for years i've used a dual-core i5 2012 mac mini as my web server, file server, usenet client and music server. it's incredibly energy efficient, and has handled anything i've thrown at it.

less well known is that the late 2012 mac mini is the last of its series to have upgradeable SATA drives. it takes about 2 minutes to fully disassemble the machine - despite having a rather goofy internal design. it has room for *two* 2.5" sata drives, and the logic board has two sata ports. (by 2014, apple got rid of the two sata bays and replaced it with a single msata port)

today i replaced the dual-core i5 with its minihulk cousin: apple's BTO "Mac Mini Server" with a 2.3 ghz quad core i7. the server has two 500GB SSDs running - one drive handles mastodon, the other is for file sharing. those two extra cores are going to be a ton of help dealing with mastodon video encodes.

the old dual-core i5 has been turned into my home theatre plex client, and happily chews away at 1080p video like it's nothing.

these are 14+ year old machines, found dirt cheap through electronics recyclers. i've never had a single failure to date. with any luck, they'll continue to work for another 10 years.

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I made a thing! Come help out?

retrorepro.wiki — a catalogue of modern reproduction parts for vintage computers. Reloaded logic boards, 3D-printable brackets, replacement chips, analog board recreations and more.
Mac-heavy right now (that's what my bookmarks look like), but Commodore and IBM PC sections are coming.
Missing something? Account requests are open.
https://retrorepro.wiki/Main_Page

(Who wants to make a logo?)
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I've come to terms with the fact that now that I actually own a printer, despite the type I get called on to actually print normal, day-to-day things, so I put in the effort to turn my raspberry pi into a CUPS server to re-share share the ImageWriter to my modern machines so I can print out PDFs without manually converting them to PNGs and booting up the G4 every time

It's very weird to see an ImageWriter show up in iOS

Thanks to @paulrickards for the guide in your blog!

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My LEGO Apple //c

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The iMac monitor conversion is complete!

https://resmer.co.za/ch/posts/imac-g3/

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I am not sure why deleting a page break in AppleWorks for the #IIgs can reliably reproduce this error message.

But, I can say that I do love that I am presented with a second option.

("OTHER button" sadly does nothing. It would be even more entertaining if it did something.)

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There's some retrocomputing among these boxes...

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I've tried to turn this iMac into a monitor, but it is not displaying anything :(

After making sure it's getting the (unusual) resolution it wants, and putting the old logic board in to confirm that the screen does still work, it looks like I may need to collect my own initialization data to send to the display. I've wanted to finally get familiar with I2C so maybe today is the day.

(The project https://github.com/qbancoffee/imac_g3_ivad_board_init )

(Carpet is the ideal surface for ESD safety)

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