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I feel better knowing I'm not the only person who feels that the battery repairs for these are nothing short of unsanctioned torture.

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 17h

You can never escape Steve Moraff.

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 27/09/2026

Broken selfie stick, $3 clown nose and a bit of rubber cement. Now I got a telescoping pointing stick! *Fear Me!*. >:D

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 26/09/2026

I dug something out of storage the other day that I'm kinda proud of but it never ended up getting completed. A video about it will be up tomorrow.

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 25/09/2026

Always remember to register your software and only use genuine Microsoft products.

John holds up a CD-ROM copy of Microsoft Office while the screen displays his registered name and company prior to proceeding.

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 22/09/2026

Hmm. Someone had a hot mic. 🔥

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 21/09/2026

When you loan things to “that friend” and you drop in to ask if you can get your keyboard back.

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 18/09/2026

The ferrous nature of JB Weld means that something as easy as gluing a magnet to a driveshaft can be a chore. It keeps sucking up all of the epoxy and wearing it rather than letting it puddle underneath.

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 16/09/2026

This is a factory made ribbon cable for a tape drive. What the hell were you on, Wangco?

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 14/09/2026

I don't remember the Galaxy S looking like that but...I like this alternate reality.

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 13/09/2026

One person left #VCFmw without a muffler. One person left VCFmw with a new friend. 🥹

A rusty muffler. Presumably it fell off a car.....because it 's rusty.

A rusty muffler. Now with "Emotional support Muffler" written on it.

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 13/09/2026

I'm hoping everyone is enjoying VCF MidWest because I got a sunburn today. >:T

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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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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 11/09/2026

In VERY late-breaking news I have been informed that due to a catastrophic and unexpected budget shortfall, the VCF MidWest Planning Committee was only able to rent four tables and a small ball pit. Load-in starts tomorrow. Good luck.

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vcfederation.bsky.social @vcfederation.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 09/09/2026

Hearing people chatter about how Apple is going to release a folding iPhone and how it's going to change everything, forgetting that the best flip phone ever made has existed already for 30 years.

The Motorola StarTAC, pictured opened and folded, was originally released in 1996 at a cost of around $1000. (about $2000 today)

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OldTechAdverts @oldtechadverts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Must be an inkjet printer or a thermal printer. #retrocomputing #bytemagazine

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 05/09/2026

We’ll that was $40 in PVC fittings wasted…….

John’s new support stand for the rooftop weather station after a day of letting the pipe cement fully cure. Note how the anemometer does not clear the wind vane.

The face of an idiot when he realized just how expensive that mistake was.

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 01/09/2026

Because I’m not gonna pay $150usd per cable. This is why the VCF free pile exists! 🤪 Thanks to whoever was dumping the shielded ribbon cable at VCF West. I’m making good use of it right now!

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 01/09/2026

I've lived away from Ontario for too long but it still hits me in the childhood when you see stuff like this happening because it means you were not the only person in Southern Ontario who remembered Knob Hill Farms as a kid.

Having been closed for over 25 years, the plot of land that once had the Oshawa Food Terminal is now a cement slab being slowly ground up for redevelopment. Elsewhere on the site, the circular emblem of Knob Hill Farms which was set in a slab of granite when the site was first converted into one of the largest grocery stores in the world (I think it was second to the Cambridge Food Terminal) has been cut away from the foundation and is carefully lifted from the ground and into a waiting crate for safe storage. It will be reinstalled in the new transit plaza once construction is underway.

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Some really fun things are happening behind the scenes! Stay tuned...

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 28/08/2026

Having a setting that only lets people who follow you be able to read your posts feels extremely narcissistic (because you can use this to curate exactly who can and cannot see you with blocks.) It's like me only letting people who subscribe to my channel get to see my posts and channel news.

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Brian Peter Gluckman @bgluckman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Cars in the PNW don't rust. They do, however, grow moss.

A moss over blue El Camino in White Center, Washington, the epicenter of #weirdcars

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 25/08/2026

"Quit braggin' and start fraggin'!"

A cluster of open windows containing various graphic elements to Quake 3. In one window is the original TARGA assets. In another is an editor window and a sidebar showing various element layers. Another window shows a tiled view of completed images. At the bottom the Optimus Maximus Configurator is open to the overlay editor and images are being assigned to keys as per the original concept photo from 2005, seen on the right.

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 23/08/2026

Worked last night and early this morning getting these uploaded. archive.org/details/8760... - The engineering handbook archive.org/details/siv-... - Machine Instruction Handbook archive.org/details/siv-... - Series IV Reference Summary archive.org/details/siv-... - VISION System Reference Card

The binder set that makes up the core documentation for my IV/70 system. It includes instruction information for the CE, technica information for the system operator as well as service and operating documentation for the peripherals. 1500 pages total.

The Engineering handbook contains additional procedures for routine tasks, such as disk recovery, alternate bootmodes and pocket references for conversion charts and processor instructions.

The Computer Reference Manual contains operator instructions for daily system operation as well as detailed peripheral information for system and job programming.

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 22/08/2026

I love how the console kids got so drunk on PVM’s and the RGB placebo, this PVM-8040 hit the VCF West free pile because “it’s so basic it’s not worth repairing” and with three caps in the PSU, it’s been running fine all week. You people suck. Get a real skillset and stop reading Reddit.

The portable display isn’t much bigger than my motioncorder high-speed camera.

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 21/08/2026

Well this isn't going to make things easier for me.

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 21/08/2026

I had to make the dumbest printer cable I’ve ever seen today.

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 20/08/2026

Found an old newspaper at work today. On this episode of Marketing Disasters…

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 19/08/2026

This week is going well so far. It's only Tuesday night.

An HP LaserJet 4M Plus decides that it's no longer willing to co-operate.
(I'm writing to the display using the Port 9100 telnet trick)

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 13/08/2026

It’s wednesday. That means it’s time to repair a Watchman with battery damage and carbon tracking.

Battery corrosion pooled at the base of the unit, attacking these traces.

Pocket TV’s are just as hell to work on as camcorders.

More battery leakage. Bonus carbon tracking that’s killing the high voltage.

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 12/08/2026

Tuesday computer nonsense going well…

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 09/08/2026

“Yeah, that’s a blue box.” - Woz, for the ten seconds after his talk at VCF West before he was quickly escorted back to his car by event security (seriously, he was in and out via a sideroomwith no off-mic talk time or a walk-through and that sucked.)

A crude clear plastic box containing a nine volt battery, 16 buttons, a speaker under the electrical tape cap and various electronics stuffed inside.

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LGR @lgr-yt.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

So this is not the usual post for me, but my cousin just endured a massive fire and lost his home and belongings. He jumped from a 2nd story window to escape, sadly his brother/my other cousin did not survive Just posting this here in case anyone feels compelled and able to help gofund.me/b10a6b3d7

gofund.me

Donate to Help Loren Rebuild After House Fire, organized by Tera Kluxen

Please support Loren and our family Tera is raising this fundraiser for Loren, th… Tera Kluxen needs your support for Help Loren Rebuild After House Fire

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 08/08/2026

When the parts you’ve been hoarding finally get a home.

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 07/08/2026

For the person who left the Sony SFF-101 portable fax machine in the VCF West free pile, unfortunately while it has a good screen the rest of it really isn't doing too hot. Damn shame too. www.youtube.com/shorts/jrLyu...

youtube.com

At what point is a gadget not worth restoring?

YouTube video by CelGenStudios

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 07/08/2026

Nobody tell LGR that a 43 year-old Canon PJ-1080A just worked after one bad tantalum and a nozzle clean. ;)

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 06/08/2026

Let me summarize yesterday.

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CelGen Studios @celgen.org · 04/08/2026

So I was planning to somehow make a video on this, but I determined I didn't want to deal with Apple Security and attaching a camcorder to a selfie stick makes me look like a clown, so lets go for a short road-bound tour through Cupertino and then scoot over to Palo Alto.

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