@europlus @_the_cloud Wow, that sounds cool. I had honestly forgotten about MacDraw and was picturing MacPaint in its place.

Really need to get my SE/30 resuscitated one of these days, it's been too long.

@europlus @_the_cloud Nice! Do you happen to remember what program you used?

@bonkers

That's a fun cover!

@greatquux

I thought it was interesting that they were that specific. I guess they were proud of their hardware and mixtaping skills!

Sadly, my only tape deck just does Dolby A (and is kind of broken in general), so I dunno when I'll be able to admire said skills!

@_the_cloud Oh, good eye! I thought it looked kind of ImageWritery, but I haven't used one since last millennia, so I couldn't be sure. Though you're right that that's pretty obviously Chicago, so I guess I could have been a *little* sure...

@arisummerland Yeah, for US$2-3, I thought it was well worth rescuing.

The cash register this place uses is also two layers of #RetroComputing interest:

The physical computer is what I believe is a Mac Mini G4 running OS X (which would mean 10.3-10.5).

The register software it runs is much, much older, however. I can't be sure of the software's resolution, but it *looked* like the 512x342 of the original compact Macs, and it was definitely rendered in 1-bit B&W.

I commented on the setup, and the guy just kind of shrugged and said it was an antique shop.

Fair.

This cassette jumped out at me at an antique shop today.

Not because of the content. It's just someone's mixtape from 1988.

But I love that whomever made the tape then went over to their computer, loaded up a template or a dedicated piece of software, and printed out a custom j-card on their dot matrix printer. The future was now!

#cassette #RetroComputing