Joe Pasqua
@bitsplusatoms.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Combining software and hardware to do fun (and sometimes practical) things.
A long career in computing, including #Xerox, #Oracle, #Adobe, #NeXT […]
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A long career in computing, including #Xerox, #Oracle, #Adobe, #NeXT […]
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I’ve been waiting for the #bambulab H2C to be unveiled so I could check it out. Now that I have, I ordered an H2S instead.
I really just wanted a bigger, updated X1C and that’s basically the H2S. Back ordered until 12/21.
I really just wanted a bigger, updated X1C and that’s basically the H2S. Back ordered until 12/21.
November 24, 2025 at 4:45 AM
I’ve been waiting for the #bambulab H2C to be unveiled so I could check it out. Now that I have, I ordered an H2S instead.
I really just wanted a bigger, updated X1C and that’s basically the H2S. Back ordered until 12/21.
I really just wanted a bigger, updated X1C and that’s basically the H2S. Back ordered until 12/21.
I've had an uncharacteristically productive morning. My wife woke up early and I couldn't get back to sleep, so I got up and did some (#hamradio) #ft8. I pretty quickly got 13 contacts into Japan which was fun.
Then I was on a high so I got out and did a 5 mile walk along the beach. It's now ~8 […]
Then I was on a high so I got out and did a 5 mile walk along the beach. It's now ~8 […]
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October 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I got a BMOW FloppyEmu for my #apple IIc and made an insert to expose it in the 5.25" drive opening. This prototype is pretty close to the final version. I just need to tighten a couple of tolerances and I'll be happy.
I extended wires for the buttons and […]
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I extended wires for the buttons and […]
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October 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I got a BMOW FloppyEmu for my #apple IIc and made an insert to expose it in the 5.25" drive opening. This prototype is pretty close to the final version. I just need to tighten a couple of tolerances and I'll be happy.
I extended wires for the buttons and […]
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I extended wires for the buttons and […]
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Disclaimer: I'm about as far from being a UI/UX person as you can get.
Having said that, if I had an employee who demoed a project with a UI like the one in the attached screenshot, I would discreetly talk to their manager afterwards and ask if we needed to get that person some additional training.
Having said that, if I had an employee who demoed a project with a UI like the one in the attached screenshot, I would discreetly talk to their manager afterwards and ask if we needed to get that person some additional training.
October 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Disclaimer: I'm about as far from being a UI/UX person as you can get.
Having said that, if I had an employee who demoed a project with a UI like the one in the attached screenshot, I would discreetly talk to their manager afterwards and ask if we needed to get that person some additional training.
Having said that, if I had an employee who demoed a project with a UI like the one in the attached screenshot, I would discreetly talk to their manager afterwards and ask if we needed to get that person some additional training.
I grew up with Kepler’s. It’s been in multiple locations over the decades (all within a few blocks), and it almost went under thanks to Amazon, but it remains a great local bookstore with incredible guests. Case in point:
https://w3c.social/@timbl/115345706880517151
https://w3c.social/@timbl/115345706880517151
Tim Berners-Lee (@timbl@w3c.social)
Attached: 1 image A packed Keplers in Menlo Park, an amazing audience and a stage shared with Thomas Friedman made for a great atmosphere last night. Huge thanks to Tom for the questions covering the web's history, it's future and everything in between 🌐
w3c.social
October 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I grew up with Kepler’s. It’s been in multiple locations over the decades (all within a few blocks), and it almost went under thanks to Amazon, but it remains a great local bookstore with incredible guests. Case in point:
https://w3c.social/@timbl/115345706880517151
https://w3c.social/@timbl/115345706880517151
A friend of a friend gave me their old #powermac 8500 with Sonnet G3 upgrade. There was no internal drive so I mounted an internal BlueSCSI.
The plastic is super-brittle. Pretty much any part I touched snapped into pieces. I got things back together again […]
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The plastic is super-brittle. Pretty much any part I touched snapped into pieces. I got things back together again […]
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October 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
A friend of a friend gave me their old #powermac 8500 with Sonnet G3 upgrade. There was no internal drive so I mounted an internal BlueSCSI.
The plastic is super-brittle. Pretty much any part I touched snapped into pieces. I got things back together again […]
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The plastic is super-brittle. Pretty much any part I touched snapped into pieces. I got things back together again […]
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If you have a #bambulab #ams, you might be interested in the "AMS PTFE Access Mod". You cut an opening in the bottom of the AMS that provides access to the PTFE couplers so you can easily clean out broken filament. A TPU "plug" fits into a printed border to […]
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October 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
If you have a #bambulab #ams, you might be interested in the "AMS PTFE Access Mod". You cut an opening in the bottom of the AMS that provides access to the PTFE couplers so you can easily clean out broken filament. A TPU "plug" fits into a printed border to […]
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I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just gonna ask where they're going and hook up with them there.
-- The late, great, Mitch Hedberg
-- The late, great, Mitch Hedberg
October 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just gonna ask where they're going and hook up with them there.
-- The late, great, Mitch Hedberg
-- The late, great, Mitch Hedberg
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, thank goodness for repeater timeouts!
Right now I’m listening to a history of the Great Depression. Did you know that “unlike then, people now just don’t want to work”? Ugh.
#hamradio #amateurradio
Right now I’m listening to a history of the Great Depression. Did you know that “unlike then, people now just don’t want to work”? Ugh.
#hamradio #amateurradio
September 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, thank goodness for repeater timeouts!
Right now I’m listening to a history of the Great Depression. Did you know that “unlike then, people now just don’t want to work”? Ugh.
#hamradio #amateurradio
Right now I’m listening to a history of the Great Depression. Did you know that “unlike then, people now just don’t want to work”? Ugh.
#hamradio #amateurradio
Heard this today and appreciated it:
“Sometimes you have to be a bit too optimistic in order to make a difference.”
Some of my best work has come from diving into tasks I had no business thinking I could handle.
#optimism
“Sometimes you have to be a bit too optimistic in order to make a difference.”
Some of my best work has come from diving into tasks I had no business thinking I could handle.
#optimism
September 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Heard this today and appreciated it:
“Sometimes you have to be a bit too optimistic in order to make a difference.”
Some of my best work has come from diving into tasks I had no business thinking I could handle.
#optimism
“Sometimes you have to be a bit too optimistic in order to make a difference.”
Some of my best work has come from diving into tasks I had no business thinking I could handle.
#optimism
September 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I went out today and did a faux POTA - a FOTA, if you will. For the non #hamradio folks, POTA is Parks on the Air. You take a radio and antenna to a national or state park and try to make at least 10 contacts while you're there.
I wasn't at a designated POTA […]
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I wasn't at a designated POTA […]
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September 12, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I went out today and did a faux POTA - a FOTA, if you will. For the non #hamradio folks, POTA is Parks on the Air. You take a radio and antenna to a national or state park and try to make at least 10 contacts while you're there.
I wasn't at a designated POTA […]
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I wasn't at a designated POTA […]
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My new thesaurus is terrible! Not only that but it's also terrible.
September 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
My new thesaurus is terrible! Not only that but it's also terrible.
This very interesting piece by @kenshirriff describes the real-world challenges of connecting the sensitive internal circuitry of a processor to the outside world.
https://oldbytes.space/@kenshirriff/115044667107777724
https://oldbytes.space/@kenshirriff/115044667107777724
Ken Shirriff (@kenshirriff@oldbytes.space)
If you want to learn more about the 386's I/O circuits, see my blog post: https://www.righto.com/2025/08/static-latchup-metastability-386.html
oldbytes.space
August 17, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This very interesting piece by @kenshirriff describes the real-world challenges of connecting the sensitive internal circuitry of a processor to the outside world.
https://oldbytes.space/@kenshirriff/115044667107777724
https://oldbytes.space/@kenshirriff/115044667107777724
At the Mecum car auction this morning as part of Monterey Car Week. Always a blast.
I may be biased, but I think 1960 was a very good year.
#montereycarweek #vette
I may be biased, but I think 1960 was a very good year.
#montereycarweek #vette
August 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
At the Mecum car auction this morning as part of Monterey Car Week. Always a blast.
I may be biased, but I think 1960 was a very good year.
#montereycarweek #vette
I may be biased, but I think 1960 was a very good year.
#montereycarweek #vette
Worth checking out - especially if you're interested in Frank's beautiful work on a NeXT Cube replica.
https://chaos.social/@layered/114976327534852549
https://chaos.social/@layered/114976327534852549
LAYERED (@layered@chaos.social)
Well, new website is up and running. It needs a bit more content (more projects are to come) and some fine tuning. However, I'm really happy with the result. 😃 https://layered.work
chaos.social
August 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Worth checking out - especially if you're interested in Frank's beautiful work on a NeXT Cube replica.
https://chaos.social/@layered/114976327534852549
https://chaos.social/@layered/114976327534852549
As it turns out, this is the oldest Mac I have ever touched and probably ever will. It's the 2397th Mac ever built - it came to life in the 2nd week of Mac production.
And... it runs. It booted right into System 2. The floppy works, the display is crisp […]
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And... it runs. It booted right into System 2. The floppy works, the display is crisp […]
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August 2, 2025 at 5:19 AM
As it turns out, this is the oldest Mac I have ever touched and probably ever will. It's the 2397th Mac ever built - it came to life in the 2nd week of Mac production.
And... it runs. It booted right into System 2. The floppy works, the display is crisp […]
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And... it runs. It booted right into System 2. The floppy works, the display is crisp […]
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I had both these books in college but got rid of them. Now I’ve got them again!
#retrocomputing #vcfwest
#retrocomputing #vcfwest
August 1, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I had both these books in college but got rid of them. Now I’ve got them again!
#retrocomputing #vcfwest
#retrocomputing #vcfwest
Well hot dog! Even though I promised myself no new projects until I finish what’s on my bench, I could not pass up an M0001 Macintosh with keyboard, mouse, external floppy, and a box of disks.
I will need to trim a machine from my shelves to make room for […]
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I will need to trim a machine from my shelves to make room for […]
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August 1, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Well hot dog! Even though I promised myself no new projects until I finish what’s on my bench, I could not pass up an M0001 Macintosh with keyboard, mouse, external floppy, and a box of disks.
I will need to trim a machine from my shelves to make room for […]
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I will need to trim a machine from my shelves to make room for […]
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If you have a chance, head over to the Vintage Computer Festival at the Computer History Museum. The museum itself is awesome of course, and VCF is always a treat - including an exhibit by @tubetime.
I'll be there in a couple of hours.
https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/114951627216161253
I'll be there in a couple of hours.
https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/114951627216161253
Tube Time (@tubetime@mastodon.social)
are you in Silicon Valley? do you want to check out some old computers tomorrow and Saturday? Come by the Computer History Museum for the Vintage Computer Festival. i have an exhibit there as well, come by and say hi! https://connect.computerhistory.org/events/1ffceb98-f556-df49-f011-424756803aab
mastodon.social
August 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
If you have a chance, head over to the Vintage Computer Festival at the Computer History Museum. The museum itself is awesome of course, and VCF is always a treat - including an exhibit by @tubetime.
I'll be there in a couple of hours.
https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/114951627216161253
I'll be there in a couple of hours.
https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/114951627216161253
I’m looking forward to it!
https://mastodon.sdf.org/@icm/114914944510702645
https://mastodon.sdf.org/@icm/114914944510702645
ICM (@icm@mastodon.sdf.org)
Attached: 3 images Join us NEXT WEEK at VCF West at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA! We’re demoing ITS, Altair BASIC under PDP-10 simulation, the ICM restoration blog, and 26 remotely accessible vintage systems from our Tukwila, WA museum. https://icm.museum #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrogaming
mastodon.sdf.org
July 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I’m looking forward to it!
https://mastodon.sdf.org/@icm/114914944510702645
https://mastodon.sdf.org/@icm/114914944510702645
I've really enjoyed helping to administer #hamradio exams. It is really great to see so many people getting or upgrading their license.
I wasn't paying close enough attention, but sometime recently I passed 100 exam sessions as a member of the WM7X.net […]
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I wasn't paying close enough attention, but sometime recently I passed 100 exam sessions as a member of the WM7X.net […]
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July 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I've really enjoyed helping to administer #hamradio exams. It is really great to see so many people getting or upgrading their license.
I wasn't paying close enough attention, but sometime recently I passed 100 exam sessions as a member of the WM7X.net […]
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I wasn't paying close enough attention, but sometime recently I passed 100 exam sessions as a member of the WM7X.net […]
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Hey, looks who’s joined the fediverse alongside teammates @kenshirriff and @tubetime - it’s @CuriousMarc !
https://mastodon.social/@CuriousMarc/114848054733742495
https://mastodon.social/@CuriousMarc/114848054733742495
CuriousMarc (@CuriousMarc@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image We'll be exhibiting at Opensauce next week. The booth will be a re-creation of my basement lab. We'll do live restorations on a bunch of hardware, including Apollo, HP, and the analog computer from the astrotracker. Come say hi in person! Marc & Team
mastodon.social
July 14, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Hey, looks who’s joined the fediverse alongside teammates @kenshirriff and @tubetime - it’s @CuriousMarc !
https://mastodon.social/@CuriousMarc/114848054733742495
https://mastodon.social/@CuriousMarc/114848054733742495
I saw this superstock 413 at a car show yesterday and was immediately reminded of the #beachboys song "Shutdown"
This was actually in a Plymouth, not a Dodge, but same engine (AFAIK)
This was actually in a Plymouth, not a Dodge, but same engine (AFAIK)
June 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I saw this superstock 413 at a car show yesterday and was immediately reminded of the #beachboys song "Shutdown"
This was actually in a Plymouth, not a Dodge, but same engine (AFAIK)
This was actually in a Plymouth, not a Dodge, but same engine (AFAIK)