Cat mullet:
Ready for business in the front.
Sleeping through the party in the back.

#Cats #CatsOfMastodon #猫

It's not a terribly flattering photo of her, so here's a better one from earlier, showing off her green eyes and impeccable eyeliner skills.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #Cats #猫

She howled in the back yard until I came out, then flopped down proudly next to the gift she brought: a crushed water bottle, crinkly and brittle from seemingly years in the sun.

She's done this a few times before. A coffee pod, half a watch band, a takeout drink container lid; all of them old and sun-damaged. I don't know where she finds them or why she feels compelled to bring them to me, but I always thank her and give her pets and treats.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #Cats #猫

Huh? It's Caturday again? Already?!

#Caturday #cats

"Psst, hey you. Yeah, you! You got any of them... treats?"

#Caturday #Cats

I saw this DEC InfoServer 1000 and my mind went instantly to "classy as shit Greaseweazle omni-enclosure." No budget for that kind of thing at the moment, sadly!

#VCFWest #VCFW #VCF2026 #RetroComputing #DEC

Today's #VCFWest consignment area was brought to you by loads of PCjr stuff.

#VCFW #VCF2026 #RetroComputing #PCjr

If you'd like to listen to the whole thing, I've put up FLACs on the Internet Archive here: https://archive.org/details/xerox-de-colombia-volumen-v

Not a lot of these albums seem to have been been catalogued online (let alone archived), sadly. But Discogs does list a Volumen 9, which has absolutely wicked album art and I want it.

#Xerox #Colombia #Vinyl #RetroComputing

Found this album at a swap meet a few months ago and couldn't pass it up. Finally got my turntable fixed and gave it a listen, and hot damn is it a lot less boring that you'd expect from the Xerox name.

If this is the kind of fire that was pumping out of the Xerox de Colombia office sound system while they were messing with Xerox Altos (and copiers, I guess) in 1976, sign me the fuck up.

#Xerox #Colombia #Vinyl

DUDE.

Floppy. Disk. Rolodex.

#RetroComputing

Retro truck for retro equipment.

Silicon Valley Electronics Flea Market!

- Wake up at stupid o'clock!
- See tons of neat stuff!
- Reeeeally test the limits of your self-control when it comes to said neat stuff following you home!

The cash register this place uses is also two layers of #RetroComputing interest:

The physical computer is what I believe is a Mac Mini G4 running OS X (which would mean 10.3-10.5).

The register software it runs is much, much older, however. I can't be sure of the software's resolution, but it *looked* like the 512x342 of the original compact Macs, and it was definitely rendered in 1-bit B&W.

I commented on the setup, and the guy just kind of shrugged and said it was an antique shop.

Fair.

This cassette jumped out at me at an antique shop today.

Not because of the content. It's just someone's mixtape from 1988.

But I love that whomever made the tape then went over to their computer, loaded up a template or a dedicated piece of software, and printed out a custom j-card on their dot matrix printer. The future was now!

#cassette #RetroComputing

- Located in Mountain View, California? ✔️
- Faux Art Deco-ish exterior? ✔️
- Baconated tilework around an XL front door? ✔️
- 1950s tract-home-but-bigger interior? ✔️
- Murderbasement? ✔️
- Vast amounts of prep space in the bathroom ✔️
- Hallway teleported from an abandoned Soviet Union community center? ✔️

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/54770278_zpid/

@weirdestate

Even with a... not-great keyboard, there's something so right about playing Tetris on a Soviet computer.

#RetroComputing #VCFwest #vcfw #Tetris

"Oh lord, he's made of wood." #RetroComputing #VCFwest #vcfw

I pick up this style of power center at thrift stores when I see them, but being thirty years old, the majority of the neon bulbs in them are flickery, dim, or completely burnt out.

It's kind of a pain to do, but I spent most of the weekend replacing the bulbs in (and cleaning) these three units. Worth it for how shiny & bright they are now!

#RetroComputing #Nostalgia