News MicroMac project recreates a Macintosh 128k on the Raspberry Pi Pico - hardware costs less than $7

[Admin]

If you want to experience the nostalgia of working on a Macintosh 128K, you can build one for less than the cost of lunch,

MicroMac project recreates a Macintosh 128k on the Raspberry Pi Pico - hardware costs less than $7 : Read more

 

[TerryLaze]

If you want to experience the nostalgia of working on a Macintosh 128K, you can build one for less than the cost of lunch,

If you just want the experience you can just run an emulator on your PC, running it on a pico with a normal usb keyboard and mouse is not going to add anything to the nostalgia.

 

[NeoMorpheus]

Fun fact:

According to Andy Hertzfeld the Macintosh used for the introduction demo on January 24, 1984, was a prototype with 512k RAM, even though the first model offered for sale implemented just 128k of non-expandable memory. This prototype was used to provide adequate RAM to run the memory-intensive demo, which showcased speech synthesis software intended to impress the crowd.

 

[NinoPino]

If you just want the experience you can just run an emulator on your PC, running it on a pico with a normal usb keyboard and mouse is not going to add anything to the nostalgia.

In a way or another you obtain the result. But what is the sense of spend hundreds of $ on a PC when you can use smaller and cheaper Raspberry ?

 

[TerryLaze]

In a way or another you obtain the result. But what is the sense of spend hundreds of $ on a PC when you can use smaller and cheaper Raspberry ?

The sense is that especially in this forum everybody already has a PC, and any PC from the last 20-30 years can run mac emulation.

 

[NinoPino]

The sense is that especially in this forum everybody already has a PC, and any PC from the last 20-30 years can run mac emulation.

The purpose of the project is to "build your own" Mac, not to emulate it occasionally.

 

[TerryLaze]

The purpose of the project is to "build your own" Mac, not to emulate it occasionally.

How is this a Mac?

 

[NinoPino]

How is this a Mac?

And this ?