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#VintageMacintosh

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ǝʌɐp

On a whim I tried switching to Monego (a derivative of Apple's Monaco font) in my editor/terminal. I was shocked by how legible it remains at small sizes compared to other fonts I've used.

This all makes sense of course seeing as how Monaco dates back to the original Mac. There weren't that many pixels to work with back then. Still, amazed at how many things old-school Apple got so so right.

#VintageMacintosh#fonts
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David Nelson

So I have this iMac G4 (PowerMac4,2) and I need to decide what OS versions to put on it.

Obviously I’ll do OS 9 for classic things, and 10.4.11 since that’s the latest it can run. But what about any in-between versions?

Thinking about lesser known considerations like “you need version Y to read this particular filesystem” or “version Z is the last to support this AppleTalk feature”. #VintageApple #VintageMac #VintageMacintosh #RetroComputing

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David Nelson

Tonight I picked up an iMac G4 for $60! I always admired this design but never owned one.

This unit is the original 700MHz model with Combo drive. It powers on and everything seems to work.

The seller said it was in an abandoned storage unit that he purchased.

There’s next to no data on it but judging by Safari bookmarks the original owner was a fly fishing fan.

There’s a small iTunes library which I’ll back up before wiping it.

Image of an Apple iMac G4 computer with a flat screen and a rounded base, accompanied by two transparent speakers. The screen is turned off and there is an Apple logo on the front of the base. It is resting on a wooden table.
#VintageApple#VintageMac#VintageMacintosh
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Micheal :devterm:

@robdaemon I figured out how to get fancy custom and color icons on a Netatalk share.

1. Create a new folder on a Macintosh
2. Update that folders icon with what you want using Get Info
3. Mount your Netatalk file share
4. Copy the folder with the custom icon into your Netatalk File Share
5. Stop the netatalk service nad remove "legacy icon" from your afp.conf
6. Move you original netatalk root, eg mv /mnt/afpshare /mnt/afpshare.orig
7. Move the new custom icon folder to your root, eg mv /mnt/afpshare/customicon/ /mnt/afpshare/
8. Move everything into the new folder, eg mv /mnt/afpshare.orig/* /mnt/afpshare
9. Restart netatalk service

Hereops an example showing the folder "Dropbox" with a custom icon running off my Netatalk raspberrypi. The trick is the Icon files must be created by a Macintosh and you can't move them around on a Linux filesystem for some reason. By making a folder you copied from a Mac the root it preserves all the magic bits needed to show the custom icon.

#MARCHintosh #vintagemacintosh #retrocomputing #netatalk

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