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Karl Baron
@kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy
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Generic iOS dev guy living in Japan. Into #VintageApple #RetroComputing. Apologies for being an extremely boring person. 🇸🇪→🇯🇵

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[bridged from https://bitbang.social/@kalleboo on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy
@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
November 26, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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hp.tmm.cx.ap.brid.gy
I don't know what I was expecting...

#retrocomputing #solaris #win98
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
November 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy
About 8 hours of driving across 2 days. I know to you Americans that's your daily commute but I'm pooped!!
November 22, 2025 at 9:47 AM
kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy
ただいま
A screenshot of Carplay running a navigation app showing the directions to Central Kagoshima
November 22, 2025 at 9:46 AM
kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy
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 […]

[Original post on bitbang.social]
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.
November 22, 2025 at 9:45 AM
kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy
@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 […]
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November 18, 2025 at 5:18 PM
kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy
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 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
November 18, 2025 at 6:15 AM
kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy
@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 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
November 18, 2025 at 4:45 AM
kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy
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 photo of an LCD screen but the image is all washed out and squished to one side
November 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy
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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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!!!”
November 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy
The HDD that came with the IIcx was dead (it spins up, clicks once but then nothing), but it turns out the Duo Dock also had a 160 MB Quantum HDD in it and that one works!

It also turns out the graphics card is an Interware GrandVimage 21i populated with 3 MB […]

[Original post on bitbang.social]
A photo of a computer monitor showing a black and white screen of Macintosh System 6 showing the about this Mac screen. It is noticeably crisp and high resolution. A screenshot of System 6 showing a control panel window with a resolution picker revealing the graphics card is called GrandVimage 21i A21B V1.2.0. The color selection shows a smooth gradient without any banding.
November 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM