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#vintagemac

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David Nelson

“Apple’s long-lost hidden recovery partition from 1994 has been found”
This is a fascinating deep-dive into a classic recovery partition that existed nearly twenty years before Apple stopped shipping physical install media. Originally seen on r/VintageApple #VintageApple #VintageMac #RetroMac #RetroComputing #MARCHintosh downtowndougbrown.com/2025/03/

www.downtowndougbrown.comDowntown Doug Brown » Apple’s long-lost hidden recovery partition from 1994 has been found
Scott Small 🇨🇦

So, here's my actually-planned-for-this-year #MARCHintosh project. Attached is a photo of four very dusty containers full of floppy disks. These are the actual disks from my childhood IIfx!

Most of these disks aren't original. The originals lived at Dad's workplace. He would periodically bring home software from work, make a copy of the disks, and return the originals to work. These were, I'm told, the "off-site backups", in case there was a fire at the workplace or something like that. But we also had all this software installed on the family IIfx so Dad could read any files that he brought home from work with him.

Of course, we also bought our own software for the home, and those are mixed in with these disks as well. And that stack of CD-ROMs in the top left are my MacAddict cover disks - those are already archived.

Anyway, because these are just consumer-grade diskettes, they degrade quicker than the professionally-manufactured original ones. I've already lost a few, so I want to get these archived! And of course, anything that doesn't already exist on the Garden will be uploaded there and shared on #GlobalTalk as well.

Four old, dusty containers of floppy disks (one also contains CDs) that need to be archived!
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#RetroComputing#VintageMac#Apple
AI6YR Ben

Any #VintageMac collectors (or not-so-vintage Mac folks) in the Seattle area who would be interested in some older/slightly older macs for free before they end up in eWaste? Ping @Nshrubs as she is trying to clear a bunch of stuff out of her house.

#mac #vintagecomputing

mstdn.social/@Nshrubs/11413552

Mastodon 🐘nshrubs (@Nshrubs@mstdn.social)@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org I'd happily send them off to a collector if someone wanted them! Since my dad died last year & I was stuck cleaning out his house, I'm trying to pare down some stuff so that no one has to deal with that for me. This push was renewed with the death of one of my teaching partners a couple of weeks ago, so I'm also trying to clean out my classroom too. After 20+ years teaching grades 1-5, I have a LOT of stuff. 😐
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PierreNick :apple_old_logo: 💾

This was a fun quick procrasti-project. It's double-sided too (it's a blinking question mark after all)!

I don't have a multi-filament printer so I implemented a satisfying no-glue snapidy-snap system to print the distinct black and white parts (but there's also a file in there if your printer can do multi-colour!)

It can also be a luggage tag, or keychain, or just a fidget token (it's got a nice heft to it).

Stacked photos, one showing the Macintosh startup disk question mark icon, and the other (the flip side) without the question mark
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Render of Macintosh startup disk question mark icon descontructed in layers
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#MARCHintosh#VintageApple#VintageMac
Jim Rea

#VintageMac #Mac #MacDev #macOS Today's the 40th anniversary of the first MacWorld Expo. 🎂 It was usually in January, but that first one was the weekend of February 21. (By the way I didn't remember that, had to look it up.) Of course it's a milestone for the entire community, but for me personally it's a big day because ProVUE exhibited there. I found an article in the SF Chronicle with a picture of the show floor, and my booth was in the picture! As far as I can tell I'm not personally in the picture, but I recognize at least one of my employees. I'm pretty proud to have managed to stay in the Mac software business continuously since then, as far as I know the only other company that has done that is Microsoft. Perhaps you've heard of them. (1/2)

dmark

Netatalk 4.1.0 has been released, and is now for the first time also available as a Homebrew formula.

Get it with `brew install netatalk` today!

This version of the open source AFP server is the best yet for running on macOS. We now store resource forks natively as Extended Attributes, and is able to sync with FinderInfo metadata.

For instance, you can extract a StuffIt archive containing Classic Mac OS files, using the Unarchiver, onto a shared AFP volume, and have the resource forks carry over seamlessly.

Enjoy Mac file sharing!

#netatalk#VintageMac#macos
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