Karl Baron

Computers these days should come with video manuals like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wdPnGED2BU&feature=youtu.be

#RetroComputing

Design executive behind 'Liquid Glass' is leaving Apple Alan Dye, who was part of the redesign of Apple's software interface called Liquid Glass, is taking his talents to Meta.

And there was much rejoicing…

Apple’s head of user interface design, Alan Dye, is leaving the company and will reportedly join Meta] [https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/03/liquid-glass-alan-dye-leaving-apple.html

Inmos T9000 promotional mug. Reads "The T9000 Transputer". The text "9000" is overlaid over a large letter T, with a XOR mask. That's a nerdy way of saying where the 9000 text is, the blue "T" inverts. The text "THE" "TRANSPUTER" is above and below, printed in red.

Other side of the mug showing four chain links oriented North, South, East, West, interlocking in the centre with a black square enclosing them through the middle of each link.

View from above. Yes it has four handles. Perfect for sharing a hot toddy with three colleagues. Or just for yourself, as a treat.

My new mug processes in parallel. #Transputer #transputers

For about a week now my kids have been begging to watch After Dark screensavers before bed. Glad to see these things have stood the test of time.

Their favorites include “Rat Race”, “Homer Eats”, “Rock Paper Scissors” and today they spent a while building their own contraptions in “Marbles” […]

I can’t stand the current Apple incompetence. I just got home and I got an important call from my mother. Tried to answer on the phone. The phone kept switching to be a remote Mac camera and would not allow me to answer the call. My Mac has the lid closed and has been sleeping all day. It’s a […]

A photo of a monitor running Solaris 8, there are 4 copies of WordPerfect running. Windows 3.1 (in wabi) Windows 98 (in SunPCi) Mac system 7 (Macintosh Application Environment) Native Solaris All of this was fully supported by their respective companies!

A photo of the same desktop, but each window now says "this is copy/pasted text"

Do you ever get a #retrocomputing intrusive thought?

This is #wordperfect 7 (ish, all from 1996 and 1997)

* Native #solaris #unix version (bottom left)
* Native 32bit windows in SunPCi (bottom right)
* Macintosh 3.5 in MAE (top left)
* Windows 3.1 (16bit) […]

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Bring back naming folders with “ƒ”!!

#VintageApple #RetroComputing

@hp If it gives me a number to web search it's infinitely better than the modern UX design of just ignoring errors and doing nothing at all with zero feedback

A photo of the corner of a screen. In the corner is a professor looking character with a clipboard. There's a speech bubble that reads "Undocumented error901" That's an OK and a Help button. Both of the icons are green

What do we think? Compared to modern #uxdesign more or less of a "go f*ck yourself" than a normal dialog?

#retrocomputing #fuuuu

Finally finished watching this epic. Defunctland is so good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyIgV84fudM

A screenshot of KanjiTalk 6. The only splashes of color are an orange wallpaper pattern, the color apple logo in the menu bar, a highlight color on two folders and the "32-bit QuickDraw" icon in the system folder. Everything else is black and white.

Big fan of this KanjiTalk 6 aesthetic. The brutalist sparseness of System 6 before they added the little 3D touches and proper color icons, and the uncomfortably oversized fonts used to fit the detail needed to show readable Kanji causing everything to feel a bit cramped and misaligned.

A picture of a desk with two screens on it, one screen is showing a Solaris desktop running SunPCi, the other one is showing a blue screen in windows 98

I don't know what I was expecting...

#retrocomputing #solaris #win98

A photo of a screen showing a Sun CDE desktop, on the desktop is a SunPCi window. In the SunPCi session there's a Microsoft Bob session running. The Bob letter writer is running, and it is showing the text "I don't know why people keep saying Unix is hard to use..."

A photo of a screen showing a Sun CDE desktop, on the desktop is a SunPCi window. In the SunPCi session there's a Microsoft Bob session running.

Wow! #sun #solaris is super duper easy to use! I don't understand why not everyone is using #unix !

#sunpci #retrocomputing

A screenshot of MacOS System 6, with black and white window frames, a hard disk called “Aurora”, a bulging trash can and multicolored apple logo in the menu bar. The focused window is called “Outside Bug Reporter” and has scroll selectors for CPU’s (“512ke Mac”, “Mac Plus”, “Mac SE”, “Mac II”), Disks (“HD20”, “400k int”, “400k ext”, “800k int”) Printers (ImageWriter, LaserWriter), Monitors (// B&W, ///, //gs RGB etc), Comms (AppleTalk, Apple 300 baud, Apple 1200 baud) and buttons to go to the previous and next frame

Apple really doesn't care about their developers anymore…

I keep using their bug reporter to report issues with their operating systems but they've never once gotten back to me about any fixes!

#iosdev #VintageApple #RetroComputing

TIL that old 68k Macs can only boot from the first partition on a drive

(guess who spent a bunch of time trying to make it work thinking it was something else that was wrong)

#VintageApple #RetroComputing

A YouTube thumbnail showing: A man points at a weathered stone marker outdoors, with a grassy background and trees "I just want to show you some weird stones." Chris Spargo 42K views, 22 hours ago

This is how you clickbait me

About 8 hours of driving across 2 days. I know to you Americans that's your daily commute but I'm pooped!!

A screenshot of Carplay running a navigation app showing the directions to Central Kagoshima

ただいま

The outside of an IKEA with a sign marked 入口Entrance. There is a green cordoned off area full of conifers. There is a long line of people waiting to get in

Black vehicle with roof rack and solar panels placed on top, parked in a busy parking lot near a Costco store.

Tree was successfully acquired! Also bought some stuff like gravlax, inlagd sill and frozen meatballs.

On the way home, stopped by Costco for mince (regular Japanese supermarket mince is too fatty to make Swedish meatballs with, they just collapse). To keep […]

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Banner displaying a product called "SteamCream" with the tagline "Steam Powered Skincare."

These Valve announcements are getting weirder and weirder

A screenshot of Apple Carplay show lane directions for Fukuoka

Yearly IKEA pilgrimage time

I just bought a domain to replicate the old support sites for old computers. So old #sun workstations, #ibm PowerPC stuff, #SGI things. (Actual domain TBA)

The thinking is to get together all of the patches, firmware updates, operating system install media, etc. for these old systems. So that […]

Tumblr post from aziraphale: i always use 💛 and i am always hoping deep in my heart that one day i will send it to someone still on android 4 so it appears as [hairy heart emoji]

@mroach Why does this need to be a law??

Here in Japan, for acts that don’t want tickets to be resold, venues just check ID that your name matches the ticket. These tickets are also typically sold by raffle to keep it fair.

If you don’t like ticket scalping, blame the act that is complicit in […]

Thought bitbang was finally dying but it’s CloudFlare having a major outage

A PowerBook G3 "PDQ" (an Old World system) running Mac OS 7.6 "on CHRP" - Apple System Profiler shows an error because it doesn't know what system it's running on

i’ve made a couple more releases of the tbxi patchset to fix some issues (most notably 8.0 boots fine now and Desktop Patterns control panel works)

a little while ago i theorised that patching the valid machine ids lists in the CHRP enabler would allow the G3 […]

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A black LCD monitor labeled Lenovo ThinkVision is perched in a car seat, on top of a plastic bag labeled HARD OFF. The monitor has a price tag that says 550 yen. There are also some RJ11 phone cables

The monitor hooked up to a Macintosh IIcx, showing the control panel revealing it is running at 1280x1024

A closeup of the monitor showing the sharpness and the current detected mode - 1280x1024 62.0KHz/59Hz

Dropped by HARD OFF to pick up a different monitor to test, ended up with this Lenovo ThinkVision L1900p for 550 yen. (Also got some PhoneNet cables while I was there)

Came home, hooked it up, pin-sharp 1280x1024! No problems! The old CCFL backlight is […]

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A photo of the inside of a junk store. The focus of the photo is a shelf full of LCD monitors in the 17” range, some are widescreen some are 5:4. Underneath the monitors are printers. In the background the store stretches on full of various old junk like speakers, network switches, globes, etc

@RoboticistDuck The graphics card is also Japanese though 🥺 even has katakana silkscreen on the chips!

Anyway I’m in the monitor jungle right to find something else to test with

A photo of an LCD screen but the image is all washed out and squished to one side

Right now I have it set down to 800x600 SVGA (hence the blurry screen photos) since my LCD monitor is really not happy trying to sync to the 1024x768 output; 9/10 times it syncs the image all squished and washed out and none of the OSD controls can fix it […]

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A screenshot of System 6 showing the Chooser listing AppleTalk zones and file servers.

A screenshot of Trawl on MacOS 9 showing the Macintosh IIcx on the AppleTalk network.

A photo of a tractor feed dot matrix printout that says “Hello from System 6.0.7 Teach Text!!!”

After a few false starts with HD SC Setup and SCSI Director, I finally partitioned the HDD with FWB HD Toolkit and installed System 6.0.7 off of floppies.

It has no problems getting on #GlobalTalk without any fuss!

So that IO-Data NAS from 2005 that claimed […]

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