Apricot Xen - Great Ideas Come Back to the PC

2024 Summary: Oh, the Places He Went.

Apricot Portable / Apricot FP - The Space-Age Portable for the Modern Executive

The Apricot F1 - It's like a PCjr....but British.

The Apricot PC - American Markets meet British Design

Victor 9000 / Sirius 1 - The MS-DOS Competitor to the IBM 5150

Carter 2BBD - Initial Choke Pull-off Adjustment

I Bought and Installed a Payphone

Xerox CAT - The Earliest of the Trackpads

Deep-Dish Dash - To VCF MidWest and Back in 2024

From the Pocket to the Car - Motorola's DynaTAC Car Kit

The Silent Knight 7341 Keypad Controller - BCD Keypads Made Easy

California Cannonball - To VCF West and Back in 2024

AMC ET-501 - Engine Computer Diagnosis in the 1980's

Cartel CT-1000 - The Bluetooth Car Kit that wants to be a Car Phone

Tantalum hunting with a Thermal Imaging Camera

All about Timing - Correcting and Adjusting your 258's Spark Advance.

Four-Phase systems - The Expansions, the Cables and the Future - Part 2

"May 1 have a Drink?" - Vending Spring Startup

Four-Phase systems - The Creator, the Company and the System IV/70 Computer - Part 1

Those Automotive Coffee Makers and Beverage Warmers - Are they really All That good?

Building a Spinning Sign Out of a Table Lamp

Breakfast with John

John's Big Bedroom Reno

Locking action of Mechanical slot reel - Bally Mechanism

Flight of Sparrow

Disengagement of centrifical AC motor start brushes in electric motor

Alignment of symbols on mechanical slot reel

Kodak EktaPro Hi-Spec imager repair - Can I fix it?

That thing everyone wishes of unreliable electronics

Kodak EktaPro EM 1000 - Kodak's "Affordable" High-Speed Camera from the 90's

1960's Target-Holding Mechanism from Underwood

2022 & 2023 Summary: Where did all the time go??

Canon L2 - The Super weird and Super Expensive Camcorder I wanted 20 Years Ago

Olympus C-2100UZ - My Digital Camera from the 2000's

The Morse Electrophonic Console Hi-Fi - No Bang for No Bucks.

Visual Indication - How I solved a camera issue with colored lights

The "DIGIMAX" 3D Object Digitizer - Make 3D Models from Physical Objects!

How a Video Starts

More Card Processing - The IBM 024 Keypunch and the IBM 056 Card Verifier

Jobo CPP2 Film and Print Processor - Agitator Motor Does Not Work

Keytronic "Foam and Foil" Pads - How to Make Them Yourself

VCF MidWest 2023 - As seen through a Camcorder

Keytronic Pad Punching - Visual Demonstration Supplement

The Future is Now (John Discovers how to use Google, Wikipedia and Youtube)

IBM System/32 - The Arrival and Assembly

VCF West 2023 - As seen through a Camcorder

Road Trippin' - Do I have a 300W Inverter that Doesn't Suck?

Sun Modular Engine Analyzer 1500 - Setup and Operation

Sun Modular Engine Analyzer 1500 - Old Fashioned Engine Diagnostics

The Japan Trip - 2023 Edition

Reverse-Engineering the Security Module in a Mastervoice Butler in a Box

Hughes Probeye - A Thermal Imaging Camera From the 70's

Joe's Hot Dog Stand - Rebranded, poorly built junk

Dana Speedostat - Control Cable and Potentiometer Replacement

Pre-Paid Electricity - The Smith Coin-Operated kWh Meter

Development Tools for the RCA 1802: The RCA MSE-3001

Rowe Vending Machine: Five Years Later

Homebrew Computing and the RCA 1802

The Dim-Bulb Tester