jgeorge

Things I nerd out about, in no particular order:
- Pinball Machines / Arcade cabinets
- Vintage Computers (mostly lBM)
- Electronics, MCUs, Small Blinky Things
- Laser Cutting, 3D Printing, Dye Sublimation, and general DIY/“Maker” stuff
- Letterpress (I own an antique letterpress that I restored)
- Spacey and Sciency stuff
- Internet of Things things
- Occasional low-grade weebness (sorry in advance)

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@gedeonm It's amazing how deluded we've become that a Republican holdout is anything more than a show pony demanding a carrot.

2025-07-02

@paulywill Holy cats that a lot of hops, man

2025-07-02

OMG after what, like 8 months, the giant computer haul from Canada will be here TOMORROW! I didn’t even know it shipped, it wasn’t supposed to leave Canada until later this MONTH. It made it all the way to North Carolina yesterday, and my shipper is hot-spotting it from NC to GA tomorrow. I found out it was in NC about 3pm today and by 3pm tomorrow it’ll be here!

If you’re new to following or don’t remember this project, we picked up some really rare IBM gear including an intact System/38 - there are few intact examples left, and none working that I know of. This one looks complete and comes with a ridiculous number of backup diskettes and media, so we feel pretty confident that we can get this one working again.

There’s also a complete IBM System/370 machine called a 9375. It’s two racks of processor and disk and HUNDREDS of tapes to go through and archive.

Bunch of other stuff - too much to list here, and honestly I don’t even know what half of the boxes are… media, documentation, and other stuff that was found when the fellow was packing up the machines to send to him.

We are short on final costs of the equipment and the move, so I will drop a link here if anyone has a few bucks to spare for the project. Anything helps!

The full story of this rescue can be found here too — gofund.me/0943f6ce

2025-06-28

@altomare Twinax terminals have addresses, and theres internal termination to terminate or cable-through the two ports. The three switches set the terminal’s address on the twinax chain 0-6 (7, as set, is invalid). The 1/2 dot switch selects termination (1 port) or pass through (2 port).

I dont recognize the terminal type though, what kind is it?

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Jean-Baptiste "JBQ" Quérujbqueru@floss.social
2025-06-28
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2025-06-27

IKEA knows it's customer base well :blobhaj_flag_transgender:

A photograph of a display bed in IKEA with two blahajs on it. Behind it on the wall is a trans flag
2025-06-24

@skaeth Giant floof is named Roman. I couldn't work it into a bad rhyme. 😃

2025-06-24

@sudorandom It worked! :-) its not this thing but based off of it: thingiverse.com/thing:6192416

2025-06-24

@skaeth @gedeonm

Please forgive this waste of time,
Because, it seems, I can not rhyme.
My giant dog, a Great Pyrenees,
Content with life, and easy to please
Wags nonstop, from joy and friendship
With such fervor that he broke his tail tip!
The diagnosis was “Happy Tail”
It seems his tail was somewhat frail
Two inches gone, he wags yet again
It only cost me fifteen Benjamin.

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2025-06-24

yyzkevin.ca has been working on making #BlueSCSI the first #SCSI emulator to work with the odd IBM AS/400 drive standard. Here's his AS/400 booting IPL'ing with a BlueSCSI!

Still a lot to do but now even AS/400 users can have a modern, fully opensource, storage solution.

youtu.be/J8GztrUvox8?si=mpY88v

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2025-06-24

via @mikael

cute terminal font that doesn't look Like That

qwerasd205.github.io/Annotatio

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2025-06-19

@ricmac Let’s be honest, though. “The Lord yeeteth and the Lord yoinketh away” is a banger of a post.

2025-06-19

@xirin2u Well OKAY if you must. :)

2025-06-19

@sudorandom Cool! Now i can test my Captain Crunch whistle!

2025-06-12

Gah, having an actual workshop is paying off so fast. <1 week since moving in and I’m uploading a recovered piece of software to bitsavers and IA that not only do I believe had been previously lost, I would have bet money that had never existed in the first place. It’s a utility tool for the IBM System/34 that should have come out about the time that I was WORKING ON THEM, and had hundreds of customers with 34s transitioning to their replacements, the System/36, and I’d *never* seen this software then.

The S/36 version of the tool was the single most popular program for the machine ever released - literally EVERY machine had it installed. IBM originally tried charging money for it ($1500, IIRC) and it was so heavily pirated by the midrange community because of its usefulness that IBM eventually capitulated and released it for free.

The S/34 version is as useful - if not more so - an I’d not seen it on any of the hundreds of machines I’ve ever worked on at the time. I had NO i dea it existed.

We recovered it off of Gertie, our rustbucket System/34, and having a workshop where I could run her allowed me to recover the software and put it into a redistributable form (looks just like the original IBM installer diskette, thats a trick I learned how to do way back when.)

Granted, the working population of machines that can run this software is about, oh, six or so, but still. Recovery and archiving is the goal.

…please donate if you can <3 venmo donate@crusty.computer 501(c)3

2025-06-12

@ifixcoinops Printed in PETG, of course.

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Ged Maheuxgedeonm
2025-06-12

Ah yes, here comes the annual “Your app is broken, fix it! BTW I’m using the new Apple beta.” emails.

😐

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2025-06-10

I've published my 8086 CPU Test suite for emulators.

It contains 646,000 single-step opcode executions with initial and final register and memory states.

github.com/SingleStepTests/808

2025-06-09

Went by The Crusty Computer Club Worldwide Offices today. got Gertie the System/34 properly cabled up and in place of honor in the front lobby. Considered rolling Bid Bird (her large 5211 line printer) up front next to her, but will defer that for another day. Almost have the tunneling to Super SNA World set up, so the office, at least, will have remote connectivity to the rest of the network. Probably finish that tomorrow.

My hero at the LSSM unearthed some original S/34 OS diskettes which includes a rare piece of software called ICF (Interactive Communications Facility). This SHOULD be the software we need to get Gertie onto Super SNA World herself and communicate, over the internet, with machines 40 years her junior.

Prep for VCF SE this week is ongoing. Little AS/400 working on some big line-printer art projects that likely haven’t seen paper since the 80s. I’ll write up more about the Princeton Pictures Tape soon, it was quite a find.

2025-06-09

@hannahpatellis It SUCKS. Old Dropbox you could point to another disk volume, or a network volume. The new API puts your Dropbox under ~/Dropbox and consumes home directory and boot drive space for all the offline-accessible files. Dropbox now routinely files up my boot drive when I archive stuff from some other source. I hate it with the firey burning passion of a million white hot suns.

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