My dad found my 386's original video card that was in the computer when I was a kid. My very first computer. I thought I lost this when I moved out of my dad's house years ago.

Holy moly is that… Farmington, Connecticut!? Hello BULLRUN! I have a sneaking suspicion that our little corner of the mesh is about to get a lot more talkative a lot more quickly than we expected 🥳

A picture of a purple Apple Jonathan sitting on a desk, with some very 80s/90s bits of gear around it. Apple and EA posters, some pencil lights, a beocom phone. Just all the goods.

Sometimes it's nice to revisit old friends.

A picture of a black modular computer taken from low near the desk, showing all the beautiful modules it's composed of, all a bunch of great late 80s and early 90s manufacturers. Daystar, Radius, Roland, iomega, Syquest, and of course Apple.

There is no reason I would ever stop posting Jonathan.

A product shot of a dark charcoal grey-blue computer on a white background, where the monitor sits on top and the keyboard in front, but what would normally be a desktop case is a row of book-like modules for varying purposes all slotted into a base that connects them together.

Apple Jonathan, with high capacity PSU module, 68040/33 module, HD, Floppy, zip and MIDI modules, RasterOps graphics module, PowerPC 601 module, 3.5" Syquest, Daystar PowerGenesis CRISPR module, and Farallon networking module.

A picture of an Apple Jonathan that appears to be made of polished and satin copper plated plastic. It sits on a desk with a whole heap of things that felt amusing to model at the time, like a grey rubik's cube, book, stolen chris espinosa ID card, pencils, paper trays and discatte floppy.

Apple went through a beige, platinum, white, black, and aluminium phases.

Where was copper?!

A repeater that isn’t ours?! Soapstone Mountain?!?! Oh sh!t Connecticut what up!!!!!

We hear them but they don’t seem to be able to hear us - maybe that changes once our first outdoor repeater goes up later this week?

Good work Noah and RJS Radioman, whoever you are!!! 🥳

Watching it in my lab with friends 😄

NASA NASA.gov brings you the latest news, images and videos from America's space agency, pioneering the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research.

@aradiogurl.net psst, Nasa.gov will be livestreaming the launch.

🥳 🥳 SUCCESS!! After setting baud to 9600 our T-Decks now have GPS functionality and sync clocks automatically (and more or less instantaneously) when turned on! Tomorrow we'll load them with maps and begin range testing in earnest 👾

The same HT1818Z3G5L module used in hpsaturn’s build is confirmed to be correctly installed but seems to be having a little bit of trouble finding satellites. Could this be because we’re indoors? Perhaps a configuration issue?

We’re building hpsaturn’s case for the LilyGO T-Deck out of transparent lime green PCTG filament in preparation for all the testing that will necessary to bring meshcore to Springfield! This design is beautiful and looks v snazzy with 5mm sockethead screws www.thingiverse.com/thing:6580397

A used dell laptop is presented with the keyboard and arm rest area removed.

A small stack of these laptops was donated, in good condition but with one problem: the rubberized coating had degraded and is sticky.

The chassis has been removed for cleaning. Afterwards, they will be reassembled, packaged with software and redistributed.

A lady sitting at a desk with a Macintosh TV (a black compact Macintosh that is not very compact) the Macintosh tv has lemmings on it. There is a cute computer in the background who is named maccy. he is alive and real

Macintosh TV + Lemmings + my Chuck E Cheese Mousepad!

This recapped Mac Classic did not chime and then did something weird #marchintosh #vintagemac YouTube video by BigBadBench

New (actually short) short showing really fun wiggling from a Mac Classic. I bet @thetechknight.bsky.social knows exactly what component on the analog board went. youtube.com/shorts/AbTY0...

Transfer Point is a point-and-click adventure game for Macintosh. It was made in World Builder and MacPaint, and it fits on an 800K floppy disk. It also has an egret. Coming soon for most web browsers, or as a download to play on your classic Mac. robotspacer.software/transfer-poi... #MARCHintosh

Zero time to work on my Macs this past weekend, too busy. Also pushed myself too hard and body started rebelling on me. Slept all yesterday, still very tired, fatigued. At least crackedmac.ddns.net is still online and seems to be stable, over 100 visitors!

A MacOS 9 screenshot, showing: - App icons - diamond share with a planet and a little spider - Scanning window : An icon shows a magnifying glass over a planet of old Apple hardware icons - Scan results window - a list of GlobalTalk zones, with the BaroNet zone expanded. In the columns are printers and file shares, some with green checks on them.

Here's my second #MARCHintosh project for 2026 - TalkCrawler Lite! A little app to keep track of which #GlobalTalk printers and shares you've visited or left a greeting on!

I rushed this one out so I can get to using it, so it's less polished than Chat, and […]

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The power of starting with one single helpful thing we can do competently on behalf of others is not to be underestimated. I started fixing dumpster-dived computers for my neighbors in need back in 2023; three years later it's a 501(c)(3) providing free devices and free digital skills education.

Let's Chat with Bob "Dr. Macintosh" LeVitus - Journalist & Macintosh Clone Evangelist! #MARCHintosh YouTube video by Ron's Computer Videos

I gotta admit, I'm pretty excited about this one. Bob "Dr. Macintosh" LeVitus is one of my favorite tech writers. Books, newspapers, magazines, blogs... you too have no doubt read his work.

He helped folks keep the faith even in some of the darkest times!

youtu.be/BCHMHAiCaMk

The Power Macintoshes on stairs. In the forefront i is a PowerMac G5, two stairs up behind it is a graphite G4. In the back on the landing is a blue and white PowerMac G3.

Three generations of PowerMac, G3, G4, and G5, some of Apple’s best case designs #MARCHintosh

One man's trash: The journey of neglected compact Macs YouTube video by THEtechknight

My First #MARCHintosh video of the Year is out!
youtu.be/rjN4kAmt8WQ?...

the bottom of a circuit board with a bunch of pins

I guess my new unexpected #MARCHintosh project is to fix this BlueSCSI I have that arrived DoA back when I bought it.

One of the pins is not connected through, so one bit of each byte is wrong. Is there a pinout for these from pi->DB25 to help me buzz out the pins?

My first #MARCHintosh casualty 🫡

@theirongiant guided me through some percussive maintenance but he's dead, Jim.

At one point I gained “access” to a second phone line and used dual modems for dial up. Could only do it for a couple of weeks on and off, but it was better than a single modem 😄

Possible. The Performa 476 was very noisy right until packets started passing, sounded similar to a modem during handshaking. First time I’ve heard electrical noise like that from an ‘040.

AppleTalk router crashed and cut the Mac Plus off from the internet. Got the router back online, but it wouldn’t pass traffic. Just as I was about to post about it and take a break, it started working. #MARCHintosh

Greetings from 1Bit, RToD, Superbenk, 68kradio, and others.

You know it’s #MARCHintosh when you walk past the basement stair and wonder what’s wrong with the furnace blower and suddenly remember you’re on #GlobalTalk and someone is printing to your ImageWriter II.

Awesome! The images not loading is happening for me also, probably load, connections are currently maxed out.

Darn! It is slow to load, can take upwards of a full minute. My best guess is that it's timing out. Looks like you might be connected through a proxy, depending on the proxy that could cause the connection to time out quicker than the Plus can respond.