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- Retro Gamer mag: On Being Featured in Retro Gamer’s “Collector’s Corner”
- Polygon: Meet the guy who spent over $4,000 on No Man’s Sky
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- PC Mag: 7 Amazing Vintage Computer Collections
- HLN: Inside the 'Byte Cellar': 30 years with Apple
- Forbes: Steve Jobs In The Flesh
- Lifehacker: The Byte Cellar: A Geeked-Out Ode to Computers and Video Games
- Engadget: Blake Patterson's Byte Cellar: the ultimate man cave for aspiring geeks
- TechHive: The Byte Cellar Is the Ultimate Geek Dream Den
- Gadget Review: The “Byte Cellar” Contains 122 Video Game Machines
- Apartment Therapy: Blake's Byte Cellar Workstation With 4 Different Monitors
- CNN (video): Apple's Mac Turns 25
- Engadget: Apple IIc as a Serial terminal to a Mac Mini
- Newton Poetry: Profile: Blake Patterson of ‘Touch Arcade’
- TUAW: Flickr Find: Digital Steve Jobs on a bookshelf
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Today in the ByteCellar
Load More...#todayInTheByteCellar I replaced the cracked case of my Tandy 1000HX with a "new" one, while in there upgraded the Siemens 8088-2 with an NEC V20, and replaced the LOUD fan with a small, quiet unit. All day, lovely project.
#todayInTheByteCellar I opened the 486-class PC and reconnected power (oops) to the CDROM drive so I could play Dark Forces again. Did a good bit of BBSing on the Amiga 1000. Wrote a blog post asking for opinions on capacitor failure.
#todayInTheByteCellar I did some BBSing on the 1000HX. It'd been a few weeks.
#todayInTheByteCellar I played two hours of Turok: Dinosaur Hunter on the N64. Never finsihed back in the day, started over tonight.
#todayInTheByteCellar I moved one of the WiFi232 modem to the Apple IIe and did a good bit of BBSing on it. Its composite display is clearer than the Tandy 1000HX's CM-5 RGB monitor, interestingly. Also played some Atari 8-bit games. New PSU for Playstation ordered.
Category Archives: Apple II
A Look at the Short-Lived 3-Inch Compact Floppy Disk
I was recently listening to the latest episode of Retro Computing Roundtable podcast during which there was mention of a 3-inch floppy disk. No, not 3.5-inch, but 3-inch. These disks are known as Compact Floppy Disks (also “CF2”) and were … Continue reading
‘Twas No Post, But Poetry! (At 300 Baud)
It is not every day that BBSing moves a man to poetry…. But, there are occasions where it does, as reddit user u/droid_mike proved this past weekend as r/Retrobattlestations‘ BBS Week IV competition drew to a close. The competition rules required … Continue reading
As God Is My Witness, I Thought Turkeys Could Fly
When it comes to the holidays, I get rather sentimental as well as nostalgic, these days. Holidays as a kid are some of the best memories any of us have, really. And having been an avid computer geek during the … Continue reading
Brief Encounters of the Home Computing Kind
Back in the “home computer” days, I was something of a serial platform jumper; the list of systems I’ve owned is long. I would have a certain system and be happily using it and then become intrigued by a different … Continue reading
Highlighting My Bedside Apple //c for “Wedge Week” at r/RetroBattlestations
This week was “Wedge Week” at r/RetroBattlestations and I chose to focus on my Apple //c which I recently moved to a bedside configuration for leisurely retrocomputing BBS and IRC usage. This //c has lived in two D.C. offices and … Continue reading
To Upgrade, or Not to Upgrade, That Is the Question
The other day I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts, the Retro Computing Roundtable, when the host topic really struck a chord in me. In this episode, no. 148, Paul Hagstrom was hosting and his topic for discussion … Continue reading
Remembering the Apple IIgs Sales Demo
It was a Saturday morning in September when we saw the Apple IIgs for the first time. By “we,” I mean those of us who headed to local authorized Apple dealers across the country (which for me was Chaney Computer … Continue reading
Getting Spooky with the Apple IIe for October
October was Spooky Month over at r/Retrobattlestations. The contest required submitting a photo of a vintage machine playing a Halloween or “spooky” video game. As you can see, I fired up Polarware’s text/graphic adventure Transylvania — one of my favorites … Continue reading
Computer Printout Photo Album from 1986
I got such a positive reaction from my last post about the 33 year old recovered photos of my first home computer setup that I became motivated to finally get a photo album I had spoken of in an earlier … Continue reading
33 Year Old Roll of Film Offers a Glimpse of My Vintage Computing Beginnings
I got my first home computer on Christmas morning in 1982. It was a TI-99/4A with 16K of RAM. In the years that followed, I moved on fairly frequently to a new system, selling the old to fund it. I … Continue reading
