Ian Scott

@polpo.org

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I'm currently cooking up PicoIDE, a hardware IDE/ATAPI emulator, launching on Crowd Supply: https://www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics/picoide I also made PicoGUS: https://picog.us Also on Fedi at https://chaos.social/@polpo In Colorado, USA

An empty mall storefront. The entrance has a closed gate over it. You can see the ghost of the "Babbage's" sign above it. There are glass windows on the right that jut out.
A vintage Polaroid 100 camera that takes peel apart film on a table with 3 packs of film: Fujifilm FP-3000B, Fujifilm FP-100C, and Polaroid 669
A yellow PCB (designed by Tube Time) with “USB-C SUCKS” in the silkscreen next to a micro B connector
A 3.5" bay enclosure in retro computer beige/platinum color. It says "BlueSCSI" on the screen and also embossed in the textured front panel.
It’s golden hour. In the foreground is medium black dog, semi-silhouetted in front of the sun about to set behind mountains in the far distance. Closer in is the calm water of a lake.
A small “slab” PC with rubber calculator like keys. It’s displaying the Cool Crab Pride Flag (a cool crab in front of the classic rainbow pride flag), which has improper colors in this photo.
NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building, a very tall and large building, with a very large US flag and bicentennial star logo on it.
A BIOS boot screen showing two devices on secondary IDE: a PucoGUS Totally Legit CD-ROM drive and a PicoIDE Hard Disk
The PicoIDE unit, now showing a version of the DVD logo (except it says “IDE” instead of “DVD”) bouncing around the screen
Me standing next to the “friend sized” CM-2 computer, 8 black cubes about 2 feet in size each, with red blinkenlight LEDs on the front face of each cube.
A 3.5” PicoIDE unit, with the classic “flying toasters” screensaver with toasters with flapping wings moving diagonally down the screen
A coffe mug with the text “connections museum seattle” sideways in Helvetica with tight tracking and an illustration of tall buildings with 5ESS “V5” logos on them
A nice view from an elevated train platform, looking out on lovely hills an trees and water.
A table with several iMacs and a CRT Studio Display. Lots of other computers are around too, like some TI 99/4as in the background
A terminal connected to the Plexus. I and another person are using the “banner” and “wall” commands to annoy each other. The last two exchanges are “nice hat” and “*tips hat*”
Selfie of me in front of the falls, which are flowing pretty well. A lodge that looks like it’d be great to stay in is perched on the cliff next to the falls.
Inside the bookstore with a fireplace flanked by tall bookshelves, filled with books. A portrait of Ada Lovelace is above the fireplace
A relatively open area of the Connections Museum, which is in a phone company central office. Racks of equipment go all the way up to the ceiling. Sarah, the head engineer, is high up on a ladder fixing something. The ladder can glide back and forth which was really cool.
A room with a lot of people and old computers in it. In the foreground are several black and white terminals where people are logged into and playing a MUD running on a MicroVAX
Me, who can hardly believe he’s touching a Connection Machine (the CM-2, from 1987). It’s a “friend sized” computer made of 8 cubes, all of which have matrixes of red LEDs, each one representing a processor in the machine
A small warehouse like area with a cream/brown Digital Decsystem 20 with lots of stickers. Next to it is a blue DEC PDP-10.
Antarctica on a 3D globe, with a marker dot saying McMurdo Station - distance 67 km - score 99 (x3) - Impressive!
A short video of a sticker of the PicoIDE woodpecker-perched-on-a-CD logo with the CD being all shiny
A very brown Smith Corona typewriter with nice oval-ish shaped keys. The space bar says SPACE-O-MATIC® on the front of it
A 3D printed enclosure with 3 floppy drives, two of which are in a single drive bay sapce.
A black Nissan Leaf parked in front of an old building, maybe a railroad depot? It says Parker Lake on it. The skies are blue and some scrubby hills are in the background
Windows XP playing a song by Beethoven in Windows Media Player
My semi cluttered workbench with a motherboard with the PicoIDE device connected to it with a ribbon cable, and a red PicoGUS board plugged into an ISA slot
A very 90s-tastic video capture setup showing a PCB being worked on and a grainy black and white video of BigBadBiologist working in the corner.
A medium sized desktop form factor computer with 80s era design language - lots of horizontal stripes. Some text is on the screen
A 8-bit ISA card marked “LOCALTALK PC CARD”
A photo of a monitor with classic DOS text mode, showing a list of zones on the GlobalTalk network
a panel of four black PicoIDE circuit boards
A screenshot of a text file with lots of Sound Blaster specific bus activity
Windows 98 starting up and playing its startup sound. In the corner of the video you can see two PicoGUS cards plugged into the computer
A very cute anthropomoprhized version of the Wikipedia logo (a sphere made of puzzle pieces), wearing a birthday hat
A grid of 9 video game artworks: Katamari Damacy Disco Elysium Tetris Effect Outer Wilds Wing Commander Wipeout XL Super Metroid Celeste Shadow of the Colossus
A dithered black and white dot matrix printout of a tuxedo cat with a “breaking news” style chyron with the text URGENT / Cat / meow meow meow meow meow …
A Macintosh SE/30, a compact all in one Mac with 9” black and white screen. It’s running The Print Shop and a certificate design is on the screen
The insides of an InageWriter II dot matrix printer with a PCB inside - that’s the ImageScribbler card.
A beige PicoIDE sitting in front of a fanned out book of color swatches opened to various shades of gray/beige
A dot matrix printout of a WSJ dot style “hedcut” portrait of John Sculley
A Macintosh SE/30 showing the Finder with a number of different AppleTalk zones, with my zone “the polpo zone” selected, with a printer called ImageScribbler selected
Screenshot of the PicoIDE Crowd Supply campaign, showing $224,772 and 643% in funding.
A white t-shirt with “I ❤️ DOS” printed on it
A white t-shirt with “I ❤️ DOS” printed in it
A three toed woodpecker (Picoides tridactylus) perched on a tree
Several sets of silicone rubber button membranes laid out in front of a PicoIDE device that has the buttons installed in it
My cluttered workbench with a PicoIDE and lots of cables. The monitor shows Windows 98 running PowerDVD, playing a Video CD with Paramount’s “and now, our feature presentation” intro
A PicoIDE board plugged into a colorful ribbon cable with a mess of logic analyzer probe wires and another prototype PicoIDE board also attached
a black and white photo of a boy around age 5 (that's me!) holding both a cat and a fish
Zoomed in photo of a stage with a music keyboard with a music score, an Apple laptop with most of the screen covered with cloth, and a Bondi Blue Apple puck mouse sitting on it.
A concert hall with a projection screen above the stage with KOYAANISQATSI in block red letters on it. A small group of performers are below the stage. The whole hall is bathed in red light