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Today I discovered the Kevin Bacon Number. And now I've mentioned it, you will find yourself Googling it too...

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Finally ordered some more storage for the man cave. Planned where it would go, measured everything up and hit buy.

Now I've realised that the presence sensor will have to be moved, and the other unit will completely block my access to the side of the TV where all the cables plug in!

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Re-watched Caprica recently. Such a crying shame that didn't get a second season. Then I had to re-watch Blood & Chrome. Now I have to re-watch all of Battlestar Galactica! Love it!

Also, who knew that train simulator games on the PS1 were so much bloody fun?! #retrogaming

A photo of lots of people and lots of computers at the Retro Computer Festival at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge.

675 points baby!

Went to the Retro Computer Festival @computinghistory.org.uk today. What a great bunch of people and an awesome array of retro computers. If you zoom in on this picture, you can just about make out my name on the high score for the floor is lava game on the Dragon computer. Won myself a badge!

Loved the bonkers Philips VG5000!

I don't want to go all humbug, but maybe, just maybe, I'd hate Christmas a lot less if it didn't start in August.

Should be a total ban on even saying the word before December.

Once every four years like the World Cup, to avoid burnout, would be good too.

Liverpool Champions Wall

"It can be lonely in Liverpool on a Saturday night, and it's only Thursday morning!"

Next message, let's pretend it's still before 12pm...

Pretty sure it says "Dan Dare II" top left of the second picture.

I remember taping across the tabs too. Pretty sure I was a bit tidier with it!

Mystery cassette. Does it say Street Fighter on it?

Mystery cassette. Does it say Dan Dare II?

What do we think? My guess is Street Fighter and Dan Dare II? So, #ZXSpectrum ?

Front cover of The Count by Scott Adams. Dracula is spreading his arms in front of a backdrop of his Transylvanian castle. This is the cassette version for the Atari 8-bit computers.

Inside the cover of The Count by Scott Adams. Some blurb about other adventures on the left, the cassette itself in a broken bit of polystyrene. This is the cassette version for the Atari 8-bit computers.

The back cover of The Count by Scott Adams. Lots of blurb about the game. This is the cassette version for the Atari 8-bit computers.

Ah, here it is. Clearly seen better days! #Atari #retrogaming

Oh no! All those things I said I'd do on Monday are going to catch up with me tomorrow!

An AI generated album cover. The title is "The Life of a Flatulent Showgirl", by Taylor's Whiffed. The picture is of a farting showgirl - comedy puff of gas coming from her backside!

Well I thought it was funny...

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I demand that it is not Monday tomorrow.

Cover for the cassette version of "The Count" for the Acorn Electron computer. It says "Adventure International 5" at the top. Bottom left it says "an original Scott Adams adventure." The main picture is your typical Transylvanian scene, with a long winding road leading up to an imposing castle, and Dracula in the forefront with his arms spread.

I don't have an Acorn Electron, but I felt I had to grab this. It's in lovely condition. I'm pretty sure I have this on cassette for the Atari too somewhere. #retrogaming

I've made it worse. Back to not turning on and humming loudly. Aaargh.

Thanks. I shall sacrifice some capacitors to the CRT TV Gods...

Yep!

I *WILL* fix it!

#crt #tv #retrogaming

A wobbly image of Donkey Kong on the Atari 800 showing on a Philips Discoverer TV screen.

Okay, so it's something a bit more than tuning in a channel. But, this is serious progress as it's been a year since I managed to last get it to turn on. #Philips #Discoverer #CRTV #retrogaming

Yes, I have adjusted the brightness and contrast since taking this picture!

A picture of a Philips Discoverer TV with Space Invaders on the screen, running on an Atari 800.

Does anyone know how to fine tune the channels on a Philips Discoverer TV? Just needs a little tweak! #retrogaming

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I've just had a sudden 30-year flashback to my University days, and I now realise that the maths lecturer was just like Pops from #RegularShow !

The statistics lecture involving a coin, where he innocently talked about tossing and getting good head will forever stay with me...

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Just remembered that I washed all the bedding, and now I have to remake the beds.

I'd like a really dull and completely uneventful week next week please.

Always more fun when things need fixing! I got one of these, and I had to fix the power socket. Was so pleased when it sprang into life that I found myself buying another one to fix up!

Both my knees are in agony after climbing up and down Snowdon, yet I've just given my seat up to somebody else on a packed train because I'm too bloody nice.

Send good karma my way!

What a world we live in, where you can still get a 4G signal on a mountain!

Decided it would be fun to hook my #Atari 800XL up to my monitor last night. It wasn't! Got a picture, but no sound.

So I hooked it up to my portable monitor instead. That worked.

Then I spent ages trying to get a game to load from tape.

Once loaded, it was rubbish!

I love #retrogaming !

I had such a battle getting my Saturn to read any disks at all, I had totally forgotten I'd installed a Phantom chip too! Thank you for reminding me!