14 Jan
2017
14 Jan
'17
11:12 p.m.
I met up with some friends at a coffee shop to get some data off a hard drive that was
given to one of them with an old Mac Plus. During the course of this, we looked some
things up, and learned that the Mac Plus was released on January 16, 1986: Thirty one
years ago, as of this coming Monday.
Maybe I?ll take some time out on Monday to finally fit mine with the replacement analog
board that I?ve acquired, so I can enjoy that beautiful bluish-white phosphor glow once
again.
-- Chris
15 Jan
15 Jan
1:56 p.m.
On 01/14/2017 10:12 PM, Chris Hanson wrote:
Maybe I?ll take some time out on Monday to finally fit
mine with the
replacement analog board that I?ve acquired, so I can enjoy that
beautiful bluish-white phosphor glow once again.
I have a couple - but only one mouse, and no keyboards, which is a bit of a
problem :-)
I think someone had worked out the protocol and scancodes, so there was the
possibility of making an interface for a modern keyboard, but there are
just far too many other projects in the way first.
cheers
Jules
16 Jan
16 Jan
2:51 p.m.
On Jan 15, 2017, at 10:56 AM, Jules Richardson <jules.richardson99 at gmail.com>
wrote:
On 01/14/2017 10:12 PM, Chris Hanson wrote:
If I remember correctly, the protocol is documented in Inside Macintosh Volume III. The
scan codes are definitely documented somewhere in the original Volumes I-III, and again in
IV.
(Inside Macintosh Volume IV documented the Mac 512Ke and the Mac Plus; the Plus keyboard
combined the original keyboard with the numeric keypad.)
-- Chris
Maybe I?ll take some time out on Monday to
finally fit mine with the
replacement analog board that I?ve acquired, so I can enjoy that
beautiful bluish-white phosphor glow once again.
I have a couple - but only one mouse, and no keyboards, which is a bit of a problem :-)
I think someone had worked out the protocol and scancodes, so there was the possibility
of making an interface for a modern keyboard, but there are just far too many other
projects in the way first. 
8:26 p.m.
On Jan 16, 2017, at 1:51 PM, Chris Hanson <cmhanson at eschatologist.net> wrote:
On Jan 15, 2017, at 10:56 AM, Jules Richardson
<jules.richardson99 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 01/14/2017 10:12 PM, Chris Hanson wrote:
>> Maybe I?ll take some time out on Monday to finally fit mine with the
>> replacement analog board that I?ve acquired, so I can enjoy that
>> beautiful bluish-white phosphor glow once again.
>
> I have a couple - but only one mouse, and no keyboards, which is a bit of a problem
:-)
...
Back when they were new, a friend of mine brought his out of his car, set up, and worked
for about 1/2 hour before realizing he?d left the keyboard in the car. Don?t know how fun
an experience you?d have, particularly if you are not as absent-minded as he, but it might
be fun.
- Mark
8:39 p.m.
On Tue, 17 Jan 2017, Tapley, Mark wrote:
Back when they were new, a friend of mine brought his
out of his car,
set up, and worked for about 1/2 hour before realizing he?d left the
keyboard in the car. Don?t know how fun an experience you?d have,
particularly if you are not as absent-minded as he, but it might be fun.
According to IMDB, the Mac Plus that Scotty addressed by speaking into the
mouse in "Star Trek : The Voyage Home",
"The computer that Scotty uses in the Plexicorp scene appears to be a
Macintosh Plus, but its internals were completely changed for filming. Its
screen was replaced with one from an IBM PC to make this easier to
synchronize its video refresh rate with the film camera's frame rate, and
the "transparent aluminum" animation was created on an IBM PC by computer
graphics company Video Image."
No wonder Plexicorp has been unable to begin marketing of transparent
aluminum.
8:52 p.m.
According to IMDB, the Mac Plus that Scotty addressed
by speaking into the
mouse in "Star Trek : The Voyage Home",
"The computer that Scotty
uses to show transparent aluminum was originally
going to be an Amiga, but Commodore would only provide a computer if they
bought it. Apple Computers was willing to loan them the Mac."
How much does "product placement" cost these days??
9:09 p.m.
On 1/16/2017 8:52 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
And with a $21 million budget, I would think they could've afforded the
Amiga.
- J.
According to
IMDB, the Mac Plus that Scotty addressed by speaking
into the mouse in "Star Trek : The Voyage Home",
"The computer that
Scotty uses to show transparent aluminum was
originally going to be an Amiga, but Commodore would only provide a
computer if they bought it. Apple Computers was willing to loan them
the Mac."
How much does "product placement" cost these days?? 
2:53 a.m.
2017-01-15 5:12 GMT+01:00 Chris Hanson <cmhanson at eschatologist.net>:
I met up with some friends at a coffee shop to get
some data off a hard
drive that was given to one of them with an old Mac Plus. During the course
of this, we looked some things up, and learned that the Mac Plus was
released on January 16, 1986: Thirty one years ago, as of this coming
Monday.
Maybe I?ll take some time out on Monday to finally fit mine with the
replacement analog board that I?ve acquired, so I can enjoy that beautiful
bluish-white phosphor glow once again.
I spent some time before Christmas with my old Mac Plus I acquired many
years ago. With some fiddling I got this old box running System 6.07 on the
Internet. Maybe not a spectacular experience but it works!
http://www.datormuseum.se/computers/apple/macintosh-plus
-- Chris
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