retro technology on Tyler Knows Nothing

Thu, 29 May 2025 18:19:15 -0700

In @NSMug’s latest video he walks through a fascinating #QuickTimeVR tour of the #Apple Company Store at the original #Cupertino campus. It’s fun to see all the normal and weird stuff you could buy with Apple logos. #retrocomputing #nostalgia www.youtube.com/watch

Sun, 25 May 2025 23:51:40 -0700

It is really, really hard to start a YouTube channel these days. There are so many creators who’ve been around for years and have established viewerships. @nsmug@mastodon.social is a new creator and he makes great retro #Apple videos. Give him some love! #retrocomputing www.youtube.com/watch

Wed, 21 May 2025 08:40:32 -0700

Let’s show NSMug’s new #YouTube channel some love. He’s got six subs now. So, views, shares, likes, and more subs are appreciated. He’s doing his part to preserve the Olde' Ways and peeps who work this hard for love need support. #apple #retrocompting www.youtube.com/watch

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:23:52 -0700

I’m definitely a fan of #RetroComputing, but my allegiance clearly lies with #Apple rather than #Microsoft. My old PCs run #Linux or #Haiku, but I get what retro #Windows peeps want. So, if you want to install #Windows98 quickly, here you go. #tech #howto #utilities boingboing.net/2025/03/3…

Fri, 14 Mar 2025 12:14:36 -0700

I’ve always adored flying boats and would love to see them make a comeback, not as the sky buses of today, but with pre-war opulence. The Saunders-Roe Queen would have been the pinnacle… had it been built. #aircraft #aviation #engineering #tech #history www.youtube.com/watch

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 18:41:23 -0700

How refreshing! It seems there is a new #OpenSource #Windows-compatible OS project called #Free95 on #GitHub. It is clearly in the very early stages of Alpha testing. The dev is open to contributors and would like to get Doom running. Naturally :) tech.slashdot.org/story/25/…

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 10:31:02 -0700

Anyone who deals in retro gear knows #retrocomputing gets more difficult the further back you go in history. Hugh Jeffreys deals with one of the common issues with his iBook G3s dead batteries. Not a guide, per se, but helpful info for decision making. #tech #Apple www.youtube.com/watch

Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:07:18 -0700

As an avid #retrocomputing collector I have amassed an absurd number of cables and almost every single one of them is a mess. I look at the various storage containers and despair. Tito posted a short video explaining his process to straighten them! #tech #howto #gadgets www.youtube.com/watch

Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:37:15 -0700

I’ve long been a small gadget geek, and I bought an #Atari Lynx II, #Sega #GameGear and #Nomad before I ever got my first #Nintendo GameBoy (a Pocket, btw). This video shows the history of today’s ARM with the first home computers. #retrocomputing #videogames www.youtube.com/watch

Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:02:46 -0700

Well, this is rather fascinating! Some mad genius hacked a Nokia Lumia 1020 to run #Apple’s #iOS for #iPhone. The trick? Inside the Lumia is an iPhone SE 3!! Still pretty damned cool, if I do say so myself. #retrocomputing #hardwarehacks #tech www.macworld.com/article/2…

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:38:35 -0700

I’m not familiar with the MSX system. Not many Westerners are as it was primarily a Japanese home computer standard that started in 1983 and ended ten years later. This, like the Book 8088 and Pocket 386 before it, does look cool, though. #tech #retrocomputing liliputing.com/msxbook-i…

Mon, 20 Jan 2025 18:01:31 -0700

Oh snap! A company called Arcooda is making 29.3" 4:3 1-to-1 arcade cabinet LCD display replacements!!?? WOW!!! It’s a short video, but it’s all the info you need in just over a minute. #videogames #retrogaming #retrocomputing #arcades www.youtube.com/watch

Mon, 20 Jan 2025 12:25:09 -0700

Oh wow! Remember this crazy Sony thing during the UMPC era? Someone is working on a drop-in replacement motherboard that will upgrade it to a modern CPU so it can be used to fix broken devices or, in their words, “drag this classic handheld into the modern era.” #retrocomputing www.reddit.com/r/umpc/co…

Things you can do instead of watching America being peacefully handed over to a criminal - Inauguration Special 2025

Mon, 20 Jan 2025 11:59:15 -0700

Don’t watch the news today since all they’ll be talking about is how great and normal it is to just hand an entire country over to a criminal in the name of a democracy that’s been utterly broken and shreaded. If that leaves you unsure of what to do instead, here are some suggestions:

Listen to some music. I’ve been sharing my album plays, and here’s a list of them that I refresh a few times a week. tavexocor.shop/nothing-m…
Go for a walk
Spend time with friends
Play a game like a board game, video games, or get into table-top role-playing games (TTRPG), or even just a few dozen rounds of poker
Read a book like Isaac Asimov’s Robot series, many of which are murder mysteries. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robo…
Nap in a patch of sunlight or next to a warming fire with your kids and/or pets
Bake something like biscuits or pie or some nice, big potatoes and stuff them with cheese, bacon, sour cream, and chives, or whatever you like
Help out at your local homeless shelter or donate some old clothes to families in need
If you can afford it, slap a few hundred bucks on a gift card, go to that store, and pay for everyone until it runs out
Stop and smell some roses
Watch a movie or three like The Wild Robot (2024 on Apple TV, Google Play, Amazon Prime and more)
Write something nice on a pad of paper about nice and/or hopeful for yourself or someone you like
Get out an old computer and install Linux Mint and engage in some joyful technological discovery. linuxmint.com
Go out on a thrift shop crawl in your local area and buy some old things to give them a new home

And if you must watch TV, then allow me to suggest one of the single most joyful and affirming shows ever made;l Netflix’s Somebody Feed Phil. You will not regret it. Well, you’ll regret having trouble eating the food Phil eats, unless you live in one of the cities he’s covered.

Feel free to submit your own lists of things to do other than watch the news today. #animation #comics #manga #film #movies #linux #music #retrocomputing #humanrights #civilrights #scifi #tech #videogames #writing

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 20:25:00 -0700

I thought we’d exhausted all of the “platforms” #Doom could run on, even the truly bizarre ones, like a pregnancy test, the MacBook Pro Touchbar, or an ATM. Guess not, since someone has now made the iconic first-person shooter run in… of all things… a #PDF. #tech #videogames #retrogaming arstechnica.com/gaming/20…

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 09:49:51 -0700

Another fantastic video from Tito at Macho Nacho who showcases and reviews #retrogaming mods for a wide range of portable and console #videogames systems. Here he builds the #Playstation Placeable consolizer for the legendary #PSP that turns it into a tiny PS2-alike. I miss my PSP :( #retrocomputing www.youtube.com/watch

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:30:43 -0700

Wow! I’m short on words, but I’m simply blown away by designer Kevin Noki’s functional recreation of Harmut Esslinger’s #Apple Flatmac design, a prototype developed by Esslinger’s Frog Design, the firm that handled Apple’s iconic industrial design language. It is simply astonishing. NOTE: If you just want to see it in action, jump to 41:24. #retrocomputing #Macintosh #MacClassic youtu.be/Grd_a4oi7…

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:34:49 -0700

🚨 NERD ALERT 🚨 Hey all my retro #Apple peeps who are re-capping old #Macintosh machines! It turns out there’s a polarity type on the LC III / Performa 450 mainboard that, when using tantalum capacitors for your retrofit, can cause your repaired Mac to immolate itself. It’s a quick read, so get yourself up to speed before busting out the flux and solder wick. #retrocomputing #tech www.macworld.com/article/2…

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 16:48:11 -0700

Here’s a rather fascinating (and detailed) breakdown of installing a 1TB mSATA SSD into a PowerBook G4 1.67GHz hi-res display model, the last of the mobile PowerPC PowerBooks. I put a similar rig in my G4 Mini 1.4GHz “Silent Upgrade”, though my SSD is a mere 120GBs. Then again, I run Mac OS 9.22 on it, with a 10.4 partition. #apple #Mac #retrocomputing #hardware lowendmac.com/2024/fanx…

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 15:17:55 -0700

In the rarely used #GoodNews category of #VideoGamePreservation, Epic Games has granted the Internet Archive permission to archive old versions of #UnrealEngine and #UnrealTournament and make them available to anyone who wants them… for #FREE! It may be a small step in the wide-ranging universe of outmoded #videogames, but it is a step! Take heed, publishers hoarding old games!! #RetroComputing #tech mjtsai.com/blog/2024…