Scott Small 🇨🇦<p>It's time for a <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/MARCHintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MARCHintosh</span></a> retrospective!</p><p>Firstly: I've attached a photo of the remaining gifts to the drop box that have come in since the 15th!</p><p>Secondly: I've completed a final pass-over of the servers on <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/GlobalTalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalTalk</span></a>, left my calling card, and a print job for anyone who hasn't had one yet (as long as they have open file shares/printers). Results of that are attached as well.</p><p>Finally, the retrospective itself:</p><p>It's been an absolutely CRAZY month:<br> - On Day 1, my SE came home from the workshop with a fully-serviced floppy drive and '030 accelerator...<br> - ...which I didn't even end up playing with at all, because on Day 2 I bought a Power Mac 6500 for an absolute steal (and I STILL have to explore the other external HD that came with it)<br> - GlobalTalk completely dominated the month just like it did last year. I rebuilt my QEMU VM for running AIR a couple nights before the start of the month and it's been absolutely rock solid stable ever since.<br> - I made great progress on my project for the month, archiving my collection of Mac floppies from the early 90's. I'm only about 40% done, so this will continue into April as "bonus content" 😁<br> - No updates on <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Macstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Macstodon</span></a> - but I did verify that it works perfectly fine on Mastodon 4.3 if you manually authenticate by copying the URL to a modern machine, and copying the auth token back to your Mac.</p><p>Lastly I want to give thanks to everyone in the <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/VintageMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VintageMac</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> community for making this such a fun event every year! I love seeing all the greetings showing up in my drop box, and to my printer (which is now off for the year - but the PDF printer is available year round!) But I especially want to thank the following folks:<br> - <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bitbang.social/@kalleboo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kalleboo</span></a></span> for TalkCrawler and for putting together an amazing GlobalTalk scavenger hunt!<br> - <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.europlus.zone/@europlus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>europlus</span></a></span> for his hard work on the AIR Administrator's Manual Addendum and VM images for QEMU!<br> - <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@scj" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>scj</span></a></span> for the GlobalTalk updater app!<br> - <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@theirongiant" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>theirongiant</span></a></span> for 68K Radio, which has been my background music while working on my vintage Macs this month!<br> - <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bitbang.social/@polpo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>polpo</span></a></span> for creating the ImageScribbler card which made it possible to send print jobs to so many more people this year!<br> - <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@dmark" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dmark</span></a></span> for maintaining netatalk, making it possible to share files over AppleTalk directly from my NAS instead of having to keep an old Mac running all the time!<br> - <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://cloudisland.nz/@DrJosh9000" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>DrJosh9000</span></a></span> for jrouter, which I'm looking forward to trying again now that the month is over and I can start messing around with my setup - it's had a lot of bugfixes and updates!<br> - <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@_the_cloud" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>_the_cloud</span></a></span> and <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://techhub.social/@jimluther" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jimluther</span></a></span> , for sharing great knowledge from their time at Apple with the community (and for helping me troubleshoot some crashes)!<br> - <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bitbang.social/@RonsCompVids" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>RonsCompVids</span></a></span> , <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://oldbytes.space/@MuseumJoe" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>MuseumJoe</span></a></span> , and <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bitbang.social/@mac84tv" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mac84tv</span></a></span> for putting together the annual MARCHintosh event!</p><p>Until next year!</p>