Nick Melnick

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Generating tech debt at speed yet innovating forward. Tech Leadership @ Jack Henry, Retro @ Home. He/him.

Screenshot of a text based tool to query the serial diagnostics of a 68K Macintosh. It shows "sixtyeight 1.0.0 - Macintosh II or SE/30", and a list of critical tests. At the botton is an activity log showing debugging output of a tool.
Microsoft is inviting me to "Upgrade your plan" using more pixels than my first computer.
A silver metal case with an Audi logo on it, which happens to be a backup camera control module. One side is obviously corroded and rusted.
A mobile web site called wtf emulating a hot dog stand theme from Windows 3.
A CRT monitor showing the Amiga Workbench desktop. The model in the lower left says AS 5S, but zoomed out, just looks like ASSS
An Apple Lisa computer, powered on, showing the Lisa 7/7 3.1 OS with a ProFile window open and showing application templates
An Apple Lisa 2 (and probably Lisa 1) motherboard, cleaned up, but missing the slot for I/O.
A closeup of an Apple Lisa motherboard, tinged in green, with a heavily damaged slot in the foreground
Two Apple Lisa computers stacked on one another, powered off as they are both broken.
A green phosphor monitor displaying “Apple ][“ (Apple 2) on the top line
A memory test running on a Commodore Amiga 4000, showing 386mb of total memory
A green screen monitor connected to a Commodore B128, displaying the directory listing of an attached disk
An Apple III computer displaying a menu interface called “Selector ///“
An IBM Model F keyboard from a 5155, keys covered in grime.
View from the rear of an SUV showing 6 bins and a box.
A close up of the VCFMW table map highlighting Z24, Z25, and Z26.
A circuit board with a LCD display and a ZIF socket and a chip installed in the ZIP socket. The display shows “Checking… Detected Type: 514402 1Mx4-SC”
A SGI Indigo2 Impact on its right side, next to a lcd monitor, keyboard, and mouse. The screen and computer are powered up, and the IRIX desktop is displayed.
A video screenshot of an A/UX desktop with an about window, Finder window, and CommandShell prompt, running the Kaleidoscope theme manager for classic Mac OS with the BeOS theme.
A video screenshot of an A/UX desktop with an about window, Finder window, and CommandShell prompt, running the Kaleidoscope theme manager for classic Mac OS with the Scherzo theme.
Screenshot of text saying: To help identify and reduce scams and fraud, Meta may use technology to review Marketplace messages. After a divider, the text continues: You can't message this account. It may help to add them as a friend on Facebook.
An oscilloscope showing a rapidly flipping signal from nearly 0 to 5.36 volts.
A Macintosh SE powered on with a checkerboard display
A Macintosh SE logic board with components missing and some visible corrosion. This is compared to a previous photo in this thread with significant battery leakage.
A Macintosh SE logic board with an exploded battery, a ton of rust, and… yellow stuff.
A Stearns PC with a white phosphor monitor on top, keyboard in front, showing a boot screen in text.
A screen capture of a Commodore B128, in amber text on a black background. Text is: commodore basic 128, v4.0 ready. There is a small BASIC program on the screen that repeats "cbm-ii!" over and over.
A Commodore Amiga 1000 with a 1080 monitor on top and a sidecar AlfaPower hard disk unit hanging off the right, keyboard slid out in front. The machine is powered on to the Workbench 1 desktop in the classic blue background with white foreground.
A nearly empty metal case for a Commodore Amiga 3000T, containing only the skeleton, a fan, a speaker, and a Quantum hard disk.
A screenshot of the Amiga Kickstart boot screen, showing a purple background, 3.1 ROM, version 40.68, with a Commodore-Amiga copyright from 1993.
A screenshot of the DiagROM System Info display, showing a valid ROM checksup, chips present, and a CPU present. The CPU is reporting as a 68EC30, which is incorrect, and there are intermittent wrong-coloured pixels on the screen.
The front of a Commodore Amiga 3000T computer, in very dirty and yellowed condition.
A Commodore 64 “breadbin” case alone, with a silver label “commodore” and “64”
A Commodore 64 326298 board with eight ceramic gold top 4164 RAM ICs
A Commodore Amiga 4000 desktop with an Amiga 2000 keyboard and a ViewSonic E70f 17” monitor showing the Amiga Workbench desktop, with a retroish Miami Vice-ish motif.
The corner of a box, printed “Power Mac G5 Quad 64-bit desktop computer”
The Amiga Kickstart 47.102 / 3.2 boot screen with a red background as no boot devices are attached.
A Stearns computer with two 5.25” drives, a yellow keyboard, and a pretty solid amount of surface rust.
Get The Picture board game
Screenshot of DiagROM running on an Amiga 4000, showing a successful query of system info, including a 68040 CPU and 2048k of chip RAM
DiagROM screen on an Amiga, showing the main menu of options, reporting a CPU of 68???, and only 1.5mb of Chip RAM.
Light schematic of components (ACC 2168, ACC 3221SP, RP22, RP23) connected to the 74F151 at U49 on the Packard Bell PB410 motherboard.
A Commodore Amiga 1200, powered on and playing Space Debris on DeliTracker
The desktop interface for IRIX, running on an unpictured SGI Indigo 2 workstation
A zoomed in shot of the branding on a Macintosh IIfx computer
An Apple IIgs computer at the GS/OS desktop, an artist rendition of an anglerfish on the desktop.
A LCD display showing a bitmap of an Apple III computer, as drawn by an Apple III
A Zenith Z-Station LC 575 all in one PC displaying the opening landscape of the Second Reality demo by Future Crew
An Apple III motherboard that also happens to be a raging a-hole