Enjoy your space heater. The G5 is something else

Well now I want to see a benchmark that pits the Wii U against a PowerMac G5 👀

Cool. I just thrifted an iMac G5 the other day, excited about its PowerPC architecture, and I while I was driving back, I was wondering if the Wii U was the most powerful PowerPC computer.

Yes I need dimensions, also HQ photos would be a godsent

Shoulda also called it WOW64 for the lulz

Reminds me of seamlessly running win16 stuff in OS/2

Or not-so-seamlessly trying to do the reverse, lol

Developer is very responsive in trying to get a particular program working for you. Reminds me of seamlessly running win16 stuff in OS/2

Haven't seen em but they are hiding in a 2'x4' closet so won't be hard to find again hehe, did you need some?

Hey have you found them?

I'm definitely going to have to look into this. I have a bunch of old Pocket PCs and I wonder if they would have a similar, simple solution.

I've of printed plenty of things through irda, but it would be neat to actually hook them up with a physical connection not to mention that would give me a wider variety of printers to choose from.

I didn't even realize the original existed until I found this one at goodwill yesterday. I always figured the II just meant it was for the apple II not that it was the second one

The Imagewriter is a serial printer, so I just plugged the dock directly into the printer with a db25-de9 adapter

The original ImageWriter! I feel like these are much rarer than the ImageWriter IIs.

This is really cool! I only have a Palm TX with the USB sync cable so I'm curious how you accomplished this?

I assume Palm is it attached to some parallel port adapter or something?

Zooming in to understand that clear, plastic paper guide, I feel like it's a miracle it's survived intact all these years.

We used to print to the college printers using infrared from our psion pdas. Bypassed the printer accounting software, so printing for free!

Good times.

your couch doesn’t look very comfortable

You have the silent hill town fall printer

I would have liked to have seen OpenBoot with Forth resurrected, rather than coreboot/libreboot. It would have been nice to have hardware-independant drivers bundled with hardware and available at boot stage. I still have a SunFire V210 (I think) sitting in my rack. Not sure it still boots.

Very cool. Exactly in the spirit of the post. I’d only just learned about passive backplane designs on retro machines too. Thanks!

My first thought was something like the RC2014? It uses a z80 (an 8-bit processor that was still in production until very recently iirc) as the processor of choice and I have seen a community for the thing!

They also have a Mastodon presence. That's actually how I first heard of them!

pretentious arrogance is

The irony of you of all people calling this out...

Recycling the components for the metals and other bits in them is a good use though.

Selling computer equipment to rife with security concerns and compatibility issues isn’t charity

The second smartest thing to do is to have someone you know / trust offer to buy the machines from the charity before they are destroyed (by getting those forwarded away from them, for example), assuming they still get some. Consider, you have a potential good, actionable source to nab good hardware.

The smartest is to get charity policy changed, but that's more of a hassle.

I'm aware of coreboot. I was not aware that the project managed to increase support to include configurations for all chips that predate IME and PSP. Last I recall when I looked at coreboot, there were chips that they didn't think could ever be supported, even without nannyware. I wasn't pushing a bullshit problem, I was raising legitimate concerns for problems that I didn't know had solutions. If you don't want people to raise honest, good faith concerns to you then you better be extremely vigilant that you don't step in shit.