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Crazy Eddie's Used Computers @dectape.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have memories of my dad cranking this song on the hi-fi set when I was a kid.

Crazy Eddie's Used Computers @dectape.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My experience with the x68000 is that every single capacitor in them is conspiring to dissolve the insides into a fine paste. I'm sure the battery situation doesn't help.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

music.youtube.com

Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP

EP • Stevie Wonder

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Crazy Eddie's Used Computers @dectape.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's a pretty rare option and I'm excited to play with it. I'm missing the cabling that goes between the logic and the terminal housing, but I should have the parts needed to build it in hand sometime next week.

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Crazy Eddie's Used Computers @dectape.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The VT8-E is a set of three Omnibus boards in a PDP-8/e that are lashed up to a VT05 chassis with just the monitor and keyboard installed. The logic in the 8/e can do text (64x20 or 32x20 characters with various attributes) or graphics (189x200 pixels, monochrome).

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Crazy Eddie's Used Computers @dectape.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Spent the afternoon cleaning up the basement in an attempt to find this set of drawings. I found it, finally, in a box in a forgotten corner. And even better, the drawings match the revision of the hardware I have to debug. Also: what a lovely bit of art on the cover.

Photograph of a copy of the "VT8-E video display control engineering drawings" c. 1973.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Crazy Eddie's Used Computers @dectape.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The logo is currently this tiny little icon stolen from Smalltalk-72:

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Crazy Eddie's Used Computers @dectape.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is a project I really need to get back to and finish up... it's been in Beta for like two years now.

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SDF @sdforg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Two of MIT-MC.ARPA’s 256KW MH10 memory cabinets will be used to provide the KI10 with half a megaword. MC’s hardware is littered with notes by MOON.

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Crazy Eddie's Used Computers @dectape.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

In the dangerous kitchen at my house toniiiiiight!

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Scout Tafoya @honorszombie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

More adults have made youth sports their entire personality in the last 10 years than any child in history. Why don't you go break up a game of hide and seek while you're at it, you fuckin' losers.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Well, now it's been 25 years, 3 years since I wrote this ode to remembrance and forgetfulness. And what have we done? www.the-reframe.com/never-rememb...

the-reframe.com

Never Remember

Reflection & remembrance on the 22nd anniversary of a grim hinge in history. What we never remember, what we never forget

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026

All else aside there is nothing I want or need genAI to do for me. I like reading. I like doing research. I like playing around in spreadsheets. I like interviewing people. I like writing. I like doing these things for myself because I take pleasure in the doing and they make me a better thinker.

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Crazy Eddie's Used Computers @dectape.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

And to be clear, this is not (necessarily) a moral judgment: you will not *be able* to stop using it -- the loss of productivity and convenience and cognitive offloading will be hard, and the rest of the industry will just keep on using LLMs so you'll need to keep using them to remain employed.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026

"So in summary: using AI for coding led to depression, apathy, existential dread, and worse software. Not good. Add on top of that the negative environmental, community, and economic impacts of AI, and it became extremely apparent to me that something's gotta change." brettcodes.com/im-done-usin...

brettcodes.com

I'm done using AI

Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Republicans and other supremacists are shameful because of the inhumanity of their supremacy; because they are my fellow citizens—human beings within our shared human community—and because they will not be ashamed of themselves, I will be ashamed of them." www.the-reframe.com/the-death-of...

the-reframe.com

The Death of Shame

Modern Nazis, careless people, and the offensive necessity of caring in a shameful age.

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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 01/09/2026

This essay talks about the left's vision for technology, the "alliance" between left and right-wing anti-data center movements, politics of refusal, democratic control over the AI infrastructure buildout, China, industrial policy, and more. www.thetechbubble.info/p/the-future...

thetechbubble.info

The Future Is Not Tech-Forward

On artificial intelligence, data centers, technological politics, and who gets to build the future.

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Crazy Eddie's Used Computers @dectape.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Er, not produce, but editing & post-production...

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Crazy Eddie's Used Computers @dectape.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Tom Wilson apparently was a glutton for punishment as he went on to produce The Velvet Underground & Nico...

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Crazy Eddie's Used Computers @dectape.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This may be my favorite Who album, it's light and carefree and goofy and it's just a lot of fun to listen to. And it's got a lotta beans on the cover.

A photograph of a vinyl copy of The Who's 1967 album "The Who Sell Out" that I picked up this weekend. On the cover, Pete Townshend is using an oversized Odorono deodarant and Roger Daltrey is bathing in a tub of Heinz Baked Beans. (Not pictured, but on the rear cover Keith Moon is using a giant tube of pimple cream and John Entwistle is shilling for Charles Atlas and Dynamic Tension).

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Katherine the Sixth @luigithirty.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

That’s the goal of the Peter Thiel/Nazi/Big Tech centralized control of everything. All authoritative sources of truth can be updated as needed like Winston Smith revising history to conform to this week’s Party doctrine. And the excuse is just “they updated it, we’re not responsible.”

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Crazy Eddie's Used Computers @dectape.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A shame that the previous owner scribbled their name up at the top there, but I'm pretty happy with the find...

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Crazy Eddie's Used Computers @dectape.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Made an amazing score at Half-Price Books in Redmond today. There are about a million different pressings of this but I'm fairly certain this one is what I have here... www.discogs.com/release/1171...

Photograph of an LP copy of The Velvet Underground and Nico.

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844

By counting the most meagre form of life (existence) as the standard, indeed, as the general standard – general because it is applicable to the mass of men. He turns the worker into an insensible being lacking all needs, just as he changes his activity into a pure abstraction from all activity. To him, therefore, every luxury of the worker seems to be reprehensible, and everything that goes beyond the most abstract need – be it in the realm of passive enjoyment, or a manifestation of activity – seems to him a luxury.

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Crazy Eddie's Used Computers @dectape.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Well, now you need to hook up a monitor to the herc so you can keep an eye on your UMB allocations.

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spooky scary renegade cut @renegadecut.com · 01/08/2026

It's time. New Renegade Cut. Crime City: 1997. Get your popcorn. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oONo...

youtube.com

Crime City 1997 | renegade cut

YouTube video by Renegade Cut

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SDF @sdforg.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

KICKI lives! icm.museum Thank you for supporting us!

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SDF @sdforg.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Do you DIG the PDP-10? We’re hacking 36bits today at icm.museum #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

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Crazy Eddie's Used Computers @dectape.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This was a very fun show, and everything worked flawlessly from beginning to end! Had a lot of fun talking with visitors about the Alto.

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Crazy Eddie's Used Computers @dectape.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

@celgen.org has a working drive but I‘m not sure about the Montreal part :).

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Crazy Eddie's Used Computers @dectape.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My score today during VCF load-in, courtesy of the amazing Friends of the Palo Alto Library’s book sale booth.

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Crazy Eddie's Used Computers @dectape.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

We are all loaded-in and set up for VCF West! Come by and see us tomorrow and Sunday at CHM!

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Crazy Eddie's Used Computers @dectape.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The loading for the trip down to VCF West has begun...

A Xerox Alto sits in the back of a mostly-empty cargo van. It beckons to you. You feel a stirring.

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SDF @sdforg.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

KICKI is showing signs of life today as it can kind of examine memory locations. icm.museum #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing

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Crazy Eddie's Used Computers @dectape.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

and he's buyyying a stairway to heaven

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Crazy Eddie's Used Computers @dectape.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Random impulse record purchase today. Not a ton of info on this band; Discogs (www.discogs.com/artist/43720...) says Tarwater is a "Self-described ‘hard-core country music’ band from Mountain Home, Idaho." I'm not so sure about the hard-core part but it's not bad.

The LP album "Tarnation" by Tarwater being held up by yours truly. Cover is a black and white rendering of the band (possibly a pencil drawing). They are sitting on a hill or something and they look very country. Maybe even... hard core country.

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Crazy Eddie's Used Computers @dectape.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This one comes to mind more and more often these days....

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I made a new t-shirt that I think has an important message about the future and also about friendship and i think maybe you will like it roryblank.bigcartel.com

A shirt depicting a cute beaver wearing a hardhat and a work vest and holding a hammer, standing in front of a series of pictures of other beavers in work gear variously sawing wood, hammering nails, and carrying planks of wood.

On the pictures it says "working together we can build anything we like."

In big text it says "stop building hell" at the top
and at the bottom it says "we are trapped in the prison of nostalgia, a world built by ghosts, not a world for the living. Nothing new can be built until we escape. Nothing can be fixed if you aren't willing to let things go."

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Crazy Eddie's Used Computers @dectape.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

No matter how many times I eat them they keep coming back to kill me.

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Crazy Eddie's Used Computers @dectape.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

It’s basically multiple tiny z80-based CP/M systems in a single chassis, sharing storage. Not a joke, or at least not an intentional one.

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