compu85 🌈

compu85 🌈

@compu85.bsky.social

Aka JasonP. Tinkerer, systems admin, Diesel & electric car enthusiast, vintage computer junkie, bnkwupt’s mess maker. Keep things with a warranty seal out of reach! Also on mastodon @ sdf.org

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Mac84 (Steve) 🍏
@mac84.bsky.social

Hey friends, I’m in need of a new job. No, YouTube doesn’t pay the bills. 😓 If you know anyone who is looking for an experienced product/app Content Designer or UX Writer, please let me know! 🤞 Feel free to DM me or email me any leads. Thanks!

compu85 🌈
@compu85.bsky.social

Next weekend Josh and I will be giving a demo of Xerox systems at VCF West - every generation of computer hardware they sold form the Alto, to the Dorado, the Dolphin, Dandelion, and Daybreak. A rare chance to see the whole lineage in one place - working!

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@compu85.bsky.social

Here's the laser path on a 1981 Xerox 8040 Electronic Printer - the one sold with the Star office system. Note the helium neon laser - a modulator bends the beam. That's why there appear to be 2 beams in the photo. Light strikes the spinning polygon mirror causing it to scan.

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SDF
@sdforg.bsky.social

Yesterday Josh Dersch and Jason Perkins stopped by to do some fan maintenance on MissPiggy and power up the Nova-3. Thank you for your volunteer hours! icm.museum

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Dave Williams
@syrstorm.bsky.social
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

DELL EXEC: Consumers are “not buying based on AI. In fact I think AI probably confuses them more than it helps them understand a specific outcome." @pcgamer.com #CES www.pcgamer.com/hardware/del...

pcgamer.comDell seems to be the first to realise we don't actually care about AI PCs"What we've learned over the course of this year, from a consumer perspective, is they're not buying based on AI."

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CelGen Studios
@celgen.org

Watching Adrian begin to scope the amount of work he's got going on that Lisa's I/O board reminds me of the job I had to do a few years back where it was easier to just strip that corner of the board, remove the failing masking and replace traces and sockets as per the schematic.

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Mr. Macintosh
@mrmacintosh.bsky.social

Today is a very sad day for the Apple community Bill Atkinson has died at the age of 74 😢 He was Apple employee number 51 & the principal designer & developer of the Lisa GUI. He was also among the first 30 members of the original Apple Macintosh development team. He was a true programing legend.🫡

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Chris Espinosa
@cdespinosa.bsky.social

Bill Atkinson was one of the most brilliant, imaginative, and compelling people I ever had the privilege to work with. His vision touched every device you use today. And his heart, his open love and humanity, exceeded all of that.

compu85 🌈
@compu85.bsky.social

What I didn't show was all the manual poking and prodding the thing needed to even initialize. The working drive is a warranty replacement, and the eprom looks newer. I'll dump it later and see if it's got a later firmware.

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