Just now I was looking thru iPhoto to find another picture to post to Flickr. I came across this photo:

I could not help but think this was the last time my PowerBook 100 ran correctly. I was going to use it to upload Intellivision games to my Intellicart at my 2003 Intellivision display at the Vintage Computer Festival 6.0.
The Intellivision uploader I wrote (in REALBasic) would not run on the PB100 because its operating system was so old. I remember hauling out a Macintosh Quadra 610 and installing an old copy of CodeWarrior to write a simple drag and drop Intellivision Uploader. It worked beautifully. But the next day my Powerbook would not boot. I just got sad mac error codes (pointing to faulty memory) and that was it. A dead Powerbook 100.
I instead took the Quadra 610 to the exhibit. The funny thing is the DigiBarn had a nice exhibit of old Macs at the show. They included a PowerBook 100.

Wow, I’ve had a blog for almost a year and have not done a list. Well since iTunes gladly tracks which songs I listen to let’s
have a list of my favorite songs:

It turns out my favorite band is OMD. I know this because of some interesting behavior I’ve noticed about my iPod usage.
I mainly use my iPod on my drive to and from work five days a week. On average my commute time is an hour each way. I am usually sitting there with my hand on my ipod (in the seat next to me).
I have two playlists, No Classical and No TMBG. The no classical playlist is every song I have except my classical music. The no TMBG playlist is all of my music except the classical and my They Might Be Giants library. I have so much TMBG music that it’ll be easy for me hear three or four songs in a row of TMBG music without any other band in there. This is my usual playlist because most of the time I just don’t want to hear that much TMBG.
I listen to these playlists on shuffle. But during playback I’ll forward thru a song as soon as I remember it and have determined that I don’t want to listen it. This happens all the time. Except for one band. Whenever I hear the start of an Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark song I take my hand off the iPod and sit back (and usually sing along). One of my earliest memories is seeing OMD on American Bandstand on TV. It was a real fluke to see them play as I never watched that show regularly. Below is the last remaining bit of an OMD tee shirt that my sister gave to me.

Yesterday I went to VCF 8.0. I had a lot of fun. I sat thru three presentations. The first one was a presentation called The Future of Pinball. I thought it was a odd title for a presentation at the Vintage Computer festival. But a few minutes into the movie I realized that the documentary was about a product of Williams Pinball called Pinball 2000 which was suppose to take pinball into the 21st century. Overall I give the movie a thumbs up. The producer is looking for a television deal and will produce DVDs soon after.

Next I watched the Homebrew Computer Club 30th anniversary retrospective. It consisted of a panel of former members. The only celebrity was Steve Wozniak. Woz told a funny joke. People spoke of what the club exterience was like. Overall, a lot of fun. I was glad it ran long.

Then I watched Sellam Ismail’s Q&A/Show & Tell session. He was entertaining as usual.

After that I went thru the Computer History Museum’s Computer Chess exhibit. A very nice display of artifacts, plus multimedia explanations of everything. Here is what really caught my eye:

I noticed the Color Computer ROM Pak of Chess produced by Radio Shack. It was nice to see my favorite computer represented in such an exhibit.

Then I wandered upstairs to view the exhibits. The only thing that really caught my eye was the TTL CPU. That really geeked me out. He had a wonderful LED display of the current internal state of the CPU — a real blur of flashing lights.