Notices by Benj Edwards (benjedwards@mastodon.social)

Found this box for my family’s old IDS PC-286 computer in my mom’s attic recently

It was a bulky IBM AT-class machine, and for some reason I never used it. I think we only had a monochrome display too

And here’s a photo of my brother using it in 1987 #retrocomputing

“The New Rockefeller” (1993)

@dosnostalgic It’s a type of thematic turgescence

Sure, the proof is in the pudding, but what is the pudding in? A bowl? How anticlimactic 😁

Happy Mother of all Games day 😁#retrogaming #retrocomputing

@dosnostalgic i do

What’s your favorite Ultima game?

Today, the Apple Lisa turned 40 and the Computer History Museum released the source code for Lisa OS 3.1: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/pioneering-apple-lisa-goes-open-source-thanks-to-computer-history-museum

@dosnostalgic I can try to test it on my Tandy 1000 later

@dosnostalgic oh cool I have never seen this one before

Well yeah I’m having a good time 😁

The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes has always been a favorite #Retrogaming

I’ve recently stopped thinking of my neighbors as just neighbors. Now they’re “people who might help me survive the apocalypse”

Hi, I'm Benj. I've been collecting computers and video games to preserve tech history since 1993

I started vintagecomputing.com in 2005 and began freelancing shorty thereafter for sites like PCWorld, Fast Company, The Atlantic

I introduced a lot of early video game and microcomputer history to the web

I also make music and created a bunch of joysticks. I run a BBS and a MUSH

Right now, I'm Ars Technica's AI and ML reporter, but history's still in my blood #introduction

If “the cloud” were meant to be a reliable storage medium of data, it would have been called “the fortress” or “the bedrock.” Instead, the cloud metaphor fits how it can slip away at any time