Yesterbits

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Doing things (or, considering doing things, at some point) with old computers, usually.

The Shakeout Cometh. Apple Orchard 1984, Aug/Sep, Planting a Seed column.
Side by side before and after of a book page scan, with blue pen writing all over it and with just the pen removed by Photoshop.
"I put a SwyftCard in every Apple in my school because it makes using a computer actually easier than using a typewriter."
JVC FlashPath MMC to floppy disk adapter, manual, cover
Flash Path floppy adapter for MMC cards, front
BetterBASIC ad
BetterBASIC binder from the side.
Clip art featuring Macs and Macintrosh XLs
video showing snake game being entered, listed, and run twice, showing scoring, collision detection with wall and with snake
Front of a ZX-81
Epson PIC for Apple IIc, top
An Apple IIGS set up on a desk. The caption of the Facebook post reads “I decided to start 2012 with a new computer…”
Apple II+ screen showing two diagonal lines at 560x192. Text at the bottom reads: HGR:F=0:FORY=0TO159:HCOLOR=3+4*F:F=1-F:X=INT(Y/2):HPLOTX,Y:HPLOTX+200,Y:NEXT
Sign reads “VALET PARKING ONLY M-F”
"Computers are my forté" clip from the movie Brazil.
Osborne 1 with the lens off to the side ("before")
Forrest Gump sits on a bench, observing.
Space heater, with its display reading “HI”
First 2-page magazine ad for Apple II, from Byte magazine.
Video showing starting up the Forth interpreter and trying a couple of programs.
Front of WikiReader box
Front view of unopened box of 3M 8" floppy disks.
Timothy Hutton and Noah Emmerich hug by a Boston Globe mailbox on a Stillwater, MN street in Beautiful Girls (1996).
AppleColor Monitor 100 tilting in response to hitting the tilt oscillator button.
AppleColor Monitor 100 with tilt oscillator button pressed, tilting up and down.