Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026“Yeah, Chipmen. The little fellas inside your computer.” 010
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026To be clear, they are kid’s books, but were a good read (and listen, they came with a tape of I’m not mistaken) when you were six! 010
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026In later found out that he co-wrote several Ladybird Science Fiction books with his son, including The Energy Pirate, which I loved as a child. 100
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Wow, I thought I was the only one too. Found it in a charity shop years ago! 110
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Couldn’t agree more. As understood it, Carpenter wanted Halloween to be an anthology, not just the same film over and over. It’s being screen at the Prince Charles Cinema this October too, going to try and get to see it finally in the big screen, as nature intended ;) 230
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I think that Kirk, Spock and Scotty’s vitamins are similarly labelled. Standard Startfleet practice. 111
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Sounds the kind of money you need if you’re speccing a Mac Mini with some local storage you can swing a cat in… 010
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Where is this from? I need to know! There must more (hopefully a Network DVD or Blu-ray). 200
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“My wife’s got what it takes. Got friends round. Got Roast Pork for lunch. Got plenty of taste, British Pork. Real value for money.” 020
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026That’s not Alan Sugar. That’s Gareth Hunt who for a very brief period of time sold his own version of an Amstrad 464 which had more keys (including some that were pre-pressed to save you the trouble) and an amazing widescreen monitor so you could see your ProText document in 80 columns! 010
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Don’t tell me. Base configuration is 8gb of RAM and 256GB SSD. If you want USB ports, that’s £200 extra. LAN port is £100 extra. 000
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Well his fifth single off White Ladder was Say Hello, Wave Goodbye. 000
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I really wanted to do Latin, because we had a Latin pocket dictionary at home (god knows why) and I wanted to use it. Yep, I was one of the cool kids. Oddly, this was not why I did German. 000
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026We adopted a black cat 13 years ago. We became a tight little crew; was devastated when we had no choice but to say goodbye. Although I love our currrent cat to bits (also adopted) and would not change a thing, I still miss my black cat friend every day. I hope some black cats find a home this week. 0131
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Wasn’t the answer to what he thought, all of Year Two? Wonder if any other Sci-Fi shows have been inspired by Luton… 000
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Technically they are correct. Breakfast service is still taking place. Chronologically. Changing this position because they have run out of food might create an existential crisis. 020
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I was almost hoping that the A1200 prototype was in the A500 case. Don’t know why - I don’t dislike the A1200 case, but it would have given a real skunkworks vibe. Like when Rover were refining the MGF chassis and chose to put a Metro Van body on it as a disguise. 020
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Weren’t you the first character to speak, too? 100
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I was there. The atmosphere was so good! Epic journey home too, ending up somewhere in South West London on the last Piccadilly Line train towards Heathrow. That a bus turned up that was part of a route we regularly used (and had no idea went that way) turned up just added to the surrealism. 010
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I fully expect this to be shown on this day in four years time at the @princecharlescinema.com for its 50th anniversary - and that doesn’t mean I’m going to stop asking them to show Predator 2! 020
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026“3D printed Aluminium eggshell arrays”? So not eggshells. Aluminium. 000
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Who’s doing it? Old man Casio himself? 010
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 05/09/2026That’s a cool idea. Wonder how difficult it would be to do… 110
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Nah, they don’t need time or resources! How about… printing out the chat on your live streams. Like a ticker tape in the movies. Totally redundant… but could it keep up? 110
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Right in the danger zone then. Printer not too expensive, paper available…. Be strong Jim, resist the temptation. Or don’t and have a new toy for a video :) 110
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Exactly what was said when I was at The Cave. Had it explained how it worked (not how I had thought!) and it was unhinged on so many levels…. but brilliant all the same. 020
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Same, I had an Seikosha one for my Spectrum for a little while before it detonated (the Spectrum that is). Not looked into it, but the paper might be a problem for the ZX Printer. They don’t seem massively expensive either, which was a surprise. Whether they still work however… 110
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Seriously? Not the printer, that there are -ve comments? Had the pleasure of seeing a ZX Printer again last weekend. Real off the wall thinking. Totally impractical too. I loved it. 120
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026So sorry to hear this; sending you both best wishes and hoping for a speedy recovery. 000
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026That image of Sir Clive looks vaguely threatening. “Buy it or the Button Radio gets it.” 001
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I am sure I had some as a kid. Plastic ones. I also had a pencil-topper of a Smash robot sitting cross-legged. Maybe I am confusing the two but I’m with you on this one. 100
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Always confuse Jessica Alba with Jessica Biel. One or the other just seemed to be in every other film I was watching in the early 2000s. 010
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 01/09/2026static.klipy.comscanners 1981ALT: scanners 1981 020
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 30/08/2026When you are tired of Cannock… you are tired of Rugley too. The only thing left is the jewel in the crown; the Monaco of Staffordshire (well it has a Shipley’s), the town with not 1 but 2 exits on the M6; the beauty that is Stafford. Tire of that and all that is left is the big city… Wolverhampton! 120
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The famed Glacial Boulder needs no introduction. 010
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Honestly think that it needs to stop with the “buy a banger and turn it into a submarine” schtick. The world’s moved on; the original show worked because it was of its time - same with the revised show in 2001. It’s not Moneyball. Stop trying to recreate Clarkson, May and Hammond in the aggregate! 010
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 27/08/2026We had our first rain in 3 months today (you can’t really count the 30 mins of light shower three weeks ago) and it was glorious. I love the heat and the sun but we really need some rain. I think a number of my bushes are gonners from it being dry for so long and that was with some watering too. 110
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026The sequel to the original film that no-one wanted in the first place.static.klipy.comTed Lasso: Isaac Says 'This Is Bleak'ALT: Ted Lasso: Isaac Says 'This Is Bleak' 020
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I assume that Apple are bumping the prices on memory/storage upgrades too? 110
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026You think? Currently AI can’t produce pictures of people without getting the, perspective, proportions, eyes, limbs and movement wrong, despite copying millions examples harvested from movies. I don’t think we can afford the outlay for a machine to be able to do something humans can do naturally. 010
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Because me and my childhood mates were puerile, naturally Captain Brown exploded because he was trying to hold in a fart. This is still the explanation we espouse when we get together and Captain Scarlett is discussed, because me and my childhood mates are still puerile. 040
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026An anniversary; Windows NT 4.0 is 30 years old today. A big part of my early career was spent working on HP-UX/Solaris machines, but NT turned Windows from a buggy, crashy mess into something that was both stable and supported the productivity software I needed. My beloved OS/2 could not compete. 020
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Blimey. In the C64 Gauntlet was doing all the heavy lifting to sell this… 001
Antiques For Geeks @antiquesforgeeks.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Not an actual story however. If you can see the article through all of the ads, it’s 10% The Sun speculating and 90% about the new series of The Grand Tour. Clickbait at its finest. 010
