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Not as cool but if you really want to run System 7.5 on an e-ink display you can already run a Mac emulator on an ebook reader today. https://imgur.com/a/kJRCR

• wk_end 5y ago
  You kidding? That's incredibly cool. What are the refresh rates like?
  • opencl 5y ago
    A lot of e-ink devices just run Android so it's relatively easy to run whatever you want on them. Refresh rate depends on how much of the screen is updating at once. Scrolling a whole page is pretty bad, updating a small region is reasonably quick. Some devices have an 'A2 mode' that makes it somewhat faster by just doing black/white instead of grayscale.
    • cmrdporcupine 5y ago
      I mean, classic Macs didn't exactly have turbo charged refresh anyways. Yes, things like scrolling chunks of text is probably faster on an actual first-gen Mac than an e-Ink screen, but they weren't really... turbo for graphics rendering.
• tomxor 5y ago
  That is awesome :D I know it should work... it's too easy to make work today, but I can't help imagine being back in the 90s and showing someone classic MacOS running on a tablet. It would blow their mind. Also the e-ink display running classic is very reminiscent of one of the early LCD displays in this old thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Portable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Portable
• tambourine_man 5y ago
  This is amazing. Do you have more info on how to do this?
• kkylin 5y ago
  That's awesome! Now, if only one could find a working 3.5" floppy drive to read all those old disks...