A collection of really amazing open source projects, where people are getting Mastodon clients to work on 70’s mainframes, the Apple II, and all kinds of crazy things.

  • @[email protected]
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    311 months ago

    So awesome. Please post over at vintage_apple and any of the other retro computing subs you come across!

    • Matt
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      511 months ago

      They really exist! Open source communities can be… interesting, to say the least.

        • Sean TilleyOPM
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          511 months ago

          I dunno if it’s time wasted, a bunch of hobbyists built cool things that work on old computers, across a variety of systems and platforms.

          • @[email protected]
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            211 months ago

            i didn’t mean it in bad way. i totally get that sometimes money/time is not the only priority.

    • Sean TilleyOPM
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      311 months ago

      These are 100% real. Many of them require hardware augmentation to handle HTTPS traffic, but they all work.