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Electric garage: Specialized Turbo Vado 5.0 first impressions
I’d been waiting for months for this e-bike to arrive, so I was pretty much grinning from ear to ear when I went over to pick up my new 2022 Specialized…
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Savage Golf
Savage Golf is a beautiful, durable, eco-friendly version of the Animals game played alongside a real golf game. Savage Golf is guaranteed to make any…
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Reviving an Apple IIe with a new power supply
Retro Computing: None of my Apple II series of computers would boot up. Now one does, here’s what it took.
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Macintosh SE restoration continued
Some parts arrived allowing the project to move ahead nicely
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Macintosh SE recapping project update
My first attempt at replacing the capacitors in an old computer was a success. Here's what I learned and some options for next steps.
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Round two of SE/30 enhancements, including BlueSCSI, and a Classic II jumps queue
Retro Computing
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Photo gallery: Trains
This gallery highlights some of the film photography I captured in and around rail yards across Iowa in the early 1990s.
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Latest prints from the darkroom
Photography
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Photo gallery: Train details
Photography
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Newton reborn
Newton OS running on an iPad mini is perhaps the ultimate form factor for the ill-fated, pen-based computing pioneer.
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Smiling Savage album creation podcast, Episode 3
The second song is ready for a first listen.
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Audio article: Specialized Turbo Vado 5.0 first impressions
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