The Amiga 1200 I will be showing at the Vintage Computer Festival SoCal next week features a CF card IDE hard drive, new Kickstart 3.2.3 ROMs, & a PiStorm32 CPU emulator. AGS 3.0 will be running for playing games. #vcfsocal #amiga #amiga1200 #retrocomputing

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“Teams can now launch brand-new products used by millions of people in a relatively short span of time, which leaves workers feeling like they’ve honed their skills enough to move on to a bigger challenge" www.wired.com/story/model-... #tech #ai #jobs

The two Macs I will be showing at the Vintage Computer Festival SoCal next week. Both feature the Motorola 68030 processor. Both also feature internal BlueSCSI hard drive emulators. #macintosh #apple #retrocomputing #VCFSoCal #bluescsi

1977 was an amazing year. Star Wars. Saturday Night Fever. And of course, the home computing trifecta: Apple II, Radio Shack TRS-80, and Commodore PET #AT40 #retrocomputing

Using the Amiga 500 to test Atari joysticks to bring to the Vintage Computer Festival SoCal next weekend. Will need three in good working order for the Amiga 500 & 1200 as well as the Atari 1040STF. Won't need them for the two classic Macs. #vcfsocal #retrocomputing

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I see space for retro computers....

Two diodes, three resistors, & a transistor were all that was needed to get this lovely Atari 1040STF on HDMI via an RBG to SCART cable & SCART to HDMI converter. This model was missing the composite sync circuitry. Just in time for @vcfsocal next weekend! #atari #atariST #retrocomputing #vcfsocal

Need to solder in some missing resistors, diodes, & a transistor this weekend to get this Atari 1040 STF to sync its video properly for converting to HDMI via RGB to SCART. Will display at the Vintage Computer Festival SoCal next weekend #VCFSoCal #retrocomputing #atari #atariST

Happy Friday Bsky! #TGIF

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I "might" have played this a few times.....

We all knew this was coming www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b... #stocks #stockmarket #AIbubble

Jim Burns, “Martian Rainbow,” 1990

Yeah, I love repairing old computers. However, I don't do VCRs...

AI headlines make me laugh www.pcworld.com/article/3053... #ai

Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.6 as AI moves toward a 'vibe working' era

sourdough folks are hardcore #sourdough #3dprinting

Impressed with @anthropic.com and Claude Code. Or maybe the other big AI companies have set the bar really low..... #ai

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Roots of the bestselling computer in history. #c64

Competition on LLM-designed Evolutionary Algorithms - GECCO 2026 gecco-2026.sigevo.org/Competition?... #GECCO #artificialintelligence #LLM #evolutionarycomputation

a classic

Cassette tapes were my first storage medium. Not listed! I guess they lumped them in with magnetic tape. Still unsatisfying :) #retrocomputing

What is your vibe today?

AI Bots Are Now a Significant Source of Web Traffic www.wired.com/story/ai-bot... #web #internet

Troubleshoot the 6502 Processor on Your Atari 8-Bit Computer Circuit Board Using an Oscilloscope atariprojects.org/2024/10/19/t... #atari #atari8bit #retrocomputing #atariprojects

little did I know when I started Atari Projects that each curated how-to project would just become food for AI #atariprojects

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I really want one of these, but they take up so much space!

Gas Town - Multi-agent orchestration system for Claude Code with persistent work tracking github.com/steveyegge/g... #gastown #agenticAI #artificialintelligence #claudecode #coding

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oh boy clawXiv.org - e-Print archive for agents #artificialintelligence #publishing #agenticAI

Yes, but next 5 years will be rocky getting there - "A.I. will become boring in the best way. It’ll fade into the background like GPS or spreadsheets, powering everyday tools and humans at work" www.nytimes.com/interactive/... #artificialintelligence #future

I miss the days when exploring the internet via a web browser was new & exciting. You never knew what you would find & it was all safe, fun, useful, & interesting. Auto AI browsing on Google sounds like quite the opposite www.wired.com/story/google... #google #internet #search #OKboomer #web

Obvious, but important - Redefining ROI in Healthcare: Why People and Technology Must Move Together www.beckershospitalreview.com/strategy/red... #tech #healthIT #healthcare

Getting supplies together for exhibiting five vintage computers at the Vintage Computer Festival (VCF) SoCal Feb 14-15. @vcfsocal.bsky.social #vcfsocal #retrocomputing

This lovely Mac Classic II came to me with two 1MB SIMMs for a total of 4MB of RAM. Not enough to run Sim City! I installed two newly made 4MB SIMMs to bump it to 10MB total RAM. $15 with easy install #mac #macinstosh #classicMac #retrocomputing

Building Intelligent Agents with Neuro-Symbolic Concepts cacm.acm.org/research/bui... #agenticAI #artificialintelligence

The 16-bit Intel 286 CPU was introduced on this day in 1982 with its 134K transistors www.tomshardware.com/pc-component... #retrocomputing

Academic journals auto-registering me with an account, without my permission, rubs me the wrong way. Anyone else? #publishing #science #research

Worried about the future, labs are turning away students looking for a research home www.statnews.com/2026/01/30/f... #funding #nih #nsf #gradschool

Why can't they get these right? I had one malfunction www.tomshardware.com/pc-component... #gpu #meltdown

indeed!

Happy Friday! May it be 83F like here in Los Angeles :) #TGIF

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Every kid with a computer in the mid-1980s wanted this game after watching Wargames in 1983. I never played it, but recall seeing it advertised in magazines

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