Notices by dan 💾 (billgoats@bitbang.social)

Y’know, it's kind of nice to see Apple finally using the Mac mini to show solidarity with the power bottom community.

Mushrooms on a poo!

This looks like a suburb.

It looks like you've got roads. It looks like you've got driveways. It looks like you've got places for detached houses.

But then it's not. There's no houses. There's no people. The roads aren't paved. It's just… logging.

It's the equinox this weekend. Then the nights start winning. 🌚

Google/Youtube have started occasionally swapping ‘Accept all' and 'Reject all’ cookies buttons, so you can't just automagically know where to aim anymore 💩

It’s a nice day. Work is in a hurry-up-and-wait phase. Let’s try getting AppleTalk running over barbed wire again!
#LiveLaughLocalTalk
#GlobalTalk
#RetroComputing

@mac84tv 🤩

Cat rediscovering the delights of a warm CRT. #caturday #RetroComputing

@mac84tv It really is! Such a nifty idea, and works surprisingly well. Have you seen the teardown that @keelan did a while back? https://beefchicken.com/retro/thunderscan

The ThunderScan is kind of working! The scanning nozzle is definitely picking up data and sending that to the 512 :D But the printer isn’t moving on its own, so I’m guessing I need to swap some tx and rx stuff around with my janky home brew cable :D
#RetroComputing #ThunderScan

@ActionRetro That keyboard layout >.<
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Steady now, here comes my passion.

Wow, setting the IIgs to monochrome gives a way way better crisper image than I would have guessed

@thomasfuchs Ahhh, right. The ones I've come across before always end up saying out of stock once you try going through to check shipping costs, but this one sticks with it all the way. Cancelling soon after wouldn't be surprising.

This can't be real, can it? A PowerBook 3400 replacement battery that supposedly in stock and $28 and $8 shipping. Seems too good to be true. https://www.batterymall.com/en-gb/products/powerbook-3400c-laptop-battery-apple-macintosh-m3654

Remember! Restart your computer 15 to 20 times.
#crowdstrike

Looks like #GlobalTalk has stayed robust through the global it outage 💁 #RetroComputing

Is there a cat here, or is it just a lamp? It’s hard to tell. Maybe it’s just a lamp. 🐈⬛

Aliexpress keeps advertising this ridiculously wide monitor at me, and I'd be lying if I said I weren't tempted. Except I really have no use for it.

There's a #RetroComputing bit of silliness that I've been poking away at with little success for the past month-ish.

You might remember the ThunderScan, that lets you turn the ImageWriter dot matrix printer into a scanner? Well, @keelan gave me one to play with while I was in Canada! He documented it here: https://beefchicken.com/retro/thunderscan/

Anyway, it's old and uses usually-ignored-and-often-not-even-plumbed-in-anymore serial cable pins, so it's been a bit of a brouhaha to get it set up.

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