lroop @lroop@retro.social
Collector/restorer of retro computers and game consoles, admirer of mid-century architecture and industrial design.
It is MY #retrocomputing pleasure to welcome the Atari Portfolio 16-bit kinda-MS-DOS-compatible handheld PC to the crew!
Powered by 3 AA batteries and coming to us from 1991, I can already tell it will fit right in.
I have actually done this
“The secret to getting off of calls you don't want to be on is to hang up in the middle of your own sentence. Only a maniac would hang up on themselves, so you must have gotten disconnected.”
slack is down but bob is up
The packaging of this Fairchild Channel F multicart is really well done. Original cartridge and box for comparison. The plastic shell itself is recycled from a broken cartridge but the labels and box are new and awesome.
From the cool #retrocomputing file, how about the Outbound Notebook from 1989, a portable Mac clone that depended on scavenging a ROM from an actual Mac in order to boot. Apple obsoleted these folks out of business ASAP.
Notably, the Outbound used a "pointer bar" that rolled vertically and slid horizontally for cursor movement. Also, it used commonly available camcorder batteries rather than a custom battery to try to make it easier for users to get spares and replacements - what a novel concept!
Saw a really cool documentary about #WeirdPaul last night with @scunning. Got Paul to autograph a couple of Atari 2600 cartridges for me, including one of the best and one of the worst.
The crowd and the Q&A at the premiere of the #WeirdPaul movie #WillWorkforViews
#pittsburgh #harris #harristheater #interestinghuman #documentary
New and improv- CLICK CLICK CLICK
PCMCIA: People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
And here's what's underneath all that sheet metal. Pretty much the entire chipset was made by General Instrument, based around the CP1610 CPU, therefore possibly being one of the first home devices with a 16 bit processor.
This is the main logic board of an Intellivision. The sheet metal you see is there for RF emission compliance and will need to be removed before I can start trying to fix it.
Twitter buys security vendor, immediately pulls plug on current customers. https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/21/twitter-smytes-customers/
Fun fact: The first commercially successful stuffed animal wasn't the Teddy Bear, but rather this cat, 10 years earlier: https://www.ithacajournal.com/story/news/local/2016/07/28/ithaca-kitty-success-across-america/87666422/
I hacked a printer ink cartridge with a utility switchblade yesterday!
I am one of you now.