Apple's Macintosh 128K on a Pi Pico gets thumbs-up from Upton

The Raspberry Pi has long been popular with retrocomputing enthusiasts, and its microcontroller – the RP2040 – can also be used for various emulation purposes, now including the original Apple Macintosh 128K. Raspberry Pi Pico with VGA board emulating a Macintosh 128K The Pico MicroMac – Pic: Matt Evans Compared to the $2. …

[Paul Crawford]

Sir! A beer for your efforts!

[Dan 55]

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PICOZX - Handheld ZX Spectrum 128k + other 8bits

With a choice of new terrible keyboard or the original terrible keyboard.

[Locomotion69]

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That PicoZX resembles the Epson HX-20 layout quite good....

Although the Epson's keyboard is not that terrible.

[VicMortimer]

"felt bad about cutting up a VGA cable. But when I took a walk at lunchtime, no shitting you, I passed some street cables."

I've literally used VGA cables as rope to tie stuff down. They're all over the place, and the only ones I still have in use are in the server racks.

[45RPM]

Now if this could be made to use a Mac floppy drive, keyboard and mouse, and if it had 512K I’d definitely be interested. But as it stands I’m not quite able to justify the time necessary to (as I see it) finish this project off. But a damned good effort nonetheless.

[Emjay111]

I just spent hours looking for a long VGA cable for a special use case, or two cables and a gender changer. Nothing in our huge box of old cables. Is VGA that much of an endangered species now?

[AJ MacLeod]

I've a massively long VGA cable here - unfortunately the picture goes in sharp at one end and comes out all vague and blurry at the other so it's only ever been used in occasional odd cases of desperation...

[rwrand]

Well done sir!

I bought a 128k Mac in 1984, used, with printer $2800 I think it was, and I understood from the seller who only had it a week that it was the sixth unit off the boat as it were into the States. Sadly I no longer have it. I did real project work on it for a couple of years using Multiplan. It sat next to the IBM AT with 2M of RAM and a 20M Core hard drive (enormous hard drive at the time, system bought used from MIT), which I used for system development work in C, and reports in WordPerfect. I moved spreadsheet work from the Mac over to Lotus 123 and sold the Mac.