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Garth Beagle

@garthbeagle.bsky.social

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I am a curator of vintage computers, weird creatures, and of course "retro" nostalgia and oddities Santa Cruz Mountains, California https://www.youtube.com/c/GarthBeagle

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 1d

I released a Public Service Announcement video on why you cannot use a Macintosh Portable without a good battery, on a Powerbook or after-market AC adapter: youtu.be/ed7-AqrY70s

PSA: Macintosh Portable Powerbook AC Adapter Damage

YouTube video by THEtechknight

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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 1d

Good night.

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know that the Texscan MSI Compuvid Spectragen 4B can make a picture of a Millennium Falcon?

On an unrelated note: I created this screen on a PC with a Python script and sent it over serial.

The page editor works. YAY!

Still some rough edges, but we're getting there.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 1d

Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a guy throwing a printer at a horse

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman eight months pregnant—she is an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School—and she is saying 'eff Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta."

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Mac84 (Steve) 🍏 @mac84.bsky.social · 2d

Whoa, I found another floppy from original Macintosh team member Joanna Hoffman! 😳

It contains the earliest version of ResEdit I’ve seen, v1.0 D4 - from 1985! 💾

#AppleHistory #Macintosh

The disk catalog showing Joanna’s system disk.

The Get Info window showing the ResEdit application version 1.0 D4 and a date of December 1985.

The application about window showing the ResEdit application version 1.0 D4 and a date of December 6, 1985.

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BigBadBiologist @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social · 1d

Before and after of a Mac floppy drive repair. Superglue and about 10 traces.

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 3d

If anyone missed the YouTuber panel at VCFMW, it's been posted online.

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Vintage Tech YouTubers Discussion Panel | VCFMW 20 (2025)

YouTube video by VCF Midwest

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 4d

Santa Cruz Mountains twilight, fog shrouding the coast. #CAwx

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Garth Beagle @garthbeagle.bsky.social · 4d

I mean i kinda wanna hear more about this Vampire Attack campaign and its rewards

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 5d

Cheap hotels and computer shows go together like Velcro.

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Garth Beagle @garthbeagle.bsky.social · 5d

a cartoon shows a man holding a basketball and the words lies make baby jesus cry

ALT: a cartoon shows a man holding a basketball and the words lies make baby jesus cry

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Dave’s Vintage Apple Tech @davesvinappletech.bsky.social · 7d

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Live Show Oct 5,2025 8:00am PST 11:00am EST

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Garth Beagle @garthbeagle.bsky.social · 6d

oh no.. 😟

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Mac84 (Steve) 🍏 @mac84.bsky.social · 6d

It makes me very sad seeing silly prices for vintage 🍎CDs & disks. 💾

I enjoy getting these and archiving them onto the Internet Archive & Macintosh Garden for fellow geeks & future enthusiasts to enjoy.

I do this with my own funds, but these dumb prices ensure a lot of them will remain lost! 😓

An ebay snapshot of identical Apple CDs with insanely different pricing.

More ebay listings with very high prices of old CDs. Priced $199 and $399 USD.

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Garth Beagle @garthbeagle.bsky.social · 6d

PowerBook G4 Titanium

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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 7d

Uh oh! I have a PC on my testbench and I'm gathering benchmark data and B-roll...

Who am I????

First Tech Ambrosia video of 2025 finally dropping in October????

Stay tuned!!

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks to @xot.bsky.social's suggested tool, and cg-wiki.org's great bitmap dump: we have a TTF of the -entire- SpectraGen character set.

Screenshot showing the entire SpectraGen character set, displayed in a custom Python GUI made for editing SpectraGen page data.

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 8d

Apple II, forever.

So Many Things [Apple II Music Video]

► No part of this production may be used in other compositions without permission. ▼Credits▼ Music, lyrics, vocals and performance by Joe Strosnider Composed and recorded with GarageBand on a MacBook. Video shot with Filmic on an iPhone 6. Audio engineered with Audacity on Windows 10. Vid

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Garrett Mace @macegr.bsky.social · 8d

An electrical cord's bare conductors wrapped around an ordinary screwdriver. Captioned as Enterprise AI Integration

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Garth Beagle @garthbeagle.bsky.social · 9d

topical!

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 9d

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

A few days after this cartoon was published, my syndicate received a very indignant letter from someone representing the Jane Goodall Institute.
Not only did my syndicate and I both get read the Riot Act, there was a vague implication that litigation over this cartoon might be around the corner.
I was horrified. Not so much from a fear of being sued (I just couldn't see how this cartoon could be construed as anything but silly, but because of my deep respect for Jane Goodall and her well-known contributions to pri-matology. The last thing in the world I would have intentionally done was offend Dr. Goodall in any way.
Before I had a chance to write my apology, another complication arose.
The National Geographic Society contacted my syndicate and expressed a

desire to reprint the cartoon in a special centennial issue of their magazine. My editor, aware of what had just occurred, declined, explaining why.
Apparently, whoever it was that sent the inquiry from National Geographic was shocked. They told my editor that "that doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know." They did some checking themselves, and an interesting fact was eventually discovered: Jane Goodall loved the cartoon. Furthermore, she was totally unaware that any of this "stuff" was going on. Some phone calls were made, and the cartoon was not only reprinted in the centennial issue of National Geographic, but was also used by her Institute on a T-shirt for fund-raising purposes.
I've since had an opportunity to visit Dr. Goodall at her research facility in Gombe. It's a wonderful place (sort of like right out of National Geographic).
"To refer to Dr. Goodall as a tramp is inexcusable even by a self-described 'loony' as Larson. The cartoon was incredibly offensive and in such poor taste that readers might well question the editorial judgment of running such an atrocity in a newspaper that reputes to be supplying news to persons with a better than average intelligence. The cartoon and its message were absolutely stupid." —Excerpt from the above-mentioned letter that started the ruckus

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10d

Mike Johnson continues to refuse to swear in a Democrat who won in a landslide.

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BigBadBiologist @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social · 10d

I picked up a TRS80 Model II with two external drive enclosures last week. Can I get it to boot before the end of #septandy ? (youtube short) youtube.com/shorts/XqUWa...

I just got a TRS80 Model II. Will it boot before the end of #septandy ? #vintagecomputing

YouTube video by BigBadBench

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1Bit Fever Dreams @1bit.bsky.social · 10d

New shirt design on my store "Hang in there, you got this"
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a black t-shirt with an image from the game of Dark Castle, in black and white. The hapless hero is hanging on a rope. You can see many other ropes with rats sliding down. There are some platforms with yet more rats. A flying gargoyle is heading straight for the hero. Things look dire. The words "hang in there, you got this" are written beneath the image, completing the classic meme of (de)motivational poster

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Jean-Michel Durand @onegeekarmy.bsky.social · 10d

Disk Jockey for Windows has been updated!
Version 1.6 adds support for the Snow emulator and lets you inject HFS and ProDOS partitions from other Mac disk images into your own (you're no longer limited to simple .img or .image files).

A screenshot of Disk Jockey for Windows 1.6 showing a couple of volumes injected from another disk image.

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