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40 Year-old Apple Mac finally gets online thanks to a Raspberry Pi Pico W and some clever coding


17 hours for a "Rickroll"!

Certainly not maker and developer Hunter Irving who recently bought an old 1986 Macintosh Plus and managed to get it online using the Raspberry Pi Pico W. To complete the project, Irving created a fork of an existing tool called MacProxy that enables the computer to handle some modern website interfaces. His example is the National Weather Service, which strips out just the essential HTML for the display on the vintage Mac.

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