Archive for the ‘Classic Macintosh’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/12
This is for earliest compact Apple Macintosh systems predating the introduction ADB (Apple Desktop Bus) on Macintosh SE and Apple Macintosh II (and Apple IIgs which technically is not a Macintosh):
[Wayback/Archive] GitHub – trekawek/mac-plus-ps2: Arduino project that allows to connect a PS2 keyboard to Macintosh Plus
Before continuing to an even more impressive keyboard and mouse interfacing project below (basically many kinds of modern keyboard, mice and gamepads to many retro computers) that I found thanks to doing some more research after finding the above one, lets summarise where the above one is still useful for:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/14
The mini micro classic Apple emulators related post last week became way too big, so here is the classic Apple 2/Macintosh hardware upgrade part follow-up I announced in Some notes on mini/micro Apple //e emulators.
Last week, I mentioned [Wayback/Archive] ARC Javmaster – YouTube. Let’s continue from there for an even bigger post (:
Javmaster actually has a shop at [Wayback/Archive] Welcome to the 8-bit stuff store – 8 bit stuff cool retro computer 3D gadgets and geekery with a lot of interesting (mainly Apple ][ era related) retro things like:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/25
I hope someone has also archived all these in the Internet Archive as this is a great collection of historic material: [WaybackSave/Archive] GitHub – gingerbeardman/apple-human-interface-guidelines: Apple Human Interface Guidelines, et al.
If you have more of them: add them via a pull-request.
Related: [Wayback/Archive] Making It Macintosh: The Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines Companion : Apple : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
A client that went belly up in the early 1990s had all these and similar books. In retrospect, I though have found a way to obtain them but back then I didn’t value the uniqueness of them enough and didn’t have the storage space for it (I lived in a 30m² apartment).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/30
This post covers some topics around one of the retro machines I have. They helped me form some thoughts on additions I might want to add to mine.
HDMI out on a Mac
Needs a Raspberry Pi, but looks very interesting.
256 shades of grey
Back in 2022, someone started doing an amazing thing: reverse engineering and rebuilding a 256-grey/color video card for the Macintosh SE/30 PDS (Processor Direct Slot).
A very interesting start of a long journey with the result that a few people could actually play around with it. Hopefully by now more have been produced, but be aware: this is a hobby of the designer, so unlike some other hardware: do not expect high numbers of these boards to become available.
Long thread in – for now – 14 pages of which I think below are the most important excerpts:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/08
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/01
Last year, #Appril][ got rebranded into #AprilApples, so I wish you a happy retro-month filled with April Apples!
[Wayback/Archive] Welcome to #AprilApples! Apple II Computer event celebrated in the month of April
Consider using the [Wayback/Archive] #AprilApples Style Guide with logon on the right, plus Garamond and/or Motter Tektura typeface when possible to really give tribute to the Apple ][ era.
Last year, a big surprise was that Apple Computer put a PDF version of the famous Apple Pascal Poster on the Internet Archive.
So today is a great day to give that more traction and link to it:
A year before, during April][, a remake of that poster got done on AppleFritter: 
[Wayback/Archive] Apple pascal poster, remade | Applefritter
Via [Wayback/Archive] Javmaster@bsky.social: “http://appril2.com/ ” – Mastodon
Fonts:
Images (I used a solid CSS brown background so you can see the difference between the regular logo and the outlined logo):
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/09
Not having lived in the USA, I was unaware this was major step there: [Wayback/Archive] 40 Years Ago, Drexel Made Computer — and Apple — History.
A big part of the importance – giving them away for free – fails in the above link title, but the content makes up for that very well.
Boy, this was so different from my education era (:
I you want to see how this worked 40 years ago, be sure to read [Wayback/Archive] In Pictures: When Drexel gave every student a Mac in 1980s – Interesting Engineering.
This great VCF East recapitulation pointed me to the Drexel Macintosh: [Wayback/Archive] VCF East 2024 – A Whirlwind of Retro Shenanigans! – YouTube.
There is even this beautiful video: [Wayback/Archive] 1984 ‘Drexel’ Macintosh 128K- Restoration and History! – YouTube
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/26
The drawback of evening live USA broadcasts is that most of Europe and Africa are asleep.
The Americas, Asia and Australia are awake, so I get it that [Wayback/Archive] Insanely Great – CHM – The Apple Mac at 40 was streamed live at 04:00 UTC at [Wayback/Archive] Computer History Museum – YouTube: live.
Hopefully the capture will be available soon.
Not holding my breath though as not response whatsoever from the moderator when I asked for it.
Via [Wayback/Archive] David Pogue on X: “40 years ago today, Steve Jobs unveiled the Macintosh. Tonight, I’m hosting an astonishing event that reunites many of its creators: Bill Atkinson, Andy Hertzfeld, Susan Kare, Steve Capps, Bruce Horn, Guy Kawasaki, many more. Free livestream at 7 pm PT:”.
--jeroen.
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