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Eric

@ericmb.bsky.social

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Eric @ericmb.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

New art for my home office!

Stylized water color painting for an original Apple mouse and an Apple IIGS monitor.

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Eric @ericmb.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Update ..

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Eric @ericmb.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Fifty dollar find.. will it power up?

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Eric @ericmb.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Finally done! Added MMU3 too!

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Eric @ericmb.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

A few more old gems of mine that my dad found in the basement..

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Eric @ericmb.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

So many parts.. MK4s -> Core1

Messy workbench with 3d printer parts strewn about

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Eric @ericmb.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Saved this hot mess from the MIT swap fest this weekend.. it doesn’t power on because what looks like a dead short on the 12v rail. #newenglandretrocomputers #macclone #macintosh

Mac clone power computing computer case missing drives and looking sad

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Eric @ericmb.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Found some of my operating system purchases in the early to mid nineties in my Dad’s basement. They are complete inside

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Eric @ericmb.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Before getting to those new Macs I grabbed off the recycle truck I am going to be replacing the VGA cable in this Sony Trinitron. I can’t find a replacement cable as beefy as the original hopefully a cable matters cable will be good enough.

Sony Trinitron monitor missing the back cover on a desk.

Cable in a relief strain inside a monitor.

Cable on the end of the VGA cable plugged into the neck board on the Sony Trinitron monitor.

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Eric @ericmb.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Last minute save from e-waste thanks to a Facebook post asking for someone to grab it from a recycling event about 30 minutes away! #retrocomputing #apple

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Eric @ericmb.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I saw a post that reminded me of the Sesame Street segment "Pinball Number Count". This is one of the things that's both burned into my mind and gives me heaps of nostalgia. It turns out the vocals were by the Pointer Sisters! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball...

A cartoon stylized clock face from the 1970s as seen on the television show Sesame Street starting in 1977.

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Eric @ericmb.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Helllooooo beautiful! #sourdough

Fresh load of sour dough bread with a piece cut off.

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Eric @ericmb.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Saw this on Instagram and it really sums up a large part of the enshittification of everything.

Cartoon of scooby doo character unmasking a villain. The caption is “something I used to love sucks now” .. then “let’s see who’s behind this” .. then the unmasking is “private equity”

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Eric @ericmb.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

No personal space for this guy. Frito feet in my face.

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Eric @ericmb.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

My Old Fashioned is smiling at me.

An alcoholic beverage in a glass. There is a large round ice cube in the middle. There are two cherries on top that look like eyes and an orange rind down the bottom that looks like a smiling mouth.

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Eric @ericmb.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Here's a fun new scam that seems to be making the rounds in Massachusetts. I have had a few friends mention it to me today!

Screenshot of a text message where the scammer is trying to trick me into paying a fake late fee. The link looks like paypal but really is a malicious link.

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Eric @ericmb.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Stuffed my face, got the tree.. now on to step three..

A messy work workbench featuring a 3d print taken apart for an upgrade.

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Eric @ericmb.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Gonna stuff my face today, get the tree tomorrow, and hopefully upgrade my Prusa MK3S to an MK4S with an MMU3.

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Eric @ericmb.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Had to unexpectedly put this best boy down today.. two days before his tenth birthday. Goodbye buddy, love you!

A dog sleeping on a couch using a pillow

Yellow dog sleeping on a couch with one eye open.

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Eric @ericmb.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Post you from a different era. Circa 1994

A picture from 1994 of a young man in a white shirt, black tie and black pants leaning on a silver sports car. This picture appears to be in a small parking lot with grass in the background.

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Eric @ericmb.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

My new frens showed up recently! Thank you @maccy.me !!

A mini version of a Macintosh classic and an Apple IIgs

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Eric @ericmb.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,022,433!

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #2,022,433, Eric ‪@ericmb.bsky.social‬, joined on Nov 16, 2023"

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Eric @ericmb.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

It is time! IYKYK

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Eric @ericmb.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

Some wonky solder joints on the fly ack were keeping the screen from coming on randomly. Seems better now! #NewEnglandVintageComputing #macintoshclassic #retrocomputing

A Macintosh classic and external hard drive on a messy workbench.

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Eric @ericmb.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

A little archeology for today on the 80SC drive I picked up.. it loads and has some random stuff on it. It’s starting to sound like staring a jet engine .. will it crash or sort itself out? 🤷‍♂️ #NewEnglandVintageComputing #macintoshclassic #retrocomputing

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