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  1. Back in 2011, the Motorola Atrix and Lapdock promised to turn your phone into your only PC. I used one at uni for note taking, but under the hood, "Webtop" was just a limited Firefox browser in a Linux container.

    I dig into the hardware and discuss why it failed, plus the challenges of trying to root and run alternative Linux environments on it today.

    PeerTube: tube.devwithzachary.com/w/1bxd

    YouTube: youtu.be/bX-jasgEuME

    #RetroTech #Linux #HardwareTinkering #VintageComputing #FOSS #Fediverse

  2. Back in 2011, the Motorola Atrix and Lapdock promised to turn your phone into your only PC. I used one at uni for note taking, but under the hood, "Webtop" was just a limited Firefox browser in a Linux container.

    I dig into the hardware and discuss why it failed, plus the challenges of trying to root and run alternative Linux environments on it today.

    PeerTube: tube.devwithzachary.com/w/1bxd

    YouTube: youtu.be/bX-jasgEuME

    #RetroTech #Linux #HardwareTinkering #VintageComputing #FOSS #Fediverse

  3. Back in 2011, the Motorola Atrix and Lapdock promised to turn your phone into your only PC. I used one at uni for note taking, but under the hood, "Webtop" was just a limited Firefox browser in a Linux container.

    I dig into the hardware and discuss why it failed, plus the challenges of trying to root and run alternative Linux environments on it today.

    PeerTube: tube.devwithzachary.com/w/1bxd

    YouTube: youtu.be/bX-jasgEuME

    #RetroTech #Linux #HardwareTinkering #VintageComputing #FOSS #Fediverse

  4. Back in 2011, the Motorola Atrix and Lapdock promised to turn your phone into your only PC. I used one at uni for note taking, but under the hood, "Webtop" was just a limited Firefox browser in a Linux container.

    I dig into the hardware and discuss why it failed, plus the challenges of trying to root and run alternative Linux environments on it today.

    PeerTube: tube.devwithzachary.com/w/1bxd

    YouTube: youtu.be/bX-jasgEuME

    #RetroTech #Linux #HardwareTinkering #VintageComputing #FOSS #Fediverse

  5. Back in 2011, the Motorola Atrix and Lapdock promised to turn your phone into your only PC. I used one at uni for note taking, but under the hood, "Webtop" was just a limited Firefox browser in a Linux container.

    I dig into the hardware and discuss why it failed, plus the challenges of trying to root and run alternative Linux environments on it today.

    PeerTube: tube.devwithzachary.com/w/1bxd

    YouTube: youtu.be/bX-jasgEuME

    #RetroTech #Linux #HardwareTinkering #VintageComputing #FOSS #Fediverse

  6. Happy 5,25" floppy disk day to those who celebrate! 🥳 May your drivehead be reliable, your disks well stored and your supply of new old stock ones never run dry. Cheers! 🙌

    #floppydisk #floppydisks #floppy #diskette #disketten #525FloppyDay #retrocomputing #rerrogaming #vintagecomputing #commodore #atari #dos

  7. Happy 5,25" floppy disk day to those who celebrate! 🥳 May your drivehead be reliable, your disks well stored and your supply of new old stock ones never run dry. Cheers! 🙌

    #floppydisk #floppydisks #floppy #diskette #disketten #525FloppyDay #retrocomputing #rerrogaming #vintagecomputing #commodore #atari #dos

  8. Happy 5,25" floppy disk day to those who celebrate! 🥳 May your drivehead be reliable, your disks well stored and your supply of new old stock ones never run dry. Cheers! 🙌

    #floppydisk #floppydisks #floppy #diskette #disketten #525FloppyDay #retrocomputing #rerrogaming #vintagecomputing #commodore #atari #dos

  9. Happy 5,25" floppy disk day to those who celebrate! 🥳 May your drivehead be reliable, your disks well stored and your supply of new old stock ones never run dry. Cheers! 🙌

    #floppydisk #floppydisks #floppy #diskette #disketten #525FloppyDay #retrocomputing #rerrogaming #vintagecomputing #commodore #atari #dos

  10. This Apple IIe Platinum followed me home yesterday from a church rummage sale. Apparently it was used by the librarian in the now closed school. It sat quietly doing its job for 30+ years and has no idea about the internet, the cloud, or even AI. #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

  11. Just noticed this instance is missing my commemorative toot!

    I managed to fully restore an Italian Macintosh Classic! (And convert it from 240 to 127v)

    The 30yr+ original SCSI disk is still alive and kicking too! Just need to service the floppy drive and figure out how to stabilise the display.

    The poor thing was in bad shape. Lots of caps leaked and corroded the analog board and even the chassis! A few others on the motherboard, but nothing as bad as the AB. It was soooooo dirty when it arrived too. It was a surprise to boot it and see a "Benvenuto in Macintosh."

    Beautiful machine. Happy to have a little piece of history here. Oh! The old SCSI drive was imaged and safely stored, thanks to BlueSCSI. <3

    #retrocomputing #retroapple #apple #retrohardware #vintagecomputing #VintageApple #macintosh

  12. Typing on @icm's Teletype Model 35 ASR last year.

    ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BOY.

    #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

  13. 👴🔧 Ah, the thrill of dissecting a 40-year-old computer from the Stone Age of technology! 🤓🔍 Because, you know, we've all been dying to understand a French-built #minicomputer that couldn't be bothered with a microprocessor. Truly, the pinnacle of scientific inquiry: what did the ancient astronauts do without TikTok? 🎢🚀
    righto.com/2026/05/reverse-eng #vintagecomputing #techhistory #nostalgia #scientificinquiry #hackerspace #HackerNews #ngated