Adam Brisebois (YesterGearPC) @yestergearpc@ccrvb.com

@CameronMeek That's USB on a Model 4 ;)

That's a Gotek with customized HxC firmware, and a custom plate-mounted OLED display and control buttons.

The Panasonic Business Partner 1650 is really a Tandy 1000 SL/2, but rebadged for Panasonic! Paired with a Tandy CM11 CGA monitor, and running IRC via a Linux Terminal server! #Tandy #retrocomputing

The Tandy 1200 - XT-class desktop made by Tandon for Tandy, paired with an EGA monitor, and an IBM Model F keyboard. Running Windows 3.0. #tandy #retrocomputing

The Tandy TRS-80 Model 2000. An MS-DOS (But not IBM) Compatible that runs on a 80186 CPU! It's an odd duck that proved that Tandy Engineers really liked their drugs :D

#tandy #TRS-80 #retrocomputing

Picture of my VCF East Prep back in April. Line of Tandy machines :) Shown is my TRS-80 Model 4, 1000 RL, 1000 RLX, and 2500SX/25 #tandy #trs-80 #VCF

@DosFox@tech.lgbt @WysiWyg_Protogen Old cars have the benefit of being cheap, have cheap parts, and a lot of fun to learn on. Bonus for the retro vibes :)

@davew Look at RackNerd's black friday deals. I got my VPS with 2 cores and 2.5gb of ram + 80gb disk + 7tb/mo bandwidth for $30 for a year. More than enough for a small masto instance.

Can be even cheaper than $10/mo if you keep an eye out :D

My domain ccrvb, I've had since 2001. Originally stood for "Comprehensive Computer Repair Virginia Beach"

But I haven't used it for about 12 years except for my email, but now that the domain is back, I need to make a backronym.

I've come up with:
"Casually Contemplating Retro Vibes, Baby!"

If you can think of a better one, chime in lol.

This is the "True Blue" K-mart computer. Celeron 633, 256 MB Ram (originally 128 according to my research)
Has a 2nd hard drive added (original is 8gb, add-on was 20GB).

The masochist who owned this one had it running Windows XP SP3.

The motherboard was made by MSI for LG - who packaged the machine. It's actually quite well built, and has help up very well. #retrocomputing

Medium: "How I quit my programmer job to become a chicken"

excellent read!

https://sebastiancarlos.medium.com/how-i-quit-my-programmer-job-to-become-a-chicken-b733c20680b1

@DosFox@tech.lgbt sending good vibes your way. Hope whatever it is passes soon :)

Does anyone have/maintain a list of "suspect" or "undesirable" servers I can proactively add to my server's Blocklist?

After getting a vintage computer post boosted by an account called "Ethical Pedophile" from a server called "lolicon", I'd like to nip that kind of thing in the bud before it happens again lol.

Being that I'm new to Mastodon, figured I'd post a few of my favorites from the past year or three. This is the #Celery2000. A computer I custom built from a PC/104 Celeron 1000 board. It has a ESS PC/104 sound card, and can double as a 5/12v PSU.

It was built from a Hammond chassis that I modified to fit. Aesthetics were "mid 70's minicomputer". Runs Windows 98, and does it well.

@RoyGreenhilt It's a mix of claws, skill/ticket games, and regular games. Nothing old school, sadly. Good stop to waste 20 minutes lol.