Making photographs and fixing cars for sanity, fixing antique computers for fun, writing software to pay the bills. email: jason@smbfc.net
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16 Oct 2025
The Portland Retro Gaming Expo is happening this weekend!
I'll be there with the Interim Computer Museum (icm.museum)
Stop by booth E-1001 and say Hi!
retrogamingexpo.com/
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Jun 4
Just picked up an old HP 7475A Plotter!
Aside from some dry pens, it works...and is mesmerizing to watch it do it's thing.
youtu.be/yAUoORU_wgE
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Jun 3
Need.
Jun 3
More Divine Polyester than the Baltimore foot stomper could bear.
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May 5
Warp 9 to the Planet of Apes Mr. Sulu! This book was crazy!
Apr 29
The CRAZIEST yet MOST LOGICAL crossover ever?! It's Star Trek/Planet of the Apes on Back Issues! youtu.be/dlxYtX9ZGkM
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Jason Howe retweeted
Mar 16
Come experience the development of lisp out of the MIT AI lab on the Symbolics LISP Machine at the icm.museum 9 minutes from #seatac in Tukwila Washington
On March 15, 1985, the first internet dot .com domain name, Symbolics . com, was registered to Symbolics Inc., a computer systems company in Cambridge.
#InternetHistory
ALT On March 15, 1985, the first internet dot .com domain name, Symbolics . com, was registered to Symbolics Inc., a computer systems company in Cambridge.
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Mar 16
The TRUTH about making comics (What I Learned at ECCC) youtu.be/tYpFs8tz1Fg?si=7IW0… via @YouTube
Another great conversation with @SalSaysWhat !
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Mar 10
I’m so incredibly fortunate to know such talented folks such as these.
Mar 10
Congrats to Josh Dersch who tracked down a microcode fault on the DEC m data systems 570 known as Miss Piggy! The pig lives!
icm.museum
#retrocomputing #unix #vintagesystems
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Jason Howe retweeted
Feb 24
Seattle Computer Products (where tim wrote dos) is right across the street from icm.museum in the same business park.
We have a gazelle on display which boots dos 1.25.
Tim worked at Microsoft and extensive modifications and development were done to make dos suitable for the IBM PC launch.
The image shown is fairly far removed from what dos was like prior to Microsoft purchasing it and improving it.
Did you know Microsoft didn’t develop MS-DOS, but bought it off of a programmer named Tim Paterson?
Tim Paterson (born 1 June 1956) is an American computer programmer, best known for creating 86-DOS, an operating system for the Intel 8086.
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Feb 20
I was messing around with my Alpha Syntauri Synth, a guitar, and some effects pedals a while back, dropped the tracks on SoundCloud, and promptly forgot about them. Enjoy a couple weird tracks!
soundcloud.com/mechanicjay/s…
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Jason Howe retweeted
31 Dec 2025
Would you like to see UNIX V4 on MissPiggy? #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #unix #softwarepreservation
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20 Oct 2025
Had an amazing time with @sdf_pubnix this weekend at #PRGE
Thanks to everyone who stopped by the booth to chat and play with our toys!
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18 Oct 2025
The booth is all setup for the Portland Retro Gaming Expo! Doors open at 9 tomorrow! Stop by E-1001 and say Hi!
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16 Oct 2025
Old equipment has the best Blinky Light Factor. Here’s an old network hub powering up.
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4 Oct 2025
This is always a good time, come on down this weekend!
3 Oct 2025
The Interim Computer Festival FALL 2025 is this Saturday and Sunday 10am-6pm at INTRASPACE 3100 airport way s. Seattle WA 98134
A free event celebrating #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrogaming #event #free #seattle
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25 Sep 2025
The astounding part is getting an hour of runtime on damn near 20 year old battery.
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