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The American Girl doll company released a tiny Macintosh computer accessory in the late 90's. I thought I'd give it an upgrade with an LCD display and a Raspberry Pi running jaromaz's MacintoshPi emulation project. The toy resembles the Apple Macintosh Performa 5000 series. Since…

My next little abomination is an undead Apple eMate 300 resurrected with a Raspberry Pi CM4 and spare parts from old projects. I replaced the original LCD display with a Raspberry Pi Touch Display. I'm not keen on the borders around the display, but it…

I wanted to use my old Apple M0110A keyboard because I love how this keyboard sounds. Each key press has a satisfying clunk followed by a delightful little ping. This keyboard uses a 4P4C connector, so I cobbled together a little USB keyboard converter using…

Introducing my latest retro computing abomination... Paper Mac. It's a Macintosh Classic II shell with a 16-color grayscale e-ink screen. Inside is a Raspberry Pi running custom software that displays recent highlights from my Google Photos library in a System 7-like desktop environment. Classic Apple…

The Commodore PET 64 was my very first computer, and I have so many fond memories of sitting awash in green screen light while trying my best to write BASIC programs that never worked right. The PET died sometime in the late 90's, but I…