The Digital Orphanage

I fancied some blue-sky thinking, so joined the great migration. The interface is familiar and lots of familiar retro faces! bsky.app/profile/thedig… #Bluesky

When I find Amiga items in the museum stores that have incomplete info and photos on the Amiga information sites, I always like to help them out. amiga.resource.cx/exp/ashcom508

@DubiousEngineer @MuseumComputing Thankfully not! Not like the time I bought a pumpkin and a tub of vaseline from Tesco. The vaseline was to preserve the pumpkin carving, honest!

@TheDigitalOrph @MuseumComputing Man Hole Grease ... did you have to go to a shop and ask for that :-)

Things you never knew existed... "Manhole Cover Grease" Today's maintenance job at the museum was to stop some smells coming from a manhole in the basement. The things I do for the @MuseumComputing !

Amazing to think 1970's computers are still out there doing what they were designed for! youtu.be/3QZPHKBcdhk?fe…

👻 Get ready for BYTE NIGHT!!! 🧌 Join us for a night of Halloween-themed retro gaming. Enjoy a high score challenge and additional consoles not normally available to play in the museum. To buy tickets visit: zeffy.com/en-GB/ticketin… #Halloween #RetroGames #Spooky #Swindon

☑️75 litres homebrew cider ☑️Empty bottles ☑️Siphon ☑️Salty snacks ☑️Glass for "QC testing" ☑️Hans Zimmer F1 Movie OST ☑️Zero miles tree to bottle Cheers! 🍻 How's your Sunday going?

Repost and let's find someone who knows about this fascinating item! #astrowars #hacker

The Museum of Computing would like to thank @shortcircuit104 for organising the amazing RetroFest event in our home town of Swindon. It was a pleasure to collaborate with them and we met so many wonderful visitors and exhibitors. Looking forward to supporting next year's event!

Music WITHIN the Star Wars universe that's great to listen to... it's about time. youtu.be/6E7gfpGql7w?fe…

A few more checks needed but a new LOPT has fixed this Atari ST monitor for @MuseumComputing The HR STVDST-01 TV simulator is a useful tool for confirming the old LOPT was faulty before replacing it. The old LOPT has a strange bulge which could be from a winding breaking down.

@TheRetroMartin @MuseumComputing Thanks for helping in the morning Martin! Much quicker with your help. It was dark when I finished, but here's how it looked this morning, and it's much quieter in the gallery now.

It may not be a "fun" task but working with @TheDigitalOrph on putting in some material in the windows (outside) to dampen the outside noise is a task that @MuseumComputing needed doing and it will only help people enjoy their time more when they visit!

@TheRetroMartin It's the promised land Martin. Come stake out your plot.

@TheDigitalOrph I've been thinking about joining up there myself as a lot of peeps seem to be floating between the two

I fancied some blue-sky thinking, so joined the great migration. The interface is familiar and lots of familiar retro faces! bsky.app/profile/thedig… #Bluesky

@RMCRetro @IdentityDisc @MikeDiver Wow, I'd forgotten all about the little green handheld car driving game I had as a kid. Memory unlocked! 🔓

Exploring @IdentityDisc collection of games at our @MikeDiver event today!

It really is an amazing storage facility, that even has a conservation area. Currently it's storing over 300k objects! Here are some more photos while I go off to try and find £65m down the back of the sofa to build one of my own! That would solve our museum's storage issues!

@RMCRetro @RovesFarm Does Gilbert think Goat Simulator is retro yet and are they looking forward to the remastered version?

Down on the farm with my mate Gilbert @RovesFarm

@RMCRetro Be careful how you use that code! youtu.be/IlMFI8Zz7C0&t=…

The bank issued me a new pin of 0000! Changed now of course, but I might have to do the lottery now.

@RMCRetro @c_valerianis When I saw your first post I thought about plastic sleeves for postcard collectors.

@c_valerianis They do, but I’m thinking perhaps some baseball card type protective sleeves might make them nicer to flick through

The contents of an old John Menzies software inserts drawer. This is going to be fun to sort through.

Always make sure your balls are clean and fluff free! #retro #Computing

@RMCRetro I wonder how many people you've triggered with that small boat 😂

Found some sad action men in an abandoned building. Put them on a hot tub to live their best lives in. My work is done.