Saturday, June 28, 2025

Refurb weekend: Gremlin Blasto arcade board

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Because my sisters were taking rollerskating lessons and my own rink skills mostly consisted of pratfalling, my mother would occasionally ...
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Saturday, June 21, 2025

See Jane 128 by Arktronics run (featuring Magic Desk, 3-Plus-1 and the Thomson MO5)

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"Look," says Jane. "I'm a computer program. Run, computer program, run." I still maintain that the 1986 Commodore...
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Sunday, June 8, 2025

There's not much point in buying Commodore

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Bona fides: Commodore 128DCR on my desk with a second 1571, Ultimate II+-L and a ZoomFloppy, three SX-64s I use for various projects, heaps ...
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Saturday, June 7, 2025

RIP Bill Atkinson

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As posted by his family (Facebook link), Bill Atkinson passed away on June 5 from pancreatic cancer at the age of 74. The Macintosh would n...
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Harpoom: of course the Apple Network Server can be hacked into running Doom

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Of course you can run Doom on a $10,000+ Apple server running IBM AIX. Of course you can. Well, you can now . Now, let's go ahead a...
Saturday, May 24, 2025

prior-art-dept.: The hierarchical hypermedia world of Hyper-G

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It's time for another entry in the Prior Art Department and today we'll consider a forgotten yet still extant sidebar of the earl...
Saturday, May 3, 2025

What went wrong with wireless USB

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(Hat tip to the late Bill Strauss and The Capitol Steps' Lirty Dies.) A few moons ago I was thinking of ways to take my Palm OS Fossi...
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