Notices by AmigaLove (amigalove@mastodon.social), page 15

@robdaemon @amigalove honestly, in my own experience I did get the keyboard, but I almost never use it. it kind of pulls me out of the place. I wanna be when I use the reMarkable in the first place. But I got it out of curiosity and I have used it a few times just not regularly.

@robdaemon @amigalove for notetaking on an electronic device in my opinion, nothing beats it. Did you get the keyboard for it, too? The desktop software is good, too, and syncs/integrates well.

The trick for me is to create multiple notebooks at the root level to keep my work and other interests organized.

@robdaemon I got in on the original reMarkable, so I have a lifetime free account. I absolutely love the device and upgraded to the two last year. For taking notes it’s changed the way I do things, and frankly, I believe it’s helped my memory.

I absolutely LOVE the look of this blank CD. Ironically, first thing I put on it was some old Adobe software from 1994. But, still! I really should make a music CD next.

(Yes, I have a very nice Denon CD player I got during lockdown that I use regularly, take that.)

#retro #music #CD

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oYvHPKg_DXI

@teajaygrey @amigalove yours is *much* better than I could ever do. I wonder if AI could assist with this task some day soon?

That's the signpost up ahead - your next stop…

#Amiga #retrocomputing

Arrrrr, don’t tell Adobe, laddie, but their “old” software does 95% of all the things you’ll ever need or want to do. More or less.

An’ no one’s pillaging or plundering, matey. These goods were found floating on the high seas, fair and square. 🏴☠️

#MARCHintosh #retrocomputing

You have to be careful with hand scanners. Go too fast and you might exaggerate certain features your subject.

Slow hand. Easy touch.

#retrocomputing

@wiebow Hah! OK you can be my first customer. ;)

@thomasfuchs Side note, I used to LOVE going to "The Marshall Store" in Point Reyes and having barbequed oysters there overlooking the water and beautiful natural scenery. One of the best chill things to do in that neck of the woods. Once did an epic bike ride with one of my best friends over there and we ended at The Marshall Store as a reward. Gorgeous place.

@slaine @amigalove thanks, man. By today I should everything all set up to recreate the CMD logos on the Q whilst listening to OMD and chillin’.

Are you *sure* you want me to tell you how CMD's print assets were created?

MORE: https://www.amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?t=2571

#Marchintosh

@dillera Also, I timed it. Mine takes about 23 seconds to boot, and 30 total for the desktop image to appear. So I think your blinged out SE30 wins by about 7 seconds. However, my challenge was to modern computers. 😎

Don't make me go flick the power button on my C64! LOL

@dillera I LOVE that setup. Reminds me of the Mac I used in highschool in the late 80s for making our school paper. We had 2: "Mother" like the computer from Alien, and another that was mainly for typing up our stories. They were networked. And Mother had a hard drive like the one you have in the video. IIRC it was a staggering 20MB. I was a C64 kid at the time and told myself the games were 100x better on my rig. But I knew the Mac was the future for professional getting work done.

Number 1 cause of premature monitor tray droopage (PMHD): improper lifting technique.

Number 2: improper shipping practices (i.e. a shocking lack of logical packing materials).

Number 3: when stored on the *floor* the tray is eventually kicked.

Don't let this happen to you. Again.

#retrocomputing

@dillera In fact, this machine boots so fast that when I got the video card in 2020 I had to put a statement in the startup sequence to wait an additional second or 2 because the video card couldn't initialize fast enough for the machine before the machine tried to hit it. After making it Wait, the card had time to "wake up". But it's still pretty quick. The extra couple of seconds gives me a razor crisp 1280x1024.

@dillera 2 SCSI2SD cards off the internal SCSI with microSD. The boot card is a lowly 512MB. The 2nd card has a 2GB microSD (I don't bling out the data side of things like a lot of people because I rarely need SO much space).

It also has way more RAM than makes sense, over a .5GB, and even a ridiculous RTG graphics card with HDMI out. If I'd had my SCSI CD-ROM turned on the bootup would've been slightly faster as I wouldn't have gotten the error.

And a 50Mhz 060 😎

It's nuts. But fun!

How fast does your modern desktop/laptop boot?

Let’s race. Mine is from 1990, 34 years ago. Go!

#amiga #retrocomputing #90s

@faxmodem hah!

@metin I want to go back in time and be you.