Teck Heck

@teckheck.bsky.social

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22 year old transfem Old tech nerd and weird synth aficionado Apple II user group

An Apple IIe computer sits center frame, surrounded by various trinkets, kicknacks, and peripherals. It's logged into IRC over dial-up
7 inch vinyl single art for the 1983 song Letric Metric by Peter Griffin
A green monochrome monitor displays instructions on how to use the Greengate Waveform Processor. Key commands, etc.
A green monochrome monitor displays 3 boxes, one displays harmonics, one contains an ADSR envelope, and one displays a live section of a waveform, and under the boxes is a long line, indicating the full waveform.
A TV running a program from an Atari 2600 with the BASIC programming cartridge. 2 squares move across the graphics window, beeping with each move. A different beep is heard as they overlap.
The computer that controlled the animatronics at Chuck E Cheese in the 80s sits on a table next to a reel to reel tape drive that it loads its data from
I'm in the exhibit hall at vintage computer festival midwest, standing next to my table. On the table is an apple II and the greengate sampler.
The foreground of my basement music studio, occupied by a pair of Apple 2 computers, as well as 3 synthesizer keyboards and a sampler keyboard. I stand in the background holding my bass guitar.
A double A battery that's been in a garage for 40 years, the battery has thoroughly leaked onto everything around it and is so corroded that the plastic coating with graphics on it has been eaten through entirely.
A white program cassette tape from Apple, dated 1979. The tape is titled "Infinite Number of Monkeys"
An apple IIe computer displaying a 3D audio waveform, sat next to the piano keyboard of a digital sampler, which is wired into the back.
A 61 key piano keyboard with the text "Greengate productions DS:3" on it sits in the center of the floor.
An overhead shot of an AM radio, it consists of a wooden base with a die cast scale model of the NHK concert hall in Tokyo.
The front of a package of Daewoo branded sterile latex surgical gloves.
Photo of me, center frame, in the hospital, heart monitor on a table in the background. I lived!
I'm sitting in from of my apple II, equipped with a synthesizer in the conference hall during vintage computer festival midwest.
An apple IIe computer rests in a dark room lit by a lone desk lamp. On the screen is a program printing alternating sine waves out of text characters.
A complex synth setup. An apple II sits center, decked out with monitor, disk drive, and other peripherals. An oscilloscope rests next to a dot matrix printer to the left, while a wooden finish 44 key synthesizer keyboard is on the right.
The superphone 7800, an ungodly combo of a phone, clock, and calculator crammed in a GTE automatic electric case. Underneath is a zoom telephonics 9600 baud modem, in operation.
A corkboard on the wall with an 80s styled etched woodgrain sign that says "Thank you for not smoking" pinned on it among other notes and papers. A strip of punched tape reading "VCFMW 2022" can also be seen.
The exposed PCB of a late 70s video terminal, keyboard side.
An apple IIe computer rests on a rolling cart, flanked by a disk drive, serial data switch, and koalapad drawing tablet. Atop sits a CRT monitor, which has a vitrax type n talk speech synthesizer sitting on it's flat top. A 44 key full size synthesizer keyboard tests to the right.
An apple IIe computer rests in a dark room lit by a lone desk lamp. The screen reads "AVATAR" with a low resolution graphical rendering of a dragon.