
Jason Howe
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Jason Howe
@MechanicJay
Making photographs and fixing cars for sanity, fixing antique computers for fun, writing software to pay the bills. email: [email protected]
WA Beigetreten Mart 2008
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The Portland Retro Gaming Expo is happening this weekend!
I'll be there with the Interim Computer Museum (icm.museum)
Stop by booth E-1001 and say Hi!
retrogamingexpo.com
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Come experience the development of lisp out of the MIT AI lab on the Symbolics LISP Machine at the icm.museum 9 minutes from #seatac in Tukwila Washington




Web Design Museum@WebDesignMuseum
On March 15, 1985, the first internet dot .com domain name, Symbolics . com, was registered to Symbolics Inc., a computer systems company in Cambridge. #InternetHistory
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The TRUTH about making comics (What I Learned at ECCC) youtu.be/tYpFs8tz1Fg?si… via @YouTube
Another great conversation with @SalSaysWhat !

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@gphilpott9 That first one was a DecMate III, the final iteration of the PDP-8 architecture!
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@MechanicJay Oh, man, that is a room full of cool!
Is that first one in the video a DECstation? DECstation, VAXstation or something like that?
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@fathermaurer Was great to catch up with you today! Sadly, I got home and can’t find my Saint Stephen trading card. :(
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Seattle Computer Products (where tim wrote dos) is right across the street from icm.museum in the same business park.
We have a gazelle on display which boots dos 1.25.
Tim worked at Microsoft and extensive modifications and development were done to make dos suitable for the IBM PC launch.
The image shown is fairly far removed from what dos was like prior to Microsoft purchasing it and improving it.
RossRadio@cqcqcqdx
Did you know Microsoft didn’t develop MS-DOS, but bought it off of a programmer named Tim Paterson? Tim Paterson (born 1 June 1956) is an American computer programmer, best known for creating 86-DOS, an operating system for the Intel 8086.
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I was messing around with my Alpha Syntauri Synth, a guitar, and some effects pedals a while back, dropped the tracks on SoundCloud, and promptly forgot about them. Enjoy a couple weird tracks!
soundcloud.com/mechanicjay/set
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Would you like to see UNIX V4 on MissPiggy? #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #unix #softwarepreservation

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Had an amazing time with @sdf_pubnix this weekend at #PRGE
Thanks to everyone who stopped by the booth to chat and play with our toys!




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Dwayne Johnson plays coy when asked about if he’d run for President.
“It’s wild, man. I’m always honored when people ask that. I love what I do. I love storytelling. But yeah… we’ll see”
(Source: variety.com/2025/film/awar…)


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