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It feels really good when you get a system all customized and working smoothly, with all the tools you need, and everything integrating together.
That was how things were for me back in the System 7.5 days. I've never got back to that state, despite trying. That was the peak of computing for me.
I held out as long as I could, and was still developing Linux software using a 7600 running System 7.5 with an X server until 2011.
Sometimes I find myself booting up my System 7.5 VM, since I'm actually finding I'm more productive using that then modern software.
Nothing web-based works there, of course, but perhaps that's part of the reason why I'm more productive.
Plus, I miss it. It was a really comfortable system to use and program for. They had high standards.
The MacOS X Finder is so full of bugs now that it is almost unusable.
It's infuriating how far quality standards have fallen.
And here's the video showcasing the realtime decode
I moved to a smaller provider in Canada (easymail.ca). I heard enough things about Proton that I wanted to avoid it, and I haven't looked at fastmail, so I can't comment on it.
Before I was on gmail, I used to run a mail server in my closet on System 7, with Eudora accessing it via POP3. None of the ISPs will let you do this any more, and self-hosting mail is *really hard* now.
If the screen completely dies, I'll look into this and see how hard it will be to get a replacement driver board. So far, it only flickers in intensity for the first 10 minutes after powering on.
The hardest part now is that Ebay and other US-centric marketplaces are increasingly closed off due to all of the trade issues that are making it difficult or cost prohibitive to ship to Canada.
It seems to be a trend for web sites to render perfectly, then a second later replace the contents with a blank screen and some text saying that "something went wrong". Console says something about a regex error.
Javascript was a huge mistake.
Ohh, nice! Did you get to use a drum scanner at all?
Yep! most DICOM DX and XA files have 4096 levels of gradiation!
One good manufacturer for these was Barco. Search for "Barco grayscale":
Andrew Zonenberg