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Welcome to the Twitter feed for CelGen and CelGenStudios! Keep an eye on me for updates.

Kamloops, British Columbia

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Joined May 2019

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@CelGenStudios

CelGenStudios

2 months

I'm going to have to ask for a bit of a break on the videos as I'm starting to ramp up my preparations for VCF West and VCF MidWest and I need an open table and more time to get everything tested and dressed. I have some other videos already done but it's all car stuff...

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@CelGenStudios

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3 months

The Sony WDD-931 WORM drive is now the largest working optical storage device I own.

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3 years

Have YOU changed the belts in your mouse lately?

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5 years

Unfortunately a power-up and test on camera won't be happening soon for the MDT, but it did go back together and power up on the first try!

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2 months

Why? Because!

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4 years

When your computers are so large that you need cameras to keep an eye on things.

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3 years

Next time someone asks you what servers looked like 30 years ago, give them this ad.

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3 years

I thought I heard a snap last night. Been trying to catch this bugger for weeks.

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2 years

Well, that's 80 years of progress for you.

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2 years

The AS/400's have been sold. They went along with all my token ring and twinax parts/terminals. So ends an era here of IBM midrange systems here and unfortunately means we'll never know if I could of gotten at least one working again.

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AAAAAA HOLY CRAP IT TOOK ME TEN YEARS TO GET ALL THE PARTS BUT I GOT POTS VIDEOPHONE SERVICE!!

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So now that the RTX cards are requiring at least 700W, when will we see modern gaming machines that need more power than a dedicated graphics computer from the 90's? My Silicon Graphics Reality Engine2 Onyx uses a 1500W peak out power supply and a full RTX system is what, 1000W?

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3 years

Someone who saw me post the pictures of those abandoned Japanese hotels the other week sent me a set of photos of those enormous Laserdisc autochangers that were seen in several places. Didn't say if they were for sale or what but the photos alone are really cool!

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Apricot Portable (Applied Computer Techniques Ltd., November 1984) -High resolution Liquid Crystal Display -Dragon Speech Recognition -Infra-Red wireless peripherals -720kb 3.5" Microfloppy storage -4.77mhz Intel 8086; 256kb Ram -MS-DOS Ver. 2.11; GEM Desktop Ver. 1.2 -$2999.99

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3 years

Well that was fast. The CRVdisc already arrived!

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1 year

I’ll be talking about this in a future video

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3 years

Math time! 1 fuel pellet of U235 weighs 10 grams 1g of U235 contains 18000000000 calories Chernobyl #4 theoretically contained 190287kg of fuel A Baconator contains 920 calories When Chernobyl exploded, what is the equivalent number of Baconators that were ejected from the core?

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I severely hope this was not some package a dodgy tech consultant sold.

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2 years

I have been woken up this wonderful Saturday morning by a voice announcing that all computing platforms are inferior to The One Machine. The Symbolics LISP machine and its Genera operating system is the one true computing platform to rule them all.

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Hey @foone you wanted better photos of the Apricot's IR keyboard? I found these while digging into my archive.

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You better believe I’m making a Teletype do what it does best!

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3 years

How Canadian of a keyboard can I torture Foone with?

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5 years

...which looks like this when Twitter does not forget I attached it to the tweet.

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3 months

@ali_can_kut According to the only information I can find online each cartridge is 13.1gb, or 6.55gb per side. Source:

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History (1992): Sony Reveals Faster 12-Inch WORM Optical Drive

Sony Corporation of America (ParkRidge, NJ) has revealed 2 new products based on 12-inch WORM disks: the WDD-931 is a faster drive with a 900KB/s sustained transfer rate; the WDA-E330 is an entry-l...

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2 years

"Free - Old Computer. Found in shed when moved in. Not sure if working but comes with cables. First come, first served." Yeahhhhh, I wasn't really doing anything important this weekend. I think I can go for a minor trip.

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1 year

When your 70's terminal knows how to party. (MAI 4309)

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5 months

[Grins aggressively]

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7 months

I really did not need to buy this, but I did.

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3 months

Ducked out to get drinks and stopped at a goodwill. I’ll keep a few for friends but if anyone at VCFeast wants a clic- er, pocketZIP drive I would not mind $5 to help pay for them all.

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2 years

This is why I use a foot pedal during “smoke tests”. Instinctively you will step back rather than reach for a switch.

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4 years

I bet you it still has that new videodisc smell too.

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9 months

That is uh, That is a big network card.

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6 months

Here is a Molecular Computer. It has one supervisory cpu running CP/M and up to 32 individual Z80 systems, each also running CP/M. Internally they all share disk drives and send “mail” between each other. This is also from 1978.

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7 months

If you are wondering why I've been so quiet here the last two weeks it's been a mix of work and getting this Victor 9000 computer stripped down, cleaned and running again.

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3 years

I miss my old phone. I still have not found anything that could rival that beautiful OLED screen.

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1 year

Someone left a dirty Wang in my car.

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9 months

I think I started this project this time last year but after a lot of getting sidetracked I finally finished the Sinclair/Timex to Speak & Spell adapter that was published in Computer & Electronics, February 1983. I also made a wooden stand to hold it all.

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Congrats to Mike Brutman for being the only known person in history to code, run and keep running an HTTP webserver on an IBM PCjr for 5000 continuous hours! 🥳🎆

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I really wish I knew the story behind this. 🤣 Was the computer system retired in 1991? Was this a gift to a computer engineer who retired in 1991? They sure are going to make me work to get this cleaned up and "out of retirement" I guess.

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9 months

The cassette data recorder I found at VCF Midwest had a broken eject mechanism but the rest I just got fixed

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1 year

Time for bed.

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10 months

These late 80’s Seagate drives really do not age well.

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1 year

Late night spreadsheets.

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4 months

Well that was a fun weekend.

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2 years

It's refreshing sometimes to step away from the routine and sometimes boring world of basements lined with old computers and shelves filled with old boxed software to see what the other non-computer hobbies are doing. Just as passionate as we are, it seems!

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3 years

@FlemishDog @Foone Ask and you shall receive.

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1 year

I wanted to work on a US Videotel terminal today with a rolling screen but it fixed itself before I could look into it.

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11 months

Well that was fun. I think I just successfully dumped the ROM in the Eagle's computer.

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1 year

To the person who years ago just flipped the logo badge over instead of discarding it: Thank you!

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3 years

I helped someone unpack and load a pair of IBM 5362 machines into their car and now I can tell you that the usable volumetric space in a Chevy Bolt is "two machines and two InfoWindow twinax terminals, plus luggage and one passenger".

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I love weird stuff like this.

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1 year

Oh no I'm up to no good again.

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4 years

I found an induction cooktop at Value village but didn't know if it worked so I plugged it in and placed a metal alarm clock on it. After giving myself the ol' Spicy Clock, I decided to buy both the cooktop and the clock. Please don't ever aspire to be like me.

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1 year

Uh-huh.

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2 years

Working on a big scanner (laserdisc for scale)

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3 years

A new project begins to take shape. From CelGen Technologies, it's the Disk-o-Matic. A self-contained floppy disk reading and writing station. Simply place the drive you wish to use on the anti-static mat, attach the cables and start the computer. Also supports SCSI drives!

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3 years

I finally found myself one of those extremely tacky late 80's/early 90's telephones with the neon tube in them.

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11 months

Glamour shots from this week's Video.

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2 years

I was helping a friend move some PDP systems yesterday and it was 18 hours of fun, problem solving and driving around

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Pfft. “Cloud enabled” home automation. Get me to a phone and I can dial into my X10!

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4 years

@LinusTech Because running so many old computers requires an equally old back-end.

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#fridayWANG Picked it up on the way back form VCF West. Needed a deep cleaning and has no floppy drives but I'm glad it all works!

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These tiny touch displays are fun to tinker with. All it wants is USB and one DisplayPort link.

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8 months

Can you tell I was in the states? 🤪

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5 years

This is the MCA PR-7820 "DiscoVision" videodisc player, built by then third-party Pioneer for commercial and industrial use only. I would argue it predates Magnavox and their consumer player by weeks, if not months. We may never know.

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The guy at the flea market says he’s got this baby rigged for HUNDREDS of free channels! 🤪

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My naming scheme for files has finally failed me.

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Went to the 7-11 for pizza. Left the 7-11 with pizza and a 27" CRT TV someone left out front. 🤪

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Never spent the time looking for a proper glass terminal for the AltairClone because everything’s expensive. Then this shows up for $50 and I will not say no. Soroc IQ 120 serial terminal. Needs TLC.

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Hey Twitter, does a late 70's/early 80's computer kit called the "Color Computer" ring a bell to anyone? It's an RCA 1802-based micro on a blackplane with SRAM memory, some ROM and an MC6847P color video chip for output. Nothing about exists *anywhere* or in any mailing lists.

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It’s so weird that this is almost all gone now. Fluorescent pole lamps used to be all over the Pacific Northwest. Now it’s mostly abandoned stragglers overgrown by trees, hanging off barns or hiding in old car lots.

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@craig1black "There's not more we can do on our end" I still can't fully process this. What mechanism are they basing that decision from that with all the evidence provided and proof you are not impersonating yourself still clearly rings to them that the account was actively an imposter?

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IBM 4216 "Personal Page Printer II" Laser Printer, circa 1987 - $4999 (Source: PC Magazine October 31 1988; Pg. 343)

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…..and out comes the party trick!

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3 years

Anything can become a computer monitor. Anything.

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11 months

The free pile LAN gaming pc has a place for your drink!

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3 months

You son of a…….

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2 years

It's like looking at the suburbs

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Stepped out for a few minutes to uh, We’ll, you know.

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3 months

Man, I'd do things for that black PS2 branded keyboard and mouse. Already have the rest of the kit.

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Another look at the SCPH-20400 and the PS2 Linux kit.

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2 years

Helped a friend pick up a few things. I still cannot believe he got a PDP-11/44, four RL02's, a System/23 datamaster, packs, manuals, Alpha, Rainbow, terminals and way way more goodies for only $500. We gave the guy more money because we feel kinda bad. This is worth way more.

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Also if the person who made this enclosure is somehow reading this, *YOU* are an amazing case builder. The metalwork and woodwork is incredible. I also like your choice of a Jameco Surplus Vydec 4000 keyboard. It all looks very professional.

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Have you taken your vitamins today?

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As I mentioned in @AkBKukU 's stream earlier today, the paperclip is factory. It holds the cable shielding and the keyboard shielding together.

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Last job of the weekend is running a board inventory.

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It's been in the collection for almost 15 years now but today I had to put my HP 9000/D350 up for sale. This was my first PA-RISC machine and it came basically as a turnkey system.

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I had to write it down to solve it. I just got my butt kicked by an 80's toy designed for toddlers. I feel humiliated.

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There. A little late but now my entire videodisc collection cleanly fits under my recording table along with my oversize discs and my two autochangers. The total database size combined is under 100kb.

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Was repacking another box and found my two WM-10 Walkmans! I thought I got rid of those in a move years ago. I think I got them for $2 each in 2005.

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I had a few people ask how the hell I could afford An 8008 and a white ceramic 4004. They’re neither. These are props that from a distance looked like the real deal but if you didn’t catch it they worked great as props!

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@MakeAugusta I am a dedicated, yet questionably stupid individual. 🤪

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All these images of the new RTX card's power connector failing from poor design reminds me that Olivetti when faced with a similar load issue on the M24 decided more pins didn't mean better, so they just had two comically massive cables with lugs for the +5v and ground.

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@lazygamereviews The Pepsi machine that you could download and install into The Sims.

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Campfire wood.

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@lazygamereviews No no, you are actually correct. That was the only model player I believe that was ever built where the laser and pickup is mounted ABOVE the disc, so the recorded side faces UP instead of down.

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Suddenly had an idea to mount a functioning radar on the roof of a car.

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What we do know however is that unlike every other videodisc player in history, this tracks the spinning disc over a fixed laser.

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Here's a project I spent the last day and a half on. This is an ACER AnyWare 1100LX I bought Thursday for a whole $5.99 at Value Village. They must of been too lazy to price things that day.

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IBM 62GV Fixed Disk Drive Introduced: 1974 Capacity: 5mb (approximately)

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Sony PCV-LX900 A 1ghz PIII desktop with Vaio asthetics, Windows ME and....an LCD screen with an integrated Wacom digitizer?? Neat.

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