Check out my new podcast/youtube video with Stephen Jones of the Interim Computing Museum (formerly of the Living Computer Museum!) @sdforg.bsky.social you can support them with a tax-deductible and matched donation and visit them now! youtu.be/EFkxiLBSjTo?... icm.museum

His latest video was great but that one break away, oh man that made me brainstorm. 😂

In memory of the late Duane Roberts, inventor of the frozen burrito. ;-;7

More hard drives need an option for wood grain.

It's okay, Canada, we can try again in 30 years.

Gee, Manitoba is a big place.

Watching Adrian begin to scope the amount of work he's got going on that Lisa's I/O board reminds me of the job I had to do a few years back where it was easier to just strip that corner of the board, remove the failing masking and replace traces and sockets as per the schematic.

43 Years of existing 7 Years of ownership 159,979km Personally logged 1 Transmission rebuild 1 Engine rebuild 3 Sets of tires 5L of Windex 14L of Concentrated upholstery cleaner $25,383 in maintenance 21,208L of gas added 4 Provinces 8 States Happy 400,000km to my car. 🥳🥂🦅

I've been staring at this car both in person and online for the last five hours and at $1000 it's a better deal than my PDP-8/S was, but if I'm buying a car to make a bunch of youtube videos, then sell it and not feel greasy, I gotta sell this thing again in short order, just cleaner and registered.

A tease of something amazingly exciting... Mac OS 8 for CHRP PowerPC systems! 😳 I'm working to get this CD archived properly... (along with it's friends) 💿 Super thankful to the amazing people who helped make this happen. ❤️ Learn about CHRP here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_... #CHRP

ROMs for booting MacOS on the Apple Network Server have been found/archived - now how to flash them to other ANS - Are you a OF expert or know about PPC Mac ROMs? Join in and let us know. tinkerdifferent.com/threads/appl...

Turning your dishwashing into a Myst puzzle.

Seeing lots of Canadian commenters on this episode wishing to attend but would prefer one in Canada: well the first VCF Montreal is a thing this January! vcfed.org/vcf-montreal... Exhibiting there will be free and they're actively looking for more exhibitors right now to attend. Check it out! 🇨🇦

I have a few people asking from the video today about the filtering on the GPIB port. Here's some photos showing how it sits between the rear port and the GPIB input on the actual printer. Here's also another photo of the shielding on the door/window and just the printer itself with paper loaded.

What could YOU do with 24 million bits of storage?

Tomorrow I want to talk about a neat printer. Just like another printer which is already kinda special. But this one is *extra special*.

Returning to VCF Midwest two years later on LGR! youtu.be/FTKnv4LoAjY And wow has it changed. It feels like an almost entirely different show! 66,000 square feet of vintage computers, retro hardware, software, and old school goodness of all kinds. Here's what the show was like (for me) in 2025!

"Okay, if I fly to Chicago with one piece of luggage I won't feel compelled to buy a lot of stuff!" Scrolling through LGR's MidWest videos and missed that he busted me making my first purchase of the show in the background. (it was a $50 5mb Apple Profile drive) (Also Hi Steve! 👋 )

Everything sucks 50000 times more to do when you have a cold. Including editing.

The Four-Phase Systems' IV/70 power supply got its $270 in new capacitors today.

I’ve had my healthy dose of 80’s optical storage for the weekend. Hope you are having a good one too!

Weird Friday night discovery. Magnets!

Great news everyone! Mark your calendars because for the first time since 2019, VCF Pacific Northwest is happening. It's be held just south of Seattle on May 2 and 3, 2026. vcfpnw.org

Yum. Keytronic.

Does anyone have past experience with debugging Canon’s nixie calculators, specifically the 164p?

I've decoded the NEC V20's group decode PLA. This PLA takes an 8-bit opcode (and two mode signals) as inputs and produces 14 status outputs that control operation of the CPU. These status signals will hopefully explain some gaps in functionality that the microcode doesn't cover. #retrocomputing

If you ever want to own a microcomputer, remember that recapping a power supply is a LOT more expensive. Over $300 just for the six bottle caps and another two dozen of the comparatively little axial caps Four Phase use everywhere else.

We lost Dennis Ritchie on this day 14 years ago. Father of the C programming language. Co-developer of Unix. Never forget the man who helped build the foundation of modern computing, yet whose passing was so brutally overshadowed by a sleazy salesman who disowned his own daughter.

Watching an old video from the former Computer Museum of Boston and they had an Apollo Guidance Computer on display that while they did a beautiful job emulating it on what looks to be a compact mac with a touchscreen overlay, the touchscreen is so badly out of calibration it's completely unusable.

Some photos over the last year as I began building the system for the LAN Party, testing to make sure it all worked and committing everything to the case as I was repairing cracks and gluing on magnets to support the liquid cooling system. Thanks again to @thetechknight.bsky.social for the PSU!

For tomorrow's video I'm wrapping up with VCF MidWest and doing a show and tell about a system I brought with me.

….hey, as long as it works. 🤷‍♂️

I was away for a weekend and I determined now to start filtering job searches into its own folder because this is just nuts.

Yesterday, I was lucky to be able to spend a couple hours at the Connections Museum with Sarah Autumn. I had a stupid grin on my face the entire time! Even after a couple hours, we just barely scratched the surface of what's there. It's unbelievably awesome. www.telcomhistory.org/ConnectionsS...

The many angles of a CM-2, courtesy of the Interim Computer Museum. icm.museum

I had a blast hanging out at the Interim Computer Museum Saturday night. There were a bunch of things I had never seen in my life. Thanks @celgen.org for being my model! icm.museum

And somehow I am now on a list with the CBSA. Is it a bad list? No idea. 🤪 The border guard recognized me as “the guy with the clean old station wagon full of old computers” and had apparently processed me in 2024 because again, how to declare value on this stuff. No issues getting home. 👍

#vcfpnw2026 ITS HAPPENING!!!!!!!!

ICF day 2 has me started with splicing leaders on 9-track tape.

Cheap hotels and computer shows go together like Velcro.

Welp. I had trouble with this while driving to VCFmw in 2024 but I won’t be able to make it to the Interim Computer Festival tomorrow because the border thinks I’m trying to sell a table of laptops. It’s almost 9pm, the brokers are closed and I don’t have a printer. This is stupid.

I like how in a place like Kamloops with a rock station , pop station, a country station and a tri-decade classic music station, the AM radio station is the only holdout for a remotely good variety of music. Two Depeche Mode songs this morning alone from different albums.

Either I’ve been chosen to save the world from an unspeakable evil, or I’m about to flash the firmware on a note reader. Someone had fun designing this.

It’s a Monday, alright.

TIL: My Automatic Document Feeder has no problems bulk scanning punched cards. This possibly makes the need for a second card reader solely for digitizing decks not necessary.

I got lazy and decided rather than fix my 42” plasma panel I replaced it with a 50” for $20. Spent four hours last night playing PS2 and another hour this morning but man, the paranoia about burn-in is real.

Trying to not write off the night by doing stuff with A/UX but everything is falling apart! D:

.......! I completely forgot there was supposed to be a video tomorrow..... >_>