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Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
The VCF Midwest 2024 Report
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Vintage Computer Festival Midwest made a massive change for 2024: they moved to a new venue! Can the Schaumburg Convention Center contain this massive...
The Apple IIGS Megahertz Myth
05 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I love the Apple IIGS. It's a great computer, but could it have been greater? The legend goes that Apple purposefully underclocked its CPU during deve...
Installing OS/2 on a PS/2 Model 80: 5000 Subscriber Special
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I've hit 5,000 subscribers, and what better way to celebrate than to install an old operating system on a lumbering battlestation? In a past video I s...
VCF East 2024 Review
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Vintage Computer Festival East is back for 2024 with more to see than ever before. After a banner crowd in 2023 the show needed to make some adjustmen...
An American Visits British Computer Museums
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Computer museums are a great place to check out the coolest of vintage tech. I've been to my share in America, but what about the rest of the world? J...
Garmin iQue 3600: How A Palm OS PDA with GPS Predicted The Future
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Garmin iQue 3600 We take for granted that we can pull out a phone and get directions to almost anywhere on Earth. But years before Apple and Google...
IBM's 386 Tower of Power: The PS/2 Model 80
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
IBM was late to the 386 PC party, but when they finally arrived they made a statement about what they thought the future of computing would be. With a...
IBM PS/2 Model 30 286 - Computers of Significant History
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What was the first retro or vintage computer you collected? I saved an obsolete PS/2 Model 30 286 from the scrap heap back in 1997. This machine was a...
The Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 2023 Report
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I'm back at the Vintage Computer Festival Midwest for another convention of old and obsolete technology. With tons of retro computers and video games ...
Sun, Surf, and Street Fighter: The World of East Coast Beach Arcades
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Any self-respecting beach town in the United States has an arcade. But there's a certain variety that lives along the northeast Atlantic coast. When k...
The Macintosh SE/30 - Computer Hall of Fame
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The SE/30 is a Macintosh that's larger than life. It's hailed as one of the greatest Macs ever. So when I had the chance to pick one up, complete in b...
The Vintage Computer Festival East 2023 Report
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Spring has sprung and that means old computers have migrated north once again! Join me for a review of the 2023 Vintage Computer Festival East. What's...
Which SimCity is the Greatest SimCity?
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Will Wright's SimCity is one of gaming's all-time hits. The classic original SimCity started on the Commodore 64 and topped out on PCs and Macs. With ...
What's Inside A NeXT Computer Accessory Kit?
23 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Jobs thought he would user in the NeXT generation of computing, but his little black cube of darkness flopped. When you bought a $10,000 compute...
Adobe and Pantone's Color Apocalypse
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when two companies don't get along? Their customers lose. Adobe has let their license for Pantone colors lapse, with the hues disappearin...
A Visit to the Apple Mothership
10 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Here, in Userlandia, be very quiet. We're hunting dogcows. Disney has Disneyland. Boeing's 747 megafactory is the world's largest building. Apple has ...
2022 Vintage Computer Festival Midwest Report
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Here, in Userlandia, my Windows color scheme is Portillo's Hot Dog. Want to see some of the coolest old computers out there? Take a trip to the Vintag...
The Compaq ProLinea 4/33 - Computers of Significant History, Part 3
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Here, in Userlandia, I think I'm a clone now… Compaq was in a crisis in the early 90s. Upstarts were undercutting them just as they had undercut IBM...
The New Computer Desk Workshop
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From the desk of Userlandia… What does it take to build a custom computer desk? Sure, people on Reddit say "throw some wood on some cabinets," but w...
The Rise and Fall of Lian Li Aluminum PC Cases - Nifty Thrifties
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Here in Userlandia, it's the case of the Lian Li Aluminum PC Case. Back in the year 2000, Aluminum was the hot new metal for crafting PC cases. Strong...
The Mac Studio Report: X Marks the Mac
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's time for an off-the-cuff post-event podcast! With Apple's announcement of the new Mac Studio, has the mythical xMac finally come to pass? Will wo...
The Apple IIe - Computers of Significant History, Part 2
21 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When you think of an Apple II, odds are you think of the Apple IIe. Overshadowed by both the Apple III and Lisa, the humble IIe was Apple's unlikely s...
Dropbox Drops the Ball
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dropbox has grown from a small indie file sync utility to a giant of cloud storage. During that time many users fell in love with its simplicity and r...
Happy Twentieth Birthday, iMac G4
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's been twenty years since Steve Jobs unveiled the first flat panel iMac: the iMac G4. Whether you call it Luxo, iLamp, or Sunflower, it's one of Ap...
Aldus PageMaker 4.0 for Windows - Nifty Thrifties
28 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Before computers, page layout was the domain of wax, scissors, cameras, and tape. And maybe some hot lead type. Aldus Corporation's PageMaker helped k...
The Toshiba Satellite Pro 460CDT - Nifty Thrifties
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On a quiet August day, I found two lonely Toshiba Satellite Pro 460CDT laptops in a New Hampshire thrift store. Between missing power supplies, BIOS p...
The Mystery of Mac OS' Mangled Image Interpolation Implementation
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
-=- Here in Userlandia, I'm talking rainbows, I'm talking pixels. -=- What is a bug? A miserable little pile of code... or something more? Today we lo...
The 2021 MacBook Pro Review
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
-=- Here in Userlandia, the Power's back in the 'Book. -=- After years of broken keyboard dreams and disappointing trips to Dongle Land, Apple believe...
The Vintage Computer Festival East 2021 Report
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
-=- You'll never find a more fascinating hive of geeks and nerdery. -=- On October 9 and 10 I was at the 2021 Vintage Computer Festival East in New Je...
The Commodore 64 - Computers of Significant History, Part 1
03 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
-=- The Computer for the Masses, not the Classes -=- Over the course of four decades I've owned many computers, used many more. Most of them are ordin...
Welcome to Userlandia
03 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Userlandia is a place for technology from today and yesterday. If you're an enthusiast user with a curious nature, then you'll be right at home. Here'...