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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 30/09/2026

Saw a guy wearing ESD safe birkenstocks at work today. I aspire to that level of drip

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 29/09/2026

*someone* works at the parks department sign shop

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 29/09/2026

reposting because the #my9games thing is going around again. I stand by my choices wholeheartedly

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 27/09/2026

That HDMI encoder is pretty expensive, what’s the price difference? OTOH I had the idea to leave the encoder off of the Gremlin and use a Pico 2

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 27/09/2026

That moon gave me one of the best moonrises I’ve ever seen yesterday. It was right at sunset and we were out looking at fall aspen leaves. The pic obviously does not do it justice!

The moon rising over a mountainside while the sky is pink from sunset. There’s a dirt road, and metal buildings and cars are off to the right.

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Sophie Rose @sophierosemusic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The MacPaint manual is nice..

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 26/09/2026

Agreed! 9 simply isn't enough for the more seasoned of us 😆

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 26/09/2026

"The PicoIDE will never work on the B&W G3" - Ian Scott, September 25, 2026 "The PicoIDE works fine on the B&W G3 with an OpenFirmware workaround" - Ian Scott, September 26, 2026

A Blue & White Apple Power Macintosh G3 in the classic Bondi Blue color, opened up with its guts out. Two PicoIDEs are plugged into it, one into the HDD interface, and the other one meant for the optical/ZIP drives.

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 25/09/2026

Think of all the pictures you could store on this! One, maybe two even

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 25/09/2026

We just asked our cat what day it was and he just sat there 😞

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 25/09/2026

I *loved* my Zaurus back in the day!

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 23/09/2026

I love that someone figured out that one square hole punch was the perfect size for a disk notcher. I have the same one with a 3D printed holder!

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 22/09/2026

I’m in this video in a couple spots! Clint caught me dropping off some Macs and a tape drive enclosure on the free pile, and later he stops by my table where my 486 with PicoIDE and PicoGUS is playing the intro to Return to Zork VERY LOUDLY

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 22/09/2026

I wish appliances with sensors would tell you what they were doing in more detail. Like "I'm extending the wash cycle by N minutes because I detect X turbidity level in the water" or "load unbalanced, restarting spin cycle, attempt N of 5".

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 21/09/2026

I've avoided so many "popular" things simply because they're popular but when I get around to watching/listening/reading/playing them they're actually good. I've had friends suggest YT videos and I click and see the creator has >1M subs and I'm like "ehhh... this probably actually isn't good"

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 19/09/2026

Glad I’m not alone 😅

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 19/09/2026

Post-VCF letdown: getting the retro space under control. I let things get too messy during VCF prep and brought back a lot from the show so now I need to figure out where things can go so I can see my floor again!

A cluttered basement space full of old computers and boxes of computer junk. Help, I’m drowning in it!

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 19/09/2026

Kate and Veronica’s new podcast is great! I may be biased because they interviewed me at VCF Midwest last weekend but they’re awesome people putting together something awesome!

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 19/09/2026

The ones with the flip down mics are *so* Sony!

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

the space tablet, print ad, imagery (1982) archive.org/details/byte...

prominent text: welcome to the third dimension
underneath: an image of a kinda george lucas-lookin' mf (wearing a black cape), using a very small space shuttle on a space table to co-ordinate the 3d image on his apple II screen in wire frame. he is looking back at you intensely (away from what he is doing), giving the whole image a twilight zone vibe.

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 19/09/2026

Brendan is the best!

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 19/09/2026

I'll be on this stream tonight!

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 18/09/2026

They sure love my big sphinx of quartz

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 18/09/2026

Appletalk PC card! I played with one on Globaltalk during Marchintosh and was nice and odd connecting to people's shares and printing to their printers on DOS

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 17/09/2026

They were great! I bought so much slightly obsolete stuff there. I found one of their stickers recently and stuck it on my sticker bombed set of drawers.

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 16/09/2026

I have… a lot of them

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 15/09/2026

An amazing thing some of you may not have seen this past weekend at #vcfmw: bytex64’s MFM drive emulator. He got it up and running on Sunday and the speaker on it for drive activity sounds great!

An early laptop in beige, with a purple PCB connected to it via a ribbon cable coming out of a drive bay on the side of the computer.

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 15/09/2026

Another VCF Midwest #vcfmw highlight: taking a van load of stuff to put on the free pile on behalf of @jeremysretrobar.bsky.social. Almost everything I put on the pile was picked up within seconds of me putting it down. There’s two more layers of stuff beyond what you can see in this photo

The back hatch of a minivan with several classic Macintoshes, quite a few gray box era Dells, an IBM MDA monitor, and two flat panel Apple displays.

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 15/09/2026

Ah, I was going to come say hi, so that explains why I couldn’t find you during the show

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 14/09/2026

I came by a couple times to say hi and nerd out about NTP but each time you were busy! Ah well, next VCF then!

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 14/09/2026

And here’s it booting and starting the game Rusty!

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 14/09/2026

One of my favorite moments from #vcfmw this year was when @thegirlg33k.com let me test picoide out on her PC-9821 and do some IDE bus captures. After some shenanigans with drive geometry it booted right up off the picoide! And CD works too! Thanks again for letting me crash your table 😅

Me sitting in front of a PC-98 that is taken apart at a long table setup in a big expo hall. The table has a teal tablecloth on it

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techknight @thetechknight.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

VCF Midwest had its first christening, went off with a bang

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 10/09/2026

Ohh that is cool! Being from St. Louis, TWA holds a special place in my heart.

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Inverse Phase @inversephase.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ok I'm officially putting out the call for help, Wonderbread (my prius) is acting up and I think it's unsafe to drive it to Chicago. Looking for folks driving through Pittsburgh to #VCFMW. I will need a little bit of cargo space.

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 10/09/2026

Beautiful machines! Looks like our tables will be pretty close. Can't wait to see 'em!

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Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 07/09/2026

Coming to VCF Midwest? If you're like me, it's hard trying to remember where everything is, especially with VCF taking up the ENTIRE expo hall this year. So I made this tool last night: geerlingguy.github.io/vcfmw21-map/ Now it's a lot easier to find exhibitors! #vcfmw

geerlingguy.github.io

VCF Midwest 21 — interactive table guide

Interactive floor plan for Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 21. Tap any table to see who is exhibiting there, what they are showing, and where to find them.

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 07/09/2026

This is going to be so helpful! Thanks for making this.

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 06/09/2026

I think it’s ITC Avant Garde - it has lots of fun skewed alternate versions of characters and ligatures. I think there are some versions with the alternates and ligatures on by default like Avant Garde Gothic Alternate

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 06/09/2026

I have an EGA card and EGA CRT I could try it out on if you’re interested in what that mode looked like before VGA was a thing

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 05/09/2026

Damn, you know how to do breakfast right

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 05/09/2026

Guess I’ve shifted west since then

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Ian Scott @polpo.org · 05/09/2026

I did the one the NYT had a few years ago and I got back just a big dot right on top of St. Louis

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