Notices by Blake Patterson (blakespot@oldbytes.space)

Funny, when some spring chicken makes a vintage computing post on Fb.

#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #keyboards #mouse #IllShowYouOld #photo #hardware

The IIe "dialed in" to the Mac is great for IRC, less so for Asciiquarium. 😛

#9600baud

@thomasfuchs The //c is what got me started on my apparent obsession with serial terminals, over 15 years ago now. 🙂

https://bytecellar.com/2007/07/21/apple_c_as_text/

IRCing on the Apple IIe "logged in" to the Mac Studio.

#IRC #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #vintagecomputers #AppleII #Apple #vintagetech #tech #hardware #terminal #UNIX #irssi

@thomasfuchs

@thomasfuchs Nah, on a 1985 Commodore 1080, it just takes about 24 hours in its new orientation (on its side, for reasons).

Degaussing.

Pretty slick, USB4VC.

USB4VC is an active protocol converter that let you use USB keyboard, mouse, and gamepads on many different retro computers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54sdPELuu4g

#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #modernretro #retrofit #IBMPC #DOS #Mac #Macintosh #ADB #USB

@pierrenick @likesoldmacs

It's interesting -- during the development of the Amiga, artists were contracted to come in and draw impressive and demonstrative digital art using versions of the first Amiga drawing program, "Graphicraft," so early on in its development that file operations had yet to be implemented. The drawings were completed, photographed by Commodore, and then lost to the ether when the system was powered off.

It's amazing to contemplate, so groundbreaking were some of these works, carried out on a $1,295 consumer-oriented computer in 1985.

One such example is "Four-Byte Burger" by Jack Haeger, here scanned from one of the Amiga 1000's manual covers.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/50926604693/in/album-72157604421303889/

Note the CRT scanlines in the image ... and their orientation.

#Amiga #Mac #vintageAmiga #vintageMac #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #pixelart

@thomasfuchs I, of course, purchased the $15 monstrosity.

So I'm walking by one of those annoying phone repair / accessory kiosks in the mall when I spot...

#odd #Apple #rainbowapple #applelogo #shwag #airpod #case #vintageapple #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #atthemall

I pulled all these out of my sock drawer the other day.

You'd be surprised at the things still hidden down in there.

#sockdrawer #storage #flashram #thumbdrive #CFcard #SmartMedia #SDcard #linearFlash #USB

When your kid asks for a switch for Christmas.

#Christmas #switch #gaming

Pretty faces
#retrocomputing