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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 4h

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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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 8h

This is Manolo. His family invited strangers to spend time with him on his last day. His mom said, "This was such a perfect way to celebrate the life of a dog who truly loved spending time with people and their dogs. Run free and fast forever, Manolo. I will never stop missing you." 14/10 for all

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Robert Sundling @robertsundling.bsky.social · 16h

It's time! After 33 years, I'm adding Gravis UltraSound support to my DOS game engine. 😄

I never owned a GUS back in the day, so it never happened. Now I've got a PicoGUS from @polpo.org (and a great emulator from @86box.net). So off we go!

Step 1A: I mirrored the final GUS SDK (v2.22) on GitHub.

GitHub - RobertSundling/GUSDK222: Gravis UltraSound, PC GamePad, and Analog Pro SDK V2.22 (GUSDK222.ZIP)

Gravis UltraSound, PC GamePad, and Analog Pro SDK V2.22 (GUSDK222.ZIP) - RobertSundling/GUSDK222

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 13h

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

youtu.be

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 16h

They've lost it several times before. I'm not holding my breath.

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 16h

*shrug*

Not sure even the admins know. From 10,000 feet: it seems like the admins don't know how to run a server properly.

But I'm not there, so I can't really say.

Get your fix at tinkerdifferent.com instead.

TinkerDifferent

A community of tinkerers dedicated to vintage computing.

tinkerdifferent.com

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 16h

Recent progress on the Texscan MSI Compuvid Spectragen project: the page editor can now render graphic characters AND you can input them.

spectragen text editor written in python showing it's built in on-screen keyboard that allows the entry of non-typeable graphics and control characters

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 16h

It's even funnier because I misspelled it and ruined the joke.

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 16h

68KMLA?
More like 68LMIA.

* Thanks to Eric for the joke. I just thought it was funny.

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 16h

Now that's a neat QuickBooks Desktop glitch...

quickbooks desktop screen showing repeating menu graphical glitch in lower left corner.

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · Aug 15

ever since i was a little kid
when i would walk through libraries
imagining that the air around me was imbued
with the wisdom of all the books and their authors
i always dreamed that
one day
i would grow up
and write something
that people bung into ChatGPT to get a 1 paragraph summary

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Mac84 (Steve) 🍏 @mac84.bsky.social · 1d

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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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t let this go @housedemocrats.bsky.social

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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

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

YES. I have an ancient ThinkPad as an emergency spare. Has Linux on it. Unless I'm trying to watch crazy resolution video: it just works.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

donald trump is a fascistic leader who has surrounded himself with people who are explicitely pro-fascistic that want to end democracy as we know it and punish anyone who dissents. pretending otherwise leads me to believe you agree with them doing this

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

If you answer negative to any of these, the quality of the machine is in question. More "no" answers means crappier machine.

If it's silver, 17 inches and also HP: just shove it under a wobbly table.
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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 1d

I have 4 questions to determine if a PC laptop/notebook is high quality & reliable.

1) Is it a matte black finish?
2) Does it have a matte screen?
3) Is the power brick strap long enough to wrap entirely around the brick & coiled cables?
4) Are the mouse buttons separate from the track pad?

1/2

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KISSman @kissman.bsky.social · 4d

I didn't know about this Signal For Help hand gesture until today. I'm quite sure that a lot of other people don't know it either (as demonstrated in this video). If you just learned it now too then it was worth posting.

Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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nubus_bagel @nubusbagel.bsky.social · 1d

The last two or three times I tried making an account there it never sent the confirmation email. I frankly thought it was already dead, and were just letting people that already had accounts keep using it until they ran out of money. I ended up just joining Tinker Different to ask my questions.

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 2d

YES

www.portlandmercury.com/news/2025/10...

Portland City Attorney to US DOJ: “Please Do Not Fail America”

Portland’s city attorney says federal police are brutalizing protesters, and the government is weaponizing its longstanding settlement agreement with the city. In response to an investigation launched...

www.portlandmercury.com

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Aunty Em @everycourthouse.bsky.social · 3d

“We are home now. We marched from the park to ICE, very peaceful crowd. We were standing around ICE pushed us down, sprayed us with chemical and I was hit in the head with a projectile. This was so unprovoked. People have to know that the Feds are attacking people with NO provocation whatsoever.”

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 2d

That's what I thought.

AD joined because the network is legacy and making it un-legacy isn't likely to happen any time soon.

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