- Hack A Day: A Handy Guide to the Humble BBS
- Boing Boing: No Man's Sky as a Commodore Amiga slideshow
- VG24/7: Sean Murray impressed by No Man’s Sky on Amiga computer
- Hack A Day: BBSing with the ESP8266
- 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
- NewEgg- HardBoiled: The Science Behind 3 Inspiring PC Battlestations [Archive]
- PC Mag: 7 Amazing Vintage Computer Collections
- CNN HLN: Inside the 'Byte Cellar': 30 years with Apple [Archive]
- 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
- PC World: The Byte Cellar Is the Ultimate Geek Dream Den
- Gadget Review: The “Byte Cellar” Contains 122 Video Game Machines [Archive]
- The Games Shed: Retro Gaming Collections – Blake Patterson – The Retro Story Guy [Archive]
- Apartment Therapy: Blake's Byte Cellar Workstation With 4 Different Monitors [Archive]
- 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 [Archive]
- Cult of Mac: Steve Jobs left an imprint on tech and the skin of some devoted fans
Category Archives: Just Rambling
Thinking Back on ‘Turbo Pascal’ as It Turns 40
November marked the 40th anniversary of Turbo Pascal, the first Integrated Development Environment (or IDE), which allowed a user to quickly and easily write a program in the Pascal programming language and see it compiled and linked — all in … Continue reading
“4K Scaling” Is Not a Problem on Modern Macs
I found myself posting this information so frequently on forum threads and in video comments that I wanted to put it all together in one place so that I can share my experience and what I’ve learned with a single … Continue reading
BBSing in the Snow Is the Best Way to Login
I logged into my first dial-up electronic Bulletin Board System in the spring of 1986 at the house of a friend I was visiting. His family had an Apple IIe setup with an Apple Modem 1200, the kind that sat … Continue reading
About the Personalized, Cut Wood Apple Logo Sign from 1984
On Saturday KansasFest 2021 wrapped up and it was sad to see it end — what an amazing 48 hours it was! This was the second KFest I have attended (both virtual) and it was incredibly fun, just like last year. … Continue reading
I Sit at the Round Table (And Dance Whene’er I’m Able)
Just a quick post here to share a notable update to my retrocomputing activities of late that has proven to be a very enjoyable addition, indeed. Early this year, I sat down at the Retro Computing Roundtable and partook of … Continue reading
Announcing “NMSspot” – My New “No Man’s Sky” Blog
Just a quick post here to spread the word regarding a new blog I’ve started in the past month. Called NMSspot, the new site will cover my adventures travelling within the universe of the procedurally infinite space exploration / adventure … Continue reading
How I Got Started in Vintage Computing
I was recently listening to the celebratory 200th episode of my favorite vintage computing podcast, the Retro Computing Roundtable, which has been running for nine years. Marking the occasion, the early hosts of the show were in attendance and much … Continue reading
I Laughed Just A Little Too Hard…
Spotted on Instagram. Also: relevant. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Miikka Salonen (@miisalo) on Jul 30, 2019 at 2:33pm PDT ( Modified by ? Original artist is Jake Likes Onions. )
Memories of a Software Rental Shop
I remember the first video my family ever rented. It was a James Bond film, Never Say Never Again. We rented it (on Beta videocassette) from the video rental counter that popped up in our local five and dime, a … Continue reading
Computer Classifieds Dating Back Over 35 Years, Uncovered
As often happens, I got an idea for a blog post about a place of my past that readers may find interesting, and jumped online to scour the search engines for some tidbit of history I could use to prop … Continue reading