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   Tube🌞Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 21:48:43 JST Tube🌞Time

   Tube Time: a 2023 retrospective! 🧵

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     Tube🌞Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 21:48:40 JST Tube🌞Time

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     as you may know i have been working with CuriousMarc at his YouTube channel. in March, i was able to extract data off the very first style of floppy disk, the IBM Minnow disk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkzPvTQSIgM

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     Tube🌞Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 21:48:41 JST Tube🌞Time

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     early 6502 chips were missing the ROR instruction. this isn’t a bug, and i made a YouTube video about that.
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk_QC1eU0Fg

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     Tube🌞Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 21:48:41 JST Tube🌞Time

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     speaking of the 6502, i also repaired some SYM-1 single board computers. https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/109927905082333397

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     Tube🌞Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 21:48:42 JST Tube🌞Time

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     in february, i reverse engineered the Game Blaster sound card, all except for the weird custom chip. https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/109841846287576462.

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     Tube🌞Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 21:48:43 JST Tube🌞Time

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     at the start of the year i figured out how to boot MS-DOS on my Apple II.

     https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/109679227812726996

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     Tube🌞Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 21:48:55 JST Tube🌞Time

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     also in march, i obtained a Sun Sparcstation 1+ and managed to get it working. https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/110040949079759243

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     i also got an IBM PS/2 model 25 which i coaxed into functionality. it was quite a journey–i even had to 3D print a key! https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/110081169895862662