The Macintosh IIsi (two, s, i)

A member of the second series which was designed to run at 25 MHz, but shipped at 20 MHz to preserve sales of a higher model. The last model able to run System 6, and last to support a second floppy drive (external connector for this), mine had a Daystar 030 Universal PowerCache accelerator card in the Processor Direct Slot, running at 50 MHz. It’s currently in the box, awaiting a long overdue replacement of the electrolytic capacitors.

On that computer, I met my favourite compiled programming language: FutureBASIC 1.07(?) and FB II. Full Macintosh Toolbox (API) access! Also, three cheers for HyperCard and it’s HyperTalk language. C/C++ was a nasty surprise in university: “What do you mean I have to write 30+ lines to open a window on Windows, and it doesn’t even listen to any events yet? FutureBASIC does it in one line! And why can’t the parser figure out any of the following: that an error on line 80 is actually from a typo on line 12; that almost all the lines after a syntax error should not be marked as errors, and that a line feed or carriage return is the end of a line?! Semi-colons line endings are evil!”.

Ahem.

Prior to university, I had twelve schools, including three years in Japan. No, I was not a military child. (-:
I of course know a bit of Japanese.

Previously, I patched an ESS AudioDrive driver and S3 Trio driver to use them on BeOS with a peculiar Compaq computer. I also ported some small console applications to Haiku, but never packaged them. At leas one of them was a Lisp, and I think three flavours of Forth. Think I got stuck trying to bootstrap CLISP.

Recently, I tend to play War Thunder or else some realtime strategy game…or just try to watch Netflix in Japanese with Japanese subtitles. (^_^);

I prefer to be on my own or with few people instead of large gatherings, but somehow people keep thinking I should be in customer-facing roles. (O_o);;;

I hang out in E.N. World’s official chat with a few other fans of roleplaying games.