Welcome to the Mac Power Users podcast. I'm David Sparks and joined as always by my pal and yours, Mr. Stephen Hackett. How are you doing, Stephen?

I'm good. David. How are you? I am excellent. The wind has finished, I think. I don't know. It's been crazy here in Southern California.

Yeah. But the, but things have calmed down a bit. I'm going to. It's been crazy here in Southern California. Yeah. But the,

but things have calmed down a bit. I'm going to be putting in my backyard back together since

we get done recording in the spirit of optimism and all is well in the world. Good. It's a big

week for you. We're going to get into that. But in the housekeeping section of the show, where we talk about things that aren't really topics, but, you know, things we should talk about. I just wanted to highlight a series I have going on 512 pixels. It's written by a friend of mine named Kevin. Kevin is, an old, old friend of mine.

We've known each other forever.

And he's writing this series for me about this really interesting, like, computer history

kind of corner that I don't, like, it's not a circle that I travel in.

But there are these groups or these companies that have like put together like old

school like DOS and Windows machines with like components you can get today. So you can get like a

286, 386. For him, we ordered this laptop and I say say laptop, like, I'm doing air quotes, uh, called the Pocket 8086 and he's kind of exploring it and like this world. I just think it's really interesting because no one, I mean, there are, like, you can build a Mac from like new old stock and like there's some people who have made replacement parts and stuff.

But it's hard because you need the ROM and some like specific components.

And on the DOS and Windows side, that just wasn't true.

And so this is a really like it's a fascinating topic.

And again, one that I'm not super familiar with,

so I've been enjoying working on this with him. So the first two are out. There'll be at least one more

towards the end of the month, but wanted to highlight to people who have, you know, maybe you're a Mac

power user now, but you started out on DOS or Windows back in the day, this should tickle that part of your brain.

Yeah, I mean, just looking at these machines, this really does, it just works on me, right?

I'm not really into the old PC stuff as I'm into the old Mac stuff, but it is fun looking at the old, like, spreadsheets and why we've come so

far with this stuff. Yeah, we were like downloading, like, Lotus Agenda. I was like,

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