Posted 2025-03-08 | Back to blog index
This is the "emergency vintage Mac rig" I pulled together in order to rush TalkCrawler out the door in time for MARCHintosh . All of the development was done in this position (well, some was done in bed), giving me a back ache in the process.
Today I'm finally going to take the time to upgrade my setup to something more sustainable, maybe if I do that, I can start on my GlobalTalk Chat rewrite project!
Looking much better! So much screen real-estate, and I had forgotten how crazy fast the G4 is!
The PowerBook in the background is the GlobalTalk router.
I want to use an older Apple ADB keyboard here instead of this generic ELECOM keyboard but MacOS 9 doesn't like my ADB Wombat. It looks like there's a firmware update that fixes it that I need to install
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Probably won't stick to this keyboard since I forsee getting tripped up by the Swedish layout which I haven't used in decades.
I also tried my Japanese Keyboard II but it seems like the up arrow and right shift are dead on it, I guess I will have to open it up
