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Scott Small 🇨🇦

@smallsco@oldbytes.space

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Just a 30something Canadian dude from #VancouverIsland who's into #RetroComputing (mainly old #Apple / #Mac stuff), #Programming, and general #Technology enthusiast. Also love to #Travel!

I wrote a Mastodon client for vintage Mac computers, #Macstodon, which you can get from here: https://github.com/smallsco/macstodon

Occasionally I’ll post about #Anime and #Gaming, especially #ZenlessZoneZero and #HonkaiStarRail.

I boost a lot. Boosts are not endorsements.

DMs from non-followers are blocked due to spam.

Pronouns	he/him
Website	https://scottsmall.org
GitHub	https://github.com/smallsco
Bluesky	https://bsky.app/profile/scottsmall.org

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Kate Morley 16h ago

You know that meme about the ridiculous names of business productivity software? This is an actual notification I received at work this morning:

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acb 2d ago

Are the Americans OK?

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decryption 1d ago

an earnest blog post about the old mac I just bought

https://blog.decryption.net.au/posts/macse30.html

Trying To Find Meaning In Owning An Old Mac

My Dad got to middle age and restored a classic car. I got to middle age and following that pattern with a computer instead.

decryption's blog

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VWestlife 1d ago

Remember cheerful '90s car upholstery?

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mos_8502

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This is what we should be building.

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mbbrutman 1d ago

As promised: PartUtil a limited partition editor that makes dual booting DOS and Win 9x without a boot manager easier.

Hide, unhide and make partitions active. Save and restore MBRs to files. And a few extra tricks that help with initial setup. Runs on any PC compatible and any version of DOS. Source code included.

(I've been using an earlier version of this for years on a PCjr. This is a complete rewrite that is finally worth sharing.)

http://www.brutman.com/PartUtil/PartUtil.html

#retrocomputing #dos

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Roasting House Coffee 1d ago

Just come across this legend (again) saved on a HDD. Gets posted often, but there always someone who hasn't seen it.

#Cycling #Logistics #Fridge #Legend

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Thomas 🔭🕹️1d ago

Not to be alarmist but the Power Mac G4 Cube is now a quarter of a century old

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vga256 1d ago

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/mondelez-canada-discontinuing-jersey-milk-chocolate-bars-amid-low-consumer-demand/

impeach churchill.

#canada

Mondelez Canada discontinuing Jersey Milk chocolate bars amid low consumer demand

Mondelez Canada Inc. says it’s no longer producing Jersey Milk chocolate bars.

CTVNews

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JeffG 2d ago

Ah finally some batteries for my flashlight.

Thomas 🔭🕹️1d ago

Not to be alarmist but the Power Mac G4 Cube is now a quarter of a century old

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Chris Parker 1d ago

@thomasfuchs The first work machine I had on my desk when I arrived at Apple in June of 2001. I liked it; but even then it was struggling so (relatively) soon after its release.

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Alda Vigdís 1d ago

@thomasfuchs I still think to this day that I didn't make it through the probation period at the local computer shop because I actually tried selling it.

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Nathaniel Daught 1d ago

@thomasfuchs I was very excited that we had a classroom full of G4 Cubes at college when I was getting my web design degree (2001 - 2004).

A friend of mine also hosted my website on his G4 Cube home server a few years later.

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Keiron O'Shea 1d ago

@thomasfuchs I hosted my first website off one of those bad boys, emphasis on the word "bad*.

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Eric Vitiello 1d ago

@thomasfuchs Damnit, Thomas.

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cruzin 21h ago

@thomasfuchs I used to have one of these at work back in the day. Looked cool but that’s about all it had going for it.

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thedæmon 14h ago

Still want.

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Chris “nickname” Vreeland 8m ago

@thomasfuchs So lovely, especially that CD slot. but yeah, a bit hamstrung. Mine cooked 3 hard drives before I moved on to a PowerBook 1.25 which was an all around fabulous machine. I made about $500 parting my cube out on eBay a piece at a time. I feel a little bad that I did that but it was about 3X what it was worth whole?