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When did you get your first Mac?: A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away

How many Macs do you own?: 30ish

What is your website?: http://www.retromaccast.com

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Honey I Shrunk the Computer

My 1/3 scale mac is done!

The Outside

I made the case using white …

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Posted on August 20, 2013 at 8:30pm — 30 Comments

I recently purchased a Raspberry Pi with the idea of making a 1/2 scale model of a Mac Plus. This is one those "Because I can" projects with no practical use (my favorite kind!). The Raspberry pi is a tiny little computer approximately 4" x 2.5" x .5" in size. As tiny as it is it can run lot of very cool apps including some old school emulators, as Derek has shown,…

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Posted on June 30, 2013 at 5:15pm — 4 Comments

Our Quest is at an end.

Yes folks, it's finally finished. The Banana Jr. lives! I have to say that I'm pretty happy with the final results.…

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Posted on October 23, 2010 at 9:44am — 15 Comments

Printerhenge

So this last Saturday, after doing the 3d anniversary podcast, I tackled a project I've been putting off for a while (what a surprise!). What you see in the photo below are five Laserwriter IIs.

These were bought at a school sale several years ago and promptly shoved into an already overburdened garage to await their fate. When you buy stuff at one of these surplus sales you take a risk as you are not allowed to try anything first. At $5 at… Continue

Posted on December 21, 2009 at 8:30pm — 6 Comments

Almost there!

More progress has been made to my new Plastic Pal Who's Fun to Play With (tm). Before painting the front I had to get it ready for the banana logo. About an hour with an exacto knife accomplished this quite nicely.

The next step was to fill in the gaps where parts of the apple shape were larger than the banana. I wrapped my logo in plastic wrap and filled the gaps with epoxy putty.

Tada! Here it is… Continue

Posted on April 11, 2009 at 7:43am — 5 Comments

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At 9:42pm on December 5, 2007, James said…: I hope we can get something going for our listeners here. It's really a great set of tools!

At 7:17am on December 8, 2007, John said…: Woot! I left a comment.

At 5:37pm on December 12, 2007, James said…: We have evidence that John was here! Now let's see if we can get more than just a "woot".

At 7:35pm on December 12, 2007, Braden said…: No friends!? I'll be your friend.

Dig the site, brother

At 4:49pm on December 16, 2007, Wholly Mindless said…: Yo Slacker! At least James should be your friend... Unless of course James is still mad at you for getting him mixed up in this "Podcast" thing.