MicroTimes (1985): "[They] met a couple of years ago at a party ... They became good friends before they started in partnership to produce software." <https://theprintshop.club/2024/07/26/the-people-behind-the-print-shop/>

@LaineNooney, "The Apple II Age" (2023): yeah I interviewed them personally. They were a gay couple. "Both had relocated to the Bay Area ... to explore their nascent identity in what was then a vibrant locus for the gay liberation movement in the United States."

Happy Pride! 🌈

#AppleII #retrocomputing #PrideMonth

I don't know what to do with myself so I took photos of the Apple Lisa

Once again, Brendan Loper and The New Yorker cartoons nail it. Is this a chance for the global community to make real progress on international agreements that the US has long sabotaged?

@RetroFox These are neat! I have one that I put a Bluetooth receiver cassette adapter thing inside to make it a Bluetooth speaker 😄

I'm going to try to reverse engineer this mystery video frame grabber card!

Useful #macos script of the day: Airprint Bridge

https://github.com/sapireli/AirPrint_Bridge

Ich habe mein eigenes Regenbogen-Farbband für Schreibmaschinen hergestellt. Ich finde, das Ergebnis kann sich durchaus sehen lassen. 🏳️‍🌈

#regenbogen #pridemonth #schreibmaschine #typewriter #Farbbänder #queer #lgbtq

@ef1j Such dark printing-- jealous!

Can anyone identify this hold music? Lots of companies use it (and no, it's not Opus Number One): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkAEcL58fsM

My friend just published a video about David Hockney's first art done on the Quantel Paintbox, the bespoke digital art computer used throughout the 80s and 90s: https://youtu.be/G3Qev6DUcec #DigitalArt #retrocomputing #quantelpaintbox

I'm looking to pick up a HP Draftmaster II, RX, MX, RX+, or MX+ pen plotter. Do you have one or know someone that does and wants to part with it? I'm in the US Mid-Atlantic region.

Thanks for a boost!

#PenPlotter #VintageComputing

@blakespot I don’t have one to offer but I wanted to mention one that might work well if you can find it. The Supra Turbo 28 had an A500 and A2000 version (virtually identical save the connectors). The feature that was really nice was it had a switch on the back that would enable/disable acceleration. Still a 68000 so not a speed demon. I had one of these for my A500. And recall it being fairly compatible. Good luck in your search!

I am looking for an Amiga 2000 CPU accelerator that features a physical enable/disable switch.

Anyone have one sitting around they're looking to sell? I'm using a 68020 accelerator now, so anything would be faster.

#Amiga #Amiga2000 #hardware #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #accelerators #CommodoreAmiga #MC68K #Motorola

another early morning electronics flea market out here in silicon valley!

@mejs Thank you so much for coming up! It’s always a delight. Happy you got to see the art, the gallery, Peekskill, and the awesome pen plotters.

The absolute highlight of my day - I got to see @paulrickards's plotter art exhibit at Bantam Tools Machine Arts Gallery in Peekskill. In addition to art on the walls, Paul had a modern Bantam Tools pen plotter hard at work creating even more art!

@ef1j Chad strata.

@tubetime @brouhaha @hkz I ended up replacing the two PROMs for the Lisa clone I built with EEPROMs. It worked great!

https://github.com/RolandJuno/Lisa-PROM

Today I’m starting a big plot on the @bantamtools ArtFrame Panorama, a monster of a plotter with a 24” x 72” plot area. Excited to see a plot that is as tall as I am!

I’ll be here at the Bantam Tools Machine Arts Gallery in Peekskill NY today. Stop by if you’re in the area. 👋

#PenPlotter

I’ve long admired the old ALDUS logo from the early PageMaker days on the Mac. I’ve used that style to create a #PenPlotter rainbow portrait of Alan Turing for pride month.

CMYK on 11”x15” watercolor paper using a vintage HP 7585B pen plotter generated and controlled with Python.

Available in my shop, in the Wildcards gallery. https://shop.paulrickards.com/wildcards/

#GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #MastoArt #Art #ArtForSale #Artist #ArtForSaleByArtist #PenPlotterArt #PenPlot #NoAI