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- A Glimpse of the Elusive ‘Time Bandit’ for the Sanyo MBC 550
- My First Computer Thought It Was a Sewing Machine
- Pinterest as a Visual Archive of Computing History
- An Inside Look At OS/2…And Why It Failed
- A Phone Call I’ve Remembered These 28 Long Years…
- One of the Finest iPad Apps Is No More – Thanks for the Update, Twitter
- The Tandy CoCo to Get Its Own ‘Soul of a New Machine’
- Susan Kare’s 32×32 Pixels of Steve Jobs…On My Flesh and Forever
- Three-Headed Beast Spotted Staring Across Martian Landscape
- Christmas Morning, 1979 — A Pivotal Moment Captured on Film
- So Long, and Thanks for All the Games
- A New Photo Panorama of The “Byte Cellar” for 2012
- Liber809 – The Motorola 6809 Gets a New Platform
- CFFA3000 for Apple II: Look Ma, No Disks!
- My First Printer. What Was Yours?
- Glowing Pixels Replace Swirls of Paint at the Smithsonian
Recent Comments
- Derek Etnyre on Found Photo: Me and My Apple QuickTake 200 Camera
- Piku on My First “Homepage” and Email “Sigs” of Olde
- Piku on Regarding Keyboards, and a New Favorite: the Leopold FC660C
- Marc Johnson on Regarding Keyboards, and a New Favorite: the Leopold FC660C
- bhtooefr on Regarding Keyboards, and a New Favorite: the Leopold FC660C
- Joe Tyson on Regarding Keyboards, and a New Favorite: the Leopold FC660C
- hans meiser on Regarding Keyboards, and a New Favorite: the Leopold FC660C
- Marc Johnson on Regarding Keyboards, and a New Favorite: the Leopold FC660C
- Regarding Keyboards, and a New Favorite: the Leopold FC660C | Byte Cellar on An Apparent Keyboard Geek Finally Learns to Type
- Karl Olinde on “Picasso” Macintosh Logo Poster
Twitter: blakespot
- Seems Twitter Ticker does not run on orig iPad with 5.1.1. Shame, I like it better than Trickle. The latter will do, tho. 07:39:28 PM June 11, 2013 from Tweetbot for Mac ReplyRetweetFavorite
- So I let iTunes update my iPad 1 from 5.0.1 to 5.1.1 -- and I’m in a cyclical cannot restore scenario. I should have left well enough alone. 06:56:17 PM June 11, 2013 from Tweetbot for Mac ReplyRetweetFavorite
- RT @kirilot: @blakespot check out the website the national mall is covered in bones to raise genocide awareness 05:38:20 PM June 11, 2013 from Tweetbot for iOS ReplyRetweetFavorite
- RT @kirilot: http://t.co/k0iSgobYAn @ The National Mall http://t.co/EzyD1zmRgA 05:38:17 PM June 11, 2013 from Tweetbot for iOS ReplyRetweetFavorite
- Is Sony trying to grab defeat out of the jaws of victory? 05:37:26 PM June 11, 2013 from Tweetbot for iOS ReplyRetweetFavorite
- @kirilot What? 05:34:15 PM June 11, 2013 from Tweetbot for iOS in reply to kirilot ReplyRetweetFavorite
- I must’ve been in the loo. So iOS 7 comes with a flashlight app? 05:12:11 PM June 11, 2013 from Tweetbot for iOS ReplyRetweetFavorite
- Correction: This is the SIXTH Apple Store coming w/ in 30 mins of home (I’m in Alexandria, VA) — not the fifth. 04:20:10 PM June 11, 2013 from Tweetbot for iOS ReplyRetweetFavorite
- Nice, a fifth Apple Store is coming to my area. (All within 30 mins (most within 15 mins) of my house.) http://t.co/WXclB78VlW 04:13:03 PM June 11, 2013 from Tweetbot for Mac ReplyRetweetFavorite
- The voice in the new Apple TV spots sounds a little bit like Ben Affleck. 03:47:43 PM June 11, 2013 from Tweetbot for Mac ReplyRetweetFavorite
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Monthly Archives: February 2005
The Passing of Jef Raskin
It is with sadness that I make this post. Jef Raskin, pioneer of user interface design, Apple employee #31, and the man who started the Macintosh project at Apple in 1979, died this past weekend of pancreatic cancer. He was … Continue reading
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The “Certain Impact” of RAM Failure…
About two years ago I setup a nice SGI O2 system to finally have a chance to play with IRIX and the 3D video hardware that SGI is so famous for. I’ve had fun with the box, but never had … Continue reading
Posted in SGI
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A Bit Out of Hand…
I am pretty much always in the middle of setting up or modifying or reconfiguring one of my old school systems. Invariably when I start overlapping such projects, chaos ensues. I really need to straighten up my workspace. I have … Continue reading
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My HP 9000 712/60 “Gecko” Workstation
One weekend last summer, my wife and I drove to a remote shopping center in search of a particular lamp shop. When we pulled into the parking lot, we found a massive “flea market” spread across the asphault with hundreds … Continue reading
Posted in Other Platform
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Retro Gamer Made Me Famous…
It seems Retro Gamer magazine, which I spoke of a while back, has added a few seconds to my allotted 15 minutes of fame. I’ll explain how. In issue 10 there is a nice, 10-page article about the Apple IIgs … Continue reading
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My Commodore 64…and The Stand…
I have recently begun putting together a Commodore 64 system in order to have actual 8-bit Commodore hardware with which to compare my C-One. I’ve rather enjoyed playing with the C64, having never really been an 8-bit Commodore user. Impressive … Continue reading
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The Vintage Computer Festival
It definitely seems that the number of vintage / retro computing fans out there is increasing. I suppose kids that were lusting after the latest and greatest hardware back in the days of the Apple II, Commodore 64, and Atari … Continue reading
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