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  • Truck part two

    The other day when the roomie and I were returning from dinner at Culver’s, I noted the odd antenna box sitting next to the rearview mirror in his truck and…

  • Ordinary World

    I was listening to Space Radio this morning on the way into the office and Duran Duran’s “Ordinary World” began playing… It’s a very poignant song and one of my…

  • Truck

    Truck

    Yesterday morning I mentioned to my roommate that his 2017 75th anniversary edition Wrangler unlimited was leaking all over the garage floor – which prompted an hour of helping him…

  • Livin’ in the future

    Livin’ in the future

    The floppy emulator I ordered a few days ago arrived yesterday afternoon, so I spent the latter half of the day puttering about with antique computers… The emulator came as…

  • Modulate Demodulate

    Modulate Demodulate

    The first thing one should do with any old computer hardware is work out how to get it to connect to the local BBS. The Mac Plus needed some OS…

  • Mac+

    Mac+

    Today we set the wayback machine to 1987… In early 1987 my duty station had changed from a TDU at the Groton Subbase to the USS Pennsylvania (SSBN 735), which…