Want to see the world's dumbest scraping operation? They are scraping the PCjr again. www.youtube.com/live/DUbZE5I... The URLs are invalid; they are stringing together pieces of valid URLs and making invalid ones. So lots of 404s & 414 when the URL gets too long for the machine. #retrocomputing

I've always cringed when I heard the term "American exceptionalism." What we are living through now is a generation of people believing they are better than anybody else, getting extremely high on their own supply, and now acting as though it was true.

I am this old ... #retrocomputing

mTCP users: I'm starting to get another formal release together. Now would be a great time to send me your bug reports and feature requests. This release will have a much faster NetDrive, Telnet emulation fixes, DHCP fixes for VirtualBox, and some subtle library fixes. #retrocomputing

Behold a portion of the circuit board of the Iomega Beta 20H drive, a 20MB 5.25" removable cartridge drive from the late 1980s. The circuit board is both wildly complex and beautiful. The same company would later go on to make Zip drives. Chasing the mass market did not work well. #retrocomputing

New: the DaynaPORT SCSI/Link Ethernet packet driver for DOS, rewritten in x86 assembly! github.com/mbbrutman/da... Only 6.5 KB of RAM is required and performance is better. Bonus - It works in Windows 3 if you use WINPKT with it. #retrocomputing #bluescsi #zuluscsi

GitHub - mbbrutman/daynaport-dos-packet-driver-asm: A rewrite of the DaynaPORT SCSI/Link packet driver for DOS in x86 assembler.

A rewrite of the DaynaPORT SCSI/Link packet driver for DOS in x86 assembler. - mbbrutman/daynaport-dos-packet-driver-asm

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mTCP is now officially on github! I was resisting for years but there are too many out of date versions out there now, so providing an official copy to fork from should be beneficial. github.com/mbbrutman/mT... #Retrocomputing

Never have so many people enjoyed watching scaffolding put up.

These morons are ruining the Internet: brightdata.com Their scraping API and residential proxies bombard small web sites. They send an enormous amount of traffic spread out over millions of IP addresses with no way to identify or block them, generating constant load web server owners.

My networking gear has always celebrated ... #PrideMonth #Retrocomputing

@jcs.org Do you have a preferred method of contact regarding your DaynaPort changes to BlueSCSI earlier this year? I maintain a packet driver for DOS systems that supports this, and I'm trying to understand if your changes require changes in the packet driver.

In case you have been missing out on the photo album from last weekend's VCF PNW, you can (for now) find it here: photos.app.goo.gl/HZZrQnD7rcbB...

VCF PNW 2026 Shared Photos · Jan 1, 1999 – May 9, 2026 📸

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I am going to *try* and get this ready by Saturday morning and frankly butcher this down to under 40 minutes but if nobody hears from me for a few days, I'm locked in the Edit Room trying to splice together a masterpiece. :P

This👇🏽 deserves to be posted 100 times but I’d be labeled spam.

If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.

VCF PNW 2026 is one week away! Three talks and 25+ exhibits including original machines, replicas, and upgrades. And best of all, the conversations! vcfpnw.org May 2nd and 3rd, Tukwila, WA (just south of Seattle near the SEATAC airport). Sponsored by the Interim Computer Museum. #retrocomputing

(Warning: Blatant spam about an event I care about) Come join us for Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest 2026 in Tukwila, WA on May 2nd and May 3rd! Details at vcfpnw.org. #retrocomputing #seattle

Every year, hundreds of people walk silently through the streets of Minneapolis… looking at the windows of the houses. It's the Wedge Cat Tour: the residents put the cats in the window and the crowd stops to admire them. Yes. This exists. 😹

VCF Pacific Northwest 2026 is just a month away! vcfpnw.org Join us May 2nd and 3rd in Tukwila, WA just south of Seattle near the SEATAC airport. We have 25+ exhibits, 3 talks, and you get to hang-out with some great people! Sponsored by the Interim Computer Museum (icm.museum). #retrocomputing

"I don't say this lightly: when we escape this trump hell there needs to be a Presidential Crimes Commission. It should be made up of independent prosecutors who look at those who enabled a corrupt president." Eric Swalwell

Here's your moment of zen: A "holy" cat named Coco stands at the entrance of a church in Mexico, seemingly blessing everyone who walks in 🐱

Jesse Jackson was always present somewhere for many things, but the thing I remember him best for was reading Dr. Seuss on Saturday Night Live. 30+ years later it is amazing to watch - he never breaks character.

Bonus: people who voted for Trump won't even get the joke.

VCF PNW is back! We're looking for exhibitors and presentations. See more details at vcfpnw.org . #retrocomputing

I'm still trying to understand what Renee Nicole Good did to deserve what is effectively a summary execution. Needless and senseless violence. That served no interest.

Take a break from the usual insanity for a different kind of insanity: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMGb... #retrocomputing #chiptunes

8-bit Boléro (The World's Most Ambitious Chiptune?)

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It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration. But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants. The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.

The Northern Lights were visible a few minutes ago just north of Seattle! #aurora

I'm finally old enough to understand why Hotblack Desiato had to be dead for a year for tax reasons. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...)