Grant Hutchinson @splorp@mastodon.social

IBM Personal System/2 Model P75 486

#retrocomputing #ibm #copythatfloppy

Well, this has certainly been an exciting evening.

While the #wwdc2020 keynote was happening, I was disassembling a Rev A Bondi iMac. #retrocomputing

I may have figured out why the floppy drive in my Quadra 700 wasn’t working.

#retrocomputing #dustbunnies

Reinstalled one of my recently re-capped Macintosh IIcx motherboards into its case, fiddled around with a cleaned, lubed, but slightly stubborn floppy drive, booted into System 6, and installed DiskTop using Font/DA Mover.

Living like it’s 1990.

#retrocomputing #rainbowapple

Volvo, spotted.

The lady whippet of the house.

Connected my (almost) 20 year old Griffin PowerMate to my current desktop setup. I had forgotten how cool this little knob was.

As of today’s update, my Comment Blacklist for WordPress contains over 40,000 terms, phrases, and keywords to help keep your comment threads tidy.

https://github.com/splorp/wordpress-comment-blacklist

… something is afoot.

$ brew install git-lfs

Bourbon is a disinfectant, right?

Embrace the reasonable.

https://aneventapart.com/news/post/conferences-in-the-time-of-coronavirus

Copying files off a Jaz drive.

Tea, Earl Grey, hot.

Cleaning the floppy drives out of a pair of recently recapped Macintosh IIcx boxen. As one does. #retrocomputing #floopydoop

Serendipitoots.

Switching to Vivaldi as my default browser, mainly for its syncing and interface tweaking features. Let’s see how this goes.

https://vivaldi.com

Mood.