last image is a 256K cache. Goes in Power Macs. In fact, I suspect most, if not all, of the sticks in the third "middle" image are also cache sticks.

I was very fond of Blasto for the Texas Instruments 99/4A and recently even got an original Gremlin Blasto arcade board running. However, the TI port - though a lot of fun - hews very closely to the rules and limitations of the arcade original. This is my attempt at rectifying it on the...

It's not bad looking for what it is, but the Inty was my first console (as a Tandyvision One, https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2024/12/composite-and-hard-reset-mods-for.html ), so I have many real Intellivisions here instead, at least one 2609 Master Component, a Sylvania-GTE Inty and a couple Inty...

It doesn't damage the RAM to do that. The ANS is the same way and I routinely do a "double reboot" to skip the Long RAM test, which on that machine can take a couple minutes fully loaded as well.

Good to see someone has confirmed booting and demonstrated how to wire it up with NOS chips. I've got a spare ANS ROM here I can sacrifice if someone is willing to build it (would pay for it). Regrettably I'm poor at SMT soldering.

Hope you're hungry. Here is the output from this 200MHz ANS 500 with production ROMs and the 10/100 Ethernet card option.

n=1, but I think it would be nice, yes. :)

I'm pretty sure (@johntucker can confirm) that the MacOS ROM does allow you to boot from the internal SCSI. But it could certainly boot external if needed. The ANS does not have ROMs on the logic board; they are always on a SIMM stick.

Unfortunately (speaking as the maintainer of Crypto Ancienne) it does not currently support SSH, just generic TLS which it uses for HTTPS. I'd use Dropbear for SSH; it works with pretty much anything I've ever thrown it at, even very old systems. It should certainly work with 10.5. Also, Australia.

Curious: did you get nailed with any tariffs over that?

This is a great thing to dust off, but a couple portability notes: - Compilers are trying to get rid of K&R syntax even though it warms my grizzled heart to see it. - st_birthtime and d_type are not POSIX. For example, 10.4 doesn't have birthtime; AIX 6 doesn't have that or d_type. (Both do...