what if..
.. what if there was another way?
(there wasn’t another way.. 🤦♂️)
#colourclassic #MARCHintosh
what if..
.. what if there was another way?
(there wasn’t another way.. 🤦♂️)
#colourclassic #MARCHintosh
I like that Trump will say some garbled sentence like, “The war against the very bad, no class Agrabah is now over until soon and with tears in her eyes, Bianca Jagger thanked me in Studio 54” and serious people act as if he had some sort of coherent thought that he’ll remember tomorrow
10.03.2026 00:00 — 👍 450 🔁 62 💬 10 📌 0
A dithered black and white dot matrix printout of a tuxedo cat with a “breaking news” style chyron with the text URGENT / Cat / meow meow meow meow meow …
Best print I’ve gotten on #GlobalTalk so far this year #meowmeowmeow
10.03.2026 00:05 — 👍 48 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Friend to Macintoshes everywhere @mac84.bsky.social has put the PicoIDE through a gauntlet of vintage IDE-equipped Macs (and a couple PCs for good measure)! See how it fared: youtu.be/e00F8KIFc6A
08.03.2026 16:44 — 👍 27 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
"HIGH NOON" comic from The Perry Bible Fellowship comic Panel 1: Two cowboys are standing and arguing over a game of cards in a western bar. The cowboy wearing a white hat tells the cowboy wearing brown hat, "YOU. ME. TOMORROW. HIGH NOON" Panel 2: Time has passed. The white hat cowboy is doing an errand, carrying a box and whistling. The brown hat cowboy shoots his gun at him. Panel 3: White Hat Cowboy falls to the floor. He is bleeding from the gun shot. He says, "BUT - BUT IT AIN'T NOON!" Panel 4: A close up view of the wounded cowboy's confused face Panel 5: Brown hat Cowboy casually points to a clock tower in the back. A man is next to the giant clock and updating the hour hand towards noon time Brown hat cowboy says 'Spring Forward' The wounded cowboy is shown laughing at the situation and points to the clock tower.
Forgetting about updating your clocks can have dire consequences: (HIGH NOON comic from @pbfcomics.bsky.social)
08.03.2026 15:54 — 👍 232 🔁 49 💬 4 📌 0
The PicoIDE is a new open source CD/DVD & HD emulator for vintage IDE/ATA computers. Let's see how it works in some Macs! 🍎 (...and PCs too)
Video: youtu.be/e00F8KIFc6A
#PicoIDE #MARCHintosh
Jessica and i have been busy!
Stan lost his head ages ago. He's been dumped out the back for many months.
After many hours cleaning, he now lights up our life! (Well, our lounge room at least)
A MacOS 9 screenshot, showing: - App icons - diamond share with a planet and a little spider - Scanning window : An icon shows a magnifying glass over a planet of old Apple hardware icons - Scan results window - a list of GlobalTalk zones, with the BaroNet zone expanded. In the columns are printers and file shares, some with green checks on them.
Here's my second #MARCHintosh project for 2026 - TalkCrawler Lite! A little app to keep track of which #GlobalTalk printers and shares you've visited or left a greeting on!
I rushed this one out so I can get to using it, so it's less polished than Chat, and […]
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urgent cat is bestest
08.03.2026 13:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
youtube.com/live/A4ov3Ab2jeI Sunday Retro Repair Show🔨 #MARCHintosh My Guests 👀 & I Will Be Working On More Retro Things Live Stream Mar 8,2026 8:00am PST 11:00am EST I will still be working on the A Team Mac SE/30
06.03.2026 21:21 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
My ImageWriter II (via @polpo.org's amazing ImageScribbler LocalSquawk card) is now set up to accept prints!
.. also, among other problems, my Select button no longer lights, but it seems to be working, who knows?!
Go easy please! 😅
I'm about to start streaming my playing of Return to Dark Castle, released on Steam on March 3rd!
in....1 minute....
these days
07.03.2026 01:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Apple logo
Commodore 64 logo
ZX Spectrum logo
Amiga logo
Rainbows in computer logos 🌈
06.03.2026 07:01 — 👍 258 🔁 43 💬 16 📌 9
Running from now until Friday, March 13th, I need your help with some research I'm conducting. Full explanation in the survey. Let's have fun with this!
forms.gle/cqrzW7sZ3Aje...
(Please share this link. The more responses, the better the data collection.)
I gotta admit, I'm pretty excited about this one. Bob "Dr. Macintosh" LeVitus is one of my favorite tech writers. Books, newspapers, magazines, blogs... you too have no doubt read his work.
He helped folks keep the faith even in some of the darkest times!
youtu.be/BCHMHAiCaMk
Just doing some fuzzy math about this dumb war that will go on for years. Trump is currently **only** spending $1 billion a day.
Homes making contribute:
$100k(22% tax bracket) = $1033yr
$250k(24%) = $5065yr
Just imagine if we could redirect this to social programs that actually help all of us
A disheveled looking Superman drinking at a dive bar.
06.03.2026 03:11 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
My first #marchintosh stream of the month! Let's try to repair a couple of Quadra 660av logic boards and try video input with them through my Mavica. Also, I want to show off what I have learned about this Sierra Video Systems Delta rack thing. (Noon EST on the 7th) youtube.com/live/-d5jHDI...
06.03.2026 12:09 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
🚨it’s a Quadra 700 emergency🚨
16.02.2026 00:59 — 👍 20 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0
$300k with 9 hours to go! 😵💫#PicoIDE www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics...
05.03.2026 14:29 — 👍 46 🔁 10 💬 4 📌 2
Macintosh Plus with a large external hard drive on the side. On the screen is MacHTTP web server showing activity and logs.
Screenshot of the cracked Mac website https://crackedmac.ddns.net:8080
Cracked Mac Website hosted on my ‘cracked’ Macintosh Plus is online at both crackedmac.ddns.net and crackedmac.ddns.net It’s not fast, but it works 😄 #MARCHintosh
05.03.2026 04:29 — 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 2
A 3D rendering of a Macintosh IIfxs with its slimline case, trinitron CRT on top, container of pencils to its left and on the right a set of 2 shaped objects being a beige plaster arch and a white stonecrete wave shape, a pad with writing on it, Apple branded pencil, a potplant in a copper planter, and a donut with white glaze and sprinkles on. On the screen is another Apple product design leaflet being edited.
An older render - a Macintosh IIfx2 in its slimmer pizzabox-style case with a set of 2 shaped objects.
04.03.2026 19:05 — 👍 93 🔁 8 💬 4 📌 0When I say I LOVE #MARCHintosh and #GLOBALTalk that is not lip service. It is the best time of year in the best community. Having so many vintage Macs networked together around the world is amazing. (1/2)
04.03.2026 14:41 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
A piece of 1-bit pixel art at 512x342 pixels in size, depicting a wacked-out image showing the giant number "2026" floating in space over a piece of "Globaltalk" text with an Apple logo next to it. Various spacy shit is around the piece, like a nebula behind, a planet with rings, a small black hole, a whole bunch of stylised magnetar lines, clouds, rocks, and black bubbles of possibly vacuum decay. it's signed in the bottom right corner by me, 'nanoraptor'
Figure it's been long enough for globaltalk folk to have the actual image exclusively. Here, straight-up bitmap for joy.
www.danamania.com/tmp/Globalta...
ya gotta watch out fer that C18!
04.03.2026 02:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
LGR has a video out covering my #PicoIDE project and the ZuluIDE. We are officially in a awesome new era of drive emulators!
youtu.be/td6QdOnMvnk
My first (maybe only) #marchintosh task was getting a Color Classic II board all the way from Japan to put in my CC. Just so I can run Squawkers even faster!
03.03.2026 18:02 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 1
The insides of an InageWriter II dot matrix printer with a PCB inside - that’s the ImageScribbler card.
Want a hardware-y way to get your ImageWriter II up on #GlobalTalk in time for #MARCHintosh? Last year I reverse engineered Apple’s LocalTalk option card and made the design available, naming it ImageScribbler: github.com/polpo/images...
and pre-built ones are for sale: jcm-1.com/product/imag...
Macintosh Plus with 4 MB of RAM and running MacOS 7.1.
Macintosh 476 used as an AppleTalk gateway, awaiting a microSD card with the correct image on it.
Wires found, everything connected, Mac Plus troubleshot and booting, AppleTalk gateway offline … misplaced the drive for it and haven’t found the right image yet 😆 #MARCHintosh
01.03.2026 22:26 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
