The Digital Orphanage

Things you never knew existed...
"Manhole Cover Grease"
Today's maintenance job at the museum was to stop some smells coming from a manhole in the basement. The things I do for @museumofcomputing.bsky.social!

Do you want to support your local computer museum and have fun at Halloween? Come and join us for an evening of spooky gaming on Friday 31st of October!

Purchase your ticket online at the link below
www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticket...

#Halloween #retrogaming
#Swindon #Computer #Museum

YouTube video by decle Viking Orbiter Command Computer Subsystem

Amazing to think 1970's computers are still out there doing what they were designed for!
youtu.be/3QZPHKBcdhk?...

👻 🧌 Get ready for BYTE NIGHT!!!👻 🧌


Join us for a night of Halloween-themed retro gaming at the Museum of Computing in the Swindon town centre. Enjoy a high score challenge and additional consoles not normally available to play in the museum.

To buy tickets visit: www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticket...

Homebrew cider bottling setup

☑️75 litres homebrew cider
☑️Empty bottles
☑️Siphon
☑️Salty snacks
☑️Glass for "QC testing"
☑️Hans Zimmer F1 Movie OST
☑️Zero miles tree to bottle
Cheers! 🍻
How's your Sunday going?

Repost and let's find someone who knows about this fascinating item!
#astrowars #hacker

Mrs TDO never leaves home without a knitting project. Here she's knitting a multi-coloured 'End of life care' blanket for our local hospital. She certainly wasn't expecting to make friends with another knitter at the cave.

Ok, now I feel a bit foolish because I kept meaning to come say hello but between you being busy, me being busy, and then me thinking you weren't who I thought you were because there wasn't anything Quantel...

That is an article about the exact hotel you stayed in. It used to be an Ibis, then a Campanile, before being rebadged as a Travelodge.

Just watching your video properly on a big screen and I'm sorry about your first choice of hotel. I would have warned anyone away from choosing that hotel if I had known.

www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/2516253...

Give me a heads up and I'll make sure you get the full BTS tour.

I don't think I ever got to talk to you, but then I spoke to so many people while on the museum stand, it's all a blur! Good to see Ian's tour of the Tektronix and Pete's Retro Games HQ store in town. You didn't make it as far as our museum on Saturday though. It was open and right near your hotel.

The Museum of Computing would like to thank @shortcircuit.org.uk for organising the amazing RetroFest event in our home town of Swindon. It was a pleasure to collaborate with them and we met so many wonderful visitors and exhibitors. We look forward to supporting next year's event!

I'll be at #RetroFest both days with my @museumofcomputing.bsky.social hat on! Be sure to stop by the museum stand and have a chat and don't forget the Museum of Computing is open that day too and only a 20 minute walk away through the town centre!

Never heard of that film before and sadly it doesn't seem available to stream anywhere. Would it best my favourite 'hacker' movie, Sneakers?

YouTube video by Jeremy Brauns Music NIAMOS | Season 2 Club MIX | Andor OST Cover Chandrila Wedding, Mon Mothma Dance Music #andorseason2

Music WITHIN the Star Wars universe that's great to listen to... it's about time.
youtu.be/6E7gfpGql7w?...

Oh wow, it's exactly 2 months until RetroFest 2025 in Swindon! If you want to read more about who's coming, take a look at www.retrofest.uk/whowhat.php and if you actually want to see some of them, take a look here! www.youtube.com/@shortcircui...

Atari ST computer displaying on newly fixed Atari monitor

Old monitor line output transformer showing as faulty on test equipment.

New monitor line output transformer showing as good on test equipment.

Old monitor faulty line output transformer (bottom) with strange bulge, compared to new line output transformer (top).

A few more checks needed but a new LOPT has fixed this Atari ST monitor for @museumofcomputing.bsky.social
The HR STVDST-01 TV simulator is a useful tool for confirming the old LOPT was faulty before replacing it. The old LOPT has a strange bulge which could be from a winding breaking down.

£5.99?! and that's before you're tempted with in-egg purchases for more content!

💻🕹 HALF-TERM TAKEOVER! 🎮👾

This week our brilliant work experience students are being given the keys to the museum and will be in charge all week!

Thanks to the students the museum will be open all week: 9.30am to 5pm Tuesday to Saturday.


#halfterm #computing #museum #retrogaming #Swindon

Any Retro YouTubers in the UK want a unique project for their channel? 😂

Doesn't Jarre normally have more lasers?

I watched it fully for the first time last year, after meaning to for a long time, and enjoyed it. It's a student film with an interesting development history, containing ideas that Dan O'Bannon would later go on to develop into Alien.

Bird seedball

Seedball too
Increased bird power stats!

Get Dexter (nee Crafton & Xunk) was a great game on the CPC.

If you see this, post a bridge!

Any expensive car like this is for transporting the driver's ego; I think that's the whole point of them. Although, I personally wouldn't own a car without good road clearance these days.

New Jaguar car

The new Jaguar is kind of making me nostalgic for pre-texture-mapped, gouraud-shaded games.