When computers had style! TI-99/4A, 1981. #TI994A

Any MechE rover heads out there know what went into the design of these mechanical interfaces to SHERLOC on Perserverance? It's like a gas strut with two degrees of compliance at both ends. Is this just a combination of thermal expansion, shock, assembly compliance? Why solid thin-fin vs a joint?

From SNL in 1984: Reverend Jesse Jackson in THE QUESTION IS MOOT. Listen to him and tell me how comes that it feels in 42 years nothing has really changed?

This look familiar for some reason...

it's "find a way to extract the internal ROM from an ancient NEC microcontroller" time again, now featuring the uPD7801 running at 2x the maximum clock rate makes it glitch into executing from external memory very quickly, but the fun part will be figuring out how to control it after that

BMW made a proprietary screw. We 3D printed it. Then we CT scanned it just for fun. @lumafield.bsky.social www.ifixit.com/News/115528/...

Wow.

To complement my new video about using a printer on a PC Engine, three videos about consoles trying to be a little bit more youtu.be/j8J58aTxCPM youtu.be/k1YUxQrMwGE youtu.be/9PlpCuw7STQ #RetroGaming #RetroComputing

Honestly I needed to hear it

A picture is worth a thousand words ... 👇

I needed a space to scream into that isn’t just Bluesky about bad ideas in AI, and I cannot let it pollute my effort to highlight Good Virtual Reality. So I vomited this. I still have a mouth and I can still scream, at least for now. badartificialintelligence.substack.com/p/metas-cto-...

this is the largest circuit board i've ever completely reverse engineered. 8 layers, larger than a sheet of paper, 1000s of nets, over 1000 parts. 🧵

pretty stunning chart

How much Americans have shelled out to Elon Musk through government contracts: $38 billion. How much Elon Musk made last year: $200+ billion How much Tesla paid in federal taxes last year: $0. Oligarchy is real. The system is rigged.

hey seattle. any of yall got any old stereo equipment that you dont want/need? broken is fine. VHS too. mostly wanna start improving my repair skills on old tech. would love any reskeets. (thats such a gross word lmao)

Oops, the link was not clickable earlier, but it's the same URL! Here's a clickable one: youtu.be/cNDm13SbX_Q

Metallurgist Constance Tipper was born #OTD in 1894. Her groundbreaking work on the brittle fracture of metals saved countless lives during #WWII & laid foundational principles for modern fracture mechanics. First female FT faculty member at Cambridge Dept of Engineering (1949). #WomenInSTEM (1/2)

Facts from the video: -We saw eight different types of optical media (The Canon and NeXT cartridges are counted as one type total) -Every non-media product we saw in the video was from Sony youtu.be/gVZv_GvwY3c

Someone captured my colleagues an I servicing the cameras during Kīlauea’s episode 42. We stopped to discuss what we were seeing, but because I talk with my hands it looks like I’m fixing to push someone in… Credit: Volcano Hideaways

I think it was @tressiemcphd.bsky.social who was insistent that we decouple our online work lives from our online personal lives and here's data point one million supporting that theory. A lot of people can't ditch google for work functionality, but separating out personal accounts gives you options

Same speech synth hardware. This was a pretty big hit in Europe in 1983. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oddg...

What a lovely day @vcfsocal.bsky.social

The Sega Mega Drive was Hideki Sato’s masterpiece. Before landing on the "dark and moody" console we love, he was prototyping some wild concepts from paddle-style controllers to keyboard add-ons. ​It’s fascinating to see the journey from those "out there" ideas to the iconic 16-bit powerhouse.

#vcfsocal was a delight. Also, my human body hurts from moving heavy old computers.

How do you like the self-help guides for retro collectors that @amylherndon.bsky.social and I made for @vcfsocal.bsky.social?

Babies Mother Hospital Scissors Creature Judgement Butcher Engineer If anybody gets this reference, congratulations, I owe you a drink.

Playing with the Speech Synthesizer expansion module on the TI-99/4A with @jeriellsworth.bsky.social at @vcfsocal.bsky.social

At @vcfsocal.bsky.social, and @jeriellsworth.bsky.social has her very long TI 99/4A set up on display.

trump spent $40M ($133k per person) deporting 300 migrants to countries that aren't their homes, sometimes paying twice when they returned them to their actual countries anyway. That same money could've funded comprehensive veteran services, medical care and disability support nationwide. #Resist

Doesn't feel real that VCF SoCal starts tomorrow (well, if you're an exhibitor, that is!) And by this time tomorrow I'll be most of the way there, doin' stuff.

Was starting to search online for ways to file a complaint about Collective Health's management of PEBB Providence insurance, when a "Yikes, we're working on it" mass email arrived from PEBB. Seriously, this transition has been an absolute omnishambles.

Mountain View Reverse Engineering (mtvre) meetup tonight 7:00 pm at Wagon Wheel BBQ! Social / no talks scheduled

Something you don't see very often. Inside an 8K Commodore PET model 2001-8N. Notice the 4 holes drilled in the front of the PCB to stop you buying the cheaper model and upgrading the RAM yourself. Yes, they actually did that. Although it wasn't too hard to add bodge wires, I have seen that done.

You couldn’t make this up. Trump is the most corrupt president in US history. By far

everyone with an IQ above paste could have predicted this would happen: anyway; these Meta glasses are ontologically evil and anyone who wears them is a creeping blood-worm who should be chased from society with stones and sharp sticks

This has to be the worst packing and shipping job I've ever seen thus far. They shipped this exactly like this

Drug executives - "But.. But... We spent decades and billions lobbying republicans to allow us to fuck over US citizens. Why are they fucking us over now?!?" "Ouwwweee... My $40m bonus is going to get cut 5% this year if the line doesn't go up!!!" www.cnbc.com/2026/02/10/m...

Trump shows up over a million times in the unredacted Epstein files. And that's the half they released. Imagine what's in the half they didn't release. That means that the DOJ redacted Trump's name about 950K times in the 3M documents they released. www.axios.com/2026/02/10/t...

What, did you think they were going to stop with trans people? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

It has been reported that Donald Trump's name appears in the Epstein files 38,000 times. That is a lie. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) has said that when he searched for Trump in the unredacted files, Trump’s name came up “more than a million times.” We should be calling them “The Trump Files.”

"I WILL FUCKING KILL YOU, UNDERSTAND ME?" Local PD in Indianapolis, IN assaulted, abducted and threatened to kill a group of teenagers returning from an anti ICE protest (2|9/26)

I'm going to give this a shot. Transplanting all of the components from an #Amiga A2386SX bridgeboard that had severe battery damage that I could not repair to a remake of the A2386SX board. The large square "million leg" ICs have me worried but worth a shot. #vintagecomputer #retrocomputer

Late night antics 15 years ago in an undisclosed R&D Lab

Every American needs to watch this:

Give them another year or two and it'll be about non-trad wives being shown. Blessed Be...

This old TV geek was excited to see Beaker punching buttons on a Grass Valley 100 switcher on the Muppet Show special tonight.

True or false: Red Dwarf's Holly once dated a ZX81.

The federal government has singled out a prominent Portland protester as the possible “leader of Antifa” according to an ndependent journalist. https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2026/02/antifa-safehouse-leader-at-portland-ice-protests-singled-out-in-federal-records-report-says.html