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dan 💾#Marchintosh may be over, but the #GlobalTalk shenanigans continue…
That’s right, now that the weather is finally nicer, we’ve got the big cables out to have #GlobalTalk running over barbed wire!
Somehow it all worked over the barbed wire on the first try! And the PowerBook 1400cs really wasn’t built to be used outside 😜 #GlobalTalk
So of course the first thing to do is try printing to the other side of the world, to @kalleboo ‘s ImageWriter #GlobalTalk
And it looks like it was a success! :D
#GlobalTalk #BarbedWire #RetroComputing
🖨️ @kalleboo
So it’s just a phone cable chopped in half an a pair of alligator clips attached to each end. Thanks, barbed wire!
Lukito@billgoats Does… does this mean that there’s some unsuspecting livestock down the road who is now making 56k modem noises? 
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ScoutThis is amazing!
Miguel Arroz@billgoats It would be interesting to move the cables from both machines apart further and further and see the maximum distance before the connection is too noisy to work properly!
Sheddi@billgoats
That's up there with @revk and his "ADSL over wet string" 😄
Edit to add a link to revk's blog article:
https://www.revk.uk/2017/12/its-official-adsl-works-over-wet-string.html
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Karl Baron@billgoats It’s funny I was going to print out that origami classic Mac that @mattrobertson posted earlier, but wanted to remove the top sheet of paper first since after sitting in the printer for over a week the paper adopts the curve of the feed roller, and this was waiting for me! This was before you posted anything so I was so confused - Just amazing timing haha
So anyway thanks for helping me not waste a sheet of paper to curvature!
@billgoats I knew leaving my nearly 40-year-old printer running unattended 24/7 for months at a time would eventually pay off!!!!
vxo@billgoats haha this reminds me of the first time I had a laptop with a display made to be sunlight readable - an Itronix XC6250 series
that thing was POWERFULLY bright
@vxo This thing is the opposite of usable... even when new, these were never any good outside.
@billgoats oh the fix for that is easy, just take one of those big blackout drapes with you like you'd use with a view camera so you can use the ground glass finder
@vxo Maybe one day I'll get into large format photography and need one of those, but that day hasn't arrived yet 😜
@billgoats I was just talking with my coworker about it... I might have inadvertently convinced him and his wife to look at the Mamiya RB67 / RZ67 series. It's like if Lego made a medium format camera - SO MANY options
@billgoats She's currently shooting on a Pentax 67, which is a nice camera but
* heavy
* no I'm not kidding at all HE CHONK
* slooooooooooooow shutter
* no rotatable back - shooting portrait kills your upper extremities
the Mamiya system has a focal plane body shutter but leaf shutter lenses for the system also exist and are common; x-sync up to 1/300 or 1/500 is featured on those, which is great if you want to shoot in sunlight
@billgoats as I recall the big difference between RB67 and RZ67 is the RZ67 came out later, has an electronically timed body shutter, and a plastic body to reduce weight. The RB67 is heavier as it's all metal and has a mechanically timed shutter (and will fully function with no battery)
@billgoats other things that are fun about the RB/RZ: the back is interchangeable https://mrleica.com/mamiya-rz67-polaroid-back/
bazzargh@billgoats @vxo an Ikea DRÖNA works well as a sunshade for laptops, looks like it would fit the powerbook. They squish to pack up and are fairly cheap
@bazzargh @billgoats hah I wonder if Porta Brace ever made a case for laptops with the snoot
I have one of their cases that has the shady snoot, it's made to fit an Ikegami / JVC TVM-9 series. It's so cute
DeltaWye 🔜 Anthrocon-ish?@billgoats how many bps?!
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@billgoats haha, I thought it was a post complaining about the new Apple OSes before I read the post text!
Klievhelm@billgoats Barbed wire adds that bottom layer security missing from most protocols.
Grant Hutchinson@billgoats I love how wonderfully ludicrous this is.
Thomas Brand@splorp when are you going to repurpose your nipple clips and join the network?
Luke Sheldrick // an0key 🤖@billgoats still haven’t hooked up the g4. I’m sure I applied for access to the nicheNet, I’m pretty sure I recall not understanding most of the required fields 😇
@billgoats GlobalTalk over barbed wire?
This is a
CERTIFIED
FEDIVERSE
MOMENT
(Trap air horn sound effect)
{:ok, "Joel Jucá"}@billgoats whats marchintosh?
@joel A silly month where retro Mac nerds do silly things with their silly old devices :D https://marchintosh.com
Melroy van den Berg@billgoats free energy! 😎
@billgoats I'm at the other side of your fencing. But I have free energy now to my disposal 😜
feld@billgoats yesssss on a barbed wire fence!!!! I have only heard of these tales
@billgoats barbed wire firewall 🤣
Keelan@billgoats the impedance of an ideal barbed wire fence is 600 ohms. Be sure to replace your usual 120 ohm PhoneNet termination resistors with 600 ohm resistors!
AlanGrassia@billgoats
That’s an awesome photo. Very cool.
That’s an awesome photo. Very cool.