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Colin Chick

@NanoRaptor "This is Commander Jameson, en route to Lave Station. There is an unexpected item in the bagging area. Please wait for assistance."

Maddie
@NanoRaptor this is hilarious but also i wanna play elite sometime for real
NanoRaptor

The iMac cube was not a success.

A photo of an Apple iMac cube. It looks to be a 27” screen model that goes as far back as it is wide and high. It looks neither elegant or stable.
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Hands

@NanoRaptor This design would at least justify a $1000 stand.

Tim

@NanoRaptor maybe if they’d used all that space for something useful like expansion slots but no, they had to go and weld the damned thing shut.

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tsia

@NanoRaptor do I have to flip it 4 or 6 times to be able to plug it in?

Artificial Stupidity

@NanoRaptor pretty sure you gonna have to plug it trice before you plugged it correct way

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AN/CRM-114

@NanoRaptor 🎶Levono his war wound like a crown
He calls his child “Thinkpad”

Tim 🎮

@NanoRaptor perfectly normal POIUYT keyboard layout, I don't understand what's been changed in this one

NanoRaptor

The Macintosh SE will rear up and expose its extra floppy drives if it feels threatened.

A photo of a very tall Macintosh SE, with five floppy drives. It looks a bit surprised.
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David Harrison

@NanoRaptor Users traded tips on safely accessing the extra drives, since too much threatening could cause the Mac to eject the disks at high speed in self defense.

Sasha

@NanoRaptor people laughing at this have never been hit by a 3.1/4 inch disk traveling at near supersonic speeds.

Michal Nemecek

@NanoRaptor that looks like it has a lot of space for drives inside. I wonder if you will run out of room, SCSI IDs or power first 😂

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Digital Mark λ 📚 🕹 💾 🥃

@NanoRaptor I feel so sad for Kelly Rowland, still waiting for her text back.

ChrisR

@NanoRaptor I've seen Excel used to make LOTS of plausible-looking wrong calculations!

NanoRaptor

The Powder Macintosh was the ultimate expression.

A pile of beige slightly yellowed powder with an Apple logo on it and the legend "Powder Macintosh" below that. It might be running a little too hot.
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UpLateGeek

@NanoRaptor You can’t tell because the room it’s in is an entirely featureless pure white with no obvious source of illumination, but Powder Macintosh is actually sitting on top of a mirror.

Large Format Projectionist

@NanoRaptor

I heard a truckload got wet in Oklahoma. The resulting explosion of suddenly-rehydrating Macs devastated the neighborhood.

Limits on volume transport imposed to prevent a recurrence killed the product.

NanoRaptor

Time for that reminder again. You may have pulled the leaky 1/2AA batteries from your Macs, but have you re-applied thermal compound? It can dry out to barely more than dust, and the last thing you need after pulling a classic machine out & firing it up for the first time in years is thermal damage because it just couldn't cool itself.

A photo of a Quad G4 card on a desk, sitting at a convenient jaunty angle with a couple of obvious screws and a q-tip, to show it's been worked on, and isn't just going to be installed with no thermal compound.
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Jevgeni Mullo 🤖

@NanoRaptor, wait is this a real piece of hardware? Quad processor?

Paul

@NanoRaptor I changed out all the fans and the thermal paste on my Dual G4. Still isn’t exactly quiet; pondering more extreme measures.

NanoRaptor

The ideal solution to the problem.

A photo of a keyboard with left and right arrow keys either side of a single scroll wheel acting as the up and down arrow keys. Genius.
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Vinay ಕಶ್ಯಪ್ (Mr./Dr.)

@NanoRaptor And why not a full scroll wheel!? I don't know why Apple hasn't tried it yet!

c4t.dr34m

@NanoRaptor could use some help from tesla — two rollers with left-right axis, but one for scrolling up & down, while the other for scrolling to sides

NanoRaptor

Despite the 3.5" Magneto-Optical format's many advantages - A much larger, more reliable and resilient storage, bright backlight, and a high-resolution active matrix colour screen - it still failed to make inroads against sales of the older ubiquitous greyscale 3.5" floppy disk.

A picture of two disks on a beige background. On the left is a normal 3.5" floppy disk with a greyscale display showing the contents, and on the right is a Fujitsu 3.5" magneto-optical disk also showing the contents but with a colour backlit display.
NanoRaptor

IHDVGA (Inconveniently High Density VGA) extension lead.

IHDVGA was abandoned early on as keeping pins straight turned out more difficult than expected.

Most manufacturers still turned a profit by selling the leads without shells as convenient groundable wire brushes.

A photo of two ends of a lead with DE-128 connectors. Or something like that, I can't concentrate enough to count them, but there are so many fine little pins it's disorienting.
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Michal Nemecek

@NanoRaptor I've seen several regular VGA cables with bent pins. This would've been a nightmare to keep straight.

jgeorge

@NanoRaptor I’m messing around with Cisco HD-60 cables right now and they are frighteningly not that dissimilar.

The bent shell on the picture in the seller’s website really drives home the reliability and robustness.

A Cisco HD60 cable end with stupidly dense tiny pins
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D.A. VonU :blobcat_pumpkin: :bhjflag_demisexual:

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social

Oh my I really miss that!
ALL the best Mac features were shareware in the first place.

Anybody remember the premium bits being in a password protected archive?
You just paid via Kagi Software.

Apple bought them out a lot of the time - so annoying.
Aladdin especially.

NanoRaptor

The short-lived optical parallel port brought numerous advantages to the interconnectivity table. Advantages included small size for the era, transfers free of electrical noise, the speed of parallel transfer, and the convenient ability to debug protocols just by having a look.

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Aethylred

@NanoRaptor yeah, but did you ever spend 3hrs trying to get them to work only to find one was green and the other was amber

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Jonas

@NanoRaptor
Interesting, seeing the colored display I wonder if it was before or after IBM collaboration with Sony on the Dualpoint controller

An iconic Sony Playstation Dualshock black controller where the two analog stick have been replaced with IBM trackpoints, thus the Dualpoint name
ChrisRƎTRO

@NanoRaptor I'd never trade Nintendo's D-Pad for a ThinkPoint. 🤣

NanoRaptor

Apple's innovative ADB Extended Mouse II provided the ability to use cursor keys to navigate without the need to switch back and forth from mouse to keyboard.

A picture of an ADB Extended Mouse 2 on a cutting mat, with cable looped tidily next to it. The mouse is an apple platinum beige colour, with its single button replaced with an inverted T layout suspiciously identical to that from an Apple Extended Keyboard II. The single button appears to have no actual replacement. This is technically Apple's first no-button mouse. You wonder how it might click and drag, or click at all, and begin to hyperventilate...
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Mark Dennehy

@NanoRaptor This is so pragmatic and useful in the real world that it can't be apple, it has to be parody.

Mike Torr

@NanoRaptor You know, I'm old enough to remember using Windows 3.1 at work - WITHOUT A MOUSE. It was actually possible in those days as developers always provided keyboard shortcuts for everything.

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River City Random ☑️

@NanoRaptor my blood sugar just went 'moof!' Should I seek medical attention?

Ian Hayes

@NanoRaptor It should have only one button, which should operate like the ThinkPad nipple (or whatever it's called.)

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