The BombSquad

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Software engineer! Interested in vintage computers, video game modding, and many other tech/engineering-related topics. they/them, dragon, ΘΔ More long form content at https://bombsquad.dev!

An edit of the story mode name select screen from Super Monkey Ball 2, but instead of 'Name Entry', it says 'Pronoun Entry', and 'Please enter your pronouns.' at the bottom.
Image of a Compaq Portable with a green monochrome CRT displaying an ANSI art rendition of a protogen face looking directly at the viewer.
Image of a Macintosh Plus with a 3D printed 'programmer's key' inserted into the side. The Macintosh Plus is beige, the keyboard is a more modern platinum color, and the switch is somewhere in-between the two colors.
Image of the Macintosh Plus logic board, showing a FOX-branded crystal oscillator.
Image of one of the eject gears for the Macintosh Plus floppy drive being modeled in FreeCAD
Image of a Compaq Portable with the top of the case off, having run 'chkdsk' and reporting the size of the hard drive (20mb).
Image of a replacement part for a rubber stopper on a hard drive
Four AA batteries connected to a single USB cable that splits off into 4 USB-C connectors, next to its packaging with a cute large-eared fennec on it wearing green and white clothes.
The Hardcard 20 opened up, showing a rubber bumper that is disintegrating, turning sticky and blue for some resaon
Two card-based hard drives, the Hardcard Plus 20, and a TR41 hard drive from a PC-98.
Photograph of the circuit board on a 5 1/4 floppy drive, with the Mitsubishi logo in the middle. The Mitsubishi logo is also visible on the microcontroller and some of the 7400-series logic chips.
Another long exposure image of the Compaq Portable CRT. It is much dimmer, and there is barely anything visible of legible. The faint outline of the 'COM1' text in the original post can be seen.
A long exposure photograph of a Compaq Portable's CRT, taken an hour after the computer was shut off. A large assortment of mostly unreadable text is still visible, along with the shapes of the UI of Turbo Pascal and LapLink. On the right, the text "COM1 (115,200)" is clearly visible in two places. The illuminated areas are mostly concentrated towards the left.
A photograph of Vim 4.6 running on MS-DOS, on a 8088 computer. The 8088 computer has an amber CRT displaying the default .vimrc file.
Picture of an SNES with a Super Mario World cartridge inserted. The bottom half of the SNES has been replaced with an identical 3D printed version. Paint has been applied to the bottom half to match the color to the top half.
Image of a beige enclosure containing two floppy disk drives. The top drive is a 3.5 inch floppy disk drive. To the right of that drive is a label with an arrow pointing to it, reading 'DRIVE B'. To the left of the 3.5 inch floppy drive is a label with an arrow pointing downwards, also reading 'DRIVE A'. The bottom drive is a 5.25 inch floppy drive. Both of the drives are on carriages so that they can be swapped. The top of the enclosure has a small panel with the Greaseweazle logo on it, consisting of a weasle, and the text 'Greaseweazle v4.1 / Keir Fraser'. The bottom text on the small panel on the top reads 'Case: The BombSquad'.
The program 'Reverse Screen' is run on a Macintosh Plus. All of the colors on the screen are inverted after the program is run. The 'it is now safe to turn off your Macintosh' screen is also inverted, with a white background.
An invoice dated 01/02/1987. The only line item present is a 20 megabyte Hardcard, which is a hard drive expansion card. The line item cost is $698.10, and the total cost with sales tax is $745.22. Some personal information of the original owner was edited out of this.
An invoice for a Compaq Portable. The invoice is dated May 1st, 1986. The unit cost of the Compaq Portable was $1,693.23, with the memory upgrade costing $138.24. The total cost with sales tax was $1,945.94. The personal information of the original owner and signatures were edited out of this image.
14 ' NAME: DEMO - DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM 16 ' 18 ' REVISION: 2.00 20 ' 22 ' DATE: 9/83 24 ' 26 ' AUTHOR: JAMES B. PENNY, P.L. RODDY, & G L BRASHER
Screenshot of a portion of the BASIC source code for the program that draws the COMPAQ logo in the replied-to post's video. The code is too long to fit in a post but includes a large number of DRAW functions with densely packed and difficult to read arguments, such as 'NM320,182NU4ND5NL10NR10ONE'...
A program is running on a Compaq Portable with a green monochrome CRT. The 'COMPAQ' logo is drawn by a laser beam that emanates from the bottom of the screen. The menu options appear underneath the logo, sliding in from the right, leaving a trail to the right of them as the CRT phosphors slowly decay.
Video of a Compaq Portable computer with a green monochrome CRT. The running program draws a grid of lines representing a 3D surface, and a beam traces the words 'Hello World' above the surface.