#introduction
Early 50s empty-nester living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Married for 20+ years and looking forward to the next decades of adventures with my best friend.
Lover of 8-bit micros and have been restoring and rescuing a few machines from the pits of Craigslist and eBay/
Comedy Vinyl collector, standup and dinner club recordings are still fun to this day but some just didn't age well.
Starting a PhDl in 2025 and looking forward to new and exciting engineering research challenges.
Got a little irritated today at the proliferation of chat clients on my desktop. Started configuring Pidgin again. Discord seems pretty straightforward and works with the plugins.
It looks like slack and signal used to have plugins for libpurple but haven't been maintained in a while.
#linux
Discord plugin is super solid. Doesn't seem to retrieve all the history. I think there's a config I need to toggle to get all the scrollback logged. #linux
Signal and Slack are fighting me hard.
Got a little irritated today at the proliferation of chat clients on my desktop. Started configuring Pidgin again. Discord seems pretty straightforward and works with the plugins.
It looks like slack and signal used to have plugins for libpurple but haven't been maintained in a while.
#linux
#commodore64 PAL conversion in progress. At this point, if you have a dead NTSC VIC, the USD $2 crystal oscillator and a PAL VICII from Europe is your best bet. #retrocomputing
Superb. Needed to adjust the color pot slightly to bring the color signals into spec for PAL. #retrocomputing
This entire thread. https://youtu.be/RY7S6EgSlCI
#commodore64 PAL conversion in progress. At this point, if you have a dead NTSC VIC, the USD $2 crystal oscillator and a PAL VICII from Europe is your best bet. #retrocomputing
Functional keyboard with broken keyboard screw mounts. Did someone throw this across the room when it destructed? #retrocomputing
This entire thread. https://youtu.be/RY7S6EgSlCI
Huh. It actually works. Imagine literally any piece of electro-waste from today still working in 50 years after you resolder a missing trace or pin back on. #retrocomputing
Functional keyboard with broken keyboard screw mounts. Did someone throw this across the room when it destructed? #retrocomputing
I think I found the problem with the BASIC ROM. #retrocomputing
Huh. It actually works. Imagine literally any piece of electro-waste from today still working in 50 years after you resolder a missing trace or pin back on. #retrocomputing
Geeze. Dead SID and dead BASIC ROM too. No output on the audio test and no text on the screen when booting normally. #retrocomputing
I think I found the problem with the BASIC ROM. #retrocomputing
Ugh, this thing must have gotten hit by a dying power supply. Two 4164, PLA and VIC2 dead. But it’s back. #retrocomputing
Geeze. Dead SID and dead BASIC ROM too. No output on the audio test and no text on the screen when booting normally. #retrocomputing
https://youtu.be/aq2tlEr6_Ns?&t=96 NTSC to PAL conversion. Its not hard and from the looks of things, the NTSC chip inventory is at zero. #retrocomputing
Ugh, this thing must have gotten hit by a dying power supply. Two 4164, PLA and VIC2 dead. But it’s back. #retrocomputing
Sean 🤷♂️
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