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Teck Heck
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21 year old transfem
Old tech nerd and weird synth aficionado
Apple II user group
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Family Guys aside, I adore that the cover for this was very clearly done by taking a photo of the lower left corner of a TRS-80 display. You can see where the curvature stops near the edges of the picture sleeve!
7 inch vinyl single art for the 1983 song Letric Metric by Peter Griffin
October 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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If you thought FL Studio was confusing you might be advised to stay away from the Greengate waveform processor
A green monochrome monitor displays 3 boxes, one displays harmonics, one contains an ADSR envelope, and one displays a live section of a waveform, and under the boxes is a long line, indicating the full waveform.
May 2, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Today I messed around a bit with BASIC on the Atari 2600! A semi-obscure oddity from 1979, you get 9 lines and around 50 bytes to write your own programs. As you can imagine it's incredibly limited, but surprisingly intuitive.
March 4, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Things I've done in the past 7 months number 2: Been featured on hackaday with @tubetime.bsky.social for his work on the greengate clone and my use of it:

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The Greengate DS:3 Part 2: Putting A Retro Sampler To Use
The Greengate DS:3 had been re-created in the form of the Goodgreat. Now [Bea Thurman] had to put it to use. If the Greengate DS:3 card was rare,  the keyboard was nearly impossible to find. After …
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November 17, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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Things I've done on the past 7 months number 1: VCF Midwest! I brought the Greengate sampler and people loved it!
I'm in the exhibit hall at vintage computer festival midwest, standing next to my table. On the table is an apple II and the greengate sampler.
November 15, 2024 at 2:28 PM
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Hello I'm still here! Welcome to all the new folks trickling in
November 15, 2024 at 3:25 AM
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The studio came out pretty well I'd say
The foreground of my basement music studio, occupied by a pair of Apple 2 computers, as well as 3 synthesizer keyboards and a sampler keyboard. I stand in the background holding my bass guitar.
April 1, 2024 at 12:35 AM
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I would hazard a guess that this used to be a battery
A double A battery that's been in a garage for 40 years, the battery has thoroughly leaked onto everything around it and is so corroded that the plastic coating with graphics on it has been eaten through entirely.
March 22, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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A terrifying concept
A white program cassette tape from Apple, dated 1979. The tape is titled "Infinite Number of Monkeys"
February 22, 2024 at 7:07 AM
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Behold, it's complete!
An apple IIe computer displaying a 3D audio waveform, sat next to the piano keyboard of a digital sampler, which is wired into the back.
January 18, 2024 at 9:41 AM
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Behold! The Greengate DS:3 sampler keyboard! You ever wanted to turn your apple II into a Fairlight-adjacent sampler? Now you can!
A 61 key piano keyboard with the text "Greengate productions DS:3" on it sits in the center of the floor. The DIP 16 connector attached to the keyboard for interfacing with the computer.
January 3, 2024 at 4:08 AM
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A commemorative AM radio featuring a die cast scale model of NHK hall in Tokyo! Gifted to one Mr Pierman by the president of the company in 1973
An overhead shot of an AM radio, it consists of a wooden base with a die cast scale model of the NHK concert hall in Tokyo. A brass plaquard on the front of the radio reads; "To Mr P. Pierman, as a token of our appreciation, October 16th 1973. Kichiro Ono, President of NHK, Tokyo, JAPAN"
October 21, 2023 at 7:56 PM
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Vintage latex gloves anyone?
The front of a package of Daewoo branded sterile latex surgical gloves. The back of a packahe of sterile latex surgical gloves. The manufacture date is April 1988, expires March of 1991.
September 24, 2023 at 2:35 AM
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I've heard of con crud, but this is ridiculous!
Photo of me, center frame, in the hospital, heart monitor on a table in the background. I lived!
September 14, 2023 at 4:21 AM
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Had a great time at VCF midwest! Thanks to everyone that showed :)
I'm sitting in from of my apple II, equipped with a synthesizer in the conference hall during vintage computer festival midwest.
September 12, 2023 at 1:52 AM
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Nothing like an 80 column ASCII sine wave program to wind down in the evening
An apple IIe computer rests in a dark room lit by a lone desk lamp. On the screen is a program printing alternating sine waves out of text characters.
August 23, 2023 at 2:19 AM
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My pride and joy, the superphone 7800! An absurd combo phone, calculator and clock/calender from 1983! Seen here resting on my 9600 baud modem I use for dial up and BBSing.
The superphone 7800, an ungodly combo of a phone, clock, and calculator crammed in a GTE automatic electric case. Underneath is a zoom telephonics 9600 baud modem, in operation.
July 31, 2023 at 2:03 AM
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One of many signs, trinkets, and papers on my studio corkboard. The irony of keeping this around 40 year old electronics is not lost on me.
A corkboard on the wall with an 80s styled etched woodgrain sign that says "Thank you for not smoking" pinned on it among other notes and papers. A strip of punched tape reading "VCFMW 2022" can also be seen.
July 30, 2023 at 9:40 PM
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Throwback to 2018 when I finally got the time to open up, examine, and clean up my Hal DS-2000 KSR video TTY! A beautiful little terminal and very compact. Only one PCB and a daughterboard! The keyboard and terminal logic are on one board, on 2 separate sides!
The exposed PCB of a late 70s video terminal, keyboard side. A dirty paper towel is on the left, a couple of keycaps sit atop, whole a pile sits to the right, ready for cleaning. A q-tip can be seen in-frame, dirtied from cleaning duties. The backside of a late 70s video terminal PCB. An abundance of traces without solder mask can be seen, as well as a zilog Z80 and a host of glue logic. The reassembled video terminal, The Hal DS-2000 KSR sits center frame. Nice and clean!
July 30, 2023 at 4:04 PM
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Can do! This is my cozy little apple II recording studio
An apple IIe computer rests on a rolling cart, flanked by a disk drive, serial data switch, and koalapad drawing tablet. Atop sits a CRT monitor, which has a vitrax type n talk speech synthesizer sitting on it's flat top. A 44 key full size synthesizer keyboard tests to the right.
July 30, 2023 at 5:38 AM
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Some pics from a few nights back when I dialed into PLATO to play classic adventure games like avatar and labyrinth.
An apple IIe computer rests in a dark room lit by a lone desk lamp. The screen reads "AVATAR" with a low resolution graphical rendering of a dragon. An apple IIe computer rests in a dark room lit by a lone desk lamp. The screen reads "labyrinth" in a Gothic font, displayed above graphics of a castle on a hill and a cloudy moon. An apple IIe computer rests in a dark room lit by a lone desk lamp. The screen shows the graphical UI of labyrinth, a primitive First Person adventure game from the late 70s.
July 30, 2023 at 4:41 AM