Search results

Crazy that's it's been almost two years since I last posted here! I haven't went anywhere though. Still loving my vintage computers (Macs and PCs). I did find this nice little Mid 2009 20" iMac recently at Goodwill. Was untested but ended up working fine! I had wanted one of these early...

No idea, but I had an extremely hard time finding much information about it. I didn’t see a place where it could even be purchased either. I am extremely grateful that @aladds shared a copy of it though!

Wow, it’s been over a year since I’ve posted here! I’ve finally gotten a MessagePad running NOS 2.0, something I’ve been looking hard for for the last month or so. I recently pulled my MessagePad 100 back out and it has inspired me to start collecting more Newtons. I found this really clean...

The disk image in that zip file contained the full version! Thank you very much! My MP120 is very happy now. 😄

Will give them a try! Thanks!

Does anyone know where the full version of Newtpaint can be had? The demo is readily available, but it’s pretty useless since it expires after a while. Thanks!

What’s the best/easiest method for viewing image files (bmp, gif, etc) on Newton OS 2.0 (not 2.1) devices? I can’t really find a straightforward way to do it and I think I could save myself some time by asking here. I found a media viewer (forget the name) but it seems to require several other...

I quick search in the completed ebay listing shows two, one that sold for $29.99 and another for $49.95, so that’s probably the realistic going prices. $49.95 certainly isn’t “cheap,” though $29.99 seems like a good deal. As @dkjones96 said, just keep a look out. You’ll find a deal on one...

That’s definitely NOT good. Personally, I’d probably just replace it. Analog boards for the SE and SE/30 aren’t hard to come by, so it might be easiest to get a whole extra analog board to harvest a flyback from.

That’s really cool! I think I remember reading about these years ago. As for the display, it’s definitely a plasma. The electroluminescent displays were a very bright yellow, while plasmas were always orange. For example, the DynaMac used an electroluminescent display.

Yeah, that “shadowing” on an active matrix display is a classic symptom of bad caps. That display should be 100% fine once recapped. Another symptom sometimes is the display looking washed-out until the unit warms up (I have seen this on some old Compaqs before).

What @Daniël Oosterhuis said above is 100% correct. It is somewhat unfortunate though, because a Bondi clamshell would look killer! 

It can bend the thin pieces of metal that the heads are attached to, causing a cylinder misalignment, therefore rendering the drive useless. It’s not a given that it will happen, but it’s not impossible, so letting them clamp together is best avoided.

That’s pretty cool. I’ll have to check this out eventually. I like the early Microsoft software for the Macintosh. :)  

That’s too cool! Thanks for posting! Great to know at least one of those still exists.

It’s vintage item. It’s worth what someone is willing to pay for it. :)  Prices can be all over the map. Either way, that is a pretty cool clone. Reminds me slightly of ‘90s Compaq Presarios, which I quite like. :)  

That could be it. Probably should have used a vintage Mac and Stuffit instead. :)  

Those are 256kbit so technically 512k total, but the Mac will still see 128k unless the board has been modified.

Isn’t this the same Classic you had to bypass the ground pin on the plug to make work? I’d say you have a severe grounding issue somewhere.

I was actually referring to ScottBarret’s Mac SE prototype, sorry! But still, thanks for those pics too! :)