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  RE: https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/117275710069576084 I was rate limited by the Internet Archive after a rather prolific run of research and link checking for an ongoing project. After contacting them and explaining the situation, my IP address was unflagged within a couple of hours. The folks running the archive are wonderful and are doing their very best to keep this invaluable resource accessible, despite the onslaught of rude scapers and freeloading bots.

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  Update! Thanks for all the suggestions, everyone. I have a number of new tools to check out. Hey, Mastodon audio peeps! What are we using on macOS to digitize and edit audio … that isn’t Audacity or GarageBand.

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  Announcing the July release of the Newton Glossary! This edition contains 2,280 terms, definitions, acronyms, colloquialisms, cross-references, and trivia related to the #AppleNewton. https://newtonglossary.com Since the last month’s update, another 43 terms and 5 sources have been added. Latest additions: https://newtonglossary.com/latest Full release notes: https://newtonglossary.com/changes

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  Whoa. Apple pushed out the time zone update to High Sierra users as well.

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  The latest update to my Comment #Blocklist for #WordPress features over 65,000 terms, phrases, and other bits of text string persnicketiness to keep your site as spam free as possible. https://github.com/splorp/wordpress-comment-blocklist

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  Anyone else out there own (or have even heard of) a Transoft SCSI-Net hub? (Not shown: several three metre long SCSI cables.) #SCSI #RetroComputing

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  Holt carp. Bringing Swift to the Apple II https://yeokhengmeng.com/2026/06/swift-on-apple-ii/

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  Twenty five years ago today, I compiled and published the very first version of the Newton Glossary as a page on my personal website. At the time, it consisted of a mere 527 terms and 23 sources. An early version of that page can be found in the Internet Archive. https://web.archive.org/web/20011031103303/splorp.com/newton/glossary/ Twenty. Five. Years. https://newtonglossary.com #AppleNewton #RetroComputing

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  Serendipitous toots o’ the day.

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  RE: https://mstdn.ca/@poploser/116653017108217502 “… with the zeal of an obsessed and deranged subredditor.”

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  This image from today’s VCF event illustrates the intersection of computing devices with rainbow Apple logos and computing devices that run on AA batteries. #vcfpnw #retrocomputing #applenewton

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  It’s a bit hard to discern over the buzz of the crowd, but I think this sushi place in Seattle is playing a dance remix of Fleetwood Mac.

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  RE: https://mstdn.social/@Dr_Bombay/116411557725032487 I remember watching this film in eighth grade, circa 1977. It must have been shortly before school let out for summer, because the teachers were letting us choose films to borrow from the National Film Board of Canada. This was one of them. We were all bonkers about skateboarding in the late seventies, and the title locked us in.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/116421096048303802 Good.

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  @obsoletemediauk Hey Jason … I have a question about the 8" Bernoulli on the site. Do you have a 5MB disk in that size, or just the 10MB in the photos? I’ve run across a #RetroComputing thread mentioning that 5MB and 10/20MB cartridges have different form factors. Have you run across this detail?

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  I found a great supplier for acrylic sheets here in town. Bought a few in various amazing colours. Just realized the sheets I bought are slightly too big to fit into my #glowforge … hello, bandsaw!

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  Update! It has found a home! A very lightly used Olympus 35mm SLR kit that was given to me by a neighbour when they downsized last year. Includes: • Olympus OM-10 Body • Olympus Manual Adapter • Olympus Zuiko 50mm f1.8 Lens • Carsen 135mm f2.8 Lens • Generic 28mm f2.8 Lens • Vivitar 49mm Skylight Filter • Vivitar 52mm Skylight Filter • 8-inch Threaded Cable Release • Basic Olympus Case & Strap • Manual Cover the postage from western Canada and it’s yours.

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  Paging @BijouType !!! https://indieweb.social/@classicweb/115661003560342365

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  I’ve been going through my old design files and found this unused logo I did for a high school friend back in <cough>1981</cough>. Used all my Letraset and line tape chops on this one.

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  Here’s a little tidbit from my #AppleNewton collection. (As requested by @haineux, @stack, and @Eggfreckles) This is a Newton “Dummy” Product for use as part of retail display. I’ve had this item for years and thought I’d photographed it, but the box had never been opened.

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  @cyd I’ve used Cyd to archive multiple X accounts, but using two different computers. Is there a way to merge the archives so I can see them all in the sidebar of one of the machines? Does “Reset Cyd” under Advanced settings delete the archive data or just the application settings?

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  RE: https://www.manton.org/2026/03/16/inkwell-for-mac.html Also, Inkwell for Mac. https://web.archive.org/web/20030603163016/http://www.apple.com/macosx/jaguar/inkwell.html

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  It’s times like this that require me to remind people that there’s a variation of Bad Apple playing on an #AppleNewton device. https://youtu.be/8GMICftzmRQ

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  Announcing the latest release of the Newton Glossary! This edition contains 1,974 terms, definitions, acronyms, colloquialisms, cross-references, and trivia related to the #AppleNewton. https://newtonglossary.com Since the last update, 24 new terms have been added. Check out the latest entries: https://newtonglossary.com/latest Full release notes: https://newtonglossary.com/changes