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  • Retro electronics for your TV show and Movie – This Geek in Review for 29 Mar 2019

    Retro electronics for your TV show and Movie – This Geek in Review for 29 Mar 2019

    If you know me, you know I like the 80s. Especially, I like retro electronics. Some may call them antiques, but that word conjures up memories of old lamps and davenports at my grandparents’ houses. Here’s a cool place where TV Shows and Movies get the retro electronics they need.

    Whenever I use an emoji instead of typing a response, a little piece of me dies inside. It’s embarrassing to take the easy way out, instead of drafting a witty response, I’ll send a thumbs up. I believe this is how cavemen communicated. Every year picking the right emoji gets easier because new emojis are being added, and 2019 is no exception. Be prepared to start seeing mechanical arms, hearing aids, and wheelchairs.

    Our local Family Video closed a couple a months ago, an harbinger of things to come, and now the second to last Blockbuster in the world is closing. There can only be one.

    Here’s the story of someone on a higher level than Macgyver, an electrician who converted his wrecked car into a motorbike in the desert and then drove it to civilization.

    Bohemian Rhapsody won the Oscar for best editing, but should it have?

    And speaking of editing, here’s a look at how editing saved Star Wars:

    Now I know why old people complain of people doing stupid things, because here is the story of a company that injects young blood as a fountain of youth cure. Spoiler alert, it doesn’t work.

    Someone is a Matthew Broderick fan.

    I never knew a ukulele could shred.

  • Bringing my Apple Macintosh SE/30 back to life

    Several months ago an Apple Macintosh SE/30 came across eBay at a price I was willing to pay. It had a dead hard drive in it, but that wasn’t a big deal to me. I had already been looking at the SCSI2SD devices so the plan was to use one for the drive. Old hard drives are way too loud anyway. 🙂

    Last night I finally unwrapped the beast. The Apple Extended Keyboard II appears to have sustained some damage in shipment, but I think it still works. I cracked open the case and put the SCSI2SD device in place, but after Apple HD Setup chewed on the drive for 20 minutes, it said initialization failed. Ugh. Searching the Internet brought up something called Lido, so that’s what I’m going to try next. Unfortunately, I don’t know how I’m going to do it on the SE/30 because I only System 6 on a floppy, so I’m going to attempt to set it up from my 20th Anniversary Mac.