With everything going on – and none of it really noteworthy – I’ve not posted anything here in a while.
Let me remedy that.
First up is another of the daily examples of why I don’t use Windows…
At work I have to support Windows-based systems, and every day it’s something like this that makes me rub my face and sigh… All I wanted to do was empty the trash; all I got was an empty dialog box.
Closing the dialog and re-attempting to empty the trash worked on the second try… A 50/50 chance is better than none I suppose.
Let’s move on to something that is more stable than the current version of Windows 11 – a circa 1979 Intellivision, a 1982 Intellivoice module, and a few ’79-’83 games…
My CFO bought this on a whim like two decades ago – and it’s sat on a shelf over in one of the test areas at the office ever since. As I was cleaning out said space I boxed up the Intellivision and the games and parked them in his office…
Yesterday he got around to cleaning his office and gave me the Intellivision because he had no real use for it. So I got it home and hooked up to my old Philips analog LCD monitor – and nothing…
Popping it open I touched up a few suspect solder joints and afterward it fired right up like no time at all had passed.
Gaming like it’s 1982 with BurgerTime!
And I spent the evening playing this and “Advanced Dungeons & Dragons”… I had forgotten just how bad the Intellivision controller was, but it was still a good time. 🙂
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