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ko² @foxgirl.systems · 05/10/2026

print quality wasn't the greatest on the badge, so here's a clean capture. proud of how it turned out for a 4am doodle lol

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ko² @foxgirl.systems · 05/10/2026

still a few finishing touches hardware-wise I need to do, but done!

industrial baby-AT form factor computer, with 5.25-inch and 3.5-inch floppy drives. the power LED is pink, the HDD LED is ultraviolet

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ko² @foxgirl.systems · 04/10/2026

this keyboard was offloaded onto me and I was going to put it in the vcf free pile, until I tested one of the keys and noticed it was mechanical... pics don't show it well, but it's *very* UV-damaged. might be the most yellow "beige" device I have

very filthy beige keyboard, keycaps removed. blue alps switches are visible

beige keyboard, now clean (but still yellowed from UV damage)

beige keyboard, now clean, keycaps removed

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ko² @foxgirl.systems · 01/10/2026

server/NAS disks moved in, everything works! size comparison with the old server; I should do an energy use comparison too

hp z820 workstation and a dell optiplex 7000 sff with an HDD bay attached. the z820 is about 4 times the size

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ko² @foxgirl.systems · 01/10/2026

oh yuuup I'm always doing that

advertising heading for an SSD, reading "3D expansion to break through limits"

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ko² @foxgirl.systems · 01/10/2026

does this void dell's warranty (semi-serious question)

optiplex 7000 SFF with a 4-drive 3.5" SATA HDD bay connected to the onboard power connector, 2 onboard data connectors, and 2 data connectors on a PCIe card

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ko² @foxgirl.systems · 25/09/2026

tl;dr more programs need to let me do shit like this

kde dolphin toolbar edit window, adding a donation button to the toolbar labeled "FREE MONEY!!!!!!!!"

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ko² @foxgirl.systems · 24/09/2026

well win2k seems a bit more effort than it's worth, so I cleaned up the factory install instead

sony vaio pcg-u3 laptop next to its external CD-ROM drive. they're almost the same size. the wallpaper is a vaio default one, modified to include the "unhand me you fuck" image in the corner with an ethereal glow

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ko² @foxgirl.systems · 23/09/2026

heartbreaking: Puppy files not found

vaio pcg-u3 attempting to boot an old version of Puppy Linux, console text reads "Loading drivers needed to access disk drives..done; Searching for Puppy files.......puppy_slacko_5.3.3.sfs not found. Dropping to initial-ramdisk console..."

same console text as prior pic, cropped to "Searching for Puppy files"

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ko² @foxgirl.systems · 20/09/2026

rewinding all my tapes and becoming some forme of "Video Deity"

blockbuster video label on a VHS tape reads "To PLAY is human. To REWIND is divine!"

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ko² @foxgirl.systems · 17/09/2026

the more I look at this the more it feels like a control panel for the worlds most esoteric washing machine

functioning pdp-11/70 front panel replica powered via raspberry pi

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ko² @foxgirl.systems · 15/09/2026

i mean yeah. how else do you think they got this footage

screenshot of a protein shake commercial with talking food in a fridge

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ko² @foxgirl.systems · 15/09/2026

after the show there was an impulse decision to visit mitsuwa and I'm glad we did. kawarage's artbook? in the US??? insane find

cover to "かわらげ画集龍苑画巻", an artbook consisting of kemono character art

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ko² @foxgirl.systems · 13/09/2026

her gay little chef hat

pc98 reimu with an anger cloud coming off the back of her head, which looks more like a tiny chef hat

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ko² @foxgirl.systems · 13/09/2026

we saw this guy. the dodent 🦡

a skunk drinking from a puddle amongst mulch

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ko² @foxgirl.systems · 12/09/2026

I bought this vaio at the show and after powering it on for the first time, this is what greeted me

sony vaio pcg-u3, running windows xp, wallpaper is a hamster held with 2 hands captioned "Unhand me you fuck"

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ko² @foxgirl.systems · 08/09/2026

oh I've been way ahead of the LG TV ball game

post from me, dated dec. 9 2022: "I forbid my TVs from connecting to the internet in much the same way a parent might forbid their child from exploring the cupboard underneath the sink"

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ko² @foxgirl.systems · 03/09/2026

...and the keyboard's buttoned back up! not ideal, but it's good enough for now whenever I get around to learning kicad I'll condense this down to a DIP40-sized board that can slot into the existing spot for the MCU

underside of the sharp X1 keyboard PCB, ribbon cable wires are soldered to pads of a DIP40's footprint

ribbon cable wires soldered to DIO pads of an arduino mega 2560 clone

red sharp x1 keyboard, with a black plastic box attached via a ribbon cable routed above the stop key. label on the box reads "X1 Keyboard Life Support Module"

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ko² @foxgirl.systems · 01/09/2026

YES!!! the keyboard works! why it wasn't working is a bit funny: the X1 expects the key state header to be inverted, and to account for that, my code sends the opposite pulses accordingly... except I also invert the keystate buffer *before* sending the pulses, un-inverting it

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ko² @foxgirl.systems · 31/08/2026

testing the same resistor swap on the other board I don't even have the keyboard plugged in. wtf

text on monitor reads "IPL is looking for a program from CMT"

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ko² @foxgirl.systems · 31/08/2026

...but the keyboard was still limited to 3V. swapping the 100ohm resistor going to Vcc2 on the KB connector for 22ohm gives it the 5V it needs! that had Side Effects though. if the front power switch isn't pressed, the X1 will come out of standby for no reason. which allowed this to happen

sharp x1 ipl/boot menu; pieces of the selection strings are drawn partially off-screen, and the bottom of the screen is filled with colorful garbage characters

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ko² @foxgirl.systems · 26/08/2026

oh yeah? do you have this one

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ko² @foxgirl.systems · 25/08/2026

it's crazy how they predicted twitchspeak

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ko² @foxgirl.systems · 24/08/2026

toy update: decorating

rigol ds1104z+ mixed-signal oscilloscope with fox (and cat) stickers on it, a binary signal is being measured on-screen

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ko² @foxgirl.systems · 13/08/2026

oh that's gore. that's gore of my comfort character

ebay listing for a sharp x68000 XVI that's far beyond repair

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ko² @foxgirl.systems · 12/08/2026

breakthough: this device has an innovative new "DOG" button

garmin device with a few buttons under a screen, one is labeled "DOG"

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ko² @foxgirl.systems · 11/08/2026

this program (巫女さんぱたぱた) is pretty cool. date/time/stats are useful as-is (win3.1 has no taskbar clock!), but the miko animation also helps tell if the system's crashed it's based on an older pc98 tool that takes over the screen; I wonder if it's supposed to be a TSR that draws over other programs?

small window on windows 3.1, showing a miko sprite alongside the date, time, and system load stats

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ko² @foxgirl.systems · 11/08/2026

I'm flying too close to the sun. they don't want me doing this.

old windows program with a sprite of a cat miko, date, time, and usage stats. it has crashed with a wine error message beside it

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ko² @foxgirl.systems · 11/08/2026

can't get into enhanced mode but I'm satisfied. this shouldn't have worked

windows 3.1 running on a pc-9801vx. minesweeper, clock, notepad, calc, and program manager are open

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ko² @foxgirl.systems · 09/08/2026

3.1 might be too much for the vx so here's... this

windows 2.11 running on a pc-9801vx. clock, calculator, and notepad are open

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ko² @foxgirl.systems · 09/08/2026

filed under "Gadgets, Gizmos"

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ko² @foxgirl.systems · 07/08/2026

saw this pic and for whatever reason my first thought was "oh so like deltarune.com/chapter5 "

shirt that says "I LOVE...", followed by "Casio" interpreted as an acronym: "Cash, Alcohol, Sound, Intellectuals, Omelet". each of the first letters are different sizes

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ko² @foxgirl.systems · 04/08/2026

oh wow I removed those two and the pattern IMMEDIATELY came back. problem solved I think? just need to source replacements for the record, it was these

two ceramic capacitors, C55 & C54, removed from the underside of an FM Towns II HR motherboard near the VRAM

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ko² @foxgirl.systems · 03/08/2026

very trustworthy fm towns test setup (+ draco of encouragement)

disassembled fm towns II HR, stripped down to just the motherboard, PSU, and precariously balanced/exposed CD-ROM drive. puyopuyo is running on the monitor, with a draco centauros plush sitting in front

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