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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I’ve got one of these. It’s a rare NTSC model

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ramblingflan @ramblingflan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Don't sloppy that floppy

1980s BYTE magazine ad showing a 5.25" floppy disk with a loose seam. Text: "THE SLOPPY FLOPPY: Sealed with a spot here, a spot there. Leaving unsealed seams everywhere."

Source: BYTE Magazine, Sept 1984
https://archive.org/details/198409_byte_magazine_vol_09_10_computer_graphics_pdf__mlib/page/322/mode/2up?view=theater

1980s BYTE magazine ad showing a 5.25" floppy disk with a tight seam. Text: "MEMOREX SOLID-SEAM BONDING: Every inch of every seam is sealt shut. Tight as a drum."

Source: BYTE Magazine, Sept 1984
https://archive.org/details/198409_byte_magazine_vol_09_10_computer_graphics_pdf__mlib/page/322/mode/2up?view=theater

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

It definitely took a while, the version I have was 22 floppies

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Testing out and getting my PS/2 Model 95, with a Pentium 66! Everything seems to be working well, and it has 64 MB of memory. I installed Windows 95 on it too. #retrocomputing

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iProgramInCpp @iprogramincpp.com · 02/02/2025

My Discord client, Discord Messenger, now runs on Windows 98! (And also, 95, but you need extra stuff. Win98SE runs it right out of the box.)

Screenshot of Discord Messenger running on Windows 98 SE.

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I’ve got a Quadra 700 too. Mine has a Daystar 100 MHz PPC upgrade in it, it’s very nice.

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Custom luggable PC I built, with a Pentium III in a BSI chassis.

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I’m guessing it was some kind of tiny server. The OS’s were installed when I got it

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I was in Milton Keynes for a month this year. I kinda had fun, was nice to be somewhere not touristy

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I’d be more willing to bet that someone had an aftermarket keyboard they liked more that plugged into that port. I had an Atari 800 like that once, also with a DB-25 mounted to the case

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discopawbs @discopawbs.buny.social · 17/12/2024

Introduction to COBOL!

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

My weird SE/30. I got it like this, all mods were done by the original owner. Low persistence green CRT Daystar 68030 50 MHz upgrade 128mb RAM Ethernet card No FDD, two HDDs Running A/UX and NetBSD

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

All the caps in the PSU bulged or leaked. The motherboard was fine, at least for now. I found it infuriating to solder to, so I didn’t replace any

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Here’s my Shuttle 2 I just finished fixing. PSU had bad capacitors. It’s a C2D

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Know someone with diabetes? Check out the first blood glucose meter from 1970! It cost $650! As a Type 1, and someone into retro tech, this is such a cool item to own. #diabetes

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Just finished fixing up this NeXT Computer with the NeXT Dimension color video card. The computer cost $6,500, and when the video card launched, it cost $3,995, and the monitor was at least $2,995. Plus additional RAM, etc.

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

It was nice to see him at the museum, they got their SOL working just in time for him to see it when he came.

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Very interesting talk, I got him to sign my SOL-20

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Got my VT-100 back together and working. Now need to get the computer it goes to working too

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

It was so cheap because it was a kit, that’s was Heath’s whole gimmick. You had to solder it together too!

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

It’s my favorite terminal I own. I was lucky to get the metal plate left of the keyboard, it always goes missing

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

My cleaned and working Lear Siegler ADM-3A dumb terminal. When it launched in 1976, it cost $995!

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Which one, they made them for 14 years

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I hadn’t heard about them. I’ve got some of the original Microsoft Z80 cards in a couple Apple IIs

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I saw Lee Felsenstein speak at the System Source computer museum on Saturday. Had a great time there! He designed the SOL-20 and Osborne 1

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Possessed opossum @possessedopossum.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

The Commodore PET 🐇

Vintage style illustrated commission advertising the 1977 Commodore PET computer. A white rabbit sits in a green office chair, reclining with her feet on her work desk, smiling at the viewer, and pointing with her thumb at the Commodore PET on her desk.
The top text reads: "Check out my new PET. It sits. It stays. It even does complex math."
The bottom text reads: "Commodore PET. An animal in the office."

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Nothing beats the black Bell and Howell Apple II, it’s strikingly beautiful A lot of these were used in schools, so I was lucky to get this from the original owner in immaculate condition. It also has a unique TransWarp CPU upgrade I added!