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#TotallyNormalComputing

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I just had a delightfully #TotallyNormalComputing thought:

I have a USB ZIP drive, and a few 100MB ZIP disks. It just presents itself as USB mass storage.
My car's retrofitted stereo can play music off USB drives, and because it replaced the car's factory dual slot head unit, I have a storage compartment right above the stereo.

I could probably make myself some delightfully blursed "ZIP mix disks" and use those in my car instead of connecting my modern phone to it via Bluetooth. 🤭

Fantastic! #TotallyNormalComputing

Booting #MacOS9 Installer from USB, and without even touching #OpenFirmware. I really like the community for this kind of service!

'Mac OS 9.2.2 "boot kit" for booting your G3/G4 from an USB stick' by that-ben on Macintosh Repository just works out of the box! On a #powerpc #G3 #ibook with USB1.

And it was kinda fast to boot and install too. My #Powerbook got some company now!.

Spending an evening with an old computer isn't always fun. It can be hours and hours of installations, downloads and just waiting for stuff to happen.

My 2010 #MacbookAir needed partition resizing (for Haiku, fingers crossed) and then #OpenCoreLegacyPatcher to install #macOS monterey
Avoiding newer macos because of non existing USB1.1 for touchpad/keyboard.

And then Appstore only lets me download latest and not compatible Xcode. Always something...

Found a power adapter to my old 12" Ultralight Dell Latitude D430. A Dual 1.33GHz C2D with 2GB RAM.

A perfect computer to run #Haiku on because everything works out of the box: BT, Wifi, Touchpad, Sound etc all working.

I wonder if I can set this up a development platform for #C64 assembly programming. #Kickass (KickAssembler) runs on Java so it should be possible. Just need to explore what IDE to use and compile #VICE.