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2026-01-01T02:06:29Z
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It's time for the Tube Time 2025 Retrospective! 🧵
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2026-01-01T02:06:57Z
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January: I made a cutaway photo of a coaxial air line!https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/113766279263214631
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2026-01-01T02:07:46Z
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February: i took a nice photo of the first analog integrated circuit, the uA702 https://bsky.app/profile/tubetime.bsky.social/post/3lhflujsmf22x
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2026-01-01T02:08:52Z
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March: Christina Engelbart, the daughter of Doug Engelbart, loaned us a chord keyboard for repair, so I created a 3D-printable copy.https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/114218611999134689
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2026-01-01T02:09:21Z
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April: i wrote my first program for the IBM 1401.https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/114402359105466861
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2026-01-01T02:10:03Z
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May: we selected the first Pope of Retrocomputing.https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/114473723705380934
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2026-01-01T02:10:35Z
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Also in May: i released a SCSI sidecar for the Amiga 1000!https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/114519631099989423
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2026-01-01T02:11:25Z
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Bonus May: my most difficult reverse engineering task this year was the IBM MCGA graphics chipset. tens of thousands of transistors. whew!https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/114605553903880611
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2026-01-01T02:12:10Z
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June: i got an early video frame grabber card for the IBM PC and reverse engineered it.https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/114701449170193069
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2026-01-01T02:12:44Z
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July was super busy. i discovered that you can sometimes successfully git merge a KiCad layout.https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/114804297742929092
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2026-01-01T02:13:17Z
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Also in July: i went to Open Sauce with Curious Marc and the gang. it was great!https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/114870811803749677
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2026-01-01T02:13:53Z
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July was the 40th anniversary of the Amiga computer, so i made a thread about that.https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/114903234088673526
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2026-01-01T02:14:23Z
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Also in July, i found a transistor that looks like a flower.https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/114926972068734036
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2026-01-01T02:14:54Z
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in August, i went to the Vintage Computer Festival. https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/114959705440627646
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2026-01-01T02:15:38Z
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Also in August, a new book came out--I somehow found the time to be the technical editor for it. it's great, you should go read it.https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/114989988735356677
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2026-01-01T02:16:09Z
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Check out this chip with a tiny window!https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/115041751407817367
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2026-01-01T02:16:40Z
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turns out folks were retrocomputing even in 1976.https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/115042807696749887
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2026-01-01T02:17:05Z
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finally, in August, i was able to reverse engineer the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5! wow!https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/115085637853254173
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2026-01-01T02:17:32Z
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in September, the IBM 1401 computer broke again, so i helped fix it.https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/115233768349384485
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2026-01-01T02:18:12Z
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October was busy IRL so i really only had time for a fun meme.https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/115460910142265494
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2026-01-01T02:18:47Z
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in November i reverse engineered a bunch of disposable vapes and put the designs online. they're quite hackable!https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/115555385897273188
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2026-01-01T02:19:40Z
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and, wrapping up 2025, this December i've been reverse engineering the HP 16717 logic analyzer card. they tend to get corroded and they're hard to repair, so this should help folks out.https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/115741254454906195
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2026-01-01T02:22:03Z
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that about wraps up the highlights. there's a lot more if you go through my Mastodon (and Bsky) backlog.on to 2026! wishing you all a happy new year 🎆