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WE NOW HAVE WORKING MACINTOSH PLUS CLONES.

A Macintosh classic, running the useful Timbuktu program - think VNC but for 68000 Macintoshes that uses appletalk - showing the system 6 desktop, which is coming from a system named "clone"
A dark blue Macintosh plus logic board, on a wooden plank. It's surrounded by a horrific rats nest of cables.

And yes, as I don't have any video out at the moment due to the scan converter not working - I'm using Timbuktu

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The last Macintosh Plus (before this) was manufactured in 1990. This is the first new* Macintosh Plus in 34 years!

*IWM not withstanding, but I'm working on it

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And just an extra little thing - the keyboard works!

The system folder within system 6 has been relabelled to "hello world", to indicate that the keyboard is working as expected
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This has been an absolutely insane project. Theoretically this project is even older than the Lisa project - I only built the Lisa as I couldn't build a Macintosh!

There's so many people that have been involved to turn this into a reality.

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@DosFox Wow I haven’t heard of Timbuktu in DECADES.

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@DeltaWye I love it! It's so nifty

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@DosFox Timbuktu! We had so many licenses for that invaluable tool back in the day. Probably the best remote control app ever.

#timbuktu
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@pejacoby it's so bloody useful! Even now!

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@DosFox I'm very excited to see what you get working on the scan converter!

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@RonsCompVids well I mean video is definitely working, so I'll probably just find another way of getting video out of this thing

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