New refurbished drives for the Beige Box AMD K6-III Always a good idea to open up these old drives and clean & regrease. 91% Isopropyl to clean the drive heads & motor screw shaft, White Lithium Grease for the screw and other friction-bearing bits. All of this just to play the classic 1997 Voxel-rendered “Blade […]
Mail Call: ETCetera Magazine and Christmas Greetings!
Get yours now! Currently in the earholes;
24x Max 2 The MAX! 1997 CD-ROM Drive refurb!
Well, guess I voided *that* warranty! :D This one looks about the right size – a tiny bit smaller, but that’s prolly exactly right, accounting for the stretched condition of the old belt. OK, let’s power it up and make sure it works! Currently in the earholes:
UJTU: Dance, Typebars, Dance!
Weapon of Choice: 1946 Royal Quiet De Luxe #A-1218244 Currently in the earholes:
Mail Call: Guth-hounds Nippin’ at me Heels!
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Mail Call: Synchronized Letters & Blog Posts!
myoldtypewriter : Old Dog, New Tricks National Postal Museum Want 200 free cancelled stamps? Currently in the earholes:
Mail Call: And THREE Shall Be The Number Of The Counting…
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UJTU: Past Chops & Might as well build my Christmas Letter (:
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Correspondence Update: Digitizin’ Yer Letters & Episode 18 Now Available!
An example directory for a prolific Correspondent. Currently in the earholes:
Mail Call from Friend Roman, Countryman! :D
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Newest Improvements in the Austin Selectric Rescue 3D Printed Selectric Elements!
Austin Selectric Rescue’s 3D Printed Selectric typeballs
Mail Call: Answers Postponed for Kidney Stones
More options for Alphasmart Dana Battery Life
Typecast bit typed on Alphasmart Dana and injected into a Photoshop 7 document for formatting with Richard Polt’s “Patrician” font and printed on a laser printer, then stamped & chopped & pasted up onto newsprint along with a thermal printout photograph taken on a toy camera from reader Gregory. Having fun with a $5 bag […]
Mail Call: Polt Chops!
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Correspondence: Episode 17 – Edition Especiale!
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Correspondence Upgrade: Vintage CD/DVD Copying Tower
Small but *very dense* with mid-oughties quality components. Dunno if the white DVD drive is a later replacement or what. Now that I ponder it, tho – the model number is “2DVDN80G” which suggests it was originally equipped with just *2* burners, with the third one added later as an upgrade. That also suggests that […]
Kaiju Big Battel: Terebi Sento!
http://www.kaiju.com/mall_dvd.htm https://www.youtube.com/user/KaijuOfficial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiju_Big_Battel Currently in the eyeholes: Just remember: “Danger CAN HAPPEN!”
Mail Call: Guth’s Printin’ Machine Back In Business && Tasty CHOPs
The stamps scanned above have gold and silver metallic embedded art, but my scanner renders anything reflective as black, so there ya are. /: Currently in the earholes: (sometimes yah brain gotta take a hard left turn into silliness after a dream like Episode 16…) Ha! Just kidding, I’m actually listening to this, which is […]
Mail Call: Flair Game and The Night of the Living DJ
Well, I guess I broke the seal on Season Two… Currently in the earholes:
Mail Call: Every Package is an Adventure!
Welp, that oughta keep ya’all in Thermosnaps for awhile! Flyin’ High & Chilly! :D This shot was printed on the back of the other one, faded and translucent on the Canon-branded side. Very interesting effect! Currently in the earholes:
Turning an old laptop into a home streaming server using JellyFin!
Streaming services aren’t likely to carry time capsule films like this turn-o-the-century classic PLUR-raver indie – “Groove“, “Scratch“, “Better Living Through Circuitry” – none of that is likely to show up on streaming. I have the DVDs, tho, so now it’s on my LAN streaming server! Rippin’ the DVDs! I’ve also got a bunch of […]
A Lament Over the Passing of my Spinning Rust
One of the surviving drives is a 40g with a very old Ubuntu/LAMP Stack installed on it, last running in a 200mhz Pentium 1 in 2010, according to the label. It is my original FreeCIV 2.2 server, back when I was developing web integration tools for that version and running the server tunneling through my […]
Mail Call: Silk Havana Jacks gets a nice fat 7 Left Hands Of God!
Photos of a hat, because Correspondent didn’t take pics before sending. (: This one might be the phattest Seven Left Hands of God I’ve sent out yet. Clocked in at *exactly* 2oz without the Butterfly & Schoolbus stamps, so if they say it’s over weight, I’ll claim that it was technically exact if they didn’t […]
Mail Call: Florida Man send greetings from Michigan, Fauxtography, and a Design Fix for the 3D Printed Typeballs
My favorite Pentaxen! Seven Reverend Heads – Groovy! :D Neil sends an Origami Puppy! (: So, when my Vogue 10 ball broke the other day, I sent a report to Austin Selectric Rescue. By the next day, Dave had replicated the issue and worked up a new strengthened design for the center ring and drive […]
My Favorite Tape Dispensers: 3M Scotch DD-1 and C-20, also OW! MY BALL!
Tape Dispenser of the Month: 1940s 3M DD-1 Scotch Tape Dispenser My dad’s old 3M C-20 OW! MY BALL! Currently in the earholes:
Mail Call: A Letter & Postcard in, and Three Letters Out!
And don’t think for a moment that I didn’t notice the 3D Lenticular postage stamp that our Correspondent used. I can see she is reading the blog! :D These are the boxes that our Correspondent uses to store her, um, *dozens* of different stationery selections. I am confident now that I will never see the […]
Mail Call: Behinder && Behinder!
The Resident Witch appreciates the Best Witches! (: Currently in the earholes:
Mail Call: The Guth stretches my Stationery Selection, TCL and some Typing Without Purpose.
Typewriter Club LIVE: 2023-10-22 Heh, still got this computer too, even still works, but needs new caps and a fresh PSU. Screen gets all jangly when the floppy drive accesses. Also, note the 300 baud Radio Shack “Slap Modem” – no auto negotiation, you waited till you heard the screetch from the box and you […]
Mail Call: Broken Typeballs? More 3D Thermalvision!
Well, the fun ideas keep bouncing around the Typosphere! Joe is now mixing the idea of Stereograms with the thermal printing cameras to make 3D Thermal Stereograms, which I of course had to see if I could get working with my viewer, because my brain doesn’t do the crosseyed 3D thing, magic eye stereograms don’t […]
Mail Call: This Movie’s For The Dogs! :D
Stereograms from old Japan? Yes, Thank You! :D
From: Backspace does not erase Time-travel to Japan and an aluminum Perfecscope
Thermal Madness: Testing the Modes and Settling on a Workflow
Weapon of Choice: 1986 Canon Typestar 4 #Q12013213 Crude, punk-rock pasteup onto A5 sheets, I would’ve drowned a kitten for a setup like this in 1986 to make flyers & zines. This setup and a Xerox machine and me woulda been fast friends! :D Workflow-wise, I’ve learned that it’s best to do your imaging, alcohol […]
Mail Call: Two Letters and Thermal Madness!
I found that if you get too aggressive with the bleaching, especially with a highlighter, the Thermal properties of the paper *can* be affected, so it’s an artform of restraint. (:
Thermal Typewriting on Thermally Printed Photos!
Weapon of Choice: 1986 Canon Typestar 4 #Q12013213 I noted that at least 2 of my stamp pad inkers use an ink that when stamped on a thermal sheet, eventually soaks in over a couple of hours and bleached the black out of the image where the ink sinks in, leaving that stamp on white […]
Mail Call: More Chops Than A Chinese Typewriter & A Cute and Delightful Surprise!
The Poor Typist: Thermal Typing & Thermal Instant Photography Self-portrait with toy Thermal Printing Camera. Returned to the Corral: 1980 Western Auto (Brother) Citation Correction #D03204773 Currently in the earholes: