Whomever spent the month of #MARCHintosh trying to print PDF files to ImageWriter printers, you owe me about 7lbs of wasted tractor feed paper LOL

post #MARCHintosh bonus photo taken in 2004 on my Nokia 3660

And my second #MARCHintosh is over! Another great year!

My stated goals were
1. Release TalkCrawler
2. Rewrite the networking in GlobalTalk Chat
3. Recap a IIvi/IIcx to replace my PB540 as router

An unstated goal was
4. To get a printer on #GlobalTalk

I completed 1 in time for March 1, and 2 by the middle of the month, 2 felt like redemption for something that felt like failure last year. Never had the time/desk space for 3, but maybe that'll be a good post-March project? #mb… (1/5)

The Dialup Café's marchintosh globaltalk node says goodnight for another year! thank you to all of the goofballs that dumped calling cards in the shared folder.

i sadly was able contribute very little to the festivities this year due to a chain of random illnesses. next year i am very much looking forward to having a lot more fun!

and of course, the globaltalk kiki at https://globaltalk.network will remain up permanently for your contributions. the editing password is marchintosh2025, and welcomes your new pages and macintosh knowledge.

March is now over everywhere on earth, which means #MARCHintosh is done for another year.

Thanks for all the memories, folks, the good and the bad.

The joy and gratitude I see across the #GlobalTalk community is what keeps me coming back, and overcomes any negative vibes I encounter (definitely a singular experience!).

#WOzFest HQ will remain online, as will #Airaga Base, and I’ll keep refining my resources, including the Addendum and my QEMU/UTM setup files, and I look forward to next year!

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration #marchintosh

See you next year.

Looks like Netatalk 4.2.0 was released just in time for the end of #MARCHintosh! There's a long list of changes in the release notes that I'm looking forward to digesting before upgrading.

https://netatalk.io/4.2/ReleaseNotes4.2.0

It has been fantastic to have a set of file shares that are accessible from System 7 through current macOS!

Following the end of #MARCHintosh, I have an announcement, with nothing to do with classic Macs

If you've enjoyed VogonsDrivers.com before, and it's helped you revive a retro PC, prepare to enjoy it in a whole new way!

Pool's Open - The RetroSwim BBS
telnet://ezycom.retroswim.net:2323

The full 80GB archive of VogonsDrivers, now browsable, searchable*, and downloadable on more systems than ever!

Grab a Wifi232/WiModem and get connected on any device with a serial port and a terminal!

HyperCard: I remember being disappointed when it didn’t get the attention it deserved when color became so important in Mac OS 7.x. I don’t know why I quit creating stacks but I did. #marchintosh
#hypercard

I’m playing with it a lot in fully booted OS 9 (not emulated or in Classic mode on OS X). OS 9 screams on both my low end G3 and G4s and so does HyperCard. And now in 2025, the 1-bit icons and dithered images are delightful. Yes, I’ve reach the “vinyl” stage of my computing life.

(Remember when computers sounded so much warmer when we we used punch cards?)

It's time for a #MARCHintosh retrospective!

Firstly: I've attached a photo of the remaining gifts to the drop box that have come in since the 15th!

Secondly: I've completed a final pass-over of the servers on #GlobalTalk, left my calling card, and a print job for anyone who hasn't had one yet (as long as they have open file shares/printers). Results of that are attached as well.

Finally, the retrospective itself:

It's been an absolutely CRAZY month:
- On Day 1, my SE came home from the workshop with a fully-serviced floppy drive and '030 accelerator...
- ...which I didn't even end up playing with at all, because on Day 2 I bought a Power Mac 6500 for an absolute steal (and I STILL have to explore the other external HD that came with it)
- GlobalTalk completely dominated the month just like it did last year. I rebuilt my QEMU VM for running AIR a couple nights before the start of the month and it's been absolutely rock solid stable ever since.
- I made great progress on my project for the month, archiving my collection of Mac floppies from the early 90's. I'm only about 40% done, so this will continue into April as "bonus content"
- No updates on #Macstodon - but I did verify that it works perfectly fine on Mastodon 4.3 if you manually authenticate by copying the URL to a modern machine, and copying the auth token back to your Mac.

Lastly I want to give thanks to everyone in the #VintageMac #RetroComputing community for making this such a fun event every year! I love seeing all the greetings showing up in my drop box, and to my printer (which is now off for the year - but the PDF printer is available year round!) But I especially want to thank the following folks:
- @kalleboo for TalkCrawler and for putting together an amazing GlobalTalk scavenger hunt!
- @europlus for his hard work on the AIR Administrator's Manual Addendum and VM images for QEMU!
- @scj for the GlobalTalk updater app!
- @theirongiant for 68K Radio, which has been my background music while working on my vintage Macs this month!
- @polpo for creating the ImageScribbler card which made it possible to send print jobs to so many more people this year!
- @dmark for maintaining netatalk, making it possible to share files over AppleTalk directly from my NAS instead of having to keep an old Mac running all the time!
- @DrJosh9000 for jrouter, which I'm looking forward to trying again now that the month is over and I can start messing around with my setup - it's had a lot of bugfixes and updates!
- @_the_cloud and @jimluther , for sharing great knowledge from their time at Apple with the community (and for helping me troubleshoot some crashes)!
- @RonsCompVids , @MuseumJoe , and @mac84tv for putting together the annual MARCHintosh event!

Until next year!

Second batch of ImageWriter II prints sent out by Macintosh #globaltalk folks. #MARCHintosh. It's still on in zone: 1Bit.
I write haikus in reaction of each.
1st batch was here: https://bitbang.social/@1Bit/114241267320402926
See replies here for 2nd batch:

Decided to release my #Newton #DogCow Moof! app in honor of #Marchintosh. Check out the included Read Me for more info. Enjoy! https://tinyurl.com/DogCowNewton
#apple #messagepad #pda #vintagecomputing #AppleNewton #newtonmessagepad #RetroComputing

I went on a printing spree for the last day of #MARCHintosh on #GlobalTalk

The progress bar when using MacPalette to print colour is fascinating, the little animation shows magenta for a while, then yellow, then cyan, then black at the end. Surely this isn't how the print goes? I was sure that colour dot matrix did all the colours for one band in 4 passes.

Anyway, if you got 2 jobs from me at any stage, I was having random crashes with my Graphite PowerMac G4, I think OS9.2 might be trashed.

On the last day of #MARCHintosh, here is a trivia quiz... Who can name all twelve of these classic Mac apps from the 1980s, based on their icons? (Sorry, no alt text for this image.)

With 15 minutes to go until the end of #MARCHintosh here, I present the full monthly chart of the growth of #GlobalTalk zones and machines!

I got an absolutely wonderful print on my ImageWriter II from @Btb. Happy #MARCHintosh back to Minna!