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Mac84 (Steve) 🍏 @mac84.bsky.social · Sep 6
This is THE WEIRDEST device I've ever used!

Watch me check out this silly piece of oddware from 1985.

Oh, and maybe do some neck stretches first.

📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=41jC...
Mind Control for your Mac?! - 1985 Oddware (Personics View Control System)
YouTube video by Mac84
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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 8h
Does anyone have past experience with debugging Canon’s nixie calculators, specifically the 164p?
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Mac84 (Steve) 🍏 @mac84.bsky.social · 12h
Damn, farewell to a legend. 😢

Maybe now it’s finally time I hang some of the prints I got of his amazing work ages ago. Rest easy, Drew! 🎨
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IGN @ign.com · 15h
Legendary movie poster artist Drew Struzan, known for his work on Back to the Future, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and more, has died at the age of 78.
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Hackaday @hackadayofficial.bsky.social · 1d
BlueSCSI: Not Just for Apple
BlueSCSI: Not Just for Apple
Hackaday Article
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Ron’s Computer Videos 🧍‍♂️🖥️📼 @ronscompvids.bsky.social · 1d
Many thanks to @mac84.bsky.social, @oldskool.org, VCF Midwest and anyone unfortunate enough to have been caught in the audience!

Got a PowerPC #Macintosh and no idea what to do with it? If so, watch this video!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=569u...
Getting the most out of your PowerPC Macs! | VCFMW 20 (2025)
YouTube video by VCF Midwest
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Mac84 (Steve) 🍏 @mac84.bsky.social · 1d
That’s wonderful!! 😍
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Mac84 (Steve) 🍏 @mac84.bsky.social · 2d
Ohh, that silver IIci/IIcx is quite snazzy! 👍
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Mac84 (Steve) 🍏 @mac84.bsky.social · 2d
Ouch, best of luck!! 🤞
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Mac84 (Steve) 🍏 @mac84.bsky.social · 2d
In addition, besides it handling many non-Apple/Mac disks too, I primarily am backing up Apple or Macintosh media, which this was specifically designed for, so for my particular needs it’s better.

However I still have my GW in the event I get another weird disk or obscure format, etc.
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Mac84 (Steve) 🍏 @mac84.bsky.social · 2d
I have both, what makes the AppleSauce stand out is the very powerful yet simple to use GUI app.

Plus the ability to easily click a “retry bad” button so the bad sectors are re-read without having to read the whole disk again.

Maybe that’s something the GW can do now, but it couldn’t ages ago.
Trying a badly physically damaged disk, first read attempt. Many passes later, only reading the bad sectors it recovered more data
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Mac84 (Steve) 🍏 @mac84.bsky.social · 3d
Hands-down* dang typo…
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Mac84 (Steve) 🍏 @mac84.bsky.social · 3d
Tron in 3D, at this Laser IMAX theater was hands-done the best 3D films I’ve experienced. It felt like I was in a theme park ride, really sad they don’t release 3D Blu-ray discs in this country anymore.

If you go see it, see it on a huge screen in 3D - it really added to the fun ride.
The poster for Tron: Ares with an IMAX sign next to it.
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John Calhoun @engineersneedart.com · 3d
youtu.be/vyeeQAcho00

Looks like Gruez (sp?) has posted a nice Glider history.
History of Glider for Macintosh
YouTube video by Classic Mac Gaming
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Mac84 (Steve) 🍏 @mac84.bsky.social · 3d
The app (w/ this hardware) allows the disks to be simultaneously saved in all the popular Apple II disk formats (.DO, .DSK or .WOZ), with the main selling point of being able to do flux-level images.

There are likely other solutions but since I already had my AppleSauce, this one works for me.
A screenshot of the AppleSauce application which is showing a disk being read before it would be saved.
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Mac84 (Steve) 🍏 @mac84.bsky.social · 3d
I’m using an AppleSauce floppy disk controller and an original Apple II 5.25” drive. It’s a pricey solution but well worth it if you have a ton of disks.

applesaucefdc.com/what-is-appl...
What is Applesauce? – applesauce
applesaucefdc.com
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Mac84 (Steve) 🍏 @mac84.bsky.social · 3d
I’m using an AppleSauce floppy disk controller and an original Apple II 5.25” drive, here I’m also using a sync sensor that helps monitor the drive’s motor speed etc.

I’ve been using this & a 3.5” drive for years to backup PC, Atari, Mac/🍎, MSX & Amiga disks. 💾

🔗 applesaucefdc.com/what-is-appl...
What is Applesauce? – applesauce
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Mac84 (Steve) 🍏 @mac84.bsky.social · 3d
I’m using an AppleSauce floppy disk controller and an original Apple II drive, here I’m also using a sync sensor that helps monitor the drive’s motor speed etc.

I’ve been using a different 3.5” drive for years to backup PC, Atari, Apple, MSX, and Amiga disks. 💾

🔗 applesaucefdc.com/what-is-appl...
What is Applesauce? – applesauce
applesaucefdc.com
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Mac84 (Steve) 🍏 @mac84.bsky.social · 3d
Woo-hoo! I’m now set up to properly archive Apple II 5.25” disks! 💾
An AppleSauce sync sensor installed to properly track disk drive motor speeds. A later Apple II series 5.25” disk drive with the top cover removed, reading a floppy disk.
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Foone @foone.bsky.social · 15d
I've been bedridden for the last 10 months, unable to work as I try to get a surgeon and insurance lined up for my operation to let me work again.
If you could send a couple dollars, it'd really help. Time isn't on my side here, and waiting is very expensive.

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LGR @lgr-yt.bsky.social · 4d
Back in my home and back to LGR! And we gotta kick it off with copious woodgrain:

youtu.be/RTE7_gqnSLk

Taking a look at the Mitsubishi Oberhofer Edition monitor, a 15-inch LCD from 1999 encased in a glossy walnut burl intended to fit in with fancy 90s executive decor. And originally costing $1800!
The $1,800 Luxury Walnut Burl Monitor from 1999
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This Does Not Compute @thisdoesnotcompute.bsky.social · 4d
There are more options than ever before for upgraded Game Boy screens…so is the cheapest one I could find any good? New video!
youtu.be/AhZaKGe7snk
I bought the CHEAPEST Game Boy screen from AliExpress...
YouTube video by This Does Not Compute
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Mac84 (Steve) 🍏 @mac84.bsky.social · 5d
Some of the others weren't so lucky... 🫠
A photo of a 3.5" floppy disk with wear marks in the media, bad enough to let light through.
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Mac84 (Steve) 🍏 @mac84.bsky.social · 5d
May the Force be with you, always.
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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 5d
Did you know that the Texscan MSI Compuvid Spectragen 4B can make a picture of a Millennium Falcon?

On an unrelated note: I created this screen on a PC with a Python script and sent it over serial.

The page editor works. YAY!

Still some rough edges, but we're getting there.
a spectragen and its brand new page editor application side by side, showing that data made on the page editor shows up properly on the spectragen also, a millennium falcon using block graphics
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Uncommon Ephemera @uncommonephemera.org · 5d
Look at this awesome t-shirt my father in law found buried in his closet. He was writing SQL in his sleep before any of these startup bros were even born.
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Mac84 (Steve) 🍏 @mac84.bsky.social · 5d
Ooooffff 😬
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