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Luke Dorny :CameraPolaroid: @[email protected] · 2026-05-08 · 15:58 UTC

Added two new decals to the lappie thanks to @splorp (#Newton) and the #vcfpnw conference here in Seattle.
(Okay, 3 if you count the one hiding on the back side of lappie) 😜💾⌨️📺🎛️

#vcfpnw #newton

Solarbird :flag_cascadia: @[email protected] · 2026-05-03 · 18:14 UTC

Something I dropped a few times while stopping by the Vintage Computer Festival in Tukwila (Seattle) is the line

"These are compys that won't hurt you"

Sure there's lots of nostalgia action going on but there are also people who are way too young to remember any of this shit, right? But they're into it I think because

they're computers

which will NOT

hurt you

by stealing your work, reporting what you do, trying to make you do things

they just sit there and blink a cursor and draw pics and basically do what you tell them to do. it might not be what you _actually_ wanted, but it'll be what you told it to do and if it goes off well that's your fault...

...and not the fault of fascists who built it to fuck you up.

#vcf #vcfpnw #seattle

Solarbird :flag_cascadia: @[email protected] · 2026-05-03 · 18:14 UTC

Something I dropped a few times while stopping by the Vintage Computer Festival in Tukwila (Seattle) is the line

"These are compys that won't hurt you"

Sure there's lots of nostalgia action going on but there are also people who are way too young to remember any of this shit, right? But they're into it I think because

they're computers

which will NOT

hurt you

by stealing your work, reporting what you do, trying to make you do things

they just sit there and blink a cursor and draw pics and basically do what you tell them to do. it might not be what you _actually_ wanted, but it'll be what you told it to do and if it goes off well that's your fault...

...and not the fault of fascists who built it to fuck you up.

#vcf #vcfpnw #seattle

#seattle #vcf #vcfpnw

Solarbird :flag_cascadia: @[email protected] · 2026-05-03 · 18:14 UTC

Something I dropped a few times while stopping by the Vintage Computer Festival in Tukwila (Seattle) is the line

"These are compys that won't hurt you"

Sure there's lots of nostalgia action going on but there are also people who are way too young to remember any of this shit, right? But they're into it I think because

they're computers

which will NOT

hurt you

by stealing your work, reporting what you do, trying to make you do things

they just sit there and blink a cursor and draw pics and basically do what you tell them to do. it might not be what you _actually_ wanted, but it'll be what you told it to do and if it goes off well that's your fault...

...and not the fault of fascists who built it to fuck you up.

#vcf #vcfpnw #seattle

Solarbird :flag_cascadia: @[email protected] · 2026-05-03 · 18:14 UTC

Something I dropped a few times while stopping by the Vintage Computer Festival in Tukwila (Seattle) is the line

"These are compys that won't hurt you"

Sure there's lots of nostalgia action going on but there are also people who are way too young to remember any of this shit, right? But they're into it I think because

they're computers

which will NOT

hurt you

by stealing your work, reporting what you do, trying to make you do things

they just sit there and blink a cursor and draw pics and basically do what you tell them to do. it might not be what you _actually_ wanted, but it'll be what you told it to do and if it goes off well that's your fault...

...and not the fault of fascists who built it to fuck you up.

#vcf #vcfpnw #seattle

#seattle #vcfpnw #vcf

Solarbird :flag_cascadia: @[email protected] · 2026-05-03 · 18:14 UTC

Something I dropped a few times while stopping by the Vintage Computer Festival in Tukwila (Seattle) is the line

"These are compys that won't hurt you"

Sure there's lots of nostalgia action going on but there are also people who are way too young to remember any of this shit, right? But they're into it I think because

they're computers

which will NOT

hurt you

by stealing your work, reporting what you do, trying to make you do things

they just sit there and blink a cursor and draw pics and basically do what you tell them to do. it might not be what you _actually_ wanted, but it'll be what you told it to do and if it goes off well that's your fault...

...and not the fault of fascists who built it to fuck you up.

#vcf #vcfpnw #seattle

Jan Schiefer @[email protected] · 2026-05-03 · 06:15 UTC

@moira YESSS! They were my favorites also, especially the 9810 (the one in the middle), which I had previously encountered some 40 years ago, doing some surveying stuff during my military service, in a land far far away. It was obsolete even then, but as an HP calculator fan since my teen years, I was just blown away by this thing.Very nice to see it again.

I wish there was more HP stuff at VCFPNW. Guess I need to bring some of mine next year!

#VCFPNW #HP #HPCALC

#vcfpnw #hp #hpcalc

Jan Schiefer @[email protected] · 2026-05-03 · 05:12 UTC