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Nathaniel Lockhart
@nathaniellockhart.bsky.social
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Lover of old stuff, primarily ancient tech and old movies. Things like the Commodore 64, reel to reel tape players, and silent film. I talk about all that stuff on my podcast, the Memory Machine. He/him
www.memorymachinepod.com
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All clean!
The same board, but with new caps and all the electrolyte cleaned up
October 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Generally speaking, it's a good idea to get Game Gears recapped
A Game Gear audio board, heavily corroded by leaked electrolyte
October 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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I miss you everyday
The old Radio Shack parts drawers. Each with helpful labels and photos, featuring everything from fuses and switches to transistors, resistors, and LEDs
September 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Pro tip: your spouse will love it when you etch PCBs in the bathtub! But don't take my word for it, ask @helloktee.bsky.social herself!
My hand proudly holding a 4" x 3" PCB I etched. It's a KIM-1 keypad!
September 22, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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This is the best/dumbest $20 I have ever spent #vcfmw
A Mattel Aquarius computer. It's a wedge shape, with blue rubber keyboard keys. Truly one of the computers of all time.
September 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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VCFMW is probably my favorite show of the year. #vcfmw
A display of vintage 50s and 60s televisions, each showing something from their era. A woodgrain console TV is on the bottom, and a Philco sits on top of it. A display showing a 4-bit CPU made entirely of relays. It's standing upright on a brown board, with labels and LEDs demonstrating each section's function A Casio Loopy setup, a Japan-exclusive console targeted at girls in the 90s. It's being displayed with a pink Disney Princess branded CRT television. A 4-bit counter made with vacuum tubes. It's about the size of a breadbox.
September 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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It wouldn't happen to be this, would it?
September 9, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Waiting for my daughter to get off the bus like a completely normal, non-embarrassing dad
A 1977 dedicated Video Pinball console with the lead taped to the end of an old portable TV antenna, at a street corner
September 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Bonus photo of a capstan belt mid-gooification. The belts in the other one had completely turned into tar.
An old capstan belt from one of the Walkmen I repaired; this one is mid-decomposition
September 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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That's two Walkmans (Walkmen?) back in operation!
My hand holding up two Walkman models that I repaired in front of my workbench: in front, a WM-AF22, and in back, a WM-GX202
September 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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I will never get tired of how cool it is to wash the toner off a copper clad to see your own foil pattern design underneath
A freshly etched PCB, displaying the foil pattern intended to provide adjustable rapid fire support to an Atari 7800 controller
August 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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First time doing toner transfer to make a PCB (instead of hand drawing) and I'm feeling pretty good about how well this worked. Now for the etching...
Copper clad with toner pattern, pre-etching. Circuit is for rapid fire joystick for the Atari 7800.
August 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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The 7800 version of my 3D printed joystick is coming along quite nicely!
3D printed, hand finished joystick with silver painted buttons and joystick, and top panel is wrapped in wood grain contact paper
August 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Took home the unit, tried it out, and yeah, it wouldn't turn on. I pushed in on the power switch, and it briefly flickered to life. Went in with a screw driver, cleaned up the power switch and....
August 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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My pickups from Long Island Retro. It seems with every one of these things I go to, I pick up less games/hardware and end up replacing that with books. And I ain't mad about it.
My haul from Long Island Retro being displayed, including: - two issues of Retro Gamezine - two volumes of Yokoi Kids - Binary Land for the Famicom - a book titled "Game Boy Modding" (with cute comic illustrations!) - Circus Convoy and Alien Abduction! from Audacity games - The Analog Compedium (compilation of an Atari computer magazine) - Q*Bert tabletop VFD game
August 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Poll: do I try to re-plate this Atari 5200 RF shield with some DIY electroplating, or do I just chuck it?
A rusty Atari 5200 RF shield
August 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Only the finest of art at Long Island Retro
A delightful digital take on the character of Bart Simpson on Mario Paint A very tasteful, minimilized version of Homer Simpson on Mario Paint 64
August 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Here at Long Island Retro all day today and tomorrow! If you see me, feel free to say hi!
It's a pic of me! At LI Retro!
August 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Memories from last year's Save The Games symposium at the Strong Museum, as told by my notes
Handwritten notes expressing incredulity at the existence of something called a "Z Dog"
August 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Tentative logo design for my lil repair/modding business; yay or nay?
Logo for my business, Lockhart Electronics. The "L" and "E" fit neatly into a square, with the "E" sitting in the crux of the "L". The text next to the "LE" logo says "LOCKHART ELECTRONICS" in a retro-computery font.
July 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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I'm hoping to christen it with.... space travel.
July 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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My mother-in-law got me this tube television for my birthday

Pretty damn good birthday.
A powder blue (powder turqoise?) 1956 GE Model M portable television, yellowed both from age and decades of cigarette smoke
July 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Ah poop
July 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Deals are still out there - picked up this baby for $30 local to my in-laws!
An original Atari branded Pong home game
July 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Well, here goes nothing
Operating agreement for my business, Lockhart Electronics, LLC
July 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM