Post ASM7IXlpLKkvheGLS4 by Macross@hackers.town
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 (DIR) Post #ASM7IV9p3fARbCSxw8 by Macross@hackers.town
       2023-02-05T00:14:53Z
       
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       A post by @murph got me inspired to dig up the battlestations of my youth.  It's been amusing to see so many persistent design expressions over the decades (particularly the green Macross poster and the 5' SDF model.) The very earliest bedroom computer photo I have is my Timex Sinclaire 1000 hooked up to a Kmart 9" TV. I presume the gerbil wheel made it compute faster. 🧵​
       
 (DIR) Post #ASM7IVf1Bg7Z9x3sYq by Macross@hackers.town
       2023-02-05T00:29:38Z
       
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       Getting into the real meat of it though, my late high school / early college years. Still living at the ancestral stomping grounds. First photo shows the dual amiga 2000 set up, a PXL2000 TV I wish I'd held on to, the classic HP deskjet 500, Looks like an Amiga 500 being used for video editing, too..   amongst dozens of other delightful mid 1990s artifacts. And then, when the borrowed A500 returned to it's home, my first winders PC went in it's place - a blazing fast Pentium 166MMX with sharpie-blacked CD rom and of course a connectix quickcam. 🧵​
       
 (DIR) Post #ASM7IW7jSv5cb0UoJk by Macross@hackers.town
       2023-02-05T01:16:08Z
       
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       Later in the 1990s, my first apartment. Pretty much the same gear, just different arrangements.  Initially set up in the bedroom, looks like the Amigas are just out of frame to the left, myself and roommates @lmorchard and others eventually moved all our stuff into the living room in a big communal work space to pursue our dot com dreams with our little lan using a freesco router I built from a scrap P90 and some NE5000s I stole from work to get us ALL on the new fangled "cablem modem" simultaneously.  The local cable operators were completely baffled. 🧵​
       
 (DIR) Post #ASM7IWddYIbuBxQI2y by Macross@hackers.town
       2023-02-05T01:33:48Z
       
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       Speaking of work - I had gotten my first big kid IT job prior to dropping out of college to do the "build the internet" thing and moving to my own place - and I found some pics of my first office battlestation.... and the big iron I was entrusted to maintain.  I think the beast in the back was an IBM r90 or something like that. A unix system that hosted an electronic card catalog system called Dynix for the county wide Library system who paid me, even though I was an obnoxious punk ass 1990s computer nerd. 🧵​
       
 (DIR) Post #ASM7IXlpLKkvheGLS4 by Macross@hackers.town
       2023-02-05T01:48:30Z
       
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       I had kind of a sloppy nothing special workstation at the next apartment, but by then my PC setups were becoming pretty utilitarian as I'd started my first foray into the laptop lifestyle followed shortly thereafter by building radio studios where the focus was the audio gear and the computers were "off to the side" in the arrangement. Rack mounted Amigas, anyone? Anyway, here are a couple bonus photos:  HEY, guess what was hanging from the ceiling above my battlestation in my teenage bedroom at home? You guessed it, a 5 foot tall cardboard SDF-1. 😁And there were those times in the 1990s when you just needed to war dial from the road.... My amiga 2000 set up in the back of my suburban with a couple buddies calling BBSes using power and a telco line we pilfered from a dark retail store front in the middle of the night because we could.