Crazy Eddie's Used Computers
@dectape.bsky.social
I like to do stuff with ancient electronic junk, mostly computers. Sometimes I post pictures of it!
This was a very fun show, and everything worked flawlessly from beginning to end! Had a lot of fun talking with visitors about the Alto.
compu85 🌈@compu85.bsky.social · 2d agoHere's a video I took of our setup form #vcfwest - 8000 Dandelion, two 6085 Daybreaks, 1100 Dolphin, Dicentra sitting on top, and finally the Alto. Thanks to everyone who stopped by - @dectape.bsky.social and I had a great show!
My score today during VCF load-in, courtesy of the amazing Friends of the Palo Alto Library’s book sale booth.
We are all loaded-in and set up for VCF West! Come by and see us tomorrow and Sunday at CHM!
The loading for the trip down to VCF West has begun...
KICKI is showing signs of life today as it can kind of examine memory locations. icm.museum #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing
Random impulse record purchase today. Not a ton of info on this band; Discogs (www.discogs.com/artist/43720...) says Tarwater is a "Self-described ‘hard-core country music’ band from Mountain Home, Idaho." I'm not so sure about the hard-core part but it's not bad.
This one comes to mind more and more often these days....
the nintendo shamecube@futuresushi.bsky.social · 3w agothis comic is from 2014 and is one of the most singularly vindicated comics. even if it was already correct then it is even more correct now
I made a new t-shirt that I think has an important message about the future and also about friendship and i think maybe you will like it roryblank.bigcartel.com
doing a reverse roko's basilisk and creating an AGI model of elon musk so I can torture it forever with a python script
There's no way out of here, when you come in you're in for good
It's anchored on two pieces. I could honestly write 1000+ words about each one. The first one is by @baldurbjarnason.com about the disintegrating hegemony of US technopoly (and the conditions that served as the foundation for the VC-funded SaaS bullshit that funds 6-7 figure programmer salaries)
The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
baldurbjarnason.com
heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit
Some early Intel bipolar ROMs hiding inside an HP 9810A calculator I'm getting ready for VCF Pacific Northwest. The 3301 was introduced in 1969 and holds 1024 bits. Come see the 9810A in action at the beginning of May! vcfpnw.org
the subtitles are off sometimes but she made it in like a day so idk spanakopedia.ordoliberal.com
SPANAKOPEDIA
The Venture Bros Quote Search
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TransBot(tm) says "Trans Rights." (Also all game box art should just be a picture of a hand holding the game cartridge.)
"We'd really like to, but the mean old regulations won't let us."
David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social · 4mo agoMy "We don't allow bets on assassinations and murder" ad campaign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the ad campaign
in 2016 a group of strangers in Kazakhstan saved a dog from drowning by forming a human chain to reach him. they just unveiled a statue commemorating the event and I'm genuinely about to start sobbing
got early access to DLSS 5 and personally i think it looks incredible, check this out:
Billionaire groupthink is wild; they are now all in a rush to insist they have no inner life. No introspection, soul, interiority, light. They need you to know they are nothing but hungry ghosts, forever consuming, shaping the world to death to rule over a graveyard. They want you just as cynical.
shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · 5mo agothe billionaires are not ok
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
Our societal systems have elevated to untold power and wealth the most bent and twisted humans among us, people who exploit their fellow humans to such a degree they learn to scorn humanity. Little wonder the tools they build seek to eliminate the problem of humans from the equation of society.