Since @averyredbox.bsky.social currently has the other Visitel unit back in the MidWest that I bought during the show and I have mine out tonight we tried testing a picture call over VoIP and it worked!

My side of the connection from @celgen.org's side of the world. The last two pictures were coming through my iPhone of all things! It worked, however you can see the noise gate kicking in 3/4 of the way through on the transmission. This is probably the longest connection on a Visitel in many years.

I think my new Flir is broken. Some crazy dude keeps popping up on boot….

Another great person, Burger Becky, has passed away from the vintage computing community. We were privileged to have her speak at VCF East and VCF West to tell her stories. Her stories will be preserved for posterity. She will be greatly missed! www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

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

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!

@celgen.org New phone. Old corrosion.

3 TB of #VCFMW 2025 presentation footage copying over. This may take a while to edit and upload.

And thats a wrap! As of 2 hours ago the venue is closed up and all equipment has been packed into the truck. Tetris is not just a game sometimes, and today I won 🚚 Great seeing/meeting everyone at #VCFMW it was an incredible event as always. See yall’ next year!

AMPS is alive at VCF Midwest! Another way to get billed by ShadyTel. #VCFMW #VCFMidwest

#VCFMW was in full swing tonight with everyone setting up. Capped off the night playing some unreal tournament in a good ol’ fashioned LAN party. My machine decided it didn’t want to have windows explorer to run anymore, but progman and CMD made it work just fine. See everyone tomorrow. Now to sleep

Its all packed! All ready for Friday unloading at #VCFMW Took all day to do and my arms feel like wet noodles, but its done. Now I go collapse in bed. 🛌

I should probably post this *somewhere* I will be at #VCFMW showcasing some extremely rare pieces of A/V tech. Zenith PhoneVision and a Sony PV-100 VTR. Look for table group G and I’ll be there!

✨ French CanCan 10 years anniversary! ✨

When it absolutely needs to get there @grummanllv.com

Me being told by the developer that no, they will not accept my 60's blueprints, $75000 for an 8000 square foot plot is barely a tenth the value of the land and to leave the site immediately because I'm trespassing. (2025)

I have always had a strong appreciation of artwork, especially in tech with bespoke things such as Smart Cards. It's kinda neat to look at these designs and think about the thought processes behind it.

i'm proud to have been involved in the creation of this new book from @nostarchpress.bsky.social, Designing Electronics That Work! it's full of useful material for anyone who wants to build anything electronic and bring it to mass production. nostarch.com/designingele...

HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT!!! WE HAVE LIFE ON THE HEAD DRUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I screwed up the audio recording while i was idly working but my excitement is visible

Seems good to me

sad that the subminiature AC power plug never took off. the design was inherently safe since kids couldn't fit forks or scissors in

Taking it slow at the end here and making sure everything is correct. Cleaning and polishing the heads and replacing the felt pads and such. I’m also taking a page out of BandersonTV’s book and using ring terminals as cap lugs. Works great!

I don’t think I have ever seen a terminal that speeds up as you typed faster. 🤣

Going through some old paper tapes and found this. It's version 2 of Microsoft BASIC from 1975. Version 1 was never released to the public which makes this Microsoft's first commercial product and it's not been archived anywhere! Time to break out my tape reader... 🙂

Nearly at the end now. I have recapped all the PCB’s and am just waiting on the caps for the PSU I forgot. In the meantime I went to Ace and found out the hard way that Japan had a wild standard pre 1967. M3 .6 thread pitch!! So I had to chase the threads with a .5 to use modern screws. Worked Great

uhhh by popular demand i think this is a t-shirt now? this might be a bad idea, felt way too easy. i just sped through setting this up so go nuts i guess lol. dunno what the quality will be like. cctl.creator-spring.com/listing/broa...

someone reminded me that tomorrow is also this station's 100 year anniversary!

I built this LED audio visualizer back in 2014 as well, the FFT code needs some tweaking but its an 8 bit AVR powering it and I am using every ounce of that CPU power. I also need a case for it one of these days.

One of the last low phone kiosks on Quebec Autoroute 20 between Quebec City & Montreal. They allow drivers to chat from the comfort of their cars. Something changed. It is now so low that only a child in a pedal car or an F1 driver could use it. (Shen Hao FCL810AC, 180mmf8 Super Angulon, TXP320)

Magic 🧙‍♂️

Hotglue might be sacrilege for some people. But dang it, it does make stuff like this easy to do.

Note to self…. DONT DROP 760°C MOLTEN SOLDER ON KNEE

Spent the afternoon at the Microcomputer Museum in Ome. It’s actually multiple workspaces and a museum in one and it was well worth the price of admission.

I have officially started the restoration process on the PV-100 🎉 Both cosmetic and electrical.

After wanting to visit one for decades and 39 years since the last local event I have finally visited a World’s Fair. Expo 2025, Osaka.

In the 1960s, this absurdly large camera was used to make masks for integrated circuits. The layers of the integrated circuit were drawn at large scale and then optically shrunk to make the glass masks that were used in manufacturing.

As promised, here is the restoration introduction for my newest acquisition. A 1963 Sony PV-100 Portable VTR. Sony’s very first portable video recorder. And near as I can tell, I have one of 5 left in the world. youtu.be/IWFr16FXk80?...

Not anymore :-‘)

After driving 800 miles from VCFSE I am finally home, and i have a special piece of Sony history. More to come in a video series.

Anyone hiring? Indeed in my area looks pretty bleak and I lost my primary source of income

youtu.be/mOf3YmNHb2M?... here is a rough telecine of the very first Phonevision broadcast. I will have more to come on this matter, at least 4 films and all the documentation on the SEVENTIES version. Yes you heard that right, theres a different version and i have serial number 1

It was wild watching this get unpacked and viewing some of the film that came with this. You found something magical and while its over my heads it's absolutely amazing to read about Phonevision.

My tv feels a bit *scrambled* tonight….

Fire alarm? No, Alarm Fire.

Make sure to walk your elderly printers regularly, they need the exercise!

I'm saddened to learn that we lost David Schleinkofer earlier this week. He created lots of incredible sci-fi artwork, including the box art for SimCity 2000 and one of the most incredible pieces of Transformers art that many 80's kids still have seared into their brains.

on Wednesday i wrote and executed my first program on the IBM 1401 computer! it's all written in machine code because i seem to do things on hard mode. it worked on the second try because the first time around i miscalculated some addresses.

I built a Pico based DRAM tester by @tubetime.bsky.social and tested all my broken chips. I found a few interesting things, including that not all my broken chips were broken!

How about a little music. ( ( ( ( S T E R E O M U S I C ) ) ) ) If you know anything about the recoding capabilities of a IIGS, you'll know this is fairly impressive. Oh yeah. this is recoded from those speakers. No trickery done here. #retrocomputing #IIGS #AppleIIGS