Dan FitzGerald

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IBMmer, Software Engineer, Mainframer, Amateur Photographer, Polythiest, Druid, and Collector of Crap. Views are my own and not my employer's.
PronounsThey/Them/Theirs
Websitehttp://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/dfitzger/
Professional InterestsOperating Systems, Linux, IBMmer, Software Engineer, Mainframer
ComputersIBM PC Portable, Apple II Plus, Macintosh, Macintosh 512Ke
"These are your father's coffee scoops. A more elegant weapon... from a more civilized age."
Last call on the first winter storm of the season, from Meteorologist Jack Drake at https://twitter.com/Danbury_WX
Meteorologist Jack Drake (@Danbury_WX) / Twitter

Danbury Weather Guy. Local meteorologist. Will randomly start talking about clouds. WCSU 👨🏻‍🎓 - Entegris 👨🏼‍🔬. Why is the Exit 8 traffic so bad?

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This is probably one of the most South Jersey things I have ever seen
Yeaaaahhhh, I've got stuff to sell.

Last night, I got an amazing suprise! I was working at a Hackerspace when somebody gave me this little guy out of the blue. It's a Mac 128K, produced around June, 1984, with the Mac Plus 1MB conversion kit!

It needs a little love, but it's the appropriate next difficulty level for me -- case needs to be cleaned and retrobrighted (which I dont know how to do yet), there is some light surface rust and corrosion on the frame, some rust and corrosion on the board, and it needs to be recapped. It even still has the original electrolytics in its' video circuitry (and boy are they _shot_). The case yellowing indicates that this was used with a Kensington System Saver, and that may be coming to me as well!

I got all of this simply because I mentioned that I needed a new flyback transformer for my 512Ke and this was going to become a fish tank. However, now I need a flyback for my 512Ke _and now_ a cap kit for this little guy 🥰

The things I do for this little guy...
I love window film. [Sarcasm]
And heres a frontal shot of my workbench, fume extractor and all
My fume extractor upgrade is complete! Behold -- my creation!!
I'm really lucky to have the little Sylvania I found in the trash. It's the perfect size, it has built in A/V (video in) mode, and its handsome to boot! Plus it doesnt hurt my eyes to sit at.