Do you enjoy old computers and live in the US Pacific Northwest? We're six weeks out from the first Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest since 2019!
We'd love to see you there and we'd love your help getting the word out. Boosts appreciated!
Eric Neustadter (e)
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(semi?) retired tech architect/tech exec. ex-Pokémon. ex-Xbox. labrador at heart. retro games & computers. go ducks, kraken, seahawks, sounders! he/him.
I'll be showing some of my favorite computers guaranteed to make you stop and say "what is that?!".
Sega's 8-bit computer with a mechanical keyboard!
Sharp's stellar X68000 and the companion Cyber Stick!
NEC's APC - a 16-bit computer running CP-M & MS-DOS from 8" disk drives!
(& more!)
You can tell it's the holidays by the flood of new people entering discords and forums demanding that their new toy do what AI said it does, followed by getting angry at the developers who explain politely that the AI is wrong.
Retopology is probably not the proper starting place for learning #Blender but here I am. Does anyone have a tutorial they'd recommend?
The 3D scanning to 3D printing pipeline is far more complex than I'd expected. It looks like I'm learning Blender whether I want to or not in order to make scans into usable .stl files.
I picked up a Revo MetroX blue laser scanner to help me reverse engineer parts for retro computers and consoles, and... yeah. This is going to be good.
(meant to post this here last week and forgot, oops)
TL;DR - I'm retired!
After nine years 10/1 was my last day as the VP of Technology at Pokémon. It's been a great ride & I'll miss the team but it's time to slow down. Before Pokémon I worked on Xbox Live for 14 years (18 @ MS in total), and there's another decade of tech roles before that.
After 37 years in tech (?!) it's time that I get a good night's sleep on a consistent basis, lower my blood pressure, & see my family & friends more often. I want to put time and energy into causes that I'm passionate about.
I'm volunteering w/ the International Association of Search and Rescue Coordinators as their CTO. The preservation of computer and video game history doesn't get enough attention & I'll finally have time and energy for a project I've been trying to get off the ground for a while.
I'm taking the rest of 2025 off. Next year I'll be open to talking about projects if they're fun and working with good people. Even better I'll finally have time to partner with friends on passion projects we've been day dreaming about for years.
The final addition to my computer collection before the death of de minimis - an NEC PC-6001 mkII.
A pinball game on the Playdate?! I am very excited for this: https://amano.games/devlog/making-a-pinball-game-for-the-playdate-part-01-the-language
This is outstanding engineering work written in a way to be understandable by mere humans like me.
Exploring the Evolution of the TRS-80 Model 1: A Comprehensive Comparison of Board Revisions