Thanks to @museumofcomputing.bsky.social for showing me Teletext on the BBC Micro at #RetroFest2026. Here's the souvenir photo from my "modern" Apple QuickTake made in 1995 ;)

Thanks to @computinghistory.org.uk for bringing BBC Domesday Discs to @shortcircuit.org.uk's retrofest.uk. There's nothing like experiencing this pathbreaking project from the 80s in its original format. Look at the size of that LaserDisc! 💿

I feel like sky-based art is perfect for Bluesky jovijuan.com/first-light/... 🎨 💙 🧡 try making your own light painting by erasing the sky in my friend’s interactive work of art 🖌️

@reggitsti.bsky.social I wanted to let you know I found a bug on page 91 of Electronic Dreams 😊 which I’m really enjoying reading this weekend

@reggitsti.bsky.social I wanted to let you know I found a bug on page 91 of Electronic Dreams 😊 which I’m really enjoying reading this weekend

Wait for it...

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computinghistory.org.uk appreciation post and also this clock in particular

Silly games on dumb terminals at computinghistory.org.uk “does it look like a cat? YES”

It's 2024. Life is different, and @b3ta.com 📧 929 has an idea. * SAY I'M YOUR NO 1 - a quiz that uses all the UK no 1s and looks up how many views they've had on youtube and you have to guess which one has better or crapper numbers. Better late than never 🎉 numberones.martinburch.com

PET Invaders – Release! As the Earth Space Monitoring Network sounds alarm, you and your LASER tank are Planet Earth's only hope… Exciting space arcade PETSCII action for Commodore PET (40 cols, 16K RAM)! Downloads & online emulation at: www.masswerk.at/pet/prgs/#pet-invaders

When you repeatedly measure the positions of over a billion stars so accurately that you can see a star moving by an amount equal to the size of a pinhead on the Moon, as seen from Earth... you find amazing things! It's great. mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosb...

Only 12 days left! Please help support getting this book printed about the little-known Sphere computer! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bzo...

Feels like a perfect autumn album, like a road trip to a pumpkin patch in a comfortable knit haleyheynderickxmaxgarciaconover.bandcamp.com/track/boars "Haley Heynderickx and Max Garcia Conover return with another set of gorgeous Folk songs ... inspired by the life and music of Woody Guthrie."

Halloween - Snowman https://macthemes.garden/themes/d4ea71672a4e-Halloween

Recently I’ve been combing through newspapers from a hundred years ago, and in the spirit of the season (and in the spirit of procrastination) I’ve assembled a little gallery of Halloween advertisements from 1925 on my site: dansinker.com/posts/202…

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers

Absolutely not. I want my notes to be private and have no chance of escaping, much less resulting in notifications.

Spot Daphne enjoying her front-row seat as the sparrows enjoy the spa ...

#Podcast and audio people, if you can, get outside and join me at the second annual Tremula Festival this September. I'll be speaking again, this year on tips for international scriptwriting. tremula.network/festival

*beep* PhoenixBIOS Energy Star *dit dit dit dit ... brrrrr* HIMEM is testing extended memory ... done. *chuga chuga whrrrr chuga chuga* Error reading drive A Let's hear your old personal computer memories.

We all like to joke about July being "Gay Wrath Month" but it's actually Disability Pride Month, so have the Disability Pride Flag from VGAPride and my AST Premmia LX MS-DOS machine

Post your favourite Doctor Who Wrong Answers only.

If you’re an American should watch the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown ep on Iran. A deeply humanizing look at a country full of people just like you and me. I watched it after Anthony died and it moved in ways that are hard to relay. I also immediately ran out to try kabob koobideh and tahdig.

📊Looking to re-decorate your #dataviz office? Y ou need Boxplot Shelves!

That rare and wonderful thing, when you woke up early without an alarm clock, the children are miraculously still asleep, and you are already sitting on your sofa, reading.

Apple's new liquid glass theme?

by TLC?

Let's distract ourselves with a little short story. At some point I'll sort out a proper website, but for now here's something I wrote a while ago. If you enjoy it, please repost - sharing other people's work is the only way to spread the word.

A little (text) adventure @retrocollective.co.uk today 🙂 🧶

Is it?

loud speaker phone call, overheard: "Tell me what it says now" "nine six, double zero, eight N as in ... er ... Nancy ... one" _hmm, oddly familiar_ "good! now type in NEGOTIATE 1" _ah, the horrors of servers and terminals!_ "how do you spell that?" _ah, the horrors of tech support!_

@stevesgaming.bsky.social the link to YouTube in your profile doesn’t work for me, I had to search for you on YT youtube.com/@stevesgamin... … is this you?

Above all else: sky.

New chapter just posted... on the eve of departure. Raw emotion, sleeplessness, and the first loaded test ride at 3 a.m. A blend of excitement and WTF... open.substack.com/pub/nomadicr...

Season's Greetings from your Apple IIe

*beep* PhoenixBIOS Energy Star *dit dit dit dit ... brrrrr* HIMEM is testing extended memory ... done. *chuga chuga whrrrr chuga chuga* Error reading drive A Let's hear your old personal computer memories.

@nomadness.bsky.social i've seen a note about your adventures from the early 90s! Modems for Dummies (which has great taglines for my bot @taglines.martinburch.com) says I can find you on GEnie 🧞Were you on many online services or was that one your fave?

Merry Christmas! #TandyCoCo #retrocomputing youtu.be/HnYdSowbfBM?...

The game company Firaxis is hiring an in-house historian (cc @bretdevereaux.bsky.social )

Feeling lucky? Install that software upgrade.

Merry Christmas! #TandyCoCo #retrocomputing youtu.be/HnYdSowbfBM?...

It's Follow Friday! Almost gone now, DVD menus stored ephemra, vibes, and were often the last art created for a movie. And DVD Menus, the account, has them all.

The tree’s up, and I’ve a USB record player and a Nat King Cole Christmas album www.youtube.com/live/plorF00...

🧪⚒️ Hey NorCal! Did you feel the M6.6 earthquake in Humboldt County? Did you get an early warning notice and not feel it? This part of CA often has quakes that big; you can help with data on felt effects and on how well the warning system works by filling this out! earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

I was like... be good if you could switch accounts by long pressing on the profile icon. And then I tried it, and it worked. Oh.

I let the bsky algo make a started pack from my bot’s follows go.bsky.app/EGygZo5 probably needs a bit of polishing