I noticed how much people enjoyed the old Apple advertisement I posted recently, so I thought I’d share another one! I find these ads so nostalgic, and I absolutely love the aesthetic and simplicity of the designs. If anyone would like to see more old Apple advertisements, let me know in the comments! 🍎

Featured in the March 2002 issue of Vogue magazine.

Hi folks,

Been working on a small project recently called “Landonix”.
( that is, Landon+Unix ... Can’t say I’m the best at naming things. :-] )

It’s a real, fully bootable kernel, filesystem, and userland/shell with a few of your standard Unix-like utilities and a few ports of Unix applications (namely awk and Vi)...

This is a private project for now... I essentially got this idea to see how much of a Unix-like system could realistically fit onto a 128K Apple //e. As of 0.12, boots straight off a Disk II drive without Apple DOS or ProDOS, and has fork/exec, pipes, logins, users and permissions. There’s also a version for a 64K ][+ with a language card that is a bit slower, (given) but it does retain all the main features...

As stated above, it uses its own filesystem with directories and file permissions, and journals its writes so an interrupted save won’t corrupt your files. The shell supports pipelines, variables and functions, and there’s cat, more, less, wc, man and a handful of other utilities. Vi has a 16K text buffer with undo, search and replace, and runs in either 40 or 80 columns on the //e.

I just finished version 0.12, and have many plans for upcoming versions....just wanted to see what you guys think..Let me know. :-)

Step into the NeXT Decade with the newest creation by formerly Apple's Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP! Using a Unix workstation has never been this fun, thanks to NeXTSTEP's innovative GUI and easy-to-use programs, that join office needs with multimedia wonders! Want to know about it? Then you're in the right place!

Not my post, but came across this locally. Looks like a clean, complete set. Is $1500 really what these are going for? Or is this a pipe dream? 🤯

I remember using these in elementary school. We had a lime green iMac at home. The school had a few of these completely clear slot loading iMacs with the laser mice and I wanted one so badly.

Obviously the vibe coded reverse engineering of software is causing a shitstorm across the internet right now but I'm wondering if one nicer and non-destructive way it could be implemented is in improving the notoriously bad OpenGL implementation and GPU drivers for PowerMacs, such as the G3 and G4 era machines?

Perhaps even creating drivers for Windows GPUs so that they can be installed in PowerMac towers? The current options for those Macs are beyond extortionately expensive and not for anything particularly impressive performance wise.

Hi! Firstly, if you don't know me, I'm the person whose G3 Minitower's hard drive died (Thank you to Mac84 for helping me solve it)! So, update: I got myself a new BlueSCSIv2 on hand with the SD Card ready; however, I tried to follow the tutorials on YouTube, and it got pretty confusing, since most of the tutorials I've seen are catered towards older versions. For context, I have a Power Macintosh G3 Minitower, and I want this system to run System 9 - 9.9.2. I got the OS working on the first attempt; however, when I opened the drive, the SD card storage showed 4 GB rather than the 32 GB on the card. I had somebody help me with the BlueSCSI before for my Classic II, however, the method he used was very different than what was shown on the website, yet he was able to grant my Classic II the full SD card storage. Is anyone able to give me a step-by-step on what to do?

Played the Apple II game "The Forgotten Room" yet? If you did, you likely were told "You shouldn't have been there yet!" and Apparently someone was watching Jacob!

https://youtu.be/8vvnvrr1s48

Want to know who?

Play the newest Apple II Game "Dead Signal" coming soon! Learn more here: https://youtu.be/e3W0uLfV4CA?si=zioBT6L7TAPR8qjK

The forgotten room: https://vintageapplecomputers.com/prod.../digital-product...

Hi,

So this is somewhat of a weird question. A friend of mine, IIRC, got a CD-ROM drive for his LC II at Christmas 1993 and he had a shareware CD full of Mac stuff, including lots of System 6 stuff (I remember getting BAD! for example from there).

It happens occasionally that I am thinking about a utility or other that I got from him and I don't remember the name, so it would be nice to be able to find that CD.

Does anyone have any recollection of what shareware CDs for Mac might have been fairly common in North America in late 1993/early 1994? I did check the ones on Infinite Mac from that time period, I don't think they're it...

Any thoughts on where to find this?

Pickup available in Kent WA. Name your price. Need to get rid of ASAP

After many failed attempts to repair bad 840AV boards, I found one nearly pristine. Looks like new old stock for repairs, only the small two caps show leakage and it boots with no issues. Will still need recapping to prevent damage and the board is dirty.

Q: Is washing in an ultrasonic bath after recapping a good idea for these? I don't want to damage anything in the bath, so I can also clean it manually.

I get the chime, I hear the hard drive doing stuff but it never gives me anything on the display

Common issue?

Built for BOSS SP-202 gear, but it emulates a standard SmartMedia 5V card, so it will work in a QuickTake 200. It has a serial port over USB-C and open source firmware ( and a web app)

Looking for devs and QuickTake owners to test it and hack on it. Who’s in?

https://smartmare.com/smartmare-5v

Well, we did it. It took a few hours with lots of rewinding and we ended up with two extra screws. But we did it! Thank you Mac27 for the helpful video.

https://maceffects.com/products/inner-bezel-for-slot-loading-imac-g3-w-plastic-tabs

https://youtu.be/aErz7BtHJZA?si=2YyhQvnzecZVhB8I

I am having an issue where on the press of the power button you can hear a buzz from under the touchpad, but it doesn’t boot. Anyone ever have this issue? I really hope it isn’t an issue with the pmu. Edit: For more info, the issue is intermittent and I am also using an aftermarket charging cable. The battery is completely dead on the Ibook additionally.

Hi all, I just did a BlueSCSI mod for a Macintosh SE. Feels like a miracle that it all worked as working on these old Macs is a bit outside of my skill range. Removing the board was tough because of this massive expansion card. Does anyone know what this is? And am I actually getting the benefits of this card without some kind of driver since I just installed a new OS?

Main question is as per the title: this single line of incoherent pixel data has appeared recently. The pattern within it changes but not quickly enough that I've seen it change.

It's a 1.33GHz iBook with the scrolling trackpad and running 10.5.8.

Is there any hope? Or is this now permanent and/or possibly the beginning of more?

The keyboard also now has issues but that's not really a primary concern if the screen is soon done for.

(As an aside: I pulled this one out to help to prepare a new SSD with OS 9 disk drivers for another machine, which it did admirably. It's just sad if it's otherwise time to say goodbye)

My grandparents are downsizing and found his old LC 575 in the basement. I asked if I could take it and he said he had no use for it lol.

He didn't have a keyboard for it anymore so I had to jump pin 2 and pin 4 on the ADB connector, and it started right up! It appears the hard drive is working, so I'm going to see if I can transfer any files off and explore them.

I'm ordering a keyboard and mouse for it today, and was thinking about picking up an external BlueSCSI so I can write and transfer software to it, but interested in your guys' opinions, and if there's anything else you think I should pick up.