Sunday, November 27, 2022

Refurb weekend: Sega Dreamcast

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Remember when consoles weren't glorified PCs? The 1999 Sega Dreamcast remembers. Sega's final console and introduced on "9/9/...
Saturday, November 12, 2022

Meet your new two-factor authenticator: your Commodore 64

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Multi-factor authentication is ripe for disruption. SMS 2FA is inherently defective. Phone authenticators get stolen. Security tokens get lo...
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Sunday, November 6, 2022

Running a pinball game from a disk image doesn't make me a pirate

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I like pinball; I have a Williams Star Trek: The Next Generation and a Stern Sopranos machine in my house. (As it happens, the Sopranos mach...
Saturday, November 5, 2022

Refurb weekend: Commodore SFD-1001

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The Commodore SFD-1001 is an oddball and a rarity even among Commodore IEEE-488 5.25" floppy drives, which nowadays aren't partic...
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Sunday, October 30, 2022

If one GUI's not enough for your SPARC workstation, try four

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Who needs a jack-o-lantern when you've got a bright orange gas plasma display? This is a 1990 Solbourne Computer S3000 all-in-one wo...
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Sunday, October 23, 2022

Battery Eliminator Bible: what's in that classic console AC adapter

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This is hardly exhaustive, but I promised a list of amperage, voltage and polarity for the wallwarts with my classic game consoles here. I...
Friday, October 21, 2022

Refurb weekend: PowerBook 1400

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The PowerBook 1400 is, and remains, my favourite laptop. It was everything the PowerBook 5300 should have been and more. It was my first l...
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