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I built a pint-sized Macintosh

A user assembled a miniature Macintosh using a Raspberry Pi Pico running Matt Evans' Pico Micro Mac firmware. The build outputs to a 640x480 VGA display at 60 Hz and supports a USB keyboard and mouse. Despite the Pico's limited RAM, the setup provides 208 KB of memory, which is 63% more than the original 128K Macintosh.

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To kick off MARCHintosh, I built this tiny pint-sized Macintosh with a Raspberry Pi Pico: This is not my own doing—I just assembled the parts to run Matt Evans' Pico Micro Mac firmware on a Raspberry Pi Pico (with an RP2040). The version I built outputs to a 640x480 VGA display at 60 Hz, and allows you to plug in a USB keyboard and mouse. Since the original Pico's RAM is fairly constrained, you get a maximum of 208 KB of RAM with this setup—which is 63% more RAM than you got on the original '128K' Macintosh!

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