Paul Rickards

A Mac System 7.5 dialog box from ResEdit with a small pig icon, the text "Start pig-mode?" and Cancel and OK buttons. It apparently constantly tries to free up resources, aiding developers. To see it, hold command-option-shift and choose About ResEdit from the Apple Menu.

🐖 Start pig-mode?

A tiny pen plotter in a colorful plastic case with receipt paper drawing the current and forecast weather with weather icons and temperatures in black ink.

A plotted page of current and forecast weather on 2.25" wide receipt paper in black ink.

A plotted page of current and forecast weather on 2.25" wide receipt paper in black ink on top of a wide tractor feed green bar paper with an ASCII Snoopy and a part of the 2025 calendar.

Today's plotter weather 🌧️

#PenPlotter

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#PenPlotter

Did you know the Amiga Kickstart boot screen is stored as vector data? It uses 412 bytes. 💾

It’s plain paper, not thermal so all good.

It's my Lisa Clone 😊

A tiny pen plotter housed in three increasingly sized plastic boxes of red, blue, and yellow. A white top with buttons and paper coming out show the text Hello, World and a differential growth pattern drawn on it.

Over the past week, I built a new tiny #PenPlotter with a vintage ALPS 2.25" mechanism! It sports a 3D printed snap-fit case, receipt paper holder, speaks GRBL over WiFi, 18650 battery w USB-C recharge, and a color scheme borrowed from the JLPGA PowerBook 170.

In my own research, I think it was simply a batch script that type'd two text files, pausing with "ask.com" in between. Ask uses the prompt "Strike any key when ready ..." which is seen in the movie.

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Someone comes along later to look for a leaflet.

An Atari Portfolio showing the infamous "PIN IDENTIFICATION" program from Terminator 2.

Later we'll hack some ATMs.. easy money..

An Atari Portfolio computer with a serial interface. On the screen is a terminal program XTerm downloading "zork1.dat" showing progress as dots.

An Atari Portfolio running Zork 1. On the monochrome screen it says "West of House. You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here." There's a > prompt and a flashing cursor at the bottom of the screen.

Putting Zork 1 on my Atari Portfolio for some gaming on the go.

A canvas tote bag with the Tekserve logo on it with "Apple Specialist" below it and their former NYC address.

A gift from a friend. ❤️ My friends know me all too well.

Logic probe or scope and see if there’s a clock and the CPU is running code? Can you burn the original firmware that came with it back onto the ERPROMs?

Bottom of a DisplayPhone with the trap door off showing the circuit board and ICs.

Interesting. Your motherboard seems to be a different revision. I’ve only seen 5 EPROMs in a row and only 5 sockets.

Can you take a picture of the bottom where the firmware ROMs are located?

Have you tried verifying the EPROMs?

Does it work when you put the original EPROMs back in?

An Apple Lisa 2 with hybrid 1+2 front panel showing the LIsa logo in Mac Paint with a Mac Plus keyboard and trackball in front with an 8 ball.

Close up of the Lisa screen showing the iPad 1 LCD screen with a black 3D printed bezel CRT curve gap filler. The screen is showing the Lisa POST.

My #AppleLisaClone has a new front panel! I got one of the new Lisa 1+2 hybrid panels from Mac Effects, courtesy of @rectapete.bsky.social

I moved the iPad LCD panel over to it and added some custom 3D printed CRT bezel gap fillers to fit the curve.

A stack and of rainbow color 3D printed floppy cassettes which are obviously neither.

I’ve got 7 of them right next to me

GitHub - TheMiniDriver/mac-plus-mouse-usb Contribute to TheMiniDriver/mac-plus-mouse-usb development by creating an account on GitHub.

This might be what you're looking for.

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Photo of the rear of the Anycast showing lots of audio and video input and output ports including XLR, RCA, BNC, VGA, S-Video, and 1394.

A single SD video input card on a table.

Lots of IO. Audio is all built in. Video inputs from 3 card slots. I have two SD cards and a PC/VGA card. There were also HD capable cards.

Each SD card has three 1394/400 ports: two for DV input and one for HD. You can playback or record PGM and both inputs from the card simultaneously as AVI/DV.

A Sony laptop-style computer cosplaying as a video production switcher with keyboard, buttons, sliders, and dials on the bottom and a LCD on the top showing several windows of different video sources including "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles, Look Around You: Maths, a Lisa sales pitch video, and a rotating cube.

Rate my battlestation!

This is a Sony Anycast Station AWS-G500HD from 2007. It's essentially a Sony luggable PIII 933Mhz PC that runs Linux 2.4.20 with a ton of FPGAs to do the heavy lifting of a video switcher. Plus glorious physical buttons, faders, dials, and removable keyboard. And a jog wheel.

Interesting! I'm not sure how that would work since that seems like it would map things into different locations in memory unless its more clever than that. Look forward to you powering it up.

Screenshot from Mac OS 9 showing KPT Bryce software interface with a dim rendering of some mountains and misty purple water with a cube, sphere, and pyramid floating above.

Moody disjointed EA logo in KPT Bryce, MacOS 9

Screenshot of xeyes looking up to the X windows X mouse pointer.

👀

Screenshot of a Linux X-Window session with the Tab Window Manager with several apps open including xterm, Netscape, xcalc, xbiff, and xclock. The color scheme is a simple white, black, and light cyan.

It's an "install an old version of Linux" kind of day. TWM really takes me back..

#RetroComputing

There is a battery— it’s the black rectangle that says Data Sentry. I removed the ones from mine, no leakage.

Interesting! Can you run diff in your copy and the ones on my site to see if there’s any difference? If you send me a pic, I’ll update my blog with the chip labels you have. Congrats on your new DisplayPhone!

An Okimate 20 printer with the cover removed revealing the inner workings of the printer including belts, gears, and electronics. Paper is loaded and printed with barber pole test.

Repairing an Okimate 20 printer. Given the complexity of this thing and age, it's quite repairable and the output is really nice.

#RetroComputing

Photo of a beige trackball with an 11 red/white striped billiard ball in it next to a Mac Plus keyboard.

Photo of a beige trackball with an 8 black billiard ball in it next to a Mac Plus keyboard.

TIL the Kensington Turbo Mouse can use a billiard ball.

A photo of some 3.5” floppy cassettes being used in a Roland sequencer. One yellow is inserted and the other is red and still in its jewel case

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Yes I do ;-)