Mac84 (Steve) 🍏

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Vintage computer enthusiast and archivist. EEP! http://www.mac84.net

A large plastic bin filled with Apple magazines, newsletters and marketing/developer documents.
A very loooonng chain of SCSI adapters, terminators and nonsense.
A ton of vintage SCSI cables, adapters, terminators and hardware.
A wall of Western Digital hard drives at an electronics store, from 2016. With prices such as $89 USD for 3TB, etc.
An ImageWriter II printer printing out a color banner.
Multiple copies of ID4 on home media. Not pictured… laserdiscs!
A screenshot of the slop it turned my resume into "PorDolio" ??
Burned up solar lights, charred and deformed.
A still from an episode of The Simpsons. In the picture Dr. Nick is standing and looking over Mr. Smithers, who is laying on the ground next to a crushed bicycle. The caption reads, "Holy smokes! You need booze."
A table with a stack of 2x4 lumber on it, with a big miter saw and some other small tools and things on the table.
A collection of Star Wars home media releases on laserdisc format.
A beautiful huge CRT plugged into a MicroMac SE CatMac
Mac84’s table at VCF East with a lot of Macs on the table.
A very well worn mystery science theater 3000 cling decal on a small car window.
A pick your favorite Apple product page, displaying a LaserWriter II printer on the left and an ImageWriter II printer on the right.
A screenshot of early AOL builds for Macintosh.
A document titled "Aladdin v1.0d3 Release Notes", detailing an America Online for Macintosh.
A screenshot of a list of directories related to AOL for the Macintosh.
An 800k 3.5-inch floppy disk with the label “Apple education and S&L government: installment purchase plant template, April 1988”.
An Apple LaserWriter Pro 630 with a successful print!
A very goopy roller.
Me next to a big rainbow light up Apple logo sign
A Finder directory listing of QuickTime SDK for Mac.
A LaserWriter pro with a printed page.
An Apple LaserWriter 320 that is very, very sad. With toner spilling all over.
A Windows 98 dialog box asking for you to install a Windows 98 CD during a driver installation flow.
A display of a Power Macintosh G4 running Mac OS X "Tiger" showing a PicoIDE hard drive listed in the Disk Utility application.
A distorted CRT image of a Molar Mac with a bad connection.
Ignore the "No data" screen, but this was early testing of a PicoIDE with a Playstation 2.
A shelf full of wonderful laserdiscs.
A measuring stick showing 27 inches of snow.
A desk accessory titled, Inside your Mac.
An error dialog saying that a file is damaged beyond repair.
In System 7, an error when trying to open a Desk Accessory, giving me an error type -50.
An order from JCM-1.com
A DayStar Digital Mac clone with two BlueSCSI units.
Back of the Marathon G3 server.
The inside of a Marathon server with a Power Mac G3 beige logic board inside.
A vintage Macintosh desktop screenshot.
A Marathon server case with a Power Macintosh G3 board inside.
A display of Arduino boards.
Two floppy disks containing QuicKeys v3.0.1.
A fortune cookie with a fortune that reads “take a pause from consuming information”
A get info dialog of the file from Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger".
A Macintosh Quadra 800 and a huge 21-inch Sony Trinitron display on a wooden desk.
An Osborne 1 computer, sealed in the original box, along with boxed software and documentation.
A pair of SyQuest external SCSI drives.
A pair of SyQuest external SCSI drives.
A disk management window on Mac OS showing 7 SCSI devices and a 6 GB SCSI RAID volume made up from 6 of them.
A madman with six BlueSCSI v2 devices plugged into a DayStar Genesis Mac Clone with a very long SCSI cable supported from the ceiling.
A lot of retro Macintosh computers plugged into things.