fervent lotus
What is MARCHintosh & Getting Started!
With the success of such events as DOScember and SEPTandy, why shouldn't the Macintosh retrocomputing community have their own month to share their passion for classic Macintosh computers? We'll be posting photos and more here all month, and check out https://www.marchintosh.com/ (#marchintosh Event Logo concept and design by Javier Rivera | YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/JavMaster | Twitter: @javmast3r)
tacit trellis
The first Mac I owned was the SE 30. I found it abandoned on the sidewalk. I soon bought a IIcx because it came with the Superdrive.
leaden vector
Mac LC here, though I later picked up a Plus at a flea market.
I was recently reviving some of my old machines. The PowerBook Duo gave me a heart attack... First time booting up after 20 years, and I'm confronted with a BIOS password prompt. 😰
oak cloud
I dream of building a replica of the original Apple computer…
lament wagon
It's mostly a bunch of ordinary TTL chips, so entirely doable.
fervent lotus
Pictured here, our Ladyada! Photo taken by our Apple QuickTake 200! #marchintosh
fervent lotus
OK! Kicking off MARCHintosh with some of the lesser known accessories. Apple QuickTake 200 (1996) and posted up some recent photos from it, not bad for a 27 year old digital camera! more photos, including ones from the camera on our tumblr
https://at.tumblr.com/adafruit/apple-quicktake-wikipedia/k5615fu4wmpe
and vid!
fervent lotus
For today's #marchintosh we'll post up some photos and more of Apple's PowerCD (1993)! https://adafruit.com/marchintosh have one? Post up photos, stories, hacks/mods, videos and tag it #marchintosh
🍏 💿
oak marlin
Apple also means dongles, and weird connectors… That you sometimes need to DIY. https://m.g3l.org/@mmu_man/109966091595741213
fervent lotus
The Apple PowerCD (1993)
From Wikipedia -
"Apple PowerCD is a CD player sold by Apple Computer in 1993 and discontinued several years later. It was a re-badged Philips-designed product (Philips CDF-100) which was sold in addition to Apple's speakers and also included a remote control. The PowerCD was capable of reading Kodak photo CDs, data CDs and audio CDs. It can connect to Macintosh personal computers through SCSI and also to stereo systems and televisions." - Does the Apple PowerCD (1993) work with the Apple AirPods Max (2020) headphones? Yes. Cable is needed, but works, sounds good.
hollow hollow
I have a Macintosh but it's in storage and I don't have a photo of it, so here's a "before & after Macintosh" photo I took.
fervent lotus
Apple Pippin (1996) video game console platform
Wikipedia -
The Apple Pippin was a multimedia technology platform, designed by Apple Computer, and marketed as PiPP!N. According to Apple, Pippin was directed at the home market as "an integral part of the consumer audiovisual, stereo, and television environment." Pippin is based on the Apple Macintosh platform, including the classic Mac OS architecture. Apple licensed the Pippin technology to third-party companies. Bandai Company Ltd. developed the ATMARK and @WORLD models, and focused them on the gaming and entertainment business in Japan, Canada and the United States.
The Apple Pippin platform was named for the Newtown Pippin, an apple cultivar, a smaller and more tart relative of the McIntosh apple (which is the namesake of the Macintosh). According to Apple, it intended for Pippin to be more than just a platform for game consoles. "Apple believes that over time Pippin will take many forms, including home telecommunication devices and much more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Pippin
#MARCHinstosh
robust whale
Scored this about a year ago for just hauling it out of someone's shed. I have the monitor too. Maybe Marchintosh will be the push I need to get the restoration started.
barren flame
We made a mini museum of 3 computers to bring to the local maker faire, this is a rough demo of the Macintosh sequence.
https://youtu.be/1hN6bVjmZ5Y
meager mesa
Just fired this up for the first time in a long time. Guess the model. Six NuBus display cards (and a few spares), I have six displays, but only one connected at the moment.
sacred plinth
1976 Wozniak
civic robin
1976 Wozniak
Are you an apple collector?
sacred plinth
No just came across this one today on reddit and decided to share. I don't own it if that's what you mean.
civic robin
OK! ^_^
I was just surprised to see what (I think) amounts to a prototype unit here
||the exposed transformer makes me shudder a little. Oh well, it's a prototype||
sacred plinth
I think this is one of their first garage club prototypes. It's pre-apple.
civic robin
This is like a great-great grandfather to the M1 mac I'm typing this on :P
...which, one day, is going to look as archaic to future me in the same way as I look at the apple 1 now
(or so I hope)
sacred plinth
Latest auction valued Wozniaks Apple I briefcase prototype at half a million dollars.
civic robin
There's probably a story to how it isn't in Wozniak's hands
sacred plinth
Well when you make a real PC the prototype in a briefcase tends to get shoved into a closet somewhere I'm sure.