SDF “classic” sticker set is back! sdf.org?store

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We’ve adopted our first PET .. 2001 .. Commodore. Wasn’t this inspired by the set of STAR TREK TOS? Word on the street is if the SPACE and R E T U R N keys are not worn it wasn’t used much, but the dymo and paper labels are curious. #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

I seem to have no spare working Amiga floppy drives around, so I just setup a Teac FD-235HF-3240 to work with the Amiga. If you have a 3XXX version of this drive, there are bunch of small jumpers: Set RY34 (Ready signal on pin 34) and DC2 (Disk change on pin 2.) Then set DS0, FG, HA, HF and NMK.

This quirky ASCII alphanumeric terminal will soon be at icm.museum thanks to efforts by others. Have you ever seen or used one? They’re not widely known about. The first version was numeric only #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #dataentry

Dealing with a mouse infestation. Which one is you? #mouse #pointer #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

Coming soon to icm.museum/blog thanks to Eric’s expertise (and obsession)!

Spending a few hours at the Interim Computer Museum working on their NEC APC. It’s the first color model I’ve come across, and the first one with a full complement of cards (including the RAM expansion and hard drive controller!). #RetroComputing icm.museum

Commodore Pets 8032 are 1 Mhz 6502 processor based computers. Henke built a custom sound card for the pets dedicated to generate sounds. One pet is dedicated to video. One pet is dedicated to sequencing. All programmed in assemble language of course. Today’s live act:

This was the peak of #vcfpnw on Saturday .. a much larger venue than the final ICF, but we’re planning for more next year! #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrogaming

After a wonderfully successful VCF PNW in Seattle, the Plexus P/20 is now in the hands of the Interim Computer Museum! icm.museum Coming soon to a telnet session near you.

Here is more on the "Terminal Tetris For Two" (ttft) youtu.be/vDSmPMDjP08?...

Computers!

#vcfpnw was … thank you everyone

VCF PNW 2026 Returns to Tukwila #VCFPNW2026 #VCFPNW #VintageComputing #RetroComputing #Tukwila #PacificNorthwest #ClassicComputers #ComputerHistory theoasisbbs.com/events/vcf-p...

#VCFPNW @thevowel.com @adriansdigitalbasement.com @mega65.bsky.social @cursedsilicon.social.restless.systems.ap.brid.gy @zuluscsi.bsky.social @dma.space ....and EVERYONE presenting and exhibiting at #VCFPNW Thank you all!! It was a great event!

Thank you everyone that helped make #vcfpnw possible and brought their stuff to show off and answer questions about. I learned a lot and the vibes were immaculate. :D

🗡️ Driving up to Seattle today for #VCFPNW Hopefully traffic isn’t too terrible. Shyra *would be* absolutely vibrating right now, if she wasn’t still asleep in the back lmao See y’all later. She’ll probably post from the show though.

#vcfpnw2026 #vcfpnw DAY TWO! Come check out the Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net!

Welcome to Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net! Available for Windows, Mac, Linux, UNIX, BSD, DOS and many others! If your device speaks TCP/IP, we want you! #vcfpnw #vcfpacificnorthwest #vcfpnw2026

Folks at #vcfpnw #vcfpnw2026 fucking love my awful G5 Quad Mac So I stuck a fitting sticker above its awful liquid cooling system

Upgrading the Sharp X68000 in advance of #VCFPNW.

I’ll be in Seattle next weekend for #VCFPNW but I’d like to hit some other nerdy places like: - Connections Museum - RE-PC - Ada’s Technical Books & Cafe (which sadly will close in a few months) Any other suggestions?

Vintage Computer Festival PNW is this weekend and wristbands can be pre-purchased at vcfpnw.org - we’ll have them waiting for you at the VCF table at the tukwila community center! #vcfpnw #seattle

I'm rapidly closing in on being ready for #VCFPNW! Say hello to the NEC APC. It's an 8086-based computer that runs CP/M-86 & MS-DOS - yes, there were computers with 8" floppy drives that ran MS-DOS. It has a gorgeous 12" green CRT with (for 1982) phenomenal 640x494 graphics.

It’s official! The PLEXUS P/20 is coming to icm.museum thanks to Adrian’s Digital Basement - multiuser Tetris matches commence soon. #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #retrogaming

More Sunday VCF PNW insanity.

#VCFPNW Spending the day today here at the revived Vintage Computer Festival PNW! It's like @sdforg.bsky.social ... BUT IN PERSON!!

Vintage Computer Festival PNW is this weekend and wristbands can be pre-purchased at vcfpnw.org - we’ll have them waiting for you at the VCF table at the tukwila community center! #vcfpnw #seattle

The centerpiece of my exhibit for #VCFPNW is ready! Meet the Sharp X68000 Super HD. It's powered by a 10MHz 68000, 2MB RAM, and a SCSI hard drive. It shared technology with arcade machines of the late 1980s so the catalog of arcade ports is excellent.

Scott called me up last week to tell me about this, and I kinda went giddy with excitement. It is SO COOL that this stuff is being published.

A very cool update from @scott.hanselman.com regarding 86-DOS which was written just across the street from us! icm.museum #software #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

Try this ONE TRiCK that #retrocomputing enthusiast hate. #vintagecomputing

Each day it gets more and more real. Save your wristband for free admission to icm.museum after the event on May 2nd and 3rd #vcfpnw #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

Another one is my exhibits for #VCFPNW is ready: Meet the Sharp MZ-2000! It’s powered by a 4MHz Z80, 64K RAM, has a super-crisp 10” CRT that supports 640x200 graphics, and gets my vote for sexiest computer of 1982. It has the optional expansion unit and very hard to find floppy controller!

Yesterday we had two guests writing programs in LISP on the Symbolics and C on MissPiggy (PDP-11/70) The lisp code attempted to read data from the serial port while the C code generated a Fibonacci sequence. This is what we are here for! icm.museum #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

We're nearly just a week away from the Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest which will be held at the Tukwila Community Center on May 2nd and 3rd. Come checkout over 25 exhibits and see what the community is up to. #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing vcfpnw.org

The sleeper awakens. mastodon.sdf.org/@fvzappa/116...

M/A/R/C in Texas was going to donate their retired Plexus P5 to SDF in 1991. We did run System V UNIX for much of the 1990s and thanks to @adriansdigitalbasement.com we’re getting a Plexus for ICM.museum youtu.be/ft7AJkWMkG4 #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #unix

Do you use #openbsd at SDF too? The proactively obscure Linux-like operating system!

We had 12 builders in the PiDP-11 workshop and by the end of the day everyone had completed their builds and had blinking lights! Congrats 🥳🎉 #pidp-11 #soldering #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #workshop

Surprised I came across some sketches I did not know I had scanned/archived. This is an early Glider sketch when the paper airplane was the more common kind. It looks like electrical outlets might have given you "shots", not destroyed you. Ceiling ducts were bad too. I have a few more I can post.

We’re getting ready for our first PiDP build workshop this weekend! We’re completely booked for this event, but we’ll be doing another one later in the summer. A guided and assisted build! icm.museum #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #electronics #soldering #workshop #kit

across the street decades ago Seattle Computer Products produced this 16K “standard” board from icm.museum #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

Join the Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest, sponsored by our friends from the Interim Computer Museum! vcfpnw.org #retrogaming #PRGE #PRGE2026

monochrome, no graphics, no serial port, no hard drive and DOS 1.00 - accept it and fight the urge to upgrade it, this is the original IBM PC. icm.museum #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

You don’t even have to go to Seattle, we’re minutes from SEATAC airport in Tukwila - the birth place of DOS.

a promise since the bus tunnel days has arrived.

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing icm.museum