I am a retrocomputing enthusiast. I have a large collection of vintage systems and I enjoy retro gaming. I run a blog about all of this at http://bytecellar.com . All of my "things" are linked out from http://blakespot.com .
- Desktop Icons of Yore
by blakespot on 5/22/25, 6:49 PM, with comments
- A history of the microcomputer industry in 300 adverts
by blakespot on 1/24/25, 5:36 PM, with comments
- I spent 18 years in the Linux console
by blakespot on 1/12/25, 3:17 PM, with comments
- Tinkerer brings this retro-futuristic Mac concept to life
by blakespot on 12/6/24, 4:09 PM, with comments
- Brief History of Haptic Computing
by blakespot on 12/2/24, 4:11 AM, with comments
- It Is Now Legal to Hack McFlurry Machines (and Medical Devices) to Fix Them
by blakespot on 10/25/24, 6:05 PM, with comments
- Midnight Rendezvous with Telix: Musings of a BBS Junkie
by blakespot on 10/10/24, 6:28 PM, with comments
- Boris Vallejo and the pixel art of the demoscene
by blakespot on 9/30/24, 11:31 PM, with comments
- Valve appear to be testing ARM64 and Android support for Steam on Linux
by blakespot on 9/22/24, 11:19 PM, with comments
- Sony's Breakthrough Color TV [video]
by blakespot on 9/21/24, 7:33 PM, with comments
- Something is wrong with the AY-3-8913
by blakespot on 5/20/24, 2:50 PM, with comments
- Was the Fusion Drive a good idea?
by blakespot on 5/11/24, 10:37 PM, with comments
- Geekbench scores of systems I've used over past 20 years
by blakespot on 3/16/24, 2:14 PM, with comments
- NeXTstation Turbo Color Battery Swap [video]
by blakespot on 3/13/24, 4:05 AM, with comments
- The Engineer of the Original Apple Mouse Talks About His Remarkable Career
by blakespot on 2/27/24, 2:33 PM, with comments
- The SGI 1600SW Flat-Panel Display Saga
by blakespot on 2/25/24, 4:50 PM, with comments
- DOStodon, the MS-DOS Mastodon Client
by blakespot on 2/9/24, 6:33 AM, with comments
- The Itanic Saga: The History of VLIW and Itanium
by blakespot on 1/23/24, 12:14 AM, with comments
- Have a Helping of 8-Bit Holiday Cheer (2023 Xmas Demo Roundup)
by blakespot on 12/24/23, 10:30 PM, with comments
- Apple's Metal FX upscaling is powered by AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution tech
by blakespot on 12/17/23, 6:20 AM, with comments
- Thinking Back on 'Turbo Pascal' as It Turns 40
by blakespot on 12/4/23, 5:44 PM, with comments
- A History of American Cheese
by blakespot on 11/28/23, 4:02 AM, with comments
- Intel 80386, a Revolutionary CPU
by blakespot on 11/5/23, 10:48 PM, with comments
- Reflecting on the Internet Worm at 35
by blakespot on 11/2/23, 8:15 PM, with comments
- Browsing like it's 1994: Integrating a Mac SE, ImageWriter II into a modern LAN
by blakespot on 9/17/23, 4:20 PM, with comments