JKRetroTech

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Follow to watch me organize and maintain old computer gear, and maybe do some geeky-cool stuff with it. https://hello.jkretrotech.net #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

A shelving rack full of Tandy Colour Computers and related stuff.
A look at my roughed up, semi-permanently dirty right hand.
A shot of a whiskey bottle filled with maple syrup held up in front of my sugar shack.
Classic macs on a bottom shelf behind some random bins of cables and other junk.
Game box covers from the following 9 games: Space Quest Sid Meier's Pirates! Gauntlet 2 Test Drive Hero's Quest King's Quest 3 Prince of Persia The Bard's Tale Battle Chess
PC Magazine's Dos Power Tools Book (2nd Edition)
White flowers on blackberry bushes make the bees very happy. There will be fruit soon.
Small box versions of the PC games Barbie Explorer, Tomb Raider Anniversary and Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb
Holding up the games Command and Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars and Barbie Explorer. A small collection of pc games in the background.
Ethan Suplee and Jason Mewes staring at... something. From the movie Mallrats.
Shot of my elbow up for Canada while carrying a C64.
Page 86 from the book The Beginner's Programming Handbook in Basic and Machine Code
An empty Macintosh Portable carry-case.
An iMac G3 sitting atop a Mac IIsi.
Screenshot of the game of Mahjongg
A Macintosh portable carrying bag.
A close-up view of MacBag by Linebacker. A carry bag for old Mac computers. This one has an SE/30 inside. #Marchintosh
A skircle.me generated image showing my recent interactions on bluesky.
A view from my front door showing a colourful sunrise over the treeline around my property.
The character Lewis Skolnick from Revenge of the Nerds rocking out with his Tandy COCO 2 computer.
An old 486 computer with a copy of NHL Hockey (93) and a Gravis gamepad.
A view of my snow-filled deck and backyard.
The Canadian flag on an Apple IIgs (emulated). Without music, unfortunately.
A path carved into deep snow allowing access to the outhouse.. (aka, outdoor whiz palace, the long drop, the great unflushable)
A book: Tandy's Money Machine - How Charles Tandy Built Radio Shack - by Irwin Farman
Me holding two shareware floppy disks that I purchased from K-Mart long ago. Wolfenstein 3-D and Guitar Teacher.
A shelf containing a small collection of PC Operating System boxes.
A vertically squeezed screenshot from the game Goldeneye.
Screenshot showing a message letting me know that I can now disconnect from the internet. So, why don't I?
Me taking the Mac SE for a walk out in the snowy woods by the sugar shack.
A close-up view of an 80287 math co-processor.
Close-up of a 80286 CPU.
IBM 5160 motherboard with all expansion cards removed. Good cosmetic condition.
A 6 volt lithium battery.
An IBM 5160 with the cover removed, showing a top down view of the internals and installed expansion cards.
The IBM 5160 power switch. I must check the internals first. I will not flip this yet. I will not flip this yet. I will not flip this yet. Help, I'm worried that I might flip this switch. I will not flip this yet.
Two plastic rails for mounting an IBM 5160 onto a stand in a vertical orientation. I think.
Sitting on my desk is an IBM Personal Computer (model 5160) with an IBM 5154 EGA color monitor.
Here's a pile of original boxes for various DOS versions (MS-DOS, PC-DOS, Novel Dos, PC-MOS-386) as well as Qemm, Desqview and System Commander.
A box full of mostly game cartridges, but also games on floppy and data cassette for the Tandy Color Computer.
Tandy Model 200 portable showing SNOW! repeated on the screen, ending with OK. My snowy backyard in the background.
A circle of circles containing the profiles of fellow Bluesky people. Generated at skircle.me
A Color Computer 2 with Canyon Climber, Color Baseball, and Dungeons of Daggorath game carts. Zaxxon on cassette. These are the games that kept me hooked on the Coco when I was a kid.
The internals of a Tandy deluxe joystick. Stick is mounted on a gimbal mechanism. Two potentiometers, one for each axis (x and y)
A box full of joysticks for the Tandy Color Computer.
Video adapters, converters, scalers.
QFG5 on a (fake) portable mini pc.