Gregory's ServerYou may not like it, but this is what peak Tooting performance looks like
Ian Scott :apple_inc: ๐
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Ron's Computer Videos๐ฅ๏ธ๐ผ
@polpo Are you just using the serial interface on that 88? What program are you using for playback?
Ian Scott :apple_inc: ๐
@RonsCompVids yeah! It just plugs in with a crossover/printer type serial cable, and then depending on if the program needs it, the MIDI Manager extension needs to be installed. I've had the best results with using QMidi for playback, but MidPlay is also pretty good.
Ian Scott :apple_inc: ๐
@RonsCompVids this is 7.5.5, I haven't tried 7.1. I first tried on System 6, but couldn't find any plain ol' MIDI players that could run on it, they're all just too new. I got Cubase to run and could play some songs on 6, but the instrument mapping wasn't right.
Ron's Computer Videos๐ฅ๏ธ๐ผ
@polpo I guess the MIDI Manager is part of the OS install, or is it something seperate?
Ian Scott :apple_inc: ๐
@RonsCompVids itโs separate - you can get it here. AFAIK it is needed for Systems 6.x-7.x https://www.macintoshrepository.org/32704-apple-midi-manager-2-0-2
Ron's Computer Videos๐ฅ๏ธ๐ผ
@polpo (obligatory comment about how folks should use and support Macintosh Garden over MR)
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@polpo @DerMannindenBergen Thatโs true, I donโt like it. Thatโs because I absolutely LOVE your setup. ๐ค๐ค๐ซ  
Ian Scott :apple_inc: ๐
@LomanB unfortunately, Macstodon doesn't support images, so it's all just text. 
Kailey ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
@polpo Nice SoundCanvas. I had a SC-55 that I have misplaced in a move and Iโm still broken up about it. ๐ข 
Ian Scott :apple_inc: ๐
@anthk wow, some amazing efforts there. Iโll have to look more into his projects!
Torgny Bjers
@polpo Then again, people are trying to compare Twitter's centrally managed, geographically distributed, multi-million dollars per month behemoth to a loosely coupled cell network of Mastodon servers. Said servers range in size from Raspberry Pi computers on someone's home network to professionally run instances in the cloud.
Longplay Games ๐ฎ
@polpo I'd love to see a mastodon client, network driver, and a browser on a single floppy, that'd be so great :D 
Ian Scott :apple_inc: ๐
@fudgy haha, thanks for noticing it. I figured it was the natural medium for recording MIDIs onto ๐
Ian Scott :apple_inc: ๐
@singletona thanks, though I just noticed there's a typo in it, "teal" autocorrected to "real"!
Suzanne Paley
@polpo @singletona I was actually wondering what kind of statement you were making by highlighting that the desk was painted a real color (perhaps as opposed to the off-white or black of all the equipment?).
Brian Fagioli
@polpo @profcarroll isnโt it remarkable that Apple has never in its entire history of existence made a good mouse? 
Shannon Moore
@polpo Nice! I had to share this with my son and point out that when I was in high school software looked like this. I don't think I saw multiple colors on computer screens til after I graduated college.  
Danielle Crawford
@polpo I don't have a 3com card in my SE/30, so I guess I'm going to have to dust off MacPPP
Clara Listensprechen
@polpo Once upon a time, a single edged, small shaving razor blade one could shave one's self with was actually and literally the cutting edge of technology at the time when shaving was done with a knife-sized razor sharpened on a strop, usually weilded by a barber. We've come a long, long way since then.
Sascha Segan
@polpo I've been trying to get an old Mac emulation setup online but I've had trouble turning a modern Internet connection into something the old system understands. Any good links?
Ian Scott :apple_inc: ๐
@saschasegan oh wow, that's something I haven't explored. I definitely had to (re-)learn a lot to get this hardware online on my home network! The key for me was installing Open Transport... I wonder if any of the Mac emulators emulate a network card or PPP type connection.
Clara Listensprechen
@polpo I've at least made a Google attempt to find out, and taking a stab in the dark, I'm guessing stuff that will play old Mac OS games might do the trick:
www.macworld.com/article/67245โฆ
Mx. Alba :blobcatenby: :nd:
@polpo of course this was not tooted from that awesome device, though, because it doesn't support tooting images. ๐
Mike Nelson Pedde
Bring back 8" floppy drives!! And yes, I know what it's like to work on an iMac with no HDD and 360K discs!!
Mary Margaret McCabe
@polpo when I had one of those I couldnโt work out how to do footnotes, so I wrote none. Utterly liberating. This feels rather the same, losing speed and slickness seems to be nicely reflective.
@werther
@polpo@bitbang.social...what I do like is the Mac! So functional and superb design! Saudades!
Ian Scott :apple_inc: ๐
@cynic2010 I got a BlueSCSI (https://scsi.blue) and boot off of that instead of a floppy or old hard drive. You could use those old Macs again, but a lot have had their clock batteries explode and leak all over inside. Iโve had to do major work to restore an old SE with major battery damage. And the capacitors can also leak and cause corrosion. Even though itโs the older model of the two, your Mac Plus is more likely to not be damaged due to its battery placement on the back panel.
Clara Listensprechen
@polpo @mmmccabe If I recall correctly, the way to add footnotes was to create a "footer" area. It's typically where the page number goes but it can do footnotes. If you mean making a raised number at the sentence where you want to reference a footnote, knowing ASCII might have worked if Extended ASCII--but what I'm not clear about is whether a Mac that old would have preceeded the implementation of Extended ASCII.
Ian Scott :apple_inc: ๐
@800askcarl it definitely wasn't working when I first got it. I had to replace all of the capacitors and clean corrosion off the board before it worked!
Jonathan Harker
@polpo I am especially digging the Roland Sound Canvas, those are like rocking horse แนกฤงฤซลง these days!
Jeff Huffman ๐บ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ธ๐ช๐ฉ๐ฐ
@polpo damn I want that sweet setup. I do have a 1987 Mac Plus
Mike Flugennock
@polpo Everything there looks extra-clean, too, like a restoration. I bought my first Mac โ a Plus, w/4mb of memory โ in early '87; SE/30 was the sort of ultimate expression of the classic "Toaster" Mac. What are you using to read/post to Mastodon on that? How are you connected?
Ian Scott :apple_inc: ๐
@flugennock Thanks, Iโve done quite a bit of work on this to get it working again. These SE/30s are special machines. Iโm using Macstodon (https://github.com/smallsco/macstodon) and the system has an Asante Ethernet card in the PDS slot.
PookaNan Sussquatch
@polpo
Erin the Wolf Kitsune ฮฮ
@polpo how is it connected to the internet? Also kudos for writing a program to interface with Mastodon!
Ian Scott :apple_inc: ๐
@erin_kitsune itโs connected with an Ethernet card on my home network! And all credit goes to @smallsco for actually writing the program that actually interfaces with Mastodon!
dasos ๐ฆ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
@polpo Lovely, I love hooking my Mac Plus using the rare ethernet / appletalk adaptor so I can go online to IRC with it xD 
Clara Listensprechen
@polpo Here's a trivia tidbit: that machine dates back to the time they used Motorola chipsets, which is why Motorola used that machine exclusively at work at the time...which is how I came to appreciate it. But that's when Motorola was still run by the Gavin family. It went kaput & got bought out and now is just a comm company with Gavins nowhere to be found.
Clara Listensprechen
@polpo ...however, the overhauled Motorola still pays me my pension. When ya buy out stuff, you're also buying all the liabilities that go with it.
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@polpo I believe you and I like it.