Dextrose

@jzlr.bsky.social

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Experimenter with retro technology, pre-2008 networking gear, AI (not the evil kind), old video games, and other such things. Retired from InfoSec. Recovering World of Warcraft addict. A nerd for all seasons.

Dextrose with Clippy… ugh
Sunset in Odiba with Mt. Fuji in the background.
World of Warcraft for the NES, with a label done like a black box game. Thats the joke. Its obviously some sort of bootleg. Its pretty decent though!
A Slot-1 motherboard.
A bunch of old Mattel handheld games.
When you’re nWo, you’re nWo for life, Jill Valentine.
A PC98 and PC-FXGA add-on card in action! With such a good game too.
My PC-9821 Xa7, up and running for the first time. Excited to get here, but much more work to do.
A 10baseT hub. Classic model, mint condition, I’m gonna bring it to a parking lot and open the hood for everyone to see.
There’s a reason I have so many copies of Final Fantasy.
An original Netscreen 5. It wasn’t fast, and it wasn’t powerful, but it’s… certainly obsolete. But this one is mine and I like it!
NeoGeo arcade machines
Slashdot and mIRC (on EFNet) on Win 3.1 in 2025. If only my teenage self could see me now. He’d be, well, disappointed that I haven’t upgraded probably.
A 486 with Windows 3.1 running Trumpet Winsock and Netscape 1.0. Slowly. Very slowly.
Osaka Sakura 2025
The Packard Bell Windows 3.1 splash screen!
The winnings of a 45 year old man from silly crane games at the arcade. A stuffed cat in a shark suit and a clean anime girl.
A middle aged nerd and a 90s computer he spent too much money on.