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Joseph (Joe) Agreda
@jagreda.bsky.social
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Sci-fi & technology. Software engineer. Occasional cosplayer. I love every kind of cat.
👋 he/him, they/them
📍 Bay Area
💬 Opinions are my own
🔗 Also on Mastodon at http://retro.pizza/@jagreda
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Had a great first night of #DragonCon! Had the usual DragonCon Eve and then there was a surprise rave in the atrium ballroom?!?
August 28, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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Mentally, I'm here.
#dragoncon
August 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Pepper says hi!
August 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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A Motorola TalkAbout radio from the late 90’s. It’s in a purple/blue plastic color with a black plastic bumper piece on the bottom. The design is classic 90’s. A Motorola Razr V3 in black circa 2004. It’s in excellent condition. The inside of a Motorola Razr V3 cellphone.
December 1, 2024 at 4:31 PM
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A TechToolPro 2 CD. A really useful diagnostic and repair utility for the Mac from the early 2000’s. The cover art for “Invention Studio” from Discovery Channel Multimedia. A fun little edutainment title from the late 90’s or early 2000’s? The disc is missing but the memories remain. A Polaroid Pronto!B instant film camera. A classic Sony Walkman tape player and AM/FM radio. It’s black and made partly of metal.
December 1, 2024 at 4:27 PM
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A hard plastic holder for floppy disks with “Diskettes” stamped on the front of it in a neat sorta early 80’s sans serif font. A floppy disk for Claris MacProject II. An early bit of project management software. An Imation SuperDisk drive. SuperDisk was a proprietary format that was the same size and shape of a 3.5-inch floppy disk but could hold around 100 megabytes. The drives were backwards compatible, and this one is in a semi transparent plastic case, as was the style of the time. The Disc, from MacAddict issue 1. There’s a 3D rendered rainbow Apple logo on it. MacAddict was a great little magazine that was a little less serious and more irreverent than Macworld was at the time. The Disc, came with every issue and was chock full of useful software including freeware, shareware, demos, and software updates. In the era of slow dial-up, and limited availability of Mac software in physical stores, these discs were a crucial way of getting quality Mac software and games. The text reads: 650MB of Amazing Stuff! Includes Over 150 Shareware Files • 20 Great Demos • System 7.5 Update 2.0 • OpenDoc and Cyberdog • Microsoft Internet Explorer • 15 Free Hours of AOL Acress • Lots of Photoshop Plug-ins • Games and Utilities • Win an Epson PhotoPC Digital Camera! • And More!
December 1, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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Claris MacDraw II floppy disk. An ad for the (still somewhat new at the time) iTunes Store from 2003. The copy reads: “Visit the iTunes Music Store to complete your collection. Everything you want to hear is here. Just install iTunes from the CD, then choose from countless songs in all music genres. Preview any track and download it for just 99¢. Happy listening.” An Energizer AAA battery that expired in 2007. It’s shiny silver and has very 2000’s branding on it with little circles on it, a bit e squared logo in the middle, and the text “titanium technology” emblazoned on the side. A floppy disk for “II in a Mac” which was the first Apple 2 emulator. It ran at about half the speed of an Apple 2 on the Mac hardware of the time.
December 1, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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Floppy disk “Install 1” for Canvas 3 for Macintosh A Belkin car charger and radio transmitter for an iPod mini. An Intego branded download speed rate estimator disk. Rotate the inner disk to reveal the time it would take to download a certain size file over different connection types. A 2005 era iPod software installation disc.
November 30, 2024 at 11:16 PM
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Post a ship that’s neither Star Wars nor Star Trek.
Battlestar Galactica from the 2003 reboot of the show of the same name.
November 24, 2024 at 4:07 PM