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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
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 […]

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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
kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy
The display output (it has the stock Macintosh Display Card) has this green tint. Not sure what is going on there, there are 68kmla posts blaming it in sync-on-green.

I also have a Duo Dock (that I bought because there was also a Duo on sale for really cheap […]

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A photo of a computer monitor showing a black and white screen of Macintosh System 6 showing the about this Mac screen. The whole screen has a green tint. A closeup of a green circuit board. There are two prominent chips that say インタウェア and the board says Made in Japan INTERWARE co Ltd (c) 1993 TW064-A
November 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy
Years ago I came across this IIcx for a cheap and picked it up since I wanted a machine that could run System 6, which I haven’t used since my childhood family Mac Classic

It was sold as not working, so I of course recapped the logic board. Unfortunately […]

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An old beige Macintosh IIcx with a rainbow Apple logo on a desk with only a mouse plugged in and an LCD monitor with a floppy disk icon on it
November 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy
Google, what are these absolutely cursed date format options!??

Just give me YYYY-MM-DD 😭

I literally have to count out the month names on my fingers since for a decade+ I have lived in a world of Japanese dates (numbered months) and SQL timestamps 😭

#localization
A screenshot of the Google Cloud users Preferences/Languages pane The date options are: March 14, 2015 14. March 2015 2015. March 14.
November 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy
He arrived today, and sure enough, it's true-blue AppleTalk!

And of course, it turns out that internally it's just a Linux box running netatalk…

Despite the specs saying it requires MacOS 8.1, I can connect fine to it from a machine running System 7.5.3, so […]

[Original post on bitbang.social]
A screenshot of Internet Explorer 5 for Mac OS 9 showing an IO-DATA LANDISK management page HDL-G series - 1-0 DATA LANDISK http://landisk.lan.kalleboo.com/select.cgj I-O DATA Gigabit Ethernet LAN Hard Disk LANDISK ユーザー用設定ページを開く 管理者用設定ページを開く オンラインマニュアルを開く メニューを選択してください。 (E) 2005-2007 /-O DATA DEFICE,INC. A screenshot of various AppleTalk browsers showing the landisk. Chooser and Network Navigation showing the file share and Trawl and TalkCrawler revealing it has netatalk and a Laserwriter driver running as well. A screenshot of the landisk directory opened on System 7.5
November 13, 2025 at 7:25 AM
kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy
Welcome to the latest addition to #globaltalk

This little guy, the IO-DATA LANDISK HDL-G160U, showed up on my Mercari saved search for "AppleTalk", as the description listed “Supported protocols: Windows(TCP/IP)、Macintosh(AppleTalk)”. Checking the mfr page […]

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A photo of what appears to be an external harddisk standing on a desk, but it is labeled IO-DATA LANDISK, revealing that it is a NAS. It has a row of green LEDs on the front for Status, Access and 5 different drives (numbered HDD, 1,2,3,4). There are buttons for power, select, eject and copy. The case has gray sides and a black plastic strip around the perimeter.
November 13, 2025 at 7:18 AM
kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy
First time driving a Kei truck today. Free loaner from the hardware store.

Long time since I’ve seen manual-crank windows. The AM/FM radio didn’t work, but it actually had the speaker IN the single-DIN unit, not wired into the dash or doors, it must have […]

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A hand holding car keys in front of a white Kei truck that has a “HANDSMAN” logo on it. It is clearly in a parking lot for a hardware store Kei truck interior. It is tight, the drivers knees are up against the dash. Manually winded windows. Some goober flashing his mug for the camera from inside the truck while white sacks are visible in the bed A Kei truck with the bed full of white bags. You can see it says “お客様　無料貸出 トラック” on the rear of the bed. Next to it is a black Kei box minivan with more white bags in the back.
October 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy
@obsoletemediauk Is this loss?
Detail of the top left of the front cover of the SQ Quadraphonic version of Tubular Bells (1975). The sticker shows a diagram of four squares and the text says 'suitable for people with four ears' and 'a quadraphonic recording at no extra cost'.
October 20, 2025 at 1:07 AM
kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy
Why doesn’t software look like this anymore?

#VintageApple #retrocomputing
A screenshot of iMovie 3 running on MacOS X 10.4 The UI is in brushed metal and has a simple video timeline at the bottom of the screens, with one voiceover and one transition visible The video contents is censored for privacy
October 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy
@mroach
Someone unfathomably young wearing a t-shirt that says I <?> Unicode
October 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy
The front page of http://globaltalk.network loads but all the links lead to https :(

@vga256 could you change the links to go to “//” instead of https://, so they inherit the protocol the page was loaded over? Should help with old browsers on Mac as well
A photo of a TV loading GlobalTalk.network showing the start page but with an SSL error dialog
October 4, 2025 at 8:23 AM
kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy
For funsies I plugged the TV into the LAN. It’s 15 years old and all the internet services it shipped with are dead.

The most important thing DOES work though - my website!
A photo of a TV showing this menu プロードバンド Yahoo! JAPAN インターネット アクトビラ ひかりTV TSUTAYATV T'S TV A photo of a TV with this dialog box 通知 SSL通信ができません。 SSLでHandshake エラーが発生しました。 閉じる A photo of a TV showing http://kalleboo.com flawlessly (aside from the letter é not displaying) A photo of a TV showing my mastodon thread of when I bought an SGI O2
October 4, 2025 at 8:19 AM
kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy
Today in domestic work: cable management behind the TV. Some things could be cleaned up even more if I was willing to sacrifice more cable ties but this is already a massive improvement.
The rear of a TV with cables going everywhere, and strapped down with Velcro cable ties to a metal frame. An Ethernet sword is also visible Side view of the TV stand showing that there aren’t any stray cables sticking out
October 4, 2025 at 8:13 AM
kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy
@mroach Our moving boxes had a spot to circle in the contents and among the options it included Video Tape
A moving box with this text written on it 品 名 靴傘洗剤タオル鍋調味料 食料品 ラップ類包丁お盆タッパー類 食器（洋・和・ガラス）スプーン類本文方 時計人形バッグ服花瓶鏡C/ ビデオテープ 置物 箱入ギフト（食器鍋シ ツタオル） 額化粧品酒 キッチン用品（ 電化製品（）その他（)
October 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy
Got a pair of the cheapest desks from IKEA so now I have a desk for my G4 and a desk to actually do hobbies on! In my apartment I just had to do everything on the floor which just let me unmotivated to do stuff like recapping old machines.

Today I put some […]

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A network switch connected to multiple cables is mounted on a wooden board underneath a desk
October 3, 2025 at 8:39 AM
kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy
Definitely the best thing about moving is being able to walk 13 minutes to the hardware store just before 10pm to get an RJ11 cable to get my ImageWriter II back on #globaltalk
A hand is holding a 1-meter telephone cord packaging in a store, with a colorful sign saying our mission is to improve people’s houses and lives in the background.
September 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy
Made a wiring diagram before labeling all my new fancy uniform white ethernet cables I got to replace the spaghetti of random lengths of colored wires

#mb #networking
A screenshot of ClarisWorks Draw on MacOS 9 running an fvwm theme drawing a crude network wiring diagram A dot matrix, tractor feed printout of a crude network diagram
September 28, 2025 at 11:56 AM
kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy
Keyswitch fidget toy

#keyboards
Set of keychains featuring a cartoon character with black hair giving a thumbs up, displayed on a yellow card with Japanese text. The keychain each have a single unmarked keyboard key on them in various colora
September 26, 2025 at 4:11 AM
kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy
We now live a 15 minute walk from the hardware store so I walked there to buy a garden hose. I was also checking if they has short (~20cm) C13 mains cables. I'm inspecting the electronics aisle I found something I never noticed in the decade I've been shopping […]

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Hand holding a small box containing IC chips in small baggies Hand holding a box of small electronic components in a store aisle. 100+ small drawers labeled with electronics components like resistors, transistors, bridge rectifiers, zener diodes, etc
September 25, 2025 at 11:51 AM
kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy
The other day I actually did a signal strength survey. The attached images (first floor, second floor) show the simulation in the #ubiquiti #unifi floor plan, and the real results as measured with the “WiFi Heatmap & Network Tools" app on my iPhone.

The […]

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A house floor plan with strict green, yellow and red areas A house floor plan with mushy gradients of red, green and yellow A house floor plan with strict green, yellow and red areas A house floor plan with mushy gradients of red, green and yellow
September 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
kalleboo.bitbang.social.ap.brid.gy
@brian We were planning on getting one of those when we moved but right before we did we got a cast iron pot for camping and had the bright idea to make pan pizzas in that and I think we're set using this
A cast iron pot with coals on the lid being lifted off revealing a pepperoni pizza
September 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM