20 years ago today, I posted the first entry on my blog, Vintage Computing and Gaming (vintagecomputing.com)

Since then, my relationship with technology has become a lot more complicated, but I still love tech history. I posted some reflections on the site:

https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/3620/vintage-computing-and-gaming-is-20

The Iomega Tower of Power

Zip + Jaz + Ditto

‪Over at Ars Technica, I wrote about the beauty of 1982 Atari 800 classic Salmon Run and how it serves the perfect metaphor for survival during our troubled times

"The timeless genius of a 1980s Atari developer and his swimming salmon masterpiece"

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/04/how-a-1980s-atari-creator-with-cystic-fibrosis-crafted-a-story-of-salmon-survival/

The PC is Dead: It's Time To Make Computing Personal Again

My new essay on how we lost control of personal computing to Internet surveillance, DRM, and extractive business models—and how we can launch the era of Personal Computer 2.0

https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/3292/

Does anybody want to buy some computers like my Commodore PET 2001-32 N and the disk drive unit

Very clean physical condition for age, but has error on power-on. Likely needs a swapped chip, but don’t know which

The Superscape Virtual Reality demo for MS-DOS was my first “VR” experience. 😁 Blew my mind back in 1993

https://archive.org/details/superscape-public-domain-demo

Honest question: what’s the best modern skateboard for a 43 year-old man who just wants to skate around in circles on a rough concrete driveway for exercise?

I’ve had the same Sims skateboard since 1989-ish and it still works great, but it might be fun to try something new

“kas’s 1133rd game of carpet”

This Mac belonged to my friend Kris, who loved solitaire card games. He gave it to me a few years before he died

RIP Kris 🫡

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