Engineer Brains
@hhackenbecker.bsky.social
Master tinkerer, retired.
Loves: old Macs, cats, humour, SF&F, Star Trek
Loathes: politics, sport, Facebook, Google, anything POSIX
This might be he/it/oi-you.
Loves: old Macs, cats, humour, SF&F, Star Trek
Loathes: politics, sport, Facebook, Google, anything POSIX
This might be he/it/oi-you.
PS: Bonus points (and an extra mention in the official acknowledgements when the book comes out) if he can get the sound of an original 400k 'Hippo' drive and an 800k (DD) drive in action reading and ejecting a disk.
January 29, 2026 at 3:02 AM
PS: Bonus points (and an extra mention in the official acknowledgements when the book comes out) if he can get the sound of an original 400k 'Hippo' drive and an 800k (DD) drive in action reading and ejecting a disk.
The built-in battery level display was always a much-appreciated feature, too.
January 20, 2026 at 4:22 PM
The built-in battery level display was always a much-appreciated feature, too.
"The novelty of Seiko's first color TV wrist watch palled after learning it required surgical alteration of the wrist to accomodate the CRT."
January 9, 2026 at 5:23 AM
"The novelty of Seiko's first color TV wrist watch palled after learning it required surgical alteration of the wrist to accomodate the CRT."