Fraser MacIntosh

@sdschap.bsky.social

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Code Archaeologist, Standard Nerd, collector of hobbies, ADD (go figure) + various other neuro-wossnames, Bi, Poly, NB… I’m sure you get the picture…

Garth Marenghi “I’m one of the few people who’ve written more books than they’ve read”
Closed shutters
A selection of IBM PCs and Thinkpads in a museum.
An IBM system 360 mainframe and operator console from 1964. Tape drives and card readers in the background.
A 1964 IBM System 360 with teletype.
Holly, in original form, Red Dwarf
Rear of a UK 13A socket showing rating and compliance information.
A black 3D printed “benchy” small boat model.
A chicken sat on some robot trousers walking down the wall at the Media Museum…
A VJ at a rave at Reading University Students Union in the late 90s. Various CRT screens and computer keyboards.
A UK imported Japanese Eunos Roadster in chaste white, with hard top. Known in the UK as the Mazda MX-5 and in the US as the Mazda Miata.
Modern Steel-and-glass buildings reaching into the sky in London alongside a church. These building include the Lloyd's of London HQ, "The Gherkin" 30 St Mary Axe, WTW HQ The Willis Building and St Andrew Undershaft a pre-fire of London CofE Church. Below the is the headline to an article the image illustrates.
BBC micro Model B with microvitec cub monitor
A Shinkansen series 0
Cover of Barbarella, in RCA CED vinyl video disk format.
Danger! Helvetica warning sign from BBC Comedy “look around you” https://lookaroundyou.fandom.com/wiki/Helvetica_Scenario
IBM DS8000 gen 10 Mainframe storage array.
A Microvitec cub metal box monitor from 1980s.
BBC Master 128 and an Acorn Music 500 synthesiser.
Art deco Electrically wound IBM central time source. This clock is about 1.5m tall and reminiscent of a “grandfather clock” with chrome pendulum. Circa 1945.
Speech recognition generated subtitles on BBC News at Chinese new year 2014. Subtitles read “Welcome to the year of the whores. People around the globe celebrate.”
A still from the David Lynch film Dune.
A picture of a delta 3D printer and a laptop controlling it. The printer is printing a white 20mm xyz cube.
A blue, four line LCD character display mounted in a partially dismantled 3D Printer base. Display shows the message: Outage Recovery: PRINTER HALTED Please Reset
The tomb of Karl Marx
Parody of Oregon Trail low resolution wagon with the slogan “get in loser, we’re going to die of dysentery.”
A small plastic Jesus figurine with a yellow sash bearing the slogan “Jesus Loves You”. Sunlight casts a shadow forwards.
Phil Collins appearing on Brass Eye (UK channel 4) wearing a T shirt and baseball cap with the logo of a fake organisation “Nonce Sense”
Homer Simpson watching Twin Peaks “brilliant… I have absolutely no idea what’s going on”
Three small Toblerone chocolates. Each has three letters of the name on white, normal and dark versions of the chocolate.
A still from the music video of Dee-Lite’s Groove is in the Heart. Featuring floating heads of DJ Dmitry and Towa Tei either side of Lady Miss Kier dancing on a virtual podium overlaid on a psychedelic background.
Meme of Homer Simpson watching twin peaks saying “BRILLIANT. I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHAT'S GOING ON”
Cherry keyboard, mechanical switch type MX blue.