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The news/media account for the Wisconsin Computer Club. Serving the entire state of Wisconsin, with events every month. Join the club (it's free!) and join the fun! Check out our website at https://wisconsincomputerclub.com!
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It's hard work, but it has some beautiful results. Props to those that save battery bombed systems!
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.
If you need help or are in a position to help your friends, neighbors, and community during the impending SNAP cut, it is tremendously appreciated. One tool to help find your local food banks is at www.feedingamerica.org and if you can, please get involved. Together, we can make a difference!
U.S. Hunger Relief Organization | Feeding America
Feeding America is a nonprofit network of 200 food banks leading the fight against hunger in the United States. Learn how you can help end hunger in America.
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I love it when that one random thing finally comes in clutch!
Repair of the century right here. The one part in my stash I've had since a kid has finally proved useful... Fixed the Macintosh portable inverter with a transformer from a scanner
The next administration should sell bits of the rubble as souvenirs when they inevitably tear it down. 😏
We're off to Janesville on Saturday, November 8th! We'll be at the Hedberg Public Library at 11AM onward in the big room- stop on by for some retro tech fun with us!
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This is peak retro home media tech. My HDDVD player is running through my BetaMax player.
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We knew this game was "bad" before giving it a whirl but wow, it really is an atrocious thing to suffer through. Condolences to the kids who had this to play with.
Imagine explaining the present day to the dystopian fiction writers of yesteryear. They'd say you were a hack, and that nothing so bleak would ever be believed.
If you're looking to do some retro gaming, LincCon in Merrill Wisconsin is the place to be! #linccon
I was never a fan of those "team meetings" at work; but I am immensely thankful that none of them that I ever attended were ever led by Malcolm Reed. Poor MACOs. 😟
It's one thing to fight rubber aliens, it's another to fight aliens that aren't even there and will be added in post. That they sold this at all is indeed a triumph of both the effects people and Bakula's weirdly broad range of acting abilities.

Hoping Adam is feeling better soon!
I always wonder how the design meetings for the Xindi weapon went. Surely someone had to have said "Don't make it look too much like the Death Star. I mean, that's obviously what we're going for, but don't overdo it!" 😆
By Cuomo's logic, the billionaires would be sending checks to Mamdani too, as he's a New Yorker and if you've even glanced at the news over the last few months, they'd "know" him well enough.

Really looking forward to election night.
All Bolton has to do is run for President, and the prosecution can't touch him then, apparently.
We recently did a demo on RCA CED SelectaVision, and it worked... bizarrely good? Like, these disks are physically deteriorating year on year, but somehow this ancient press of the Rankin Bass "Hobbit" looked and sounded great... not at all the usual CED experience! 😅
The obsessive hunt for literally any more information on the elusive Canon VP 3000 word processor continues! We have a new lead with a new weird Japanese machine that sheds a bit more light on the lost history of Canon's word processor era. All on the WCC forums!
Canon VP 3000 Word Processor
Got an email from eBay that was pretty exciting. Someone is selling the manual for our mystery machine HERE. I was excited for a moment thinking it "might" have disks, but it doesn't appear to- and...
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TIL that my email to @nerdmysteries.bsky.social about the haunted monorail didn't get there.
Battery by law enforcement, infringement of 1st amendment rights, and the list goes on. The gestapo looks foolish to boot.
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Working on More Cool Things™ for jcm-1.com

How about a JCM special version of the MiniPerformer+ for the Mac Plus, that clips over the CPU?

No soldering required. No permanent mods.

Interested? Sound off in the comments.