Oh wow. The new iPad Pro really does feel like a device from the future

Got a set of drawers and tidied up my retro corner. Still a work in progress, but most of my collection is now in one easy to access place. Thinking I need some theme appropriate stuff on the walls next 🤔

I’ve been thinking it might be a good idea to proactively replace the hard drive in my PowerBook 2400 with a solid state drive. I finally got around to looking at the repair manual, and nope – not going to happen until it absolutely has to! I’m very glad it’s the only moving part inside the machine

After a relative searched through their old disks, a Discman driver has been found! If anyone happens to need a Mac driver for their Sony Discman, drop me a line 😆

Does a machine with modern networking, but a dead architecture count as retro in any sense yet? 🤔

Friday night? Time for some old school AppleTalk networking

I am super pleased to have a complete vintage PowerBook set up. This 2400c came with an Ethernet card, portable(!) SCSI CD-ROM, external floppy drive, 2 spare batteries, and assorted cables

I have never seen rubber feet perish so thoroughly before. They are the consistency of caramel

It’s more a novelty than anything else, but there is a (sorta functional) Apple I emulator for the C64

Taking apart a compact Mac is vaguely terrifying

maxed out my titanium PowerBook G4’s ram at 1GB! while I already had more than enough memory for retro Mac OS games – 768MB – this should hopefully make Leopard run Not Like Total Crap

at the prompting of a friend, I found a shell program for my SE/30

less esoteric, but more novel. running vim on the last PowerBook capable of booting Classic Mac OS