Mac84 (Steve) 🍏

Feelin’ SCSI? 💖 Then this new video is just for you! Learn the basics of the SCSI interface, the do’s and don’ts, and some weird tricks to keep your SCSI bus and devices happy. Repost this to avoid SCSI voodoo!🤞 youtu.be/_rDUhK6yMUI

Let's recap the remainder of my Pioneer Mac Clone! youtube.com/live/tNSgBQi...

I have a rare Pioneer PowerPC Mac Clone, but sadly the power supply gave up the ghost. ⚡👻 Let's see if I can fix it... 🤞😩 Live stream starting soon! youtube.com/live/wFPMLCX...

Fully ready to make some EXTREME 90’s graphics! 🎨

The ImageWriter II is shaped in such a way where you can't easily stack them. Being a connoisseur of these fine printers... I had the *need* to stack them... using scrap wood of course. Presenting the JankPrintShelf 1.0! 🖨️🪵 I hope @actionretro.bsky.social and @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social approve!

NEWLY RESTORED AT @archive.org: Part of a series on industrial robotics, this #filmstrip discusses the challenges of deciding to implement robots in a factory. https://uncom.cc/1uk9h

The talk I gave at #teardown2026, Creating Up to Date Hardware for Out of Date Tech is now up on the Crowd Supply YouTube channel! Join me as I talk about what makes old tech cool, and why open source hardware makes it even cooler. youtu.be/S2pVAZUPD6o

Formlabs sent me a Form Studio 1 resin printer to test. It's $699 (compared to Form 4, it's almost 4x cheaper!), and it prints well. But I also talked to their engineers a bit about value engineering, and why they dropped the Raspberry Pi in this model: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l9x...

I'm dying laughing at how the cat has conformed to her flower shaped bed today

This is magic and super cool!! Well done ❤️

As one of the showrunners of Vintage Computer Festival Midwest, my responsibility is all of the presentations, including making sure they get onto YouTube. 27 talks, over 23 hours of video. They start going live tomorrow. youtu.be/yAlKatCoV7U?...

Let's take a look at this Power Computing Mac CLONE with a... G3 upgrade inside?? 😮 Join the LIVE stream starting in 15 min! youtube.com/live/qf10CGh...

I watched this, so now you all do too... 😵

Aw yeah it's back to 1996 on LGR youtu.be/o0wDkCp3Eu4 Checking out the graphics card Sierra On-Line ever sold: the Screamin' 3D! That alone makes it a notable oddity, but it's also a Rendition Verite V1000, which can provide some awesome results!...and a slew of shortcomings and mid-90s quirkiness

Final case design for the GS-DVI just dropped, from our good friend Jason Merrill. Digital video for your Apple IIgs, coming soon. jcm-1.com/product/gs...

I found this old VHS case, but sadly the tape inside was something else. 😕 An episode of The Simpsons from 2003, followed by a long recording of the music channel “MusicMatch USA” (later renamed to Fuse)… at least the box is neat! 📼

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

Missed any part of last night's unboxing event? Watch the replay on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0mEHnXUSrA

LIVE TONIGHT 7PM EDT: Look at all these #filmstrip donations! Join me and Mrs. Ephemera as we open them tonight on YouTube and Twitch. Then I'll start getting them digitized and uploaded to @archive.org. Please share this and join us tonight! https://uncom.cc/2

Talent is a lie, just do it anyway. 💪 @ronscompvids.bsky.social

Due to the recent @nytimes profile on my filmstrip preservation work, several donors have found me and offered more stuff to save. This is all the stuff I've gotten in the past month. My wife and I will be opening these donations live tomorrow night. Please share & join us! https://uncom.cc/w3gwv

What? A new modem? In 2026? And for classic Macs? YES!

Get them while the gettin's good tinkerdifferent.com/threads/newl...

Woo-hoo! More Macs supported on the PicoIDE!

BIG DATA DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW THIS ONE SIMPLE TRICK...

I'm starting a homelab festival (you're invited): www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I0p...

SPECIAL LIVE SHOW WED SEP 30 7PM EDT UNBOXING FILMSTRIP DONATIONS! I've received hundreds of filmstrips because of the NYT article! Join Mrs. Ephemera and me on Wednesday when we open them! More info: https://uncom.cc/w3gwv

My VCF Midwest video is out! youtu.be/STZGsqSh8GE

I’m in this video in a couple spots! Clint caught me dropping off some Macs and a tape drive enclosure on the free pile, and later he stops by my table where my 486 with PicoIDE and PicoGUS is playing the intro to Return to Zork VERY LOUDLY

New LGR travel vlog! youtu.be/w-XF5j6x0hs The 2026 Vintage Computer Festival Midwest experience as it was for my brother Luke and I during that weekend in September. I drove directly to the show this time, so no Chicago city stuff unfortunately. But I ended up seeing a lot more of the show itself!

Let's try to repair the bad serial port on this IBM PS/2 Model 50z. You're not going to want to miss the gut-wrenching pain from the hard drive noise in this thing! Maybe we can get a BlueSCSI working in it if the drive is fully toast. Today (Sep 21) at 1PM EDT. #IBMPS2 youtube.com/live/oHBryq4...

New Podcast Episode ! This time we explore Vintage Computer Festival Midwest! youtu.be/LamG412IQgA

Mad props to @museumjoe.bsky.social for the awesome BlueSCSI drive that has brought the club's traveling Macintosh Classic 2 back to life! 🥳

My good pal @ronscompvids.bsky.social is hosting a fun chat TONIGHT about the recent VCF Midwest show. Join me, Ron, and a bunch of awesome folks as we chat about what we saw, what we took home, and more! This stream will also be simulcast to my channel, so tune in! 🍿 youtube.com/live/vpwQg26...

I flew nearly 2,200 miles from Seattle to Asheville, NC! Join me for retro arcades, pinball, vinyl records, physical media, BBQ, coffee, Dolly Parton, cicadas, and a massive game/computer collection with Clint from LGR. Welcome to Asheville! ➡️ youtu.be/3sEu1nEBZDY

I picked up a bunch of cool floppies and disks at VCF Midwest... let's archive them and see if we find anything interesting! Live stream starting in 15 minutes... 👀 youtube.com/live/9kcLgkv...

Finally met Steve from @mac84.bsky.social! This was his Power Mac 7100/80, with an Apple developer HDD plugged in.. It has all sorts of things including System 7.0 beta disk images, which install normally on a Mac. Also has System 7 internal release notes too! 😮

@ronscompvids.bsky.social showing off DREAMM, a bespoke emulator for LucasArts/LucasFilm and Lucas Learning games, on a Macintosh TV! dreamm.aarongiles.com

I posted a 68K Macintosh "game shell" on Github if anyone wanted to dabble in writing a vintage Mac sprite-based game. github.com/EngineersNee... Included, a beta of "Flappy Toaster" (a game-shell demonstrator I threw together). #vintagemac #retro_gaming #vcfmw

Here's a brief video taste of VCF Midwest from this weekend! 😍 youtube.com/shorts/TTCJl...

And just like that… it’s all packed up and VCFMW is over… 🥲 I miss it already!!

Exciting random photographic blurs of joy from Sunday morning at VCFMW! ❤️

Veronica explains why Kate joined her in crashing Ron and Steve’s ugly Mac presentation. #vcfmw @maccy.me

Ka-boom!! 💥 Who would have guessed a tiny tantalum capacitor would make such a large firework?

Oh boy, it’s almost time for VCF Midwest! ⏰ #VCFMW I’ll be in the D1 table section near a bunch of other cool people, stop by and say hi tomorrow!

Stewart Cheifet, the creator and longtime host of "Computer Chronicles," died at the end of 2025. Earlier this year I published a podcast detailing his life and career. You can read a transcript of that podcast here. www.computerchronicles.blog/transcript-r...

Ok I'm officially putting out the call for help, Wonderbread (my prius) is acting up and I think it's unsafe to drive it to Chicago. Looking for folks driving through Pittsburgh to #VCFMW. I will need a little bit of cargo space.