In the early 80’s the phone system was kind of a passing interest of mine – specifically the rapidly developing digital switching systems that were replacing the very mechanical and very analog systems that had been commonplace for so long. To be fair, a lot of my interest stemmed from…
Ages ago – 1985 / 1986 – I had an Atari 800XL computer that was my gateway to an online world through bulletin boards and things like Compuserve. Prior to that my family had an Atari 2600 that lived on top of the television in the late 70’s, and that…
On Friday the car hit 6000 miles – so as I usually do here’s the record: I purchased the 300 on August 10th, 2022, which was approximately 600 days ago – so I’m managing to stick to the roughly 10 miles a day that I’ve been averaging since I bought…
I’ve been building a computer to load my old BBS on for giggles – a Dell E521 running Windows XP. The E521 is interesting because it’s one of the last machines Dell made with a Windows XP option – so it’s about as powerful a machine as you can run…
Back in the 80’s I was what they called a “Latch Key Kid”, meaning I usually locked up when I left for school, and let myself back in when I got home – usually an hour after my parents left for work and 2-3 hours before my parents got home.…
I was discussing various old computers with some folks online, and the topic turned to ‘what did screens look like in the 80’s?’ I dug around online for some examples and came up short, so I figured I’d make some based on the machines I have here in my home-office.…