Once upon a time, a single edged, small shaving razor blade one could shave one's self with was actually and literally the cutting edge of technology at the time when shaving was done with a knife-sized razor sharpened on a strop, usually weilded by a barber. We've come a long, long way since then.
I've been trying to get an old Mac emulation setup online but I've had trouble turning a modern Internet connection into something the old system understands. Any good links?
@saschasegan oh wow, that's something I haven't explored. I definitely had to (re-)learn a lot to get this hardware online on my home network! The key for me was installing Open Transport... I wonder if any of the Mac emulators emulate a network card or PPP type connection.
@singletona I was actually wondering what kind of statement you were making by highlighting that the desk was painted a real color (perhaps as opposed to the off-white or black of all the equipment?).
when I had one of those I couldnβt work out how to do footnotes, so I wrote none. Utterly liberating. This feels rather the same, losing speed and slickness seems to be nicely reflective.
@cynic2010 I got a BlueSCSI (https://scsi.blue) and boot off of that instead of a floppy or old hard drive. You could use those old Macs again, but a lot have had their clock batteries explode and leak all over inside. Iβve had to do major work to restore an old SE with major battery damage. And the capacitors can also leak and cause corrosion. Even though itβs the older model of the two, your Mac Plus is more likely to not be damaged due to its battery placement on the back panel.
@Mary Margaret McCabe If I recall correctly, the way to add footnotes was to create a "footer" area. It's typically where the page number goes but it can do footnotes. If you mean making a raised number at the sentence where you want to reference a footnote, knowing ASCII might have worked if Extended ASCII--but what I'm not clear about is whether a Mac that old would have preceeded the implementation of Extended ASCII.
@claralistensprechen oh dear, Iβm afraid I couldnβt do footers either, it all just scrolled through β¦ had really no clue at all, and certainly no grip of special programmes that might help! I just typed and hoped. But it made writing such a joy, no typescript commitment.
To toot, or not to toot.? If given the chance, one should grab life by the horn(s), or better yet, just use your tusks as best as you are able to. Have faith in the fuzzy pachyderm. From little toots will one day grow big tusks! NASA and "yer mom" once used equipment like this. Things get better after a bit. Hav patience. This is advice coming from someone who is ADHD and has spent all 61 years of life constantly waiting (lol impatience). If I can wait for better days, you "normies" can
@erin_kitsune itβs connected with an Ethernet card on my home network! And all credit goes to @smallsco for actually writing the program that actually interfaces with Mastodon!
@800askcarl it definitely wasn't working when I first got it. I had to replace all of the capacitors and clean corrosion off the board before it worked!
@flugennock Thanks, Iβve done quite a bit of work on this to get it working again. These SE/30s are special machines. Iβm using Macstodon (https://github.com/smallsco/macstodon) and the system has an Asante Ethernet card in the PDS slot.
Here's a trivia tidbit: that machine dates back to the time they used Motorola chipsets, which is why Motorola used that machine exclusively at work at the time...which is how I came to appreciate it. But that's when Motorola was still run by the Gavin family. It went kaput & got bought out and now is just a comm company with Gavins nowhere to be found.
That's the machine that launched Microsoft Windows. If yours runs Excel, take a wild guess who wrote it for Apple, gaining access to source code then ran off with it.
@RonsCompVids yeah! It just plugs in with a crossover/printer type serial cable, and then depending on if the program needs it, the MIDI Manager extension needs to be installed. I've had the best results with using QMidi for playback, but MidPlay is also pretty good.
this is 7.5.5, I haven't tried 7.1. I first tried on System 6, but couldn't find any plain ol' MIDI players that could run on it, they're all just too new. I got Cubase to run and could play some songs on 6, but the instrument mapping wasn't right.
@fell yep, Macstodon interacts with the API directly, but it does require a proxy to handle the https part. It handles the JSON... slowly. It takes several minutes to load the home and local timelines.