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NanoRaptor

Apple's advantages in publishing in the early 90s included forward thinking CMYK Displays, which used CMY triplets instead of the inferior for print RGB.

A closeup photo of a CMYK display, revealing the colour triplets in a picture of the open preferences panel, showing them to be Cyan, Magenta and Yellow.
Mrmo Tarius

@NanoRaptor is this what's meant by "Print Screen"?

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mbpaz

@NanoRaptor the UI is compatible with the RS/6000phone too, I suppose.

rf

@NanoRaptor showing exactly the post it should

fluffy 💜

@NanoRaptor makes me think of my Sharp Zaurus and its weird-ass Gnome thing

NanoRaptor

I thought I was coming down with something and took a test.

Looks like I'm just feeling a little flat.

A picture of a test like a covid test on a desk, but it's got 10 frequency band tests and a Pre-amp test and oh god it's a graphic equaliser as a covid test. All the results show around midline so output is going to be flat.
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I am Jack's Lost 404

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I forgot, are the symptoms for the new strain more in the high end or the low end?

Tom Brand

@NanoRaptor nothing like a little shuffle to boost your spirits.

Apple iPod Shuffle music player with built-in COVID test.
NanoRaptor

Mac Mini (5.25") vs Mac Mini 2024 (3.5")

A photo of the old style Mac mini with its wide 5.25 inch floppy drive.
A photo of the new M4 Mac mini with its modern 3.5 inch floppy drive.
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Tim

@NanoRaptor @catsalad Didn’t they make a zip drive version as well?

Pete Gamache

@NanoRaptor Clever retouching job there, but astute viewers will remember that the 2024’s paperclip hole is on the bottom of the unit.

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Mx. Eddie R

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T9r9s9, for theater surround sound of course.

Anthropy :verified_dragon:

@NanoRaptor that's legit kinda amazing, you'd have to make a firm clicking locking mechanism, but this seems like it could actually help with making high density mezzanines that are currently extremely fragile

DaveB

@NanoRaptor
No-one has said it has to be serial - so we are looking at 9-pin full duplex parallel (tip is ground, middle is RX inside is TX). With one pin handling error detection we can transmit 8 bits (one byte) at a time (both ways). So what is our maximum baud rate? 🤠

NanoRaptor

A box of co-worker's Spice Melange.

A photo of a blue & white box of Spice melange 60, containing 60mg of Geonemotodium arraknis, prescribed to co-worker craig. It's a pretty mundane looking medication box, with a sand dune on it, and an atreides logo - along with a bunch of stickers warning it may cause permanent iris and sclera discolouration, and that it's a prescience enhancer.
A photo of a blue & white box of Spice melange 60, containing 60mg of Geonemotodium arraknis, prescribed to co-worker craig. It's a pretty mundane looking medication box, with a sand dune on it, and an atreides logo - along with a bunch of stickers warning it may cause permanent iris and sclera discolouration, and that it's a prescience enhancer.
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xinit ☕

@NanoRaptor controlled drug? Wouldn't that impede the flow?

Bernard Sheppard

@NanoRaptor One of your best. Prescribing Dr: 🧑‍🍳💋

P. S. Would love to see Australian PBS full and subsidised cost.

NanoRaptor

If you were born after March 1977 you’ve spent more time in the 21st century than the 20th.

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Ben Clifford

@NanoRaptor by the time you're all grown up, time travel will be so normal that...

Michael Porter

@NanoRaptor We have a ways to go before the opposite is true 👴🏻 😊

NanoRaptor

This is the kind of mixed use technologically advanced socialised housing that they took from us.

A picture of a thirtymumblesomething year old ibm system with drives and controls and bays out the wazoo. It resembles a large apartment block.
NanoRaptor

Tyrannosaurus rex evolved closer to the release of the Macintosh Performa 5400 (Director’s Edition) than to Stegosaurus.

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David Marshall

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That's because their relatively tiny arms with two fingers meant Tyrannosaurus rex had evolved better typing skills than Stegosaurus.

Fritz Adalis

@NanoRaptor
OKAY! I'm old, I get it! Back then we all had Stegosauri on our belt, it was the style at the time.

dan 💾

@NanoRaptor An Australia-only variant? I had no idea!

w7com

@NanoRaptor
I miss my old SX-64 with customized font and ROM. I hacked a lot of shit on that puppy.

NanoRaptor

Today I have been introduced to the concept that the most painful explanation is most likely to be correct and this is Occam’s Taser.

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steeph 🎆 ٩(˘◡˘)۶

@NanoRaptor Ouch! (This is the most painful explanation of Occam's Taser I've ever read. And the only one, too.)

Nini

@NanoRaptor Taken to an absurd degree with their MO-disc drive which feels like the final form of such a device.

A picture of a Pinnacle Micro MO-disc drive. Old and chunky but with an unbeatable geometricness that aches for a time of neon tubes and glass blocks. So many glass blocks.
NanoRaptor

The NeXTlevel was NeXT Software's first handheld device, eagerly awaited but canned just two weeks from release when Apple purchased NeXT and chose not to pursue gaming. All 250,000 release devices were pulled from channels and unceremoniously rolled into landfill out northwest of Dubbo.

A picture of a black NeXTlevel handheld gaming device, by NeXT. It opens vertically to show two landscape screens, a dpad, and four buttons in NeXT colours. On the bottom screen is the NeXT desktop with the Info window for Chess showing. On the top screen is Chess in its 3D NeXT style glory. Either side of the top screen are the speaker grilles. It sits on a blue fabric background, lit from the side.
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The Apple Newton WatchPad was a roaring success in the early 2000s, and dimensionally only a few short hops over.

A promo style photo of a Newton WatchPad on a wrist. It's a wrist-sized Newton with a digital crown, and a rainbow Apple logo. On the screen are Newton OS icons for Bluesky, Mastodon, Kindle, Escape Velocity, BBedit, Marathon, and Music.
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Manu

@NanoRaptor
It didn't catch on in most parts of Europe, though.

The most probable explanation is that Apple refused customer demands to support Swatch Internet Time [1], which had become the official European time system in 1998, with the notable exception of Switzerland.

[1] en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch

EndlessMason

@NanoRaptor Seeing this was a legit emotional roller coaster.

heartbreaking.

NanoRaptor

The Macintosh II ndy was touted as Apple's comprehensive publishing and multimedia Mac, but suffered from the inability to support large displays. Most simply slid off the case.

A promo photo of a Macintosh II ndy. The whimsical slice through the case makes it look like a sword slice straight through the middle, but somehow it didn't go back together right, and is tilted off to the side. It just looks like it has a really sore neck, and it doesn't HAVE a neck.
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yakkoj 🦊

@NanoRaptor it's a bit sad for monitor OEMs, really... we really needed monitors whose yaw could be adjusted. Apple gave them the correct motivation here!

(hopefully the crash sound for this one will be one of those "breaking glass" ones ;o)

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

@NanoRaptor Little known fact: Years later, tired@of their ideas being sidelined, the design team behind it left Apple and became the Surface team at Microsoft.

NanoRaptor

5.25" vs 5.5" floppy disks.

KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.

A photo of a 5.25" and a 5.5" floppy disk next to each other. Despite looking very similar, they are not, as one is different.
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Bob K Mertz

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Clearly created by the same guy that thought it was a great idea to have only 1/8" difference between a class 1 and class 2 hitch ball for towing.

europlus :autisminf:

@NanoRaptor some faulty 5½" drives were supplied to Apple and Woz got them working with double the original capacity of the Disk ][, but he couldn’t convince Jobs to tool up new face plates.

A judicious use of a Dremmel on either side of the opening gave savvy Apple ][ users a bonus for their own use, but they tended to be shunned by their friends at disk swap parties because only about 3% of Disk ][s ended up with the 5½" drives.

They were also derided by girls for claiming “Mine is 5½"”.

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