Notices by Nanoraptor (nanoraptor@bitbang.social), page 6

Large capacitors should be handled with care.

PowerBook 100 with Retina Display

The singular perfect expression of the idea.

Touch Bar with Control Strip.

@foone Bugger - is it just one of those kinda unreliable technologies that never worked itself out?

I'm lucky enough to have four quicktakes and a 2001 mavica - all working (though the images from the 100/150s are only a technical 'work')

About as 80s as a tech ad gets - from Omni Magazine, July 1989 for an early Sony Mavica.

@darkling @foone foone has inspired me probably more than the other way.

The short-lived optical parallel port brought numerous advantages to the interconnectivity table. Advantages included small size for the era, transfers free of electrical noise, the speed of parallel transfer, and the convenient ability to debug protocols just by having a look.

The First IBM PC, the 5150, was released closer to the start of World War II than to today.

Many know that in the original Terminator, 6502 assembly scrolls over the display from the T-800’s POV. But in Terminator 3: Rise of the machines when Arnie reboots, a different list flicks past - it’s a list of Mac OS 9 extensions. The T-850 is clearly a pre-G5 PowerPC based Terminator.

The Time Traveler's Desk

IBM ThinkBoy.

It is now safe to switch off your consciousness.

@PhenomX6 It's surprising what a board can survive when it's not battery damage! I had a IIcx that'd been through a flood, full of silt, and had a mouse nest built inside it with all the pee that entails. Washed it off and it fired right up.

Alas, it suffered an ADB failure many years later. RIP.

@PhenomX6 the bit I dislike about the little lithiums (though they’re not soldered on thankfully!) is they can let go and boil & spatter their innards suddenly. Rest In Peace se/30. Especially the late 80s early 90s ones - in the most desirable models of course!

iPod, with clockwheel

Mac Studio Server

Do you have even a minor retro collection? Or some older machines still running? The batteries inside them, especially 1/2AA lithiums, do tend to leak and destroy everything in their bubbling corrosive wake. Check for them and remove them all.

Inkjet

USB Type A Nanofloppy for covert data exfiltration