Really loved seeing this video. Thanks. It brought back some good memories. I have a Poqet PC paperweight and Poqet PC sweatshirt. Oh, and I also have an original Poqet PC too. After seeing this video, I popped a couple of batteries in, hit reset and up it came, first attempt!!

If I'd come across this in 1986, it would have ticked every obsessive box; I'd have sat at my Atari for hour upon hour grabbing those images! It has just the right amount each of technology, electronics, programming, even meteorology, to fuel my fascination, and is delivered at just the right rate to build anticipation on what might be received! I'm surprised these signals are still available. Thanks for the video.

It was fun seeing you run WriteNow. I worked on later versions at T|Maker for a couple of years, starting around 1988. It was a big deal when we decided to require machines with Mac Plus ROMs so that we could use hierarchical menus. Also, adding color app/document icons meant significantly increasing the size of the application, which was almost entirely written in 68K assembly that had been painstakingly optimized for size and speed. One of the engineers jokingly complained that he had just spent days removing a few hundred bytes, only to have it swamped by the addition of color icons. It was my understanding that NeXT was also shipping it on NeXTSTEP at the same time. I worked a bit with John D. Anderson, mentioned in the About Box you showed, who was at NeXT.

Does Aladin need Floppy hardware to open Mac Floppy disks like Spectrer GCR, or can it open load / save Mac stuff to disk on its own?

mine literally exploded because when i got it it smelled burny

Well, now you need to update this to include the 1090XL CPM card being reproduced by Brian Reifsnyder on AtariAge.

DO NOT adjust the display size !!!! The Atari SM124 monitor screen is set up for WYSIWYG, which is perfect for desktop publishing. The Atari SM124 is a monochrome VGA monitor. They were also used with the Atari PCs. Standard VGA is 640 by 480. The Atari ST computers high res mode is 640 by 400. This is the reason for the larger black bars on top and bottom of the screen. When you adjust the screen size, you not only lose the WYSIWYG image, you also distort the picture by stretching it. Only stupid people adjust an Atari SM124 monitors screen size. 🤔

Very nice 👍

Yes the classic is quirky today but back in the day it's was just a yuppie computer that no one could afford

What a neat little PC

I had one Indus GT and the included software was pretty good. loved the drive ..

Hey, Great video, I have one of these monitors and the picture is stupidly small. Can I send it to you for you to work your magic? I don't like working on CRT's they scare the hell out of me! lol

I wonder if there is any way to get FujiNet on the MiSTer FPGA Atari 8-bit core working?

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I only recently got an sm124. I had no idea about the huge borders until then. But the 1:1 ratio makes sense. Still, the 640x400 just looks so good in black and white on the ST!

are you going to make part two where you get it how you want it setup?

Is it possible to replace the existing monitor with a newer one? Like one for a laptop?

Great video, very useful info. It is worth mentioning the SM124 has that small screen size due to the screen being set up to have a specific DPI (dots per inch) amount (which iirc was 72dpi, the same as a Mac Plus/ 512k etc). This was useful for DTP work as it was directly translatable allowing accurate depictions on screen and in print. I think GDOS also expects this. Nowadays the extra screen real estate is more useful I would think :)

Really enjoyed that, well done! Need to dig out my SM124.

Nice video, thanks! I'm going to try it out with my fujinet.

can you clarify more on the power side, what is the reference to the resistor and how is that hooked up?? Also why is there a resistor in the HDMI plug?

Oh... hell yes !!!! :) perfectly gorgeous... I'm looking at picking up 2 ole snowballs. One I wanna leave stock except usual upgrades the other I want to stuff a pc inside.. even a nuc but use the original monitor and this is just what I needed. THank you sooooo much! Be safe!

How many capacitors were bad? Did you test them after removing? Looks like it is another case of recappacide or do what the internet says (change the caps) and you would be fine, then it turns out to be something completely different

Well that was a shame but it was very useful to me to see the neck board being rebuilt. Hope to see further updates on this G3. Thanks BRB!😀

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So I went ahead and replaced all capacitors on board except the big one which seems to be in a good condition. I found some corroded resistors which I checked and cleaned and replaced a broken one. I believe the board I worked on is the next revision. There is no C922 capacitor and found C937 is 33uf 50v rated. Since I have already ordered 35v ones I just put that one in. Did not explode 😉 So far so good . Green iMac G3 450 is back on duty !

Would have loved this back in the day as I was using Xerox CP/M machines in high school.

Hello, many thanks for the very informative video. I have slot load G3 450Mhz model and recently it started to load image on the screen very slowly. When warmed up it continued to work normal. The last few days it get worsened. It attempts boot in a continuous loop and sometimes manages to load OS with screen briefly on and then off. I'm checking PAV and see on C947 16v47uf cap base brownish oily stain. Is it possible that a tiny cap can make all this problems? or maybe the Flyback transformer could be the main cause? I'm considering if I'll go to all of PAV overhaul time/cost process. Cheers😀

For me, reinserting the ribbon cable back into the display without mangling it was an undertaking to say the least. I was looking to see if there was a blown fuse, but I see there aren't any. I've got an always-on (when plugged in) screen full of black lines. Guess it's time to do the battery.

Your Nelson figure has been cracking up. lol Great Video btw!! Love these fruity AIOs!

I had the same on a 1040 STf. epic memories. I had an 20 MB HDD tied to it in ACSI.

I had one from new. The screen was awful and it was slow and heavy. But it was cool at the time.

What's it doing with 14 pins just for monitor DC-in? I was sure it was gonna be monitor signal AND power in one port.

This was the first computer I bought new. Why? I was young and didn't have a lot of money and this offered a pretty good value. Full-sized keyboard. The two 720K floppies. A screen. Software bundle. Case. And the 2400 bps modem. And 640k ram. For me to buy all this functionality in the day in an IBM or compatible, I'd have to spend a lot more. I'd have to buy a monitor, spend to upgrade to 640k ram, upgrade to a 2400 bps modem and buy software. So for me, it was a good value. I still have it. I bought a second one that I have played with. I removed the clock chip and put in a RTC. I build an expansion board for the back and can run/boot from a Compact Flash card. And I have screen to run color CGA by replacing the mono LCD SuperTwist.

16:13 It's interesting to see how the game fills the first page of graphics and then switches to the other. We can clearly estimate around 1.5fps in the flight sim.

"It miraculously fixed itself". You jammy sod! 😊

Great video, thank you! I'm getting it to show my HDMI connected display, but it's very shaky and colours are wrong; Two questions, the 1k resistor is shown on your video between 18 & 19, whereas on the pinout, I see the resistor mentioned to be going to the inverter cable; Are there 2 resistors or did i misunderstand the pin-out for the HDMI?

I got the same model (1916W), bought in 2005 and was still running until December last year. I was able to turn it on, but it started to buzz and switched off backlight right away. Disassembled it, the psu looks a bit different on my display - with cables from top and left side. Anyway two smaller caps were bulged and big one (400V 120uF) was leaking from bottom side. Replaced them, works again.

So true. The same happened to me. I only had to replace a fat cap to bring to life

Sincerely enjoyed this video - nicely done. I've been on the hunt for one of these for a few years and finally, got lucky enough to snag one off of ebay. Its a new old stock example, so thats the good news. The bad news is, it's not working. I do hear a faint high pitched sound when I turn it on, and the screen does flash when I remove the power. I'm wondering if what you experienced is related to the cmos battery being old and exhausted, and possibly with power on the board for a while it somehow affects it? Or would no power feed into the cmos battery? Its a desperate wish, i don't want to disassemble it. Will leave it with batteries for a couple of days and think positive thoughts :) Thanks again for the video. Have subscribed.

Impressive that the DMA port can be used for this.

what were the business use cases for this product?

you are good

how can the Atari st read mac discs (old apple mac 400k and 800k) floppies? its the hardware emulator which allows? this? true? thanks...........

this is absolutely amazing !! a mac inside an Atari st home micro??!! it really is super cool!!

Did they license the Mac ROMs? Apple was fiercely against licensing the Mac for cloning.

There was a version of the Spectre 128 called The Spectre GCR which could read and write to a Macintosh diskette using the Atari drive. There was also a box for the Magic Sac and the Spectre 128 called the Transporter One that allowed an ST to read and wrie to Mac disks. This made the Gadgets by Small products superior to the Aladin in my estimation.

Thank you for a very detailed and interesting review! Can't wait to see a PC emu in action.

What do I do if I lost the original power supply and just have the monitor