Insentricity

A little over a year ago I got deeply involved with the FujiNet project.

In May of 2024 I acquired a couple of Toshiba luggables, one of them being a T5200 .

Just a few days before the end of #MARCHintosh a call went out over Mastodon asking if anyone had an Apple IIe with an Apple Workstation Card .

When I got the #ForestApples many years ago, one of them came with a 16k Language Card clone in slot zero, and another RAM card in slot one.

A little over a year since I started down this road , I've finally managed to do it.

In February of 2021, with a brand new standing desk completely devoid of clutter, I polled Twitter to ask what retro computing project I should attempt .

Something I’ve wanted to do for several years is to create a cross-platform 5.25” floppy, one that could be used on two different incompatible computer systems.

Back in August of 2019 I had a Sing-Along Week contest on RetroBattlestations with the challenge of playing a MIDI file synchronized to a speech synthesizer singing the lyrics.

October 1st started off like a normal day.

Saturday morning I woke up early excited about my planned experiment.

Not long after I started RetroBattlestations I started contemplating spending an entire day using only a retro computer, even possibly lugging it to work and using it there as well as at home.

As part of collecting I've managed to build up a small pile of Apple II+ computers that were purchased to get various cards and other parts.

When I first saw this clip from the BBC show Tomorrow's World several months ago I was fascinated by it and was impressed that they were sending a program for two different models of computers.

I thought it would be nice to make a portable PBX that could travel with me when I take some of my retro computers places to demo them.

My Plex server continues to fill up, mostly with various TV series and cartoons.

Just as the 40th birthday of the Commodore PET rolled around I managed to get a Commodore PET 2001 with the itty bitty calculator keyboard and a built-in cassette drive.

After bringing home an IMSAI with a JAIR 8080 board from VCF West it didn't take long before I wanted to get it connected to something else.

After CGA Weekend it became pretty obvious I needed to do something about getting some kind of permanent mass storage installed in my IBM PC.

During June I was bombarded by an overwhelming amount of videos and discussion of the Penultimate cartridge for the VIC-20.

Storage comparison vs 25 years ago My server has been getting rather full from all the cartoon DVDs I have been ripping so I've been saving up my money to replace the 2TB drives in it with 8TB drives.

You're probably reading this because you saw the #SaturdayMorningCartoons Periscope broadcast I did and you're wondering how I did it when not only don't TV stations show cartoons anymore, how I managed to find three TV stations showing classic cartoons!

The retro computing high score challenge this weekend is a special one!

I've posted my code which uses the RMT peripheral on the ESP32 to control WS2812 RGB LEDs.

Because of how uncommon the Cauzin Softstrip reader was, I thought it would make a great starting point for another retro computing challenge .

It's been a while since I did a retro challenge since they tend to be quite a bit of work to put together.