Long shot here. Do any long time Mac users know where I might find an image of the original installation media for a "late 2005" Mac Mini? I'm not super familiar with Mac stuff. Also, can that particular Mac Mini boot from a USB drive?
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Astronomy, electronic music, analog audio technology, 16-bit computer and classic video game lover. Skeptic secular humanist. Cisgender gay male. he/him. Black Lives Matter. Trans Lives Matter.
@amigalove Amigalove will never do without you
@jameswoodcock Totally agree. Taking a telescope outside and looking at the moon or some other objects can be a real mind refresher.
John Carlos BaezBig news in bug math. This is the first year since 1803 when both 13-year cicadas and 17-year cicadas will emerge from the ground simultaneously in the US!
13 and 17 are both prime. It's believed cicadas evolved to have prime-number life cycles, thus avoiding predators that emerge more frequently, like once every 4 years or 5 years or... whatever. By showing up infrequently, with a prime number life cycle, cicadas can starve out those predators.
And since 13 and 17 are both prime and 13 × 17 = 221, both kinds of cicadas emerge simultaneously only once every 221 years. And
1803 + 221 = 2024
so now they'll both emerge simultaneously and we'll have 𝑙𝑜𝑡𝑠 of cicadas!
Also, this year the two kinds can interbreed! Maybe they're be fruitful and multiply... and we'll get 221-year cicadas. 😆
The last time the Northern Illinois Brood’s 17-year cycle aligned with the Great Southern Brood’s 13-year cycle, Thomas Jefferson was president.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/19/science/cicadas-emergence-broods.html
Josh Renaud💾 🖥️ 🎆
I've unearthed some "new" old software for the new year!
Two fun programs for the Commodore Amiga compose music autonomously by recombining pieces of "musical DNA" from existing songs.
They were creations of Yaakov Kirschen and his team of student programmers at LKP Ltd. in Israel in 1986-87.
Get the ADF disk images here:
https://breakintochat.com/blog/2024/01/02/unearthed-kirschens-magic-harp-for-commodore-amiga/
#commodore #amiga #kirschen #digipres #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #preservation #music #midi
@AstroDave I saw about 4 or 5 over the course of about 5 hours (from 5 PM until about 10). They all seemed thin and needley, if that makes sense.
@Gammitin I had the smaller Aspire One back in 2009. It was okay for the time, but quickly became obsolete for contemporary use. At least it was cheap! The Atom inside must have been an atom of molasses!
@retrotechtive I probably have a spare everything except a suitable Agnus. I wish there was a modern replacement for that chip.