Brilliant. Got my old Macintosh Plus out a few months ago and flipped it on and unfortunately that let out some of the “magic smoke” that keeps all electronics running. I think it’s an electrolytic cap that blew. Just too old. Will have to find time to refurb it.

They had me at "4 months of work just to make a stupid pun."

I've preserved a number of machines by building them in to rackmount cases. It never occurred to me to make a faux product out of them. This is amazing! The graphics and detail are wonderful.

Naming it Racintosh instead of Rackintosh is... Definitely one of the decisions of all time

I lost my beloved Mac Plus, the computer that made me become a programmer, because of COVID.

Shortly before COVID hit, I fired it up to see if it still worked, and within like a minute, a certain capacitor (that is a common and well-known failure point) fried, and it was dead. I brought it to a computer repair store to fix, and then COVID and its lockdowns hit.

When I returned months later to see what was up after my phone calls weren't returned, turns out the whole place had shut down and I to this day have no idea where my Mac Plus went. :/

No...no Programmer switch.

Close, they wired the Reset button!

But, no Programmer switch.

It's very hard to contain my disappointment. Bridge too far I guess.

Not related to the content, but "Let's Encrypt" started in 2015 and since then, everyone can get an HTTPS-enabled web site. I have configured my web browsers (perhaps it's already a default?) to show me a warning when accessing non-local HTTP sites. It is a nice thing to visitors to enable an encrypted version of the HTTP protocol.