@katewagner.wehwalt.net Neat

Every Thursday nite Ahab and His Deck-Hands feat. Ishmael tear it up

A charming audio reading of the Sphere chapter of Stan Veit's important book, read by Randy Kindig ( @floppydays.bsky.social ) and posted by David Greelish. If you need some computer audiobook content

California, still not terrible

I have some great Sphere mugs that I'm releasing for sale. Some were extras from Kickstarter (bright cream ink) and some earlier samples with a metallic silver. Available while supplies last at shop.gocomputernow.com

I have some great Sphere mugs that I'm releasing for sale. Some were extras from Kickstarter (bright cream ink) and some earlier samples with a metallic silver. Available while supplies last at shop.gocomputernow.com

Happy birthday to Bob Dylan, one of the three named people in “We Didn’t Start the Fire“ who is still with us (and he’s one of only two good ones).

The largest-ever use of Motter Tektura? (on the tail of a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, early 1970s)

I've really been enjoying these moon phase "images" you've been posting! When I saw this one it inspired me to implement an animated clock with this style of rendering. I've posted the code here, github.com/xenomachina/..., and here's a screen recording:

Long before there were animated loops, I jealously collected cool looking pictures on my computer, all of them GIF87 or GIF89-- the image viewer program on our 386 would tell you which one it was. I had the astronaut, the Ferrari, the tiger-- all the good stuff!!

A blog post about Halt and Catch Fire CPU behaviors, including a link to the article I put together on the Sphere's ominously visible HCF mode: unstack.io/halt-and-cat...

Highly recommended: https://gocomputernow.com/

Thiebaudesque

The legendary film poster artists of 20th (and 21st) century cinema are leaving us in rapid succession: Drew Struzan last year, and now both Tony Stella and Tony Seiniger. Seiniger's most iconic work was for 1975's Jaws. It was parodied in that same year by another design famous in its own right:

Cc @pynchonnames.bsky.social

In architecture theory, a “duck” is a building whose form reflects its function or use. San Francsico has (at least) two such eateries. 🧵One is the Double Decker, a burger place on Grove that is shaped like a two-patty burger. (Their stuff is low key excellent btw)

The combination type specimen and recipe book for one of the most recognizable typefaces in the United States.

I’ve recently added to my Sphere site a number of technical articles about bringing up a Sphere and troubleshooting its modules. These are formalizations of notes I’ve kept over the years. Here are some: sphere.computer/articles/sph...

How I found Sphere's lost disk operating system, how it connects to Motorola's 6800 development system, and how professional self-hosted development on micros took away one of the things that minis uniquely could do. sphere.computer/news/2026-05...

How I found Sphere's lost disk operating system, how it connects to Motorola's 6800 development system, and how professional self-hosted development on micros took away one of the things that minis uniquely could do. sphere.computer/news/2026-05...

New: Signetics CRT font family, based on the bitmap letterforms of the Signetics 2513 character generator, as seen on an analog CRT screen. Mixed-case, style variants and TTF variable axis included. www.fogcitytype.com/signetics-crt

The Computer History Museum (@chmarchives.bsky.social) is offering $1,000 research travel grants, applications now open. The CHM's archives are incredibly extensive and they're great to researchers (ask me how I know!). Info here: computerhistory.org/access-and-r...

Very lucid 84 year old film about how radio receivers work(ed) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYW-...

It’s Orson Welles’ birthday Seen here in Rome, 1974

A few years ago I made a little video about how George Lucas and John Williams resurrected the musical theme for a lens technology youtu.be/yiYgYMGuD9Q?...

So, You Want To Buy a Computer! April 1978

The Welles homage is very well done

Just got @bzotto.bsky.social new book in the mail, about the Sphere microcomputer! A rich history with some really beautiful handling of the print primary documents

New: Signetics CRT font family, based on the bitmap letterforms of the Signetics 2513 character generator, as seen on an analog CRT screen. Mixed-case, style variants and TTF variable axis included. www.fogcitytype.com/signetics-crt

Blade Runner (1911) via www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap...

Mid-to-late 80s Japanese jazz fusion is the ultimate form of music.

One project is to further explore one of the top tier computers in my collection, the Canadian MCM/70. An Intel 8008 based personal computer with built-in APL from 1974. Here I am initializing special NOS data cassettes I found and bought new lead-acid batteries. #retrocomputing #vintagecomputer

🎶 “Can you see the chart, Fernando?”

tiny ascii mandelbrot

There are absolutely “character actors” of fonts. It’s not that you know the name, but you know what they’ve been in.

I kind love the idea that the book could be just pure fiction—and writing it performance art!—but Sphere and their whole story is completely true! gocomputernow.com

Are you, like me, CONSTANTLY opening Terminal windows to type "man ascii" ? No more! The best thing Claude has ever made: github.com/bzotto/mac-a...

My new book about Sphere, the forgotten but incredible 1970s computing pioneer is published and available! Curious? Grab a copy here: shop.gocomputernow.com/products/go-...

Oooh, snap!

@bzotto.bsky.social arrived in the UK

SF Disco Preservation Society now has a Patreon. This guy has been doing the lord's work out there for a while. patreon.com/SFDPS

That book on Sphere, the revolutionary late 70s personal computer you weirdly never heard of? It’s out! @bzotto.bsky.social did a wonderful job making a gorgeous book about a forgotten computer—a book you can, yes, now purchase! shop.gocomputernow.com/products/go-... I just got my copy!

Sophie Wietlisbach, the designer of my new Sphere book, has just been named as a finalist in the 2026 Swiss Design Awards for her earlier project about Swiss type manufacture companies. swissdesignawards.ch/en/sophie-wi...

Friends and strangers are starting to send me pics of the Sphere book arriving at their homes, all over the States and in different countries! This is so cool! Also people are (pleasantly) surprised by how visual it is. If you missed the Kickstarter... shop.gocomputernow.com/products/go-...

Got my copy yesterday as well. Can't wait to dig in. #vintagecomputer #retrocomputing

I got my copy of the Sphere book today! Can't wait to read the story!

These colors, man. So good.

Kazumasa Nagai designed one of my favorite posters ever, for the Expo '75 world oceans exposition. Sorry to know of his recent passing. EX mikelynchcartoons.blogspot.com/2026/04/japa...

telling my kids this is the Centre Pompidou

I understand the criticisms, but this could really rejuvenate the mid-budget action movie industry