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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 18h

For tomorrow's video I'm wrapping up with VCF MidWest and doing a show and tell about a system I brought with me.

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 2d

….hey, as long as it works. 🤷‍♂️

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 4d

I was away for a weekend and I determined now to start filtering job searches into its own folder because this is just nuts.

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 4d

Yesterday, I was lucky to be able to spend a couple hours at the Connections Museum with Sarah Autumn.

I had a stupid grin on my face the entire time!

Even after a couple hours, we just barely scratched the surface of what's there. It's unbelievably awesome.

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Me and Sarah at her favorite spot in the museum. This is used by technicians to diagnose and fix issues within the switches.

Sarah explaining how the entirely electro mechanical sender works

This video phone works and is from 1970! Needless to say it was a huge flop but you could make video calls.

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 4d

The many angles of a CM-2, courtesy of the Interim Computer Museum.

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 4d

I had a blast hanging out at the Interim Computer Museum Saturday night. There were a bunch of things I had never seen in my life.

Thanks @celgen.org for being my model!

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Punch card sorting machine. Quite mesmerizing!

The Thinking Machine is a sight to behold.

This PDP has a few faults at the moment, some stuck memory bits I think.

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 5d

And somehow I am now on a list with the CBSA. Is it a bad list? No idea. 🤪

The border guard recognized me as “the guy with the clean old station wagon full of old computers” and had apparently processed me in 2024 because again, how to declare value on this stuff.

No issues getting home. 👍

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 5d

#vcfpnw2026

ITS HAPPENING!!!!!!!!

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 5d

Day 2 is alive and well!
The show runs for a few more hours so drop in if you can!

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 5d

ICF day 2 has me started with splicing leaders on 9-track tape.

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 5d

Cheap hotels and computer shows go together like Velcro.

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 6d

Thank you to Mike Brutman as well for loaning me his Xircom parallel Ethernet adapter and a floppy disk setup with his DOS TCP stack so that I could demo an IRC client running on one of the GRiD’s as well!

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 6d

Day 1 is well underway and the tables are looking great! Don’t forget that the Interim Computer Festival is also tomorrow if you can’t make time before 6pm today!

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 6d

Thank you to Josh and the Seattle Retro Computing Society for loaning me some of their own GRiD laptops and a printer to salvage most of my table for the show!

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 6d

I was told this visit came with a free burger….

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 6d

It’s 2am and I had to abandon my exhibit at a friend’s place in Vancouver but I finally made it to Seattle. X-x

I’ll see you all at the show tomorrow……er, in a few hours.

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 7d

I’m not even selling anything! They just want a bonded list of everything I’m bringing down so they can tell it’s coming back and it’s value. How the hell do I value 40 year old laptops where the only listed value is eBay? That’s like grading a car based on the price at Bring a Trailer.

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 7d

Welp.
I had trouble with this while driving to VCFmw in 2024 but I won’t be able to make it to the Interim Computer Festival tomorrow because the border thinks I’m trying to sell a table of laptops.

It’s almost 9pm, the brokers are closed and I don’t have a printer. This is stupid.

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 7d

Likewise, someone tell the rock station that Van Halen made more than two songs.

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 7d

The Weekend I’m sure makes good music but when the other stations can only license one of his songs and play it six times a day, I’m willing to bias opinions and say you suck and so does your awful use of AutoTune.

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 7d

I like how in a place like Kamloops with a rock station , pop station, a country station and a tri-decade classic music station, the AM radio station is the only holdout for a remotely good variety of music. Two Depeche Mode songs this morning alone from different albums.

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 9d

Optionally, it’s an MP3 player from 2003.

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 9d

Either I’ve been chosen to save the world from an unspeakable evil, or I’m about to flash the firmware on a note reader.
Someone had fun designing this.

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 9d

Depending on the scan resolution about 120 cards a minute give or take.

CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 10d

I don't know who's going GRiD crazy like that.
That's like, half my paycheck right there someone paid for a floppy drive.

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