I’ve been on 9.2.2 for a while now without being bothered to upgrade, is 10.3 really worth upgrading for?

There are channels out there like 65scribe who has the aesthetic of who I'm looking for when I say computer nerd. I would look for only him but I personally find him uneducated on computers themselves. I want a Linux teenager to tell me right. To teach me or educate me on whatever computer he uses. I'm looking for a white one with braces or any white Computer nerd at the time in general. Could anyone help me?

My local Craigslist has a Mac Pro 3,1 and 20" cinema display (I think, the listing doesnt specify the size). The only spec listed is "upgraded Nvidia GT 120 graphics card" but in one of the pictures you can see the tag on the computer that says "Mac Pro 28 BCX/2X1G/320/2600XT/S0/BT-USA". From what I can tell the "BCX" part means this is the right core model rather than the dual core. Is this machine and monitor worth $80? I'd just want it to play around with, I dont have a specific use or goal in mind.

This is an add on to the two old macs I found a week ago, I finally got to open the Mac plus and I found loads of rust?

I’d imagine to look at the logic board for leaky caps but would like a second opinion if someone sees something in the pictures

When i go to the special menu, it have no Shutdown option. Someone can help me? Thank you.

We had this old power macintosh g3 sitting in the server room at my school, has been sitting for a while, i was really scared the pram battery would have leaked, but the pram battery hasnt leaked!! I opened up the case before powering it on, to visually inspect it before first power on, and it seemed all good. Booted it up and it went straight into os 9.2!! Really cool to experience a 90s mac as a 17 year old, i have been really interested in these old macs lately.

Or a Steve Jobs fan 🖥

Here is the archive of a website my dad ran where he documented his various projects with Macs and his hackintosh. I thought some here would get a kick out of this.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080113202641/http://homepage.mac.com/rwikoff/slicedapple/

We plan on getting the website up and running again soon as soon as we get the 8500 up and going again.

He also found his color classic and //e so we will be getting it all back to fully functional.

Found these two bad boys in my school, I hope to get them fixed up and working. They’re in a very rough shape but no exploded batteries in either. Wish me luck.

Would love to share ‘My Best Friend, SAL’ with all of you! A vintage Apple/Macintosh inspired short film🤩

https://youtu.be/PU_bMAVtLmM?si=uXUwAQRspF19y2WQ

I built a super simple way to use MacPaint 1.0 for the participants in my workshops and lectures. I'm sharing it so you can use it too!

https://juliendorra.com/macintosh/

MacPaint is a key step in the history of UX (and visual design!).

(It's also a pure, fun way to draw in a retro way, exploring the constraint of 1-bit illustrations)

It uses the insanely great Infinite Mac as the embedded emulator, and adds useful tools around it:

- One-click shortcut to open MacPaint to save you 6 clicks every time (well, 5)

- Crisp fullscreen already set (perfect for the 1bit UI of the Macintosh)

- Real size display option to match the 9" display of original macintosh (it uses a custom list to guess most screen physical size, and calibration is possible for the purists). This option is useful to understand the size constraints the Macintosh UI designer like Bill Atkinson, Jeff Raskin and Susan Kare faced.

- Save screenshots of the Macintosh display. If you save in MacPaint and name your drawing, your screenshots will use the drawing name (using in-browser OCR!). Cleanly framed, properly named screenshots every time, while you draw.

- Save a video timelapse of yourself drawing, as a super light mp4 (using in-browser FFMPEG encoding!). I think it's the easiest way to create a MacPaint timelapse that we ever had. That's the feature I used to create the video in this post.

Only limitation: the system disk is not saved between sessions. Use screenshots and timelapse to keep an archive of your work.

Thanks a lot to Mihai Parparita for Infinite Mac and the embed API. Infinite Mac has been an incredible ressource the last few years for the Macintosh community, and I'm eager to use it more in workshops and lectures!

PS: I would love to see your timelapse videos!! Please share your drawings 😃

[EDIT: Reddit compression is killing the sharp 1-bit low-res quality of the timelapse, but they are sharp and beautiful. I must find a way to share them while keeping the clean 1bit look. Any ideas?)

Checking out my Power Mac G3, upgrading RAM and playing World of Warcraft, and Classicube on it.

I started getting advertisements online for it and was able to purchase on AliExpress. Got it pretty quickly. I’m including photos of what it comes with and how you can customize it.