I write about the past, present, and future of technology across three sites. imapenguin.com explores retro computing and programming fundamentals, milkcrunch.com covers modern software development and engineering culture, and evadot.com examines commercial spaceflight and the new space movement.
Posts
- Got some new office art. One of the best terrible movies ever.
- Delivery for today was a CGA to VGA converter. A Commodore 128 in 80 column mode was my dream setup in 1986. Only took 34 years to put it all together and get myself one.
- The day ended pretty okay. #tigerbaron
- You can tell you landed somewhere up North when the pilot lounge has a fireplace in it. #tigerbaron
- My quest for Super Snapshot on Commodore continues. Flashed it to an Easy Flash and it starts on both the 64 and 128 but is slow and crashes both systems.
- Just a little light Saturday afternoon reading.
- At some point over the last few years a quick 400 mile trip has become routine. 72 knot headwind this morning though so if you’re flying I suggest the opposite direction from the one I picked.
- No such thing as too much Linux
- Jeopardy for DOS: Godspeed Alex
- Not often I fly this plane so close to the ground #tigerbaron
- Are they multiplying? A friend heard about my adventures in learning 6502 Assembly and donated his 128 to my cause. In 1987 this is was my dream machine. Looks good next to my C64. #alwayslearning
- My color Maximite 2 came today. It’s insanely fast.
- Commodore 64 on a flat LCD will never stop feeling slightly wrong
- I’ve never used SUSE in all of my years of being a Linux guy. Time to give it a whirl
- Hello Pennsylvania. I don’t know how well it comes across on video, but you could have easily been fooled into thinking this cloud layer was the frozen ground in the Arctic. TV and Internet would have you believe the sky was falling. Well I was there. It’s not.
- Some people doodle. Some people play solitaire. I wire stuff together.
- Test fit of the tail. This whole section will probably be permanent by tomorrow. One step at a time.
- Once again, popsicle sticks to help with laser alignment to the rescue. Thank you kindergarten teachers for the popsicle stick skills.
- My co pilot is prettier than yours.
- Probably shouldn’t eyeball the tail alignment huh? Let’s use a “laser”!