Comments for 8Bit Aficionado http://8bitaficionado.com Mindless rants from a guy who likes old technology Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:13:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Comment on More Cap Busting! Thank you Mr. Cooper by Bustin Caps! The SGI Personal Iris | 8Bit Aficionado http://8bitaficionado.com/2011/06/21/more-cap-busting-thank-you-mr-cooper/#comment-9938 Bustin Caps! The SGI Personal Iris | 8Bit Aficionado Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:13:49 +0000 http://8bitaficionado.com/?p=1156#comment-9938 [...] Busted Cap on an Altair 8800b [...]

]]> Comment on Where Busting Caps has a whole new meaning by Bustin Caps! The SGI Personal Iris | 8Bit Aficionado http://8bitaficionado.com/2011/06/21/where-busting-caps-has-a-whole-new-meaning/#comment-9937 Bustin Caps! The SGI Personal Iris | 8Bit Aficionado Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:07:30 +0000 http://8bitaficionado.com/?p=1139#comment-9937 [...] Busted Cap on a Heathkit H17 Drive Controller [...]

]]> Comment on Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 6.0 / Emergency Chicagoland Commodore Convention 2011 by John Mark Mobley http://8bitaficionado.com/2011/08/07/vintage-computer-festival-midwest-6-0-emergency-chicagoland-commodore-convention-2011/#comment-6248 John Mark Mobley Mon, 15 Aug 2011 23:53:31 +0000 http://8bitaficionado.com/?p=1248#comment-6248 I have a new video reguarding the Vintage Computer Festival Midwest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vYL3s90iiM
http://www.youtube.com/user/TandyMan2?feature=mhee

Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 6.0
September, 24th 2011 (8AM to 11PM)
September, 25th 2011 (10AM to 4PM

Heron Point Building, next to Fairfield Inn and Suites (Marriott)
665 West North Ave
Lombard, Illinois 60148 USA
1-630-629-1500

Reserve a table in advance at the folliowng link:
Vintage Computer Festival Midwest: http://vcfmw.org/

]]> Comment on Reputable Systems is selling their Domain name by DigitalShadow http://8bitaficionado.com/2010/09/30/reputable-systems-is-selling-their-domain-name/#comment-6055 DigitalShadow Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:29:18 +0000 http://8bitaficionado.com/?p=366#comment-6055 That is sad news. Reputable used to be the go-to place for SGI components if you didn’t have a big enough wallet to afford an SGI support contract.

]]> Comment on International Business Time’s list of Apple’s 10 worst products ever by Show #6 (July 2011): User groups, Beautiful Boot, KFest memories, and game tournaments | Open Apple http://8bitaficionado.com/2011/06/14/international-business-times-list-of-apples-10-worst-products-ever/#comment-5738 Show #6 (July 2011): User groups, Beautiful Boot, KFest memories, and game tournaments | Open Apple Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:41:13 +0000 http://8bitaficionado.com/?p=1119#comment-5738 [...] Apple's 10 worst products ever (hat tip: 8Bit Aficionado) [...]

]]> Comment on Where Busting Caps has a whole new meaning by More Cap Busting! Thank you Mr. Cooper | 8Bit Aficionado http://8bitaficionado.com/2011/06/21/where-busting-caps-has-a-whole-new-meaning/#comment-5495 More Cap Busting! Thank you Mr. Cooper | 8Bit Aficionado Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:29:44 +0000 http://8bitaficionado.com/?p=1139#comment-5495 [...] one of my readers and fellow aficionado/blogger Cameron Cooper saw my post about the capacitor I blew up in my Heathkit H-17. So he wrote to me this wonderful [...]

]]> Comment on The Art of Video Games Exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum by Dan Roganti http://8bitaficionado.com/2011/02/22/the-art-of-video-games-exhibit-at-the-smithsonian-american-art-museum/#comment-2222 Dan Roganti Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:55:23 +0000 http://8bitaficionado.com/?p=1051#comment-2222 I guess you haven’t been to a Video Games LIVE Show. http://www.videogameslive.com/
That’s they’re whole purpose. They’re been touring around the world for several years now. It’s coming here to \ittsburgh agvain. The even use the symphony to play the soundtrack from the different games. Check it out on Youtube. I still want to catch this exhibit too.

]]> Comment on In sickness and in health by Wholly http://8bitaficionado.com/2011/02/07/in-sickness-and-in-health/#comment-1963 Wholly Mon, 07 Feb 2011 19:27:24 +0000 http://8bitaficionado.com/?p=1009#comment-1963 Get better.

]]> Comment on The NYT’s Timeline of Apple Products with and without Steve Jobs by Brian Cirulnick http://8bitaficionado.com/2011/01/24/the-nyts-timeline-of-apple-products-with-and-without-steve-jobs/#comment-1690 Brian Cirulnick Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:16:08 +0000 http://8bitaficionado.com/?p=998#comment-1690 How ironical that the timeline is in FLASH, and therefore, can’t be viewed with any mobile iProduct, because the great and all knowing STEVE doesn’t allow Flash.

]]> Comment on Video tour of the new Computer History Museum’s exhibit “Revolutions” by Dan Roganti http://8bitaficionado.com/2011/01/17/video-tour-of-the-new-computer-history-museums-exhibit-revolutions/#comment-1518 Dan Roganti Wed, 19 Jan 2011 01:50:19 +0000 http://8bitaficionado.com/?p=979#comment-1518 that’s so cool !!
BTW, how is it that you can upload a 30min video ??
I thought there was a limit on the video size.

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