Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 10/10/2026reader, you would not believe the asking price for this cable box 000
Reposted by JasonAsif Siddiqi @historyasif.bsky.social · 08/10/2026RIP Margaret Hamilton, the brilliant computer scientist whose contributions to software for the Apollo Guidance Computer were absolutely crucial to the Apollo Moon landings. She also helped shape the discipline of computer engineering while at MIT's Instrumentation Lab: news.mit.edu/2026/margare... 4372139
Reposted by JasonThe Handsome Hobo🇨🇦 @thehobo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026That's how they'd get me 2145744
Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026oh, uh, what i meant to say was that this tape is all i have left. 000
Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026true facts, i once owned a symbolics lisp machine - a 3650. sadly i was never able to get it running, but the boards and many parts went to a good home. 130
Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026is there anything more annoying than waiting a week for them to ship your thing, and then you finally get a shipping notification and it’s “shipping label created: usps awaiting item” for the next 96 hours 010
Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026been getting ads for adult autism testing. which kinda means the algorithm already diagnosed me 000
Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026exactly what someone looking for cultural cache might say 🤔 ! 020
Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026this place is a shithole, a total poker dive - but it’s my old shithole. put in a lot of hours here before encore boston opened up. as long as there’s a picket line at encore, i’m back as a refugee. 010
Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026the tobacco pipe repair youtube guys are grampys and pop pops. the pipe enthusiast youtube guys are moustache dweebs in a study 000
Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026if you like this stuff - nevec.org - anyone can go the swap meets but membership is $6 a year, so just give it to them. heres a few odds and ends from the photos 000
Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026There were a LOT more radios and I should have taken more pictures of them. In the end, I came home with nothing but a cup of coffee. But I always have a good time at these things even just browsing. 110
Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Cute little RCA Victor AM radio. I really like the dial pointer and frequency indicator on this. Handsome. 100
Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A little selection of transistor radios. I was tempted by the Bulova. 110
Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Here’s a tube tester, I just appreciated the truth-in-advertising: “$50, Smokes” 100
Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This has got to be among the world’s oldest commercially-available radar detectors. For a radar detector, it’s freaking enormous. 110
Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Here’s another exhibit from the Atomic / Space Age contest - a Cold War era Civil Defense kit with a “Survey Meter” Geiger counter, dosimeter, and dosimeter charger, with what appears to be the original box. 100
Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Even more TVs. These weren’t for sale, they were part of a contest on the theme “Atomic / Space Age” voted on by attendees. 220
Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026More TVs. Cool but not cheap! JVC Video Capsule, and JVC Videosphere. 110
Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Here’s some photos from the New England Vintage Electronics Club swap meet in Brookline, NH this morning. It was quite a bit smaller than usual as the Nor’easter scared some folks away. First, this Zenith TV, on the free table. If I had unlimited space, I would have taken it home. 120
Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026three episodes into the americans and wondering if i should stick it out, so glad to see it here 000
Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026is this the coolest thing or what! thanks to @lodrina.bsky.social 082
Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026aw shit just realized we’re closer to the 2070s than the 1970s 010
Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The server had to be a go-between, and especially if something ends up comped you should be tipping more, imo. 010
Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026always wanted one of those grid laptops with the gas plasma screens. not sure if this one, which appears to be a bloomberg terminal, has that screen or not 110
Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026some cool stuff from the MIT flea market today. this seller had a nice assortment of mostly Sony transistor radios. 230
Reposted by JasonYou Can't Do That On Social Media @ycdtosm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I for one welcome our new (checks notes) fuel rationing. Builds character 0122
Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026i miss the machines that spit out “chicken soup” (just like bouillon and hot water) used to see them in skating rinks 230
Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Not exactly the same but I was looking up the names I used to see on old CB Radios and found that Tram is still around (as Tram-Browning) but Royce trademarks seem to be fully expired. 120
Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026this still does it for me. happy football, y'all.youtube.comHeavy Action by Johnny PearsonYouTube video by generalravon 000
Jason @jjbbgg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026rewatched the 1976 classic bad news bears over the weekend. great movie but holy shit, a “PG” rating was a completely different beast back then. 000
