A Word on Retro Computing…

Just sharing my philosophy on vintage computers and best practices for actually having fun with them. I wonder how ‪@LGR‬ , ‪@The8BitGuy‬ , and ‪@Techmoan‬ feel about the topic.

[@ijnvnadm]

Listening ❌ Watching those weird stuff floating on the screens ✅

[@D725U]

Nice to see a Mac TV in working condition. I also collect vintage Apple gear. I disagree about not maxing out RAM. I have a IIfx with 128MB of RAM and it takes about a minute for the system to do the entire RAM check before it shows the Welcome to Mac screen (this check can be bypassed by replacing the factory ROM with a ROMinator - I'd advise doing a search on the 68kmla forum about that). The extra RAM is beneficial if you're running power hungry NuBus cards and software. One can also perform some ResEdit hacks and get OS 8.1 going on a 68030.

[@marklucas3140]

So, a while ago I was looking at my boxes that contain the CoCo I had purchased a couple years ago. I used to have a TRS-80 and a TI-99 from 1994 to 1999, when I had to take a lot of my old toys and videogames and stuff to the auction. I was thinking about the fact that these boxes contain not just a TRS-80, but a TI-99 as well. And it hit me. These are my boxes. Why in the world would there happen to be three boxes of this stuff(exactly the number I carried to the auction in 1999) 110 miles from where we sold them due west across southern Illinois, and them not actually be my boxes. Someone should figure the odds of that. There's no modem module. I never had a modem module. There are a couple of instruction binders and a software binder. Exactly the binders I had in 1994. What a weird and serendipitous thing.

[@aenoymotors]

LGR usually seems to restore most of his old computers to stock OS and configuration maybe minus a hard disk because those are just dying anymore. Use them for what they WERE in their time period.

[@marklucas3140]

Maybe it's Low End Macintosh now. :)

[@LAEXMA]

Well, Low End Mac has been a website for 25 years. Dan Knight (Low End Mac’s founder) has been a friend of mine for many years and I don’t want to step on his toes.

[@marklucas3140]

We were chatting last weekend when we were hanging out in Rockford. I asked him if he thought you would change LEM to mean Low End Mercedes. I'm still really sorry that I couldn't make it up there when you were visiting, man. Another casualty brought to you by Mueller Machine! I'm so glad that place closed.