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The Tinker Different board has published a governance policy to clearly define roles and expected comportment of current and future board members. Tinker Different has rules regarding the conduct of members, so we felt it was prudent to define and impose rules upon ourselves as well. The...

This month the Tinker Different board will be broadcasting their first livestream for 2024, with a tour of some of the latest fantastic and ingenious projects posted on the Tinker Different Forum, followed by a Q&A session. It's going to be a lot of fun and we invite you to join us and be part...

The board has recently received a request to include "gender identity", "gender expression" and "sex" be added the to anti-discrimination section of the code of conduct. The excerpt in question currently reads as follows: The current omission of "gender identity", "gender expression" and...

Hi all, I have a RasterOps 8XL NuBus graphics card and it's missing a tantalum capacitor from location C50 (see pictures). Every other tant cap of the same size on the board is 10µf 16V, so my guess is the missing one is the same, but I'd like to be certain. If anyone else has one of these...

It's time for the 2024 PPC Challenge! The gang from Mac Yak have been running the PPC challenge for a few years now, and the 2024 challenge begins soon! THE GOAL The primary goal of the PowerPC Challenge is to use a Mac powered by a PowerPC CPU as much as you can for your day-to-day computing...

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Tinker Different board has decided to remove the Vendor section of the forum from Sunday the 12th of November. If you have posts or information within this section that you wish to retain, please backup or migrate this data to another section of the forum...

The Tinker Different 2024 calendar competition is underway, and we would like your input on what important dates we should include. The calendar will highlight some of the important dates and anniversaries (well, important to us geeks) such as December 12 (Apple went public), or August 12 (IBM...

It's time to get out your cameras and your favourite piece of vintage kit and submit your photo entry into the Tinker Different 2024 calendar competition. It doesn't have to be a computer, it might be a game console, a boom box, a camera, a car or a television. It just needs to be vintage. Just...

This weekend the new Tinker Different board will be broadcasting a livestream introduction, then a tour of some of the fantastic and ingenious projects posted on the Tinker Different Forum, followed by a Q&A session. It's going to be a lot of fun and we invite you to join us and be part of the...

It's time for the 2023 PPC Challenge! The gang from Mac Yak have been running the PPC challenge for a few years now, and the 2023 challenge has begun! THE GOAL Use a Mac powered by a PowerPC CPU as much as you can for your day-to-day computing. Everything you usually do on your Intel or M1 Mac...

Hi all, The Snooper software (originally made by Maxa, then later by Central Point Software) used to include a NuBus diagnostic card as well as a small, black, serial loopback plug for testing the serial ports. I'm not too fussed about the card, but does anyone have one of these loopback...

Introducing the 2022 PPC Challenge! The gang from Mac Yak have been running the PPC challenge for a few years now, and the 2022 challenge is almost here! THE GOAL Use a Mac powered by a PowerPC CPU as much as you can for your day-to-day computing. Everything you usually do on your Intel or M1...

Hello fellow tinkerers! It was mentioned to me the other day that since the Tinker Different board was formed on the 7th November, we have been a little quiet. I guess we're still getting into the groove with our new roles, and trying to figure out scheduling around our busy lives and multiple...

As part of our promise for transparency in the running of Tinker Different, here are the minutes of the very first official Tinker Different board meeting. Tinker Different Board Meeting Minutes November 13, 2021 In attendance: Bruce, Christian, Steven H., Stephen, Steven M., Erich H. Absent...

Hello all, I have a Umax Gemini secondary CPU card (604e 250MHz) but it's been through the wars and lost a few surface mount electrolytic caps. If anyone has one of these and can tell me what sort of caps I'm missing, or a picture of one that I can use as a guide, it would be greatly appreciated!

I wanted to be the first to post in this category, and I thought I would use it to mention a great feature of SheepShaver I recently discovered. SheepShaver has the ability to create self-contained virtual machines. So you can place the application, the ROM and disk image all into a single...

I'm regularly asked which adaptor to use when connecting a vintage Mac to a modern monitor using a DB15 to VGA adapter. There are so many different types of adapter around: some with 10 DIP switches, some with 8, some with 16 and some with none. Some sync on green, some do not. I would love...

I looked at the empty Lisa & Mac XL section yesterday and decided it needed some content. So I released this video.

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For those who may have missed it, this is the official Tinker Different launch promo video. Enjoy!