Not my finest work, but. It’ll get the job done nicely.
Cant get the old Amp-Lok connectors anymore and mine are shattering. So DB15 and DE9 connectors it is!

We’re in the process of freeing the DATA trapped on these esoteric carriers. Would you support and help us store and carefully recover this data with a membership or sponsorship? icm.museum

#software #preservation #esoteric #tapes #disks #media #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing

colorful circuit board in a layout program. each layer is a different color. it's complicated!

this is the largest circuit board i've ever completely reverse engineered. 8 layers, larger than a sheet of paper, 1000s of nets, over 1000 parts. 🧵

metal can oscillator marked HOORAY VX8111 34.500MHz . 9 1 4 1

Hooray! it's 34.5MHz!

a teletubbies character is standing in a grassy field with his arms outstretched ALT: a teletubbies character is standing in a grassy field with his arms outstretched

Wait…. Something has occurred. I feel it. Wait I hear boss music…. Oh no…. It cant be! IM OLDER 😱
Aaaaaaaaaaaa I cant be 26 yet

finally painted the dumbest 3D sculpt i’ve made to date #art

a tiny little 3D printed “ham radio” in the palm of my hand (it looks like a ham with an antenna and radio face)

another angle of my HAM RADIO

yet another angle of my ham radio

the front radio face of my han radio. you can see the tiny details are quite messily painted and need to be adjusted larger in the sculpt

some photos so you can really see how messy my tiny bits are #art

What do you do if you own one of the original green-eyed Microsoft mice but you don't have the special Microsoft ISA card it needs to interface with a computer?
Well if you have deep pockets you hunt down and buy one, but you can also convert the more common InPort Bus Mouse card to work as well!

“Will there be a video tomorrow?”

Usagi's video today really hit close to home with the IV/90 I'm still trying to understand.

A second Maxell battery that has been sitting on my bench for years has now started to push the resin-capped end off.

Due to difficulty doing my work, I've decided to offer my time in exchange for pay. I can teach electronics theory, give open Q&A sessions, and help with others' projects. I need to move soon and cannot afford it, so I'm hoping a few people will hire me. Feel free to DM if interested. Price TBD.

Thanks for all the support in 2025! 👍🏼

All fixed! Now I can (hopefully?????) get my years-late videophone video done. >_>

I was going to be a bit more celebratory today with getting the last video of the year finished and stuff, then it got dropped on me pretty hard this morning that over the weekend we lost an icon in the world of tech reporting.

😔

obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/stewart-chei...

Every year I'm guilty of buying my own Christmas presents, because nobody else knew of or where to find some obscure IBM retail computer from the early 90's to which seemingly does not exist on the internet until now.

IBM 4612 SurePoint Mobile computer. Yes, it's just a "Penabled" 486 DOS tablet.

Tape a 4x6 card to the side and put the label on :-)

Is this acceptable for #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing in 2026?

Some scrumptious B-Roll follows.

Got a new answering machine. The Western Electric model 1-B from 1955. Still had the original outgoing announcement. Sadly no incoming messages though. Its all tube and has a tone wheel like a B-3 organ for the beep.

Since @averyredbox.bsky.social currently has the other Visitel unit back in the MidWest that I bought during the show and I have mine out tonight we tried testing a picture call over VoIP and it worked!

I only have video of the iPhone test, but here is @celgen.org coming in on my side... 2000mi away!

My side of the connection from @celgen.org's side of the world. The last two pictures were coming through my iPhone of all things! It worked, however you can see the noise gate kicking in 3/4 of the way through on the transmission. This is probably the longest connection on a Visitel in many years.

A flir imager booting with a crazy Alec from Technology Connections on screen as the splash screen.

I think my new Flir is broken. Some crazy dude keeps popping up on boot….