Mac84 (Steve) 🍏
@mac84.bsky.social
Vintage computer enthusiast and archivist. EEP! http://www.mac84.net
Do they make a USB-C to NeXT proprietary high-speed serial adapter? 👉👈
November 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Do they make a USB-C to NeXT proprietary high-speed serial adapter? 👉👈
What a time to be alive! ✨
Mac OS 7.6 for CHRP on an iMac G3 (Rev A) 💿… which was previously limited to running Mac OS 8.
Mac OS 7.6 for CHRP on an iMac G3 (Rev A) 💿… which was previously limited to running Mac OS 8.
November 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
What a time to be alive! ✨
Mac OS 7.6 for CHRP on an iMac G3 (Rev A) 💿… which was previously limited to running Mac OS 8.
Mac OS 7.6 for CHRP on an iMac G3 (Rev A) 💿… which was previously limited to running Mac OS 8.
Mac OS for CHRP shenanigans coming soon... 💿
October 30, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Mac OS for CHRP shenanigans coming soon... 💿
I see you’re also an individual of fine taste! 🐭
October 29, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I see you’re also an individual of fine taste! 🐭
Ooo yes! Let’s do a speed test… with SCSI! 🤣
October 29, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Ooo yes! Let’s do a speed test… with SCSI! 🤣
The only other record I’ve seen online was from a post where someone had a Motorola prototype system with a version 7.6 CHRP on the hard drive.
Speaking of which… 👀
Speaking of which… 👀
October 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The only other record I’ve seen online was from a post where someone had a Motorola prototype system with a version 7.6 CHRP on the hard drive.
Speaking of which… 👀
Speaking of which… 👀
A tease of something amazingly exciting... Mac OS 8 for CHRP PowerPC systems! 😳
I'm working to get this CD archived properly... (along with it's friends) 💿
Super thankful to the amazing people who helped make this happen. ❤️
Learn about CHRP here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_...
#CHRP
I'm working to get this CD archived properly... (along with it's friends) 💿
Super thankful to the amazing people who helped make this happen. ❤️
Learn about CHRP here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_...
#CHRP
October 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
A tease of something amazingly exciting... Mac OS 8 for CHRP PowerPC systems! 😳
I'm working to get this CD archived properly... (along with it's friends) 💿
Super thankful to the amazing people who helped make this happen. ❤️
Learn about CHRP here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_...
#CHRP
I'm working to get this CD archived properly... (along with it's friends) 💿
Super thankful to the amazing people who helped make this happen. ❤️
Learn about CHRP here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_...
#CHRP
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.
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.
October 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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.
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.
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.
If you go see it, see it on a huge screen in 3D - it really added to the fun ride.
October 12, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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.
If you go see it, see it on a huge screen in 3D - it really added to the fun ride.
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.
There are likely other solutions but since I already had my AppleSauce, this one works for me.
October 12, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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.
There are likely other solutions but since I already had my AppleSauce, this one works for me.
Woo-hoo! I’m now set up to properly archive Apple II 5.25” disks! 💾
October 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Woo-hoo! I’m now set up to properly archive Apple II 5.25” disks! 💾
Some of the others weren't so lucky... 🫠
October 10, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Some of the others weren't so lucky... 🫠
Whoa, I found another floppy from original Macintosh team member Joanna Hoffman! 😳
It contains the earliest version of ResEdit I’ve seen, v1.0 D4 - from 1985! 💾
#AppleHistory #Macintosh
It contains the earliest version of ResEdit I’ve seen, v1.0 D4 - from 1985! 💾
#AppleHistory #Macintosh
October 9, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Whoa, I found another floppy from original Macintosh team member Joanna Hoffman! 😳
It contains the earliest version of ResEdit I’ve seen, v1.0 D4 - from 1985! 💾
#AppleHistory #Macintosh
It contains the earliest version of ResEdit I’ve seen, v1.0 D4 - from 1985! 💾
#AppleHistory #Macintosh
On a more positive note... here are some of the books, tapes, CDs, disks and other things I've archived for all to enjoy! ❤️
archive.org/details/@mac...
macintoshgarden.org/users/mac84
archive.org/details/@mac...
macintoshgarden.org/users/mac84
October 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
On a more positive note... here are some of the books, tapes, CDs, disks and other things I've archived for all to enjoy! ❤️
archive.org/details/@mac...
macintoshgarden.org/users/mac84
archive.org/details/@mac...
macintoshgarden.org/users/mac84
It makes me very sad seeing silly prices for vintage 🍎CDs & disks. 💾
I enjoy getting these and archiving them onto the Internet Archive & Macintosh Garden for fellow geeks & future enthusiasts to enjoy.
I do this with my own funds, but these dumb prices ensure a lot of them will remain lost! 😓
I enjoy getting these and archiving them onto the Internet Archive & Macintosh Garden for fellow geeks & future enthusiasts to enjoy.
I do this with my own funds, but these dumb prices ensure a lot of them will remain lost! 😓
October 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
It makes me very sad seeing silly prices for vintage 🍎CDs & disks. 💾
I enjoy getting these and archiving them onto the Internet Archive & Macintosh Garden for fellow geeks & future enthusiasts to enjoy.
I do this with my own funds, but these dumb prices ensure a lot of them will remain lost! 😓
I enjoy getting these and archiving them onto the Internet Archive & Macintosh Garden for fellow geeks & future enthusiasts to enjoy.
I do this with my own funds, but these dumb prices ensure a lot of them will remain lost! 😓
Step 1. Purchase No Man's Sky
Step 2. Name ships after old computers
Step 3. Uh... ??? profit !
Step 2. Name ships after old computers
Step 3. Uh... ??? profit !
October 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Step 1. Purchase No Man's Sky
Step 2. Name ships after old computers
Step 3. Uh... ??? profit !
Step 2. Name ships after old computers
Step 3. Uh... ??? profit !
IT FREAKIN' WORKS! 🎉
Here's a 30 sec clip of when it sprang to life:
www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxkbH...
Here's HOW I got it working & how I backed up ALL the data from it:
tinkerdifferent.com/threads/tecm...
This was NO small task. Huge thanks to EVERYONE who helped me get here! ❤️🤗 What a journey...
Here's a 30 sec clip of when it sprang to life:
www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxkbH...
Here's HOW I got it working & how I backed up ALL the data from it:
tinkerdifferent.com/threads/tecm...
This was NO small task. Huge thanks to EVERYONE who helped me get here! ❤️🤗 What a journey...
September 26, 2025 at 6:26 AM
IT FREAKIN' WORKS! 🎉
Here's a 30 sec clip of when it sprang to life:
www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxkbH...
Here's HOW I got it working & how I backed up ALL the data from it:
tinkerdifferent.com/threads/tecm...
This was NO small task. Huge thanks to EVERYONE who helped me get here! ❤️🤗 What a journey...
Here's a 30 sec clip of when it sprang to life:
www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxkbH...
Here's HOW I got it working & how I backed up ALL the data from it:
tinkerdifferent.com/threads/tecm...
This was NO small task. Huge thanks to EVERYONE who helped me get here! ❤️🤗 What a journey...
Sounds like a great excuse to rent a trencher!! 🔥
September 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Sounds like a great excuse to rent a trencher!! 🔥
Last week I brought home this CHONK 🪨 of a 10 megabyte hard drive, a Tecmar Mac Drive, from VCF Midwest.
It connects over the SERIAL port and works with the Mac 128k!
Have you ever used or seen one before? 🤔 Let me know, I wanna try and get it working! 💥🔨
tinkerdifferent.com/threads/tecm...
It connects over the SERIAL port and works with the Mac 128k!
Have you ever used or seen one before? 🤔 Let me know, I wanna try and get it working! 💥🔨
tinkerdifferent.com/threads/tecm...
September 23, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Last week I brought home this CHONK 🪨 of a 10 megabyte hard drive, a Tecmar Mac Drive, from VCF Midwest.
It connects over the SERIAL port and works with the Mac 128k!
Have you ever used or seen one before? 🤔 Let me know, I wanna try and get it working! 💥🔨
tinkerdifferent.com/threads/tecm...
It connects over the SERIAL port and works with the Mac 128k!
Have you ever used or seen one before? 🤔 Let me know, I wanna try and get it working! 💥🔨
tinkerdifferent.com/threads/tecm...
MACLAN Connect for MS-DOS, turns your PC into an AppleTalk server!* 💾🍏
I got this at VCF Midwest this year, inside has v1.1 disks, plus pre-release copies of 2.0.1, neat! This archive also includes the Mac admin utility for System 6.
*Requires networking hardware
archive.org/details/macl...
I got this at VCF Midwest this year, inside has v1.1 disks, plus pre-release copies of 2.0.1, neat! This archive also includes the Mac admin utility for System 6.
*Requires networking hardware
archive.org/details/macl...
September 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
MACLAN Connect for MS-DOS, turns your PC into an AppleTalk server!* 💾🍏
I got this at VCF Midwest this year, inside has v1.1 disks, plus pre-release copies of 2.0.1, neat! This archive also includes the Mac admin utility for System 6.
*Requires networking hardware
archive.org/details/macl...
I got this at VCF Midwest this year, inside has v1.1 disks, plus pre-release copies of 2.0.1, neat! This archive also includes the Mac admin utility for System 6.
*Requires networking hardware
archive.org/details/macl...
Another vintage Mac disk archived! 💾
This is a SCSI hard drive management software for Macintosh. It also had very interesting folding packaging, which I've also scanned and uploaded.
Although the disk label says v2.30, the version on it is v2.40. 🤷♂️
macintoshgarden.org/apps/disk-ma...
#SCSI
This is a SCSI hard drive management software for Macintosh. It also had very interesting folding packaging, which I've also scanned and uploaded.
Although the disk label says v2.30, the version on it is v2.40. 🤷♂️
macintoshgarden.org/apps/disk-ma...
#SCSI
September 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Another vintage Mac disk archived! 💾
This is a SCSI hard drive management software for Macintosh. It also had very interesting folding packaging, which I've also scanned and uploaded.
Although the disk label says v2.30, the version on it is v2.40. 🤷♂️
macintoshgarden.org/apps/disk-ma...
#SCSI
This is a SCSI hard drive management software for Macintosh. It also had very interesting folding packaging, which I've also scanned and uploaded.
Although the disk label says v2.30, the version on it is v2.40. 🤷♂️
macintoshgarden.org/apps/disk-ma...
#SCSI
Like weird Cisco presentations from 1994? 🔮
Check out this find! 💾
This Cisco Catalyst "596-1293/catalyst" presentation from 1994 was on 2 floppies... each which had part of a .sea file on it... except that file was itself compressed via DiskDoubler document! 😵
macintoshgarden.org/apps/cisco-c...
Check out this find! 💾
This Cisco Catalyst "596-1293/catalyst" presentation from 1994 was on 2 floppies... each which had part of a .sea file on it... except that file was itself compressed via DiskDoubler document! 😵
macintoshgarden.org/apps/cisco-c...
September 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Like weird Cisco presentations from 1994? 🔮
Check out this find! 💾
This Cisco Catalyst "596-1293/catalyst" presentation from 1994 was on 2 floppies... each which had part of a .sea file on it... except that file was itself compressed via DiskDoubler document! 😵
macintoshgarden.org/apps/cisco-c...
Check out this find! 💾
This Cisco Catalyst "596-1293/catalyst" presentation from 1994 was on 2 floppies... each which had part of a .sea file on it... except that file was itself compressed via DiskDoubler document! 😵
macintoshgarden.org/apps/cisco-c...
Fire up MacPaint because I've got some freshly archived clip art from 1985! 🎨💾
macintoshgarden.org/apps/paste-e...
macintoshgarden.org/apps/paste-e...
September 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Fire up MacPaint because I've got some freshly archived clip art from 1985! 🎨💾
macintoshgarden.org/apps/paste-e...
macintoshgarden.org/apps/paste-e...
Yesssss! MakeStickers.com is where I’ve been getting mine for the past few years and I’ve been very impressed with them! ❤️
September 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Yesssss! MakeStickers.com is where I’ve been getting mine for the past few years and I’ve been very impressed with them! ❤️
I picked up this CHONK of a Tecmar Hard Drive for the Macintosh 128K/512K at VCF Midwest. It connects using a 9-pin serial cable... 😮
Would any plain ol' PC style serial cable work here? Or do I need some type of null modem adapter, etc? The only Apple DE9 serial cables I have are for ImageWriters.
Would any plain ol' PC style serial cable work here? Or do I need some type of null modem adapter, etc? The only Apple DE9 serial cables I have are for ImageWriters.
September 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I picked up this CHONK of a Tecmar Hard Drive for the Macintosh 128K/512K at VCF Midwest. It connects using a 9-pin serial cable... 😮
Would any plain ol' PC style serial cable work here? Or do I need some type of null modem adapter, etc? The only Apple DE9 serial cables I have are for ImageWriters.
Would any plain ol' PC style serial cable work here? Or do I need some type of null modem adapter, etc? The only Apple DE9 serial cables I have are for ImageWriters.