Some good reads for cherry blossom viewing 🌸

#VintageApple #RetroComputing

The antique mall Newton MessagePad 100 is alive. The audio cap seems to have destroyed things, and there’s one row of dead pixels, but otherwise it’s functioning. #vintageapple

Some light Easter reading in the park before the Kids' Egg hunt

#VintageApple #RetroComputing

One thing I've learned is that Inside Macintosh is just the primer. It may look like all you need - it lists all the Toolbox functions and how they work, and walks you through how things ought to fit together!

But in reality to make anything beyond TeachText you need to read: every Technote, every Q&A, skim every relevant sample code, every Snippet, and also read every issue of develop.

Then you can start to approach being able to attempt to do something!

#VintageApple #RetroComputing

TIL that Apple actually released the source code to SimpleText! I don't know how I missed this for so long...

#VintageApple #RetroComputing #AprilTosh #mb

ah yes, the highly desirable mac mini 4

no doubt the 4ghz powerpc m4 processor makes this vintage mac extra valuable

#vintageApple #macintosh

From my #Reddit feed.

Yes, it would be awesome to use the #VintageApple icons in #XFCE.

#mac #tech #vintagecomputing

My wife was cleaning up her office for a move at work and handed me this. #VintageApple #apple2

Let’s do this again and hopefully the algorithm doesn’t send it straight into /dev/null

Opening a sealed copy of Mac OS 8.0 for #MARCHintosh! With free AOL3.0!

#retrocomputing #vintageapple
https://youtu.be/zhrBh95mW08

Opening a sealed copy of Mac OS 8 for #MARCHintosh

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