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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️

@techcubus.monster

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Aka "Lily" 💻, 🧠, 🍕, 🕹️, 🎹, 💡, 🏳️‍⚧️. Absolute wreck of an entity. ΘΔ. AuDHD, CPTSD, Schizophrenia, She/Her, plural being. PG-13 succubus, needs your emotions! bg: @kujikawaii av: @RED_SNK

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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 1d

Two Loopies! Loopi? Loopises?

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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 1d

Most of the people who want us dead
Are hiding the fact they want us in bed

— Curt Kobain, 2025

Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 3d

An Altair clone hooked up to a Sun display playing a version of Tetris, meanwhile a Casio Loopy is just hanging out next to a Famicom

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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 3d

Remember the robot craze in the 80s? Lol. I wanted HERO and TOPO so badly! I feel like putting Maxxxx Steel in with these guys is kind of a stretch though $250 is certainly eye opening lol

Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 3d

Quantum Link Reloaded up and running! I seriously thought about the Composite MPS-801 printer but I don't think I have the energy to source consumables for that lol. Commodore fans were all over the floor.

Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 3d

I love the panicked XO lol. I regret not owning one of those but they are really unreliable in my understanding

Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 3d

Atari computers were really popular in the music industry for a while because the computers came with Midi ports. I think Cubase started on the ST in the 80s! Anyway that's a hell of a midi controller! It's the Hotz Box. Also love to the Roland TR-8 for rhythm!

Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 3d

Signed by Bil Herd, a commodore engineer, even!

Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 3d

You're good! I hope you feel better!

Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 4d

Random computers! Normally there are a bunch of European computers on display. I don't feel like I saw nearly as many, but this table had the most different manufacturers represented

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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 4d

Someone had their sgi collection out! Silicon graphics workstations were so cool to little me back in the 90s! Striking colors, amazing design language, and wild custom graphics chips designed to preview 3d graphics in real time before they were sent to be ray traced!

Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 4d

Atari things!

Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 4d

These guys do some fun art with computers, certainly stretching what I thought was possible in terms of bringing the CPUs themselves closer to the surface without causing constant crashes lol They had I think macbench running on the Classic in the previous post to show it was computing stuff!

Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 4d

Lots of classic Macintosh love! I grew up on Apple (and commodore) and one of the reasons I love coming here. I can only post four images at a time apparently!

Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 4d

Some people were selling old software, some people just letting you look at it which I'm all for sharing collections ❤️

Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 4d

I am quite happy that we've been able to progress past CRTs! I'm glad there's people willing to stick their hands in there to keep this stuff preserved, I just cannot with those voltages lol

That tube neck has 15,000ish volts on it how about noooooo

The small tubes are scary too, 400someish volts!

Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 4d

Honestly the vibe is HAM meet crossed with the various computer users' groups meetings. It can be hard to tell the difference between what's being shown off and what's being sold. I love the wide array of technologies on display! Also those radio receivers in the 4th image are quite choice

Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 4d

A "wide" shot from the back of the hall now, we entered at the front right corner

I can't imagine how this is only two years removed from the much smaller convention center they were in in 2023 and prior

Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 4d

@adriansdigitalbasement.com was there too with some of his well known and current projects. I couldn't make myself be social with Mr. Black but he had a trap of Infocom's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure running on a serial terminal which I had to try to play through lol

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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 4d

LGR showed up this year after taking last year off! Easily the chillest retro computing channel I follow, I can taste the wood paneling lol. I bought a couple of his shareware disks and a "cool crab" sticker from him and took some free stickers and coasters he had

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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 4d

Opening day, opening hour! Let's just say I wasn't expecting this many nerds up this early (11 AM come onnnnnn lol)

Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 4d

I brought my own badge this year! Lol, just a hastily modified Python program with one of @kujikawaii.bsky.social's commissions after me trying to remember anything about Mac Plus graphics lol

I think I'll have to get something from him in black and white to start with (you should too!)

Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 4d

We visited this cool backrooms style arcade which I imagine isn't quite as mysterious when more people are there lol. Haunted Horseman arcade! Clearly trying to capture some of the Galloping Ghost thunder but since it's more arcade than museum I thought it was much nicer to get around in

Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 4d

I've been light stressing on how to present my photos from VCFMW and really I got nothing lol

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