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Re: MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5

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Post by rnewme »

stereo wrote: post #103
rnewme wrote: post #38

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You would be surprised how much trash there is in the city around us, that you suddenly start noticing when you have a diy project. Let me share you some moments of my own with you. I was leaving university campus with my buddies, talking about building magnetic card reader to check contents of my campus library card. Just as I was explaining magnetic heads to one of the guys I see a random cassette player few meters…

Are the girl from the flat TV date and your wife the same person though? :)

Luckily/sadly no.

Re: MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5

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Post by rnewme »

HeckFeck wrote: post #71
rnewme wrote: post #38

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You would be surprised how much trash there is in the city around us, that you suddenly start noticing when you have a diy project. Let me share you some moments of my own with you. I was leaving university campus with my buddies, talking about building magnetic card reader to check contents of my campus library card. Just as I was explaining magnetic heads to one of the guys I see a random cassette player few meters…

Someone had abandoned a vacuum cleaner identical to my own (10+ year old) model from a not so common make in the ground floor lobby of my apartment block. It was surreal walking past it for months, just sitting there alone in the corner. My own vacuum cleaner was missing an attachment, but I never touched the abandoned one because I wasn't sure whether it was truly abandoned. A few weeks later I found the same cleane…

They do the same in the buildings here, I started leaving note on things "I'll take this in 10 days if you don't needed it, my num is:xxxxxx". No complaints so far

Re: MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5

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Post by rnewme »

quercusa wrote: post #122
smackeyacky wrote: post #46

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My personal favourite save is a Bosch dishwasher that was kerbside. The drain motor was stuck, had melted plastic around the impeller. I have it in my workshop but it’s better than the one in the house.

Mine was pretty easy to fix - I was surprised how simple it was. IIRC, there's an inlet valve, a circulating/heater pump, and an exhaust pump.

Dishwashers, washing machines, dryers, threadmills, all have common issues and fairly simple fixes, if spare parts are available. I'm actually surprised there aren't general purpose boards, electric motors, heaters pumps etc out there that could be just swapped in. As long as the enclosure is in presentable state, that is

Re: MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5

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Post by rnewme »

Zetaphor wrote: post #64
rnewme wrote: post #38

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You would be surprised how much trash there is in the city around us, that you suddenly start noticing when you have a diy project. Let me share you some moments of my own with you. I was leaving university campus with my buddies, talking about building magnetic card reader to check contents of my campus library card. Just as I was explaining magnetic heads to one of the guys I see a random cassette player few meters…

Is the girl from the date with the TV now the wife?

Nope, but wife has seen worse!

Re: MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5

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Post by ssl-3 »

ghaff wrote: post #119
hunter2_ wrote: post #113

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> I'd love to connect everything to the person--including future me--who would find it useful (or thinks they would in the moment) but it's often not practical. It actually amazes me that this isn't a well-solved problem by now. We've got various marketplaces for used items (eBay, CL, FB Marketplace, etc.) and we've got various rental/sharing platforms for niche things (Uber, Airbnb, etc.) and those are decent for wh…

It's just hard to get away from the transaction costs associated with exchanging low-value physical goods over distance. A swap meet with a local electronics club? Sure. But selling individual items on eBay? Not so much. There were a bunch of ideas associated with the early Web like sharing tools and so forth that just don't make sense outside an informal neighborhood "economy" (and often not even there).

Indeed.

I'd give anyone stuff from my cabling and computer parts collection as long as they had a use for it. I'd do this without cost if I could.

Except: It isn't usually free to get things from my empire of dirt to anyone else's empire of dirt.

By the time I boxed up a widget and sent it on its way, it is likely that more money has been spent than just procuring a new widget to begin with.

Re: MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5

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Post by antonvs »

krallja wrote: post #118
everyone wrote: post #54

Something like this that could run the latest macos would be amazing.. I am disgusted by having to buy a mac just so I can build to iOS. That kind of thing should be illegal.

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/mac/

I tried that a while back. It's not a great option just for builds. It only supports dedicated instances, with a minimum lifetime of 24 hours. That means it'll cost you a minimum of about $15 to use one. In addition, you can't stop and start them. If you want to stop paying $15 - $37 per day for it, you have to delete the instance.

Re: MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5

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Post by carlosjobim »

vessenes wrote: post #40
xixixao wrote: post #3

I was hoping this was a super cheap hackintosh running modern macOS. Is that even possible these days?

I’m asking out of genuine curiosity - what are the reasons you’d want that, other than a fun project? There’s so much hardware integration in the stack of a modern Mac that it would feel a little hard for me to even say a hackintosh was a Mac. Anyways, curious what you have in mind.

I see posts every day of people successfully hackintoshing various PCs. It's a great operating system. And it has all the software that the free alternatives lack.

If I couldn't afford the hardware I would definitely get a hackintosh. One weekend of suffering to get it working, vs a lifetime of suffering with Linux.

Re: MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5

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Post by ssl-3 »

rnewme wrote: post #138
twobitshifter wrote: post #89

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I am more suprised that the BMW outlasted the remote starter!

Old bimmers are surprisingly durable. Esp 30/34/36, although, they're getting a bit rare..

Yep. For all of the complexity they were popularly renowned for at the time, that era of bimmer is ridiculously easy to diagnose and fix, and generally all very well-documented. It has weak spots (like the entirety of the cooling system), but they're all well-known and understood. The rest is solid.

And because every part is indexed in the BMW ETK, it's simple (and actually usually very cheap) to find very high quality parts from the original source using BMW part numbers, and sidestep the usual quagmire of globalized aftermarket trash that AutoZone sells.

It's a whole different way of doing things compared to, say, a Chevy or Honda of similar vintage.

Re: MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5

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Post by snvzz »

jamesy0ung wrote: post #63
travem wrote: post #13

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You could check out the A500 mini, more of an emulator though - https://retrogames.biz/products/thea500-mini/

A500 Mini isn't as cool IMO. It's just a generic arm board running linux with an Amiga emulator. The keys don't even work. May as well just use a Pi or a PC.

Indeed. It's just a cash-grab device exploiting nostalgia.

The software it uses, amiberry, is open source and was made for the more powerful, useful and common Raspberry Pi boards. Getting one of these is a much better idea.

Re: MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5

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Post by smackeyacky »

quercusa wrote: post #122
smackeyacky wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My personal favourite save is a Bosch dishwasher that was kerbside. The drain motor was stuck, had melted plastic around the impeller. I have it in my workshop but it’s better than the one in the house.

Mine was pretty easy to fix - I was surprised how simple it was. IIRC, there's an inlet valve, a circulating/heater pump, and an exhaust pump.

The Bosch dishwasher has a kind of a plastic brain on one side as well, a labyrinth of water that sets off certain things in the washing cycle. It's neat!
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