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   Colin McMillen (colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr)'s status on Friday, 21-Aug-2026 06:00:31 JST Colin McMillen

   I am very much back on my bullshit! #RetroComputing #QuicktakeForAppleII

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     Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Aug-2026 06:00:30 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

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     @colin_mcmillen the DC50 is so deliciously janky! My favorite though is the DC120

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     Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 22-Aug-2026 22:50:58 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

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     @colin_mcmillen I’ll see if I have a DC50 software CD in my collection, I usually put everything on the Internet Archive but might have missed it

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     Colin McMillen (colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr)'s status on Saturday, 22-Aug-2026 22:51:00 JST Colin McMillen

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     #DC50 update on the #AppleII :
     - Thumbnails are displayed
     - Fetching pictures from the PCMCIA card is now OK

     I'm now trying to figure out camera controls. The only Kodak Windows software I could find does not provide any option for that - just transfer, so I'm a bit blindly poking.

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     Colin McMillen (colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr)'s status on Saturday, 22-Aug-2026 22:51:01 JST Colin McMillen

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     Two things achieved today: good reset/wakeup procedure, and 🥁 getting pictures from the camera's internal storage!

     Todo: a lot (thumbnails, camera controls, getting pictures from the PCMCIA card, ...)

     #RetroComputing #AppleII #QuicktakeForAppleII

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     Colin McMillen (colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr)'s status on Saturday, 22-Aug-2026 22:51:02 JST Colin McMillen

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     This one is going to be able to transfer at 115200bps 🎉

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     Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 23-Aug-2026 05:49:44 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

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     @colin_mcmillen looked through my stack of Kodak CDs but didn’t see any DC50 stuff :(

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     Colin McMillen (colin_mcmillen@piaille.fr)'s status on Sunday, 23-Aug-2026 05:49:46 JST Colin McMillen

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     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs oh that would be cool. I still have a few things to reverse engineer.