Because for the first part of the #MARCHintosh challenge I used a 1984 Macintosh Plus and for the second week I used the iBook G3/500 from 2001, it felt only right to move on to the next time period, and I stopped at another white laptop, this time, the 13.3" MacBook from 2006, the white one. From the get go, this is a very special laptop to me, as it was the first Apple laptop I ever got, bought second hand from someone found online.

If you haven’t read the first part of the #MARCHintosh challenge, make sure to take a look over there as well. Unfortunately, because the Macintosh Plus feels a bit air-gapped, there’s not much I can do in order of sharing content from and to it. So after playing a few rounds qof Space Invaders, I decided to use a different Macintosh for each subsequent week of this month. I was lucky, because while I was just powering up some of the old computers I had, the iBook properly turned on this time.

Life finds a way As I said in my initial note, I encountered some issues into getting the text file off the Macintosh Plus, because my Powerbook 5300cs is now broken, so I was able to take the text out from the Macintosh by taking photos of the screen and using the MacOS built-in function of text-recognition added recently in Preview on my modern MacBook Pro. It feels like cheating, but it if looks stupid, but it works, then it’s not stupid.

self-expression (noun) self-ex·​pres·​sion ˌself-ik-ˈspre-shən The expression of one’s personality: assertion of one’s individual traits)

“we didn’t do anything wrong, but somehow, we lost” — Delusional Former Nokia CEO

“I am enough.” - some mug

So what do you do when you need something, but don’t want to support the consumerist lifestyle? You put your hands together and you make your own stuff!

The flexi disc (also known as a phonosheet, Sonosheet or Soundsheet) is a phonograph record made of a thin, flexible vinyl sheet with a molded-in spiral stylus groove, and is designed to be playable on a normal phonograph turntable.

Flexible records were commercially introduced as the Eva-tone Soundsheet in 1962. They were very popular among children and teenagers and mass-produced by the state publisher in the Soviet government.

Because I managed to get a third batch of these photodiscs, I decided not to create an in-depth post about them, but to update the existing article. Here I will only feature the new photos and the new additions to the collection and the recording of these new discs posted separately, but you can find the entire collection in the main article. To read only the new part of the article, go directly here

The Toshiba Libretto 100CT is a marvel of engineering. Launched in April 1996, it manages to fit a powerful Pentium processor and 32MB RAM (up to 64MB) in a laptop less than one kilogram, squeezing a full Windows 95 PC into a device the size of a paperback book.

More photos in this wonderful article by TurboMag, the source for most of the photos. The article itself is brilliant, but is in Romanian. Persu, a specialist in airplanes aerodynamics and dynamics, implemented his idea in 1922–1923 in Berlin, building an automobile with an incredibly low drag coefficient of 0.28 (same as a modern Porsche Carrera) or even 0.22 (still rare among modern production cars), depending on the source]. This drag coefficient was far better that the 0.