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Racintosh Plus – Rackmount Mac Plus
- tantalic 1y agoThey had me at "4 months of work just to make a stupid pun."
- drob518 1y agoBrilliant. Got my old Macintosh Plus out a few months ago and flipped it on and unfortunately that let out some of the “magic smoke” that keeps all electronics running. I think it’s an electrolytic cap that blew. Just too old. Will have to find time to refurb it.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoAlways look at caps and look for/test corrosion shorts before energizing old gear. Caps are easy fixes if you can get the board out. Use quality electrolytic caps if bothering to go through the trouble, or I'd see if modern ceramic alternatives exist that will essentially last forever. (Don't get me started on how (vintage) tantalums suck.)
- accrual 1y agoApt username :)
- drob518 1y agoYea, I should have done that, but I just flipped the switch. My bad. Yea, I’ll see what’s available. It’s a project that I probably won’t get to for a while, unfortunately. Plus, I don’t even think I own a soldering iron anymore, which is ironic for an old hardware engineer.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoTry to fix it first. It may only have damaged a few components.
- johnklos 1y agoI've preserved a number of machines by building them in to rackmount cases. It never occurred to me to make a faux product out of them. This is amazing! The graphics and detail are wonderful.
- henry700 1y agoNaming it Racintosh instead of Rackintosh is... Definitely one of the decisions of all time
- OhioMan2943 1y agoI can't lie I love a good rack
- lioeters 1y agoI'm partial to the tosh but to each their own
- throwawaysoxjje 1y agoIt’s not ‘Mackintosh’ tho
- pmarreck 1y agoI lost my beloved Mac Plus, the computer that made me become a programmer, because of COVID. Shortly before COVID hit, I fired it up to see if it still worked, and within like a minute, a certain capacitor (that is a common and well-known failure point) fried, and it was dead. I brought it to a computer repair store to fix, and then COVID and its lockdowns hit. When I returned months later to see what was up after my phone calls weren't returned, turns out the whole place had shut down and I to this day have no idea where my Mac Plus went. :/
- wwweston 1y agoSounds like your Mac Plus died with covid (and really irresponsible customer property management), but not from covid…
- dylan604 1y agoout of curiosity, did you really think the GP thought COVID killed the computer which is an inanimate object that required this level of pedantry?
- elzbardico 1y agoHe was making a pun on the common practice during COVID of attributing death in death to certificates to COVID whenever the patient presented a positive PCR test, no matter the real cause of death, the actual existence of COVID disease in clinical terms or the existence of more preeminent factors in the death. This usually happened due mostly as a result of federal policy of paying out extra money for hospitals based on the number of covid patients, thus creating an incentive of diagnosing anyone with a positive PCR test as sick from covid, whether they presented actual clinical symptoms of the disease or not.
- breakingcups 1y agoThat seems made up, do you have a credible source for that?
- whartung 1y agoNo...no Programmer switch. Close, they wired the Reset button! But, no Programmer switch. It's very hard to contain my disappointment. Bridge too far I guess.
- abstractbeliefs 1y agoMagic/More Magic switch required.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoAnd it should be water-cooled and support overclocking. :)
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- sigma02 1y agoIt's crucial to label, in large, letters, "BUTTONS" and "MICRO-SD SLOT", in case you forget later.
- kiddico 1y agoAlready bought the label maker, may as well use that bad boy.
- EvanAnderson 1y agoMy thoughts exactly. In my experience the first label should be for the label maker itself. Just continue with that mindset.
- sigma02 1y agoA friend once got so carried away with the label-maker that he labeled everything in my house, including my cat.
- EvanAnderson 1y agoApparently the poem[0] isn't up-to-date with technology. The name shown on the label should be on the list. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naming_of_Cats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naming_of_Cats
- jacobgkau 1y agoI zoomed into the photo to check that out after you pointed it out. I initially assumed it would've been placeholders that were labeled, since writing `DISPLAY` on your screen doesn't make sense, but the buttons and MicroSD slot are obviously there. The text for the MicroSD slot extends past the edge of the front surface, though, so it's not actually physically labeled-- just labeled in the image with a perspective effect. I assume it's because the buttons are a bit hard to see (and it's not obvious the display is a display without it being turned on).
- prewett 1y agoOh fun memories! "Crystal Quest" and "Beyond Dark Castle", which I played on an SE are still some of my favorite games.
- lproven 1y agoCrystal Quest was a legit all-time classic game. I remain amazed that, nearly 40 years after I first played it, nothing else has ever reproduced its precise control mechanics. It's already 25 years or so ago but in the early 20-teens I fixed up a Mac Classic II and got it online on the Internet, running both System 6 and MacOS 7.6.1, both fully tricked out with every possible enhancement. A great learning and revision exercise, and still a lovely OS to work with in the 21st century. But the most fun I had on it was playing CQ...
- burnt-resistor 1y agoI love this so much. Space saved, hardware hackage, and improved with modern substitutes. I kinda wished it had a panoply of external SCSI devices like a floppy drive, a CD ROM, and a ZIP drive (needs driver v.4.2 ) for good measure.
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- reaperducer 1y agoReminds me very much of my college project where my roommates and I repackaged a Commodore 64 into an IBM PC form factor, complete with external keyboard. Difficulty: College was in a town without a Radio Shack, and none of us had cars.
- rzzzt 1y agoI think I've seen such a conversion, and am now frantically searching for it but with all the wrong keywords it seems! There was also a "shucked" 1541 PCB and drive fitted in the top section of a tower case and IIRC in the post I've read they have served all power demands either from a standard PSU or an off-the-shelf power supply module.
- lproven 1y agoDana "Nanoraptor" Sibera designed a tower C64. In an ideal world, that's how a PC-cased C64 would look, complete with its keyboard: https://bsky.app/profile/nanoraptor.danamania.com/post/3k47gfvs2ce2i https://bsky.app/profile/nanoraptor.danamania.com/post/3k47g... Better still... someone built it for real: https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/1iqth07/1_of_1_c64t_commodore_64_tower_spotted_at_vcf/ https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/1iqth0...
- ForOldHack 1y agoI wish I still had my Mac Plus. Upgraded from a 512Ke, 40Mb drive, and a Radius 020 accelerator with 68881. Still limited to 4Mb, And I ran 7.0.1 and 6.0.8. Any testing with The two screen panning programs? Stepping out II? I played Spaceward Ho! to death on it.