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I actually hate all of them ("Septandy", "Marchintosh", "AMAYga", "Febutari", etc.) and wish they'd all go away. Relegating foundational subjects to 1 month trivializes their significance and treats them like temporary novelties, rather than an essential part of history to be celebrated year-round.
November 2, 2026 at 1:15 AM
ronscompvids.bsky.social
MacEffects has restocked color ImageWriter II ribbons. #MARCHintosh will be here before you know it, so stock up now! 

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Apple ImageWriter II Color Ribbon Cartridge
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September 27, 2026 at 2:48 PM
fabianasaotome.bsky.social
mArchintosh
September 19, 2026 at 9:35 AM
polpo.org
Appletalk PC card! I played with one on Globaltalk during Marchintosh and was nice and odd connecting to people's shares and printing to their printers on DOS
September 18, 2026 at 2:00 AM
fabianasaotome.bsky.social
A propósito, aproveitando que falei de edição, ainda essa semana devo anunciar o retorno das atividades na 早乙女テレビ (saotometerebi), que agora também será transmitida pelo mArchintosh.

Originalmente era feita no Lesbian GNU/Linux, recentemente estava no Ruindows, mas agora será produzida no mArchOS
September 16, 2026 at 10:24 AM
fabianasaotome.bsky.social
Hora de atualizar o mArchintosh

Inclusive, tava aqui me questionando qual pronuncia japonesa ficaria melhor:

マッキントッシュ (Makkintoshu)
アーチ (Āchi)

マーキントッシュ (Mākintoshu): Um pouco mais natural
マーチントッシュ (Māchintoshu): Destaca o Arch
September 16, 2026 at 4:41 AM
fabianasaotome.bsky.social
Aos poucos estou terminando de refinar a interface do Arch e montando o meu mArchintosh.

Inclusive a escolha do Arch também foi estratégica, pois não é apenas tematizar é construir do meu jeito.

"Não seria melhor instalar o pearOS?"
Não, essas distros tipo pearOS e Winux são pavorosas
September 15, 2026 at 3:09 PM
fabianasaotome.bsky.social
🖥️mArchOS
mArchintosh🍎
September 14, 2026 at 9:14 AM
princess.industries
usually i don't get this kind of error message when i'm awake

#Marchintosh #Retrocomputing #VintageMac #ClassicMac
PowerBook 180 running an installer in "Easy Install" mode, showing error message: The selected disk has a later version of (long string of garbage characters and question marks) than what you are about to install. Click 'Cancel' to stop the installation, then click Switch Disk to choose a different disk or insert a floppy disk. Click 'Continue' to install anway.
March 2, 2024 at 7:08 PM
vintagecomputer.ca
Had to take a picture of "the boys" while they were out for #Marchintosh On the left is the Macintosh Quadra 950 running System 7.5.5 and on the right is the Macintosh Workgroup Server 95 running A/UX 3.1 #vintagecomputer #retrocomputing
This pictures shows two Macintoshes on either side with monitors and keyboards in the middle. We have the Macintosh Quadra 950 running System 7.5.5 and on the right is the Macintosh Workgroup Server 95 running A/UX 3.1.
March 17, 2026 at 3:16 PM
vintagecomputer.ca
Trying to set up my hard diskless Macintosh Work Group Server 95 for #Marchintosh After a day of futzing with a Blue SCSI v1 and v2, upgrading firmware, all combos of termination etc with no luck, I plugged in a ZuluSCSI RP2040 and worked first try. Glad it works but disappointed at the same time.
March 12, 2026 at 6:32 PM
vintagecomputer.ca
As I go through some Macintoshes for #Marchintosh, these Sony Mac floppy drive gears are going to be the death of me. Ordered a 12 pack off of eBay. Let's hope I can get these back together again because the clips that hold on the back plate are super brittle. #vintagecomputer #retrocomputer.
March 10, 2026 at 6:24 PM
vintagecomputer.ca
Macintosh Portrait Display number 2, not so good. It's quite dim compared to number 1. I am certain both need a recap. #2 has a quieter fan than #1. Will have to look at that too but maybe next #Marchintosh. Focus this time is recapping the fleet.
March 10, 2026 at 12:52 PM
vintagecomputer.ca
Got my Radius Precision Color Pivot monitor working for #Marchintosh I had to recap four Macs before I could find one that would show color. Now I have to fix 2 of the 4 Macs and go through the rest of my Macs while I'm at it. Got two Portrait displays to check too. #vintagecomputer #retrocomputer
This is a picture of a Macintosh Quadra 700 with a Radius Precision Color Pivot displaying the Mac OS 7.1 desktop. It is in "portrait mode" which means I got the drivers working.
March 10, 2026 at 12:02 PM
vintagecomputer.ca
I was thinking what I could do for #Marchintosh and thanks to your post, now I have one project. See if my portrait display works. Thanks!
March 2, 2026 at 9:59 AM
vintagecomputer.ca
In late 1984, Apple had a promotion called "Test Drive a Macintosh" where you could "test drive" a Macintosh and purchase at the end of the trial. I am not 100% sure but I believe one of my Apple Macintosh 128K computers is from this promotion. #MARCHintosh
This picture shows the contents of a boxed Apple Macintosh 128K computer, the Macintosh carrying bag and the Apple ImageWriter printer. #vintagecomputer #retrocomputer This picture shows what was in the Macintosh Accessory box from this Macintosh 128K computer. This has the "Test Drive a Macintosh" guide plus the floppy disks for testing out but I have seen a "Test Drive a Macintosh" cassette that this doesn't have. It has the standard cassette that came with the Macintosh 128k computer. This picture shows an early Macintosh 128K brochure, a "Test Drive a Macintosh" guide plus three "Test Drive" diskettes that I believe were used during the promotion to test out Macintosh applications.
March 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
vintagecomputer.ca
I would love to know the story behind this pre-production Macintosh 128K motherboard I have. It was in an unmarked box (made for the 128K motherboard because of the cutouts). Inside the box along with the motherboard was a small post-it note saying "Out of the Lost Mac #A1908". #MARCHintosh
This picture is of a pre-production Macintosh 128K motherboard. #vintagecomputer #retrocomputer This picture is of a post-it note with the words "out of the lost Mac #A1908". This is a picture of the pre-production Macintosh 128K motherboard in the unmarked transport box. The exterior is plain cardboard. The internal ESD foam is cut to support the motherboard with appropriate cut outs.
March 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
vintagecomputer.ca
The Macintosh TV was a multimedia computer with a built-in TV tuner targeting the student. This all-in-one computer could double as a dorm room TV and with bundled software, could be a music CD player. It also came with some multimedia educational software as well. #MARCHintosh #vinagecomputer
This picture shows the black Macintosh TV with an APF M1000 video game console attached. I didn't have anything to demonstrate live TV and had the APF kicking around as it's another projects of mine. A special key sequence and a remote control allow the MacTV to switch between TV mode and computer mode. #retrocomputer This picture shows a side view of the Macintosh TV. It's black colour is distinctive for this model and having the black keyboard and matching black mouse completes the look. This is a page from "The Apple Catalog" from Fall 1993 showing the Macintosh TV being advertised. It talks about some of the features and included software titles.
March 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
vintagecomputer.ca
Did you know the Apple Macintosh carrying bag came in a box and had a model number? This Macintosh "Carrying Case", model M0200, is new old stock. #MARCHintosh #vintagecomputer #retrocomputer
This picture shows a Macintosh Carrying Case box on the left with a beige Macintosh carrying case on the right. The carrying case has black straps and a red Macintosh luggage tag attached.
March 6, 2025 at 12:21 PM
vintagecomputer.ca
Here are a couple of examples of the "Drexel Mac", a specially marked Macintosh 128K computer that were supplied by Apple to Drexel University who required every freshman to have a computer in 1984. These were from the first year of this program #MARCHintosh

More info: drexel.edu/news/archive...
This is a picture of two Drexel University branded Macintosh 128K computers. These were produced very early in 1984 (January/February or so) and branded with a blue "D" on the front, just to the right of the Apple logo. #vintagecomputer #retrocomputer
March 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
vintagecomputer.ca
I have a few #vintagecomputer posters and one of them is the 1984 Macintosh launch poster known as the "cutaway" poster still in it's original frame. My understanding was that dealers each received one poster and they were not available to the general public. Seems appropriate for #MARCHintosh
This is a picture of the original Macintosh poster showing a Macintosh computer and mouse as a sketch with a transparent case showing the internals with parts of the computers labelled. The mouse is also shown with a transparent case. #vintagecomputer #retrocomputer
March 4, 2025 at 12:14 PM
vintagecomputer.ca
Something you may not have seen back in the day. Here's a quick video of a Macintosh SE/30 with a MicroTouch touch screen being. #MARCHintosh #vintagecomputer #retrocomputer
March 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
vintagecomputer.ca
The Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh was a very unique and cool looking computer released in 1997. The flat screen with front facing CD-ROM drive and the Bose subwoofer are iconic today. I am fortunate to have two boxed units. One shown here and the other remains unopened to this day. #MARCHintosh
This picture shows the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh booting up Mac OS 9.1. The keyboard is in front with the Bose subwoofer/power supply on the left side. #vintagecomputer #retrocomputer This picture shows the rear of the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh. Depending on expansion options added, there are two rear back covers. Known as the thin and fat backs, if you had less expansion, you could use the thin back to give the TAM a sleeker look. I believe this is the "fat back" installed as I have a couple of expansion cards in place. This picture shows two Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh (TAM) boxes. The one on the right is opened and includes several boxes with various bits and pieces that make up the system. The one on the left has never been opened. I acquired this from the wife of a dealer who had two TAMs. One they used and the other then never opened.
March 2, 2025 at 12:30 PM
vintagecomputer.ca
Last #Periphebrary post because now that it's March, it's time to cross over into #Marchintosh time!

This is the MacPhone by InterMatrix that allowed your Mac to do telephone management. Included are pages from an ad found online that describes functionality. #vintagecomputer #retrocomputer
This picture shows a #Macintosh computer set up with a MacPhone that is affixed to the side of the Mac with Velcro so it is easily removeable. This is a picture of a page of advertisement that shows the MacPhone on the side of a Macintosh computer with the phone held out to illustrate that it's a regular phone literally stuck to the side of your Mac. This is a picture of the second page of an advertisement showing the functionality in much more detail than I could post here.
March 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
vintagecomputer.ca
For #Periphebrary and the upcoming #Marchintosh, we have the Apple Djinn featured today. The Djinn is a specially made Geoport modem for the Macintosh line that also features #Minitel functionality with specially produced software for France Telecom. Watch for #Marchintosh at it begins next month.
This picture shows an Apple Djinn Geoport/Minitel modem next to a Macintosh Color Classic. You can see where it gets it's design styling when they are together. #vintagecomputer #retrocomputer This picture shows the Apple Telecom software CD with the Apple Djinn device amongst an Apple Mac. I tried to set it up and run it but the software is only in French and I did not get very far, unfortunately. This picture shows the back of the Apple Djinn. Out of the rear is an ADB cable that connects to the Macintosh. There is also a separate power supply for the Djinn for it to operate that is not shown.
February 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM