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Vintage computer repairer and enthusiast. Remover of batteries. Electronics Necromancer. I block "AI" and "crypto" peeps https://retrorewind.social/@48kRAM

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48k RAM @48kram.bsky.social · Nov 11

Quote with your first computer.

I'm very lucky to still have mine -- An Atari 400. My dad built an external keyboard from an 800 kbd mechanism. He also upgraded its RAM to... well.... 48kB. 😁

Atari 400 computer, connected to an LCD TV, playing Missile Command

Atari 400 with the signature of Joe Decuir signature visible on its top case.

Atari 400 connected to the LCD TV as well as an Atari 800 full-stroke keyboard. The keyboard is connected via a long flat ribbon cable and is enclosed in a hand-made wooden box. 4 red pushbuttons serve as Start, Select, Option, and Reset

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48k RAM @48kram.bsky.social · 3h

#MODtober Day 16:

Family Ties (final) by Radix

From the demo Captured Dreams by The Black Lotus

Another tune that I fell in love with long before seeing the demo. Radix has put out so many AMAZING tunes that it's impossible for me to pick a favorite. (Warn: demo NSFW)

demozoo.org/music/244290/

family ties final

Tracked Music by Fndr + Radix / The Black Lotus, released 30 March 1997

demozoo.org

48k RAM @48kram.bsky.social · 5h

IKR? It actually took me a bit to remember how I did it. I remember only having like 6 or 7 floppies to work with so I installed the base set one day, then took the floppies back and wrote the next set and installed that. Skipped perl entirely because that was another day's worth of floppies 🤣

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Amanita Design @amanita-design.net · 13h

Machinarium turns 16 today 🤖

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48k RAM @48kram.bsky.social · 1d

#MODtober Day 15:

Mr. White Shadow by CC Catch (a.k.a. Kenny Chou)

Better known for his soundtrack to One Must Fall, he contributed this track to the amazing 286 demo DoWhackaDo by Renaissance and Shadow Productions.

demozoo.org/music/298863/

Mr. White Shadow!

Tracked Music by C.C. Catch

demozoo.org

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 1d

Trump can simply give $40 billion in US tax money to his pals in Argentina, openly admit it is for the intended purpose of keeping the MAGA allied right wing government in power, and pocket billions for himself. The US has no laws anymore and that's your money they are stealing.

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48k RAM @48kram.bsky.social · 1d

I alllllmost chose this one more basically that exact reason

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48k RAM @48kram.bsky.social · 1d

Atari MegaST 2

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retrotechtive.bsky.social @retrotechtive.bsky.social · 1d

As it's almost Halloween, time for some horror...

😱

#retrocomputing

I am become Varta, Destroyer of Computers.

(Picture is top down, looking at a Varta battery spreading corrosion across an Amiga 2000 motherboard)

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48k RAM @48kram.bsky.social · 1d

I think it supported my S3 Virge card better than XFree at the time

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48k RAM @48kram.bsky.social · 1d

I'm a highly improper Linux user -- I pirated AcelleratedX

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48k RAM @48kram.bsky.social · 1d

Actually I think it was Debian I ran on the m68k. Though I def ran YellowDog on PPC Macs

48k RAM @48kram.bsky.social · 2d

Nah - you don't have to have 20+ years experience to enjoy using Linux. We love to joke about how much you had to go thru to run Linux BITD but It's great that more people are using it today

48k RAM @48kram.bsky.social · 2d

#MODtober Day 14 (on time, this time):

Perfect Circle by Trauma Child Genesis

From the Amiga demo of the same name by The Black Lotus.

demozoo.org/music/61449/

"Wait, an XM from an Amiga demo?" I hear you say. Well when you've got an 060.... Anyway, great tune for a great demo.

Perfect Circle

Tracked Music by Trauma Child Genesis, released 15 April 2001

demozoo.org

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48k RAM @48kram.bsky.social · 2d

Did it again! Well #MODtober Day 13:

Stranglehold bu Jeroen Tel

16-channel XM with only one sample: A sine wave

Nice use of XM "instruments" to (ab)use the single sample.

demozoo.org/music/185640/

Stranglehold

Tracked Music by Jeroen Tel, released 22 December 1995

demozoo.org

48k RAM @48kram.bsky.social · 2d

Never ran that one. I was a beta tester for Corel Linux though. Still have those discs (unless I sent them to @bloopmuseum.bsky.social ). It was good - very user-friendly. Very comfy desktop.

48k RAM @48kram.bsky.social · 2d

On a DECStation?!? :-P

I think I took SunOS off my sparcs pretty quick, IIRC

48k RAM @48kram.bsky.social · 2d

I forgot mac68k too

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48k RAM @48kram.bsky.social · 2d

Love the shelf of old computers <3

48k RAM @48kram.bsky.social · 2d

I don't spend my money on the current shit. Def wouldn't buy this.

48k RAM @48kram.bsky.social · 2d

I quite like Linux on the Desktop, personally but that's my choice. And it doesn't help with the rest of the computer world that I'm either forced to or want to interact with.

48k RAM @48kram.bsky.social · 2d

I miss LUGs but what I think I actually miss were the days when computing seemed fun and it felt like we were creating the world we wanted to see

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48k RAM @48kram.bsky.social · 2d

Slackware 96 - that was it! Giant book from the bookstore with a CD-ROM in the back. Only I didn't have a CD-ROM drive, so I'd take a pile of disks to school every day and "rawwrite" them on the PC in the library.

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48k RAM @48kram.bsky.social · 2d

Been there, done that. Bought the media kit.

Solaris, BeOS, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Dragonfly, Haiku, Plan 9, Minix, QNX, whatever the hell was running on the Decstation I owned for a week....

I used to LOVE experimenting with operating systems.

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48k RAM @48kram.bsky.social · 2d

I started using a Linux-based OS in 1996. I've installed Slackware from floppies. I was VP of my LUG in college. I compiled my own kernel for years. I've run Linux on Sparc, x86, amd64, PowerPC, and multiple flavors of ARM.

Telling me to "Run Linux" solves zero of my computing problems. Thanks.

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48k RAM @48kram.bsky.social · 2d

I dread - DREAD - the day when I have to buy a modern car