On Saturday's noon EDT stream, we're going to play with @polpo@chaos.social's latest invention: the PicoIDE (a Raspberry Pi-based IDE emulator). The goal is to add this to my wood / glass /enameled wire single board 486. Let's see how easy / hard it is to set up and use! #vintagecomputing https://youtube.com/live/AFylWhSrfSY?feature=share
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BigBadBiologist
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Big Bad Biologist. Doggo daddo. Alliteration Aficionado. (I'm a retro computing enthusiast that livestreams a lot of my restoration work, normally at noon eastern on Saturdays)
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Joined November 09, 2022
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Grrr. As if doing a hard drive swap in a G3 iBook isn’t bad enough, there’s a leaky super cap waiting.
I deleted my post about the NH guy, since I probably misinterpreted a love for AI slop and a confusing sense of humor as MAGA. Apologies for the false alarm.
I made a YT short to document the impact of changing the resistors on the bottom of a Kingston TurboChip 486 upgrade CPU. Turns out R10 -> R8 makes a difference to the L1 cache speed! #vintagepc #vintagecomputing https://youtube.com/shorts/VB251661X4c?feature=share
While I was able to sort of stream from a #vintagemacintosh yesterday, I did fail at my #Marchintosh goal of streaming from my Quadra 950. If anyone has any very old versions of Avid Film / Media Composer prior to version 5.5 (under the old naming convention), please reach out!
On Saturday's noon stream, we'll do some work on this lot of #vintagemac computers that I paid $200 for: a decent LC575, a juicy IIci, and a Quadra 610 that I haven't looked at yet. And we need to pick the winner of the POOci! https://youtube.com/live/exViLaaT8IY?feature=share
I have to hand it to @iiidiy@mastodon.social , he sure knows how to make a board look deceptively good! His SE/30 will be a fun project starting this weekend!
For the end of #marchintosh, we're going to work on the worst Macintosh all-in-one: the LC580. And I'll try to stream from my Power Mac 6200 for as long as we can stand it. Saturday noon EDT. https://youtube.com/live/tQW32BTHOls?feature=share
A few weeks ago, I bought a couple microscope cameras to try to improve the quality of my streaming setup. One arrived today and might be more powerful than I anticipated 🤣
No Saturday stream this week, so I'm going to try to sneak in a Friday afternoon 3:00 EDT stream. We'll check out a couple supposedly sad Newer Technology MAXpowr G3 upgrade boards for the Power Mac 6100. #vintagemac https://youtube.com/live/SgHDaMtyteQ?feature=share
No stream for me this weekend (say hi if you see me at #vcfpnw !), but I made a small video testing whether AI-recommended NPN transistors will work in repairing this AT power supply. This is my first real video 😬
Https://youtu.be/MIPQX2TrwJc
In ~2018 Steve Bannon verbalized the GOP strategy of “flooding the zone with shit”. Essentially, in the absence of creating anything good or productive, just do A LOT. Apparently that’s my YouTube strategy. Thanks for tuning in y’all!
On Saturday's noon EDT stream, we're going to start work on @iiidiy@mastodon.social 's deceptively clean SE/30 logic board. I also bought a couple microscope cameras to try to hopefully improve my microscope streaming quality. Let's do a mini camera shootout! #vintagemacintosh #vintagemac https://youtube.com/live/D5Vab18fW00?feature=share
The Macintosh POOci has cleaned up pretty nicely. Aside from the startup circuit area, the logic board looks good. On Saturday's noon EDT stream, we're going to recap the board and PSU and announce its giveaway. (We might need to do a little work on the cache card) #vintagemac #vintagemacintosh https://youtube.com/live/alMlDvB1r9o?feature=share
#VintageMac I picked up this Macintosh IIci to do a giveaway for hitting 2048 subscribers. But when we opened it, it was mouse-bombed. YT short showing the mess and beginning of cleanup: https://youtube.com/shorts/ShWveHI-jeU?si=hygENrd_4jIpTm9p
Reminder that I will be picking a winner for the Macintosh POOci on this weekend’s stream, so make sure to enter before then!
https://youtu.be/alMlDvB1r9o
The VOD of yesterday's stream is back up. I had to pull it due to me being a moron (sorry for the big blur part way through). But overall it was a fun one! #vintagemac #vintagemacintosh https://youtube.com/live/D5Vab18fW00?feature=share
I think this is a testament to the kind of life-long learners that the Hampshire environment helped foster. To everyone in the Hampshire community: Thank you ❤️ (3/3)
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@RonsCompVids I can’t look around my workshop without hearing Ron’s voice these days.
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@mmu_man @joshmillard biology isn’t real
Oooh! Need to watch this. I love hate working on these!
From: @socketwench@masto.hackers.town
@socketwench@masto.hackers.town
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I worked with students in areas of science that I didn't even know existed before starting here (not to mention assorted art, literature, and politics projects). Of the 93 senior thesis projects (we call them Div IIIs) that I have had the honor to advise, about 30 of those students have gone on to some type of graduate program (with many more working in biotech, academic research, or their chosen area of interest). (2/3)
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@ElectricVibes@bitbang.social I love a good heatshrunk Rifa!
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@GamesMissed I don’t know what’s happening there, but I love it!
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@billgoats yeah, I think it’s going to be all good
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@2ndNatureDev I don’t know what’s next for me. A lot of my identity has been tied to this place. It’s going to take a while to figure out.
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@macinthrope but there are plenty of sickos out there that love the Molar Mac.