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A fun #marchintosh surprise from @csilverman 😁 what fun and thank you!!

We got to experience this unusual Mac for a few hours before (predictably) the barrel jack gave up on this 5300-based machine. HD imaging and some touch-up work on the docket! 🤞

@billgoats @csilverman an iPad from 1997!

It's a touchscreen grafted onto the guts of a 5300, designed for (most likely) accessible use by people with disabilities.

For example, there is a program that lets you make 'boards' of buttons that lead to custom actions...think a picture of a water glass, and when you press, it says "Water, please" or whatever scripty thing you ask it to do.

Will do a full thread eventually because there is so little info out there on this guy!

#marchintosh

@steter nice! I remember being REALLY excited about OS 8 😊

We are live for #Marchintosh 2026, and back on #globaltalk!

You may notice a different than usual background. We have moved! Aside from daily needs tech, these are the first to come over 😊

In lieu of hardware shuffling this year, I'm going to browse around and share more fun stuff. The one big goal is to set up the WGS 95 as an A/UX file server - I've never messed with A/UX before, and am a total unix novice. Should be fun!

Send help. Apparently I have a Toshiba problem now 😜

Remember to back up your important files!

Microsoft Word - Cindy Denise Incident.doc

Can't stop

We're having some fun here folks

Another evening with the Toshiba - on my second city. Gotta say, this laptop has been bulletproof - I know it's only SC2K, but no freezes or hardware issues, and I haven't taken it apart at all.

The cord fell out of the back when I was moving it around, and the battery gave it enough time to panic plug it back in! And it keeps time between uses.

A few evenings of use and you forget you're even using a nub

Who wants to move to my city in the forest with no roads? It looks idyllic ✨

☢️ Microwave Oven Robustness ☢️

Another night with the Toshiba, and a growing city 🏙️🙂

It's no Macintosh, but I wish the Mac laptops of the era had this build quality. The screen, the hinge, and the keyboard scream $4,999 laptop!

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/pc-makers-go-ultraportable/

Oh, and it just works

A very inelegant SC2K experience in Windows 95, but this Toshiba Tecra 510CDT is a total beast. It's from 1996 (early PB1400 would be a good comparison) and has so many ports, lights, buttons, and latches 😅

So this absolute chonker of a turtle spent about two hours laying eggs right off our porch last night at dusk

A silly #marchintosh project 😁

Macintosh 3.1, 95 and 98! #marchintosh