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BigBadBiologist @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My Weller needs new tips again, so I bought a FNIRSI DWS-200 soldering iron. Let's test it while working on a battery-damaged 286 motherboard and an Apple IIgs (also a IIc that needs to be checked out, but likely no solder). Saturday's noon EDT. thehttps://youtube.com/live/qrfJ8BD0N-g?feature=share

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Checking out the FNIRSI DWS-200 soldering iron while working on a 286 motherboard, Apple IIgs, & IIc

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Checking out the FNIRSI DWS-200 soldering iron while working on a 286 motherboard, Apple IIgs, & IIc

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Ron’s Computer Videos 🧍‍♂️🖥️📼 @ronscompvids.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Those early ports to the Macintosh were pretty unique, and I was so happy to have them way back then. Monkey Island, Fate of Atlantis… OK, even Pipe Dream! Let's Chat with Eric "EJ" Johnston - LucasArts Macintosh Conversion Specialist! youtu.be/3ytleadumcA

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Let's Chat with Eric "EJ" Johnston - LucasArts Macintosh Conversion Specialist!

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 27/09/2026

NEW: A Texas woman died after being denied an abortion and her family sued the state and her doctors for violating her right to life. They say the ban should be struck down. It's one of several cases challenging abortion laws under state constitutional rights to life and liberty @autonomynews.co

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New Lawsuits Argue That Pregnant People Also Have a Right to Life

Lawyers are fighting abortion bans in state court by establishing that pregnant people have a right to life and liberty—or at least self-defense.

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nulleric @eric.scsi.blue · 27/09/2026

Get them while the gettin's good tinkerdifferent.com/threads/newl...

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BigBadBiologist @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Apologies to anyone that watches my streams after the fact. I didn't realize that I had control of ad frequency. Just found the setting & will only be allowing 2 ads for archives moving forward, as opposed to default shown below. (I will change all archives to only show 2 ads- might take a while)

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Joe's Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The master at work, ladies, gentlemen and other entities.

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BigBadBiologist @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Saturday's noon EDT stream will result in me standing knee-deep in nasty capacitors. We'll start by doing a teardown and inspection of a Sony GV-8 Video Walkman. And then we'll do the same with a Mac Classic and Mac Classic II. Why do I do this to myself? youtube.com/live/4rc4JPS...

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Disassembly and inspection of a Sony GV-8 Video Walkman, a Mac Classic, and a Mac Classic II

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Disassembly and inspection of a Sony GV-8 Video Walkman, a Mac Classic, and a Mac Classic II

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Flying Circuits @flyingcircuits.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I legit* saw a ghost last weekend! This has never happened to me before, and even though the situation was a bit mundane (definitely not horror-movie territory), I'm still excited about it. If you're interested, here's a hopefully mildly-interesting thread: * As legit as that sentence can be

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BigBadBiologist @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm not feeling too hot today, so I stayed home. Let's see if we can mod some 30 pin SIMMs to work as proprietary IBM SIMMs for the Memory Expansion Board in the PS/2 Model 50z. Enameled wire always makes me feel better! 3PM EDT. youtube.com/live/LnWQWSI...

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Modding some 30 pin SIMMs to use with a Memory Expansion Adapter/A for my IBM PS/2 Model 50z 286

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Dyke Spiegel @cowgirlshebop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is a sign of a healthy economy, right?

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Computer Chronicles Revisited @deviledeggpress.com · 22/09/2026

"Six years ago, this was the site of a booming NFT market. Today it's an AI startup losing $1 billion per week. And a year from now, it will hopefully host a ritual sacrifice of techbros to the Roman God Pluto as punishment for their greed." "For the Computer Chronicles, I'm Wendy Woods." #satire

Wendy Woods delivering a remote report for "Computer Chronicles" from a college computer lab.

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ARadioGurl @aradiogurl.net · 22/09/2026

This Ultrawarp Apple II accelerator has been waiting to be assembled since before I moved nearly four years ago. Wasn’t feeling good Sunday night, so I tackled this as an easy project to focus on. I’ll test it out some night this week.

Ultrawarp Apple II accelerator board, unassembled.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is about one thing and one thing alone. Steering our research dollars for cancer, heart disease, and new infectious diseases to Trump’s political allies and friends.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

FAFO aside, his shock is a great distillation of how whiteness as a social construct is built around shattering communal understanding of our interconnected human ecosystem in favor of a mythical individualism How whiteness leaves its adherents defenseless against our shared oppressors: capitalists

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The provost of Dartmouth, at which I teach, has been using AI to write both academic papers & national op-eds, according to brave reporting by @thedartmouth.bsky.social. Many students are already bitter about AI. This leaves us as faculty no ground to stand on. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

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Op-eds, academic articles by Provost Santiago Schnell flagged as ‘AI-written’ by ‘near-zero error’ AI detector Pangram

Schnell said he used artificial intelligence for “making writing processes more efficient,” but that AI was not a “substitute” for his own “intellectual judgment or authorship.”

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BigBadBiologist @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Let's try to repair the bad serial port on this IBM PS/2 Model 50z. You're not going to want to miss the gut-wrenching pain from the hard drive noise in this thing! Maybe we can get a BlueSCSI working in it if the drive is fully toast. Today (Sep 21) at 1PM EDT. #IBMPS2 youtube.com/live/oHBryq4...

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Attempting repair of 1101 (bad serial port) error in an IBM PS/2 Model 50z 286

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Ian Hanschen @furan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A list of 16-bit ISA VGA cards that work in 8-bit ISA mode (taped over the 16-bit finger to test): Everex Viewpoint EV628 AVGA1 (no 0ws) ATI mach8 (no 0ws) Diamond SpeedSTAR VGA Tseng ET4000 (SW3=off, SUPPORTS 0WS) I'm now using the Tseng ET4000 in 8-bit mode as a baseline for performance.

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socketwench @deninet.com · 20/09/2026

Spent some time with a TRS model 100 last Friday. Yeah, its...not good. #septandy #vintagecomputers www.youtube.com/live/AYDECfy...

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women

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BigBadBiologist @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

No Saturday stream for me this week, but I might wind up doing a Monday afternoon stream on this IBM PS/2 Model 50z that has disassembled itself all over the BigBadBench.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.

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Mac84 (Steve) 🍏 @mac84.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I picked up a bunch of cool floppies and disks at VCF Midwest... let's archive them and see if we find anything interesting! Live stream starting in 15 minutes... 👀 youtube.com/live/9kcLgkv...

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LIVE: Archiving Floppies & Hard Drives from VCF Midwest!

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BigBadBiologist @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A little update to the drilled network card from last weekend's stream. Was I able to fix it? Watch this YT short to find out. youtube.com/shorts/YINY3...

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Will the drilled Mac LC network work after adding a factory bodge? #vintagecomputing #vintagemac

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Mac84 (Steve) 🍏 @mac84.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Here's a brief video taste of VCF Midwest from this weekend! 😍 youtube.com/shorts/TTCJl...

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VCF Midwest 2026! 😍 #retro #retrocomputing #vcfmw

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 13/09/2026

for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com

image of a residential intersection with one red car driving across it and a baseball field in the background

black and white dithered image of two red squares around the flock cameras in the previous image, on either side of the intersection

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Six Dettmar @sixdettmar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’M AT THE URGENT CARE I’M AT THE TACO BELL I’M AT THE COMBINATION URGENT CARE AND TACO BELL

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Xodium @xodium.net · 11/09/2026

Happy #VCFMW day 0, everyone! I won’t be there, but a reminder that Rootie will be! Please take pictures of her/with her if you spot her! And do tag me, I’d love to see them!

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BigBadBiologist @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Last week we saved a Mac LCIII logic board that had a drill run partially through it. Can we save the network card that was run through on the way to the logic board? Find out Saturday noon EDT. youtube.com/live/KYZcIyU...

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EWaste Rescue: A scrapper ran a drill into this Macintosh LC Network Card. Can we repair it?

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BlueSCSI Ultra @bluescsi.com · 12/09/2026

Doors are open come by and say hi #vcfmw

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Mac84 (Steve) 🍏 @mac84.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Ka-boom!! 💥 Who would have guessed a tiny tantalum capacitor would make such a large firework?

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ARadioGurl @aradiogurl.net · 12/09/2026

Building another custom Apple IIc. Started with a loose untested board, black MacEffects case, new speaker, custom floppy blank, and a Xdrive2c (purchased for a different project). Waiting on a black Xdrive2c sidecar and some screws to finish it.

3d printer printing a floppy drive faceplate blank

Freshly printed floppy drive faceplate blank

The Apple IIc with Xdrive2c Sidecar and floppy drive blank installed.

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BigBadBiologist @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

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EWaste Rescue: A scrapper ran a drill into this Macintosh LC Network Card. Can we repair it?

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Ian Hanschen @furan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A release of PicoGraph for the PicoMEM2 is now available with support for emulating MDA, Hercules Graphics, EGA, VGA, and the Cirrus Logic CL-GD5429, along with the Sony DTL-H201A Graphics Artist PSX development board. github.com/ianhan/picog...

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Releases · ianhan/picograph

PicoGraph is a Pi Pico 2 ISA video card that supports several PC graphics standards using DisplayLink - ianhan/picograph

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Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 07/09/2026

Coming to VCF Midwest? If you're like me, it's hard trying to remember where everything is, especially with VCF taking up the ENTIRE expo hall this year. So I made this tool last night: geerlingguy.github.io/vcfmw21-map/ Now it's a lot easier to find exhibitors! #vcfmw

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VCF Midwest 21 — interactive table guide

Interactive floor plan for Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 21. Tap any table to see who is exhibiting there, what they are showing, and where to find them.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The new American oligarchs have completed the multigenerational project of reversing all the gains of the 20th century labor movement finance.yahoo.com/news/super-r...

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Super rich’s wealth concentration surpasses Gilded Age levels

America's richest of the rich just passed the Rockefeller-Carnegie cohort in wealth concentration, according to Berkeley economist Gabriel Zucman.

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Todd Gill - Retro Frog @retrofrog.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

SG-1000 games now work on the #Colecovision thanks to PicoPak CV. No conversions required. Will add support to run Sord M5 games (along with a couple other similar spec hardware) and finally MSX 1 games with an attached Super Game Module. PicoPak is gonna be 🔥

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👾🕹️Jamie Copeland 💾☎💻 @slofunk.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

For #Septandy I tracked down an old Radio Shack Armatron 🤖 One of my favorite 80s memories. And yes, I had to repair it before I could play! 🎥 New video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG65...

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Radio Shack Armatron: My #Septandy Robot Arm Adventure

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 06/09/2026

hey, just a reminder that transphobia will never stop at just trans people. That's the lesson here. She hates queers too. Being a transphobic cis lesbian will not save you.

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Mac84 (Steve) 🍏 @mac84.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I'm doing a YouTube Premiere in 35 minutes, stop by and say hi in the chat! 👋🍿 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRrb...

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The WOOTswitch: A Modern ADB Keyboard & Mouse Switch for your Classic Macintosh

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BigBadBiologist @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I love the Mac LCIII, so let's try to save this one that someone ran a drill into. Just another normal Saturday noon stream here at the BigBadBench. #ewaste #vintagemac youtube.com/live/-zvet5a...

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A scrapper ran a drill into this Macintosh LCIII logic board. Can we repair it?

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Jan Beta @janbeta.net · 04/09/2026

New video! There's another capacitor issue with the Amiga 3000T from factory! YouTube: youtu.be/MKnBJ2qgXF0 PeerTube: makertube.net/w/ktv6ZnGPs8... #Amiga #Amiga3000T #Amiga3000 #A3000T #Capacitor #VoltageRails #Commodore #Restoration #Schematics #Repair #VintageComputing #RetroComputing

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Amiga 3000T Restoration Part 8: Reversed Engineering

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👾🕹️Jamie Copeland 💾☎💻 @slofunk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

New video: HackerBox 0129 "Orbital," five round displays, an ESP32-S3, and a build of Brett Tech's open-source Info Orbs. Giveaway in the comments. Thanks to @pcbwayofficial.bsky.social for sponsoring. youtu.be/T1BLPmZ5UcA

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Hackerbox 0129 - Orbital

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BigBadBiologist @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I love the Mac LCIII, so let's try to save this one that someone ran a drill into. Just another normal Saturday noon stream here at the BigBadBench. #ewaste #vintagemac youtube.com/live/-zvet5a...

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A scrapper ran a drill into this Macintosh LCIII logic board. Can we repair it?

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BigBadBiologist @bigbadbiologist.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Just want to thank @gutbomb.net for a Bambu A1 donation! After my first attempt at 3d design since high school, I now have a semi-functional laboratory-specific pipette holder! (Gonna need some tweaking of the design, but it was a fun start)

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Sophie Rose @sophierosemusic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

sophie-rose.bandcamp.com It’s Bandcamp Friday.. I dunno what it is either but hey here’s my tunes 🎹

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Writing music to fight anxiety & depression and to help others do the same.

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