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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 5h

It's about to get lit ... "lit"erally!

Puns aside, this three-digit number of T8 LED bulbs will drop Bloop's lighting costs by 80~85%!

4 big boxes full of LED lighting tubes in the cargo area of a hatchback car.

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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 2d

aftermarket heatsinks and not blocking the vents is key! on the upshot, we do have a small collection of donor parts if all else fails.

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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 2d

Us! @inversephase.bsky.social even has a white bally:

A Bally Computer System in white with box, controllers resting on top of the smoked plastic that covers the game storage area. It sits on a nice woodgrain table, and racks of LPs are in the background.

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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 6d

Last day of PGX! Come by and see us at #Pittsburgh #Gaming Expo in Monroeville, it's been a great weekend meeting folks!

#PGH #PGX2025

A view down a PGX vendor aisle, with the Bloop booth on the right.

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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 7d

Update: When you enter, go straight past the PGX Merch table, and turn left. We're right there.

The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 8d

PGX starts today! Visit us in the expo hall, kinda near the middle on the left when you're going towards the arcade. (it's the fifth row, we think).

#Monroeville #PA #PGH #Pittsburgh #gaming #expo #retrogaming

The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 12d

Going to PGX this weekend? We just got the time on @inversephase.bsky.social's panel, "The Computer Art Underground". It will be in Panel 2 at 1pm on Saturday!

If you haven't picked up a badge yet, you can get 10% off with BLOOP2025 at pittsburghgamingexpo.com/buy-badges

#pittsburgh #PGH #PGX2025

Buy Badges | PGX 2025

pittsburghgamingexpo.com

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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 11d

Just a quick snapshot out of the back window at the museum.

What do you think, should we mount a camera to capture the sunsets here?

#Pittsburgh #PGH #PennHills #PA #sky

a pretty sunset, with a few trees and hills in the horizon. shades of pink, purple, and orange.

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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 12d

Going to PGX this weekend? We just got the time on @inversephase.bsky.social's panel, "The Computer Art Underground". It will be in Panel 2 at 1pm on Saturday!

If you haven't picked up a badge yet, you can get 10% off with BLOOP2025 at pittsburghgamingexpo.com/buy-badges

#pittsburgh #PGH #PGX2025

Buy Badges | PGX 2025

pittsburghgamingexpo.com

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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 13d

Trouble in paradise getting delivery set up for our new address... Is there anyone out there with a mail+parcel delivery box that is lockable and tamper/theft-resistant that they're actually happy with?

The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 14d

Let's hear it for our volunteers who have been vacuuming and @nocturnalplant.bsky.social who has been running the rug doctor for nearly two days on the second floor. We're not realistically opening up there for two years... we just really really really want the new #museum building to be clean!

A view of a Bissell Green Machine, and you can see half of a cleaned floor and half of a not-cleaned floor.

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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 15d

tosdr.org
Okay, someone is doing the thing.
Apparently there are others like this!

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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 15d

In the interests of data archival, preservation, and historical logs, has anyone tracked the absolutely massive number of terms of service and policy changes with online institutions in the past year or so?

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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 22d

Anyone going to #Pittsburgh Gaming Expo? #PGX is 3-5 Oct (~2weeks) at the #Monroeville Convention Center.

Maybe two panels from @inversephase.bsky.social, there will be lots of music and guest friends.

Get 10% off a prereg if you use code BLOOP2025. Sound cool?

pittsburghgamingexpo.com

Pittsburgh Gaming Expo | 2025

The Pittsburgh Gaming Expo- a celebration of modern and retro gaming. Providing a community for gamers in the steel city, PGX is a show for everyone, with live music, entertainment, tabletop gaming, v...

pittsburghgamingexpo.com

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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 22d

Also, the new Bloop location is only 5~10 minutes away, we're not open yet but maybe ask for a private tour before or after the event? 🤔

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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 22d

Anyone going to #Pittsburgh Gaming Expo? #PGX is 3-5 Oct (~2weeks) at the #Monroeville Convention Center.

Maybe two panels from @inversephase.bsky.social, there will be lots of music and guest friends.

Get 10% off a prereg if you use code BLOOP2025. Sound cool?

pittsburghgamingexpo.com

Pittsburgh Gaming Expo | 2025

The Pittsburgh Gaming Expo- a celebration of modern and retro gaming. Providing a community for gamers in the steel city, PGX is a show for everyone, with live music, entertainment, tabletop gaming, v...

pittsburghgamingexpo.com

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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 23d

of course - we're just as honored! and hoping to see you at other events, too!

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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · 24d

Back from #VCFMW! Kudos to the organizers; always a great time! Loved meeting (up with) everyone!

Thanks to
- @matt.godbolt.org - sleeping spot!
- @oldskool.org - the original impetus to go as @inversephase.bsky.social 8y ago
- @jeriellsworth.bsky.social - signing our DTV
- all who donated to us!

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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · Sep 10

the saga of moving the #univac 418 continues...

#retrocomputing #mainframemonday #retrocomputer #mainframe #forklift #museum #computers #computing #technology #tech

a palletized univac 418, teletype desk on its right, as seen from the front panel, in a parking lot. a forklift is parked to the right of the whole ordeal.

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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · Sep 9

archive.org probably has the hosting covered but once we're up and running in pittsburgh we can totally help with archival

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

archive.org

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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · Sep 7

No polls on bsky yet? Guess you'll have to vote on Mastodon: oldbytes.space/@bloopmuseum...

Bloop Museum (@[email protected])

All right folks, you'll want to vote on this one! If you've been to the System Source museum, they have a very very heavy OG Cray-1. However, Brendan has a lot of video games. We're almost done wrappi...

oldbytes.space

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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · Sep 6

@molleindustria.org thanks for the follow! hopefully we can work together once we open in the 'burgh

also, "I'm happy to talk about your architectural trauma" is a very Pittsburgh line

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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · Sep 6

a close up of a man with a beard wearing a shirt and looking down .

Alt: a close up of a man with a beard wearing a shirt and looking down .

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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · Sep 4

thanks! we have a community of incredible volunteers in the new location, so we've been super lucky in that regard. getting packed is the hardest part!

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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · Sep 4

We're so busy packing trucks, moving, and unpacking, that we don't have time for an email update quite yet - but here's a shot of the most recent truck where we loaded up a bunch of fixtures from a closed-down Joann. Hope this will hold you over!

the back of a front-to-back full 26' u-haul with furniture and network equipment

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The Bloop Museum @bloopmuseum.bsky.social · Sep 4

would love to talk to you about the museum sometime! this name at gmail if you prefer email

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