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   Aaron (harpaa01@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2024 11:40:21 JST Aaron

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   @paulrickards I adore Jean-Louis Gassee’s intro of the Portable and how he put it together on stage.

   https://youtu.be/ZzlQdWKmPuE?si=_DhlGmIuQwxxUfte

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     paulrickards (paulrickards@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2024 11:40:22 JST paulrickards

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     Let’s look inside the #MacintoshPortable, a marvel of all plastic engineering. It contains no screws and requiring only a flat head screw driver to disassemble it. It’s also nerve wracking for fear of breaking brittle plastic.

     The back holds the lead acid battery on the left and the right your choice of HD/FD or 2 FDs.

     Here I’ve installed a #BlueSCSI V2 desktop along with the 50 to 34 pin SCSI adapter.

     I’ve also installed a 8MB RAM card

     #RetroComputing #VintageApple #VintageMac

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     paulrickards (paulrickards@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2024 11:40:23 JST paulrickards

     My New Year’s resolution this year is 640x400x1 🥳

     Say Hello, World! to the new-to-me Macintosh Portable. This is the fancy backlit version (M5126). More luggable than laptop weighing in at 16 lbs. It’s just such a beast of a machine.

     It comes with this even larger travel case with room for lots of extra gear.

     #RetroComputing #VintageApple #VintageMac #MacintoshPortable