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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 23/04/2026

We were so excited to partner with the Computer History Museum for their recent celebration of Apple's 50th birthday! We brought some rare jewels from our collection to share and the response was wonderful. This whole event was a truly magical experience! #Apple

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 21/04/2026

The Watsonville community turned out in style for our recent Retro Roadshow "Mario Through The Ages" event! Everyone had a great time learning and getting hands-on with our vintage consoles. Let us know if you'd like to see it at your local library, school, business, or other venue! #Gaming

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 18/04/2026

We had a BLAST bringing Retro Roadshow's Console Chaos to the Sunnyvale Public Library! This show explores the 'console wars' of the late '70s through the '90s. This is becoming one of our most popular events - let us know if you'd like to see it at your local library, school, or business! #BayArea

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 09/04/2026

Me: "Huh, why has my lower back been super sore for days?" Also me: "Oh, I forgot to share that pic I took when we were packing out of our Retro Roadshow event in Alameda last weekend!" #Gaming

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 23/02/2026

Sega Genesis & 32X playing "General Chaos" on an RGB-modded Sony KV13M. Pretty nice way to pass the time on a lazy Sunday! This game is an awesome mix of realtime strategy and cartoonish humor, but it rarely seems to get mentioned anymore. Definitely check it out if you can!

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 31/01/2026

Can't stop, and apparently won't stop?

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 29/01/2026

I've been combining my love of Original Series Star Trek with my complete lack of taste, common sense, and Pixelmator skills. Enjoy? #StarTrek @startrek.bsky.social

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 20/01/2026

It's very much a work in progress, but we're delighted to announce that we'll be exhibiting our new #Apple Lisa 2/10 at several Retro Roadshow events! It's almost impossible to get hands-on with these rare machines, and we really can't wait to share with you all soon

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 19/01/2026

My fun project for the evening: repairing this trash-rescued KEC TV, and doing a total overhaul on this formerly-busted Nintendo GameCube. They look fantastic together! #gaming

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 17/01/2026

User Interface Design peaked with the MacAddict Magazine CD-ROM interface in 1996. Everything prior was just building up to this, and everything afterwards was a mistake. BRING BACK THE “3D PYRAMIDS + HOVERING GLOBES WITH ORBITING PARTICLES” AESTHETIC YOU COWARDS

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 15/12/2025

Thanks to Mtn. View Public Library, The Friends of Mtn. View Library & their devoted community for a successful "Console Chaos!" event! The positive feedback we received was truly humbling. Spread the word about the Retro Roadshow! www.RetroRoadshow.org

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 09/12/2025

Go home, Goodwill - you’re drunk 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 19/11/2025

20 years ago I was a huge fan and advocate for the gorgeous Mac app called Delicious Library. Sadly that app is dead now, and I'm baffled - what are people using today to catalog books and other physical media? @gruber.foo #macos

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 06/10/2025

I was unloading for our Apple-themed Retro Roadshow event at the Sunnyvale Library yesterday. When I set our Flower Power iMac down onto a flatbed alongside our NeXT MegaPixel Display, my Internet-addled brain went "huh... I've seen his before..." Took me a moment but I figured it out 😂

The top of the image shows the famous "Rainbow Girl / Goth Girl" meme featuring sisters who look nothing alike. The bottom of the picture shows a "Flower Power" iMac G3 sitting next to a black NeXT MegaPixel monitor.

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 27/09/2025

The Retro Roadshow is making our 3rd consecutive appearance at the Bay Area Maker Faire! Our exhibition this year is titled "Fly to the Future!" and features an incredible range of flying-themed games running on classic consoles and computers. We hope to see you there! youtu.be/MSkDVchVIfk

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 19/09/2025

We had our whole 2025 Maker Faire lineup of vintage computers and gaming worked out weeks ago, but when news broke that Apple co-founder and all-around delightful human being Steve 'Woz' Wozniak would be in attendance we had to make a last-minute change: the Apple IIe is coming out to play!

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 15/09/2025

Big shout-out to Sean / Action Retro, who not only makes fantastic YouTube videos, but also now offers the ultimate shirt for my regular spelunking expeditions to our local electronics recycler! #EwasteConnoisseur @actionretro.bsky.social

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 01/09/2025

Our thanks to Gilroy Public Library and their devoted community for a successful "Mario Through The Ages" event! The positive feedback we received was truly humbling. Tell your family, friends, co-workers, and employers about the Retro Roadshow - spread the word! www.RetroRoadshow.org

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 31/08/2025

The Retro Roadshow would like to express our thanks to Los Altos Public Library and their community for a successful "Mario Through The Ages" event! Tell your family, friends, and employers about the Retro Roadshow - help spread the word! www.RetroRoadshow.org See you soon! - Sarai & Huxley

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 31/08/2025

TOTALLY NORMAL COMPUTING 😮 This drive was from my main computer when I moved to Las Vegas with my older sister in 2000, and it became the first machine I used to really explore the Internet, downloading music from Napster, burning CD’s at 1X speed… Feels like uncovering a time capsule of 19yo me!

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 31/08/2025

If I can borrow a phrase from @actionretro.bsky.social , pictured here is some TOTALLY NORMAL COMPUTING 😮 I can’t believe I’ve located my old MacOS boot drive from my PowerMac 7100 - last used in 2001! Feels like a time capsule of 19yo me, frozen in digital amber for a quarter century

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 30/08/2025

Remembering when we had to follow "how to" guides shared on random tech blogs to enable Japanese keyboard support just so we could use emojis on Western iOS devices. Only ~17 years ago but feels like impossibly-ancient history now... @mac84.bsky.social @actionretro.bsky.social @gruber.foo

A screenshot from around 2008 showing the original iPhone emoji keyboard, which was essentially hidden for users outside Japan

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 11/06/2025

macOS Tahoe is only in beta and maybe things will get better, but never forget the elegant simplicity that was lost between Mac OS X Tiger and macOS Sequoia 💔 @gruber.foo @basicappleguy.com #WWDC25

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 24/05/2025

The “eMachines eOne” iMac G3 knockoff is my sleep paralysis demon

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 14/05/2025

As someone who has been reading @gruber.foo's Daring Fireball for well over 20 years after my prior fav Apple blog ceased (RIP As The Apple Turns), it's a real thrill to see one of my silly Reddit posts linked on DF today! Also, enjoy this addition to the "lowercase a rendering" discourse

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 13/05/2025

My wife and I are SO GRATEFUL to @lindaholmes.bsky.social for recommending the original "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three" during a recent Pop Culture Happy Hour. We'd never seen it before, but OMG it was a total blast. Incredible movie with an unforgettable final shot! @npr.org

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 05/05/2025

Ahh the good old days, when Macs were Macs, disks were floppy, mice were hockey pucks, and power supplies were flying saucers

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 02/05/2025

This is my 𝕒𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕥𝕚𝕔

A beautiful Apple III desktop computer with matching Apple Color 100 RGB monitor

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 07/04/2025

A philosophical question: if you play Super Mario World on a green-phosphor monitor, does that make it Super Luigi World?

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 14/03/2025

Hey @ismh86.net: do you happen to have any good / high-res pics of the "Blueberry" iMac G3 that came out in '99? It doesn't seem to be featured in your gorgeous array of original iMac colors, and I'm having a terrible time finding good pics of it. Mine is seen to the ⬅ of my Flower Power iMac here

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 13/03/2025

While I'm on the topic of "stuff that's bringing me joy:" I just finished listening to "Starter Villain" by @scalzi.com (and as is tradition, beautifully narrated by @wilwheaton.net). This was a delight from start to finish - a realistic supervillain story filled with touches of whimsey. Delightful!

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 13/03/2025

If you happen to know anyone at Apple who works on Keynote, please pass along this message: I love you. Compared to the alternatives (you know what they are), Keynote feels like a miracle of thoughtful design. I sincerely love this app, and by extension, I love anyone and everyone who made it.

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 07/03/2025

Here's a fun one: if you attempt to reserve a storage locker from Public Storage, you will be offered significantly higher prices in Safari than in Chrome. Pretty scummy, and consistent with every other interaction I've had with this company... @gruber.foo @mac84.bsky.social @arstechnica.com

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 31/01/2025

I’ve been hard at work repairing and restoring one of the rarest computers in our entire collection: the legendary BeBox! #RetroComputing

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 28/01/2025

Thanks to @actionretro.bsky.social 's delightful FrogFind search engine, I was able to browse @adriansdigitalbasement.com too! Hey Adrian - have you ever had a chance to play with a BeBox? I don't recall seeing one pop up on your channel...

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 28/01/2025

I spent *hours* yesterday getting this BeBox back up and running, reinstalling BeOS, and fighting its hilariously unstable network stack. My wife said she hadn't seen me smile that big in a while, and insisted on grabbing my camera to get a pic of the moment. Fun times! @actionretro.bsky.social

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 25/01/2025

Buster Keaton in the 1925 film "Seven Chances," shooting his shot with a side-eying hat check girl and subsequently demonstrating the best possible reaction to being rejected

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 22/01/2025

As great chefs like Julia Child and Gordon Ramsay have always said, every well-stocked kitchen needs three things: 1. A set of high-quality knives 2. A well-seasoned cast iron pan 3. A fully-equipped NeXTcube workstation with 64MB of RAM, MegaPixel Display, and magneto-optical drive

A fully-equipped NeXTcube workstation with 64MB of RAM, MegaPixel Display, and magneto-optical drive, sitting on a kitchen counter where it definitely belongs

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 20/01/2025

I'm excited to finally go see "Nosferatu" later today, but no review I could write will possibly top this one @letterboxd.social user

A screenshot of a review of Nosferatu which reads "so it’s okay to sing along during Wicked but if i start biting people during Nosferatu i’m in the wrong??? interesting"

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 14/01/2025

Looks like someone at Spotify gave the new intern access to the production servers? 🤷‍♂️ @spotfiy.bsky.social

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 11/01/2025

Cyber-bullies: "Ha ha, your computer is so old - can it even run Doom?!" Me: "It's so good it can run 'Akalabeth: World of Doom!'" #Gaming @mac84.bsky.social @basicappleguy.com

An original Apple II computer running the classic role-playing game "Akalabeth: World of Doom"

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 06/01/2025

What are the odds that I'd be writing about and photographing this same device today?!

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 06/01/2025

Shameless self promotion: I spent the morning photographing my HP 200LX in support of my next article for Pixel Addict Magazine, which is all about the fun/odd history of DOS-based "palmtop" PC's. If you like this kind of gadget, check it out when it's published in an upcoming issue!

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 06/01/2025

“Oh, you claim to be a PC gamer? What’s your high score in ‘Lair of Squid’ on the Hewlett-Packard 200LX Palmtop PC??” @benjedwards.com knows what's up 😂🦑 #Gaming

A vintage Hewlett-Packard 200LX Palmtop PC running the delightfully weird first-person maze game "Lair of Squid," which was surprisingly included in the ROM of every unit HP shipped.

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 04/01/2025

Spotted something interesting a while back: an import video / anime store in San Francisco’s Japantown mall is still running their entire inventory management system on what looked to be MacOS 8 🤯😍 #apple @appleinsider.com @mac84.bsky.social

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 04/01/2025

I don’t know why I was compelled to create this, but here we are. I am a mystery even to myself. #StarTrek

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 21/12/2024

Remember folks: always buckle up for safety!

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The Retro Roadshow @retroroadshow.org · 21/12/2024

I’ve got my camera and a fresh pack of “film” all set for my company’s holiday party tonight! #photography

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