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barbeque 37 days ago | parent | on: Refurb weekend: The Symbolics MacIvory Lisp machin...
This is an excellent writeup, and is basically how I figured owning one of these was going to go. My own current bête noire is a Sega Teradrive with what feels like occasional inter-layer shorts.
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- classichasclass 37 days ago
  Hey, thank you! I will add that the MacIvory is probably the easiest Symbolics system to actually own and run. The full-size systems are VMEbus tanks, and some can be incredibly loud.
  On the other hand, I hear from others that Symbolics had the best software, even if the TI Explorer series may be more liveable.
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barbeque 68 days ago | parent | on: Roll Call!
Hello from Canada! I post some links once in awhile when I get a chance, but I read the site at least once a day. It's a great community.
- ddingus 68 days ago
  It is pretty great. My experience with retro in general is the people seem to be pretty high quality. Nice when that happens.
barbeque 102 days ago | parent | on: Stapler: I remade a 32 year old classic Macintosh ...
At first I thought this was going to be a remake of Freeverse's SimStapler.
- gingerbeardman 101 days ago
  You're not alone! :)
barbeque 124 days ago | parent | on: Pretty pictures, bootable floppy disks, and the fi...
Great as always. Fantastic level of effort here.
- classichasclass 123 days ago
  (author) Hey, thanks!
barbeque 137 days ago | parent | on: Nintendo ends Wii U repairs
Sad, but not unexpected. You can still find them fairly inexpensively in the Japanese market, but as far as I know the tablet will always be in Japanese until someone devises a way to patch it.
barbeque 221 days ago | parent | on: Adding the “Move to Trash” function to System 7.1
I'm glad someone else did this first; I was afraid I was going to have to read Inside Macintosh and learn to write an extension that modifies Finder menus.
- gingerbeardman 215 days ago
  I've just updated the guide. Found a much, much easier way using my favourite power tool KeyQuencer to implement it in a one line macro!