@billgoats i know you’ve been struggling to rebuild your IL workflow with Affinity
there ARE better alternatives to adobe
@billgoats i know you’ve been struggling to rebuild your IL workflow with Affinity
there ARE better alternatives to adobe
this person has only a handful of viewers, and their tandy videos are just fantastic
i am constantly amazed that big box games still pop up time to time in my city just picked these up.
this was the collection of three brothers who were clearing out their childhood home today. they sure did love their wargames
can anyone positively ID this generic AT minitower case? my childhood best friend had it, and i'd love to find one some day. this exact model was ubiquitous in canada.
@linux_mclinuxface @Daveography it's got such a modern industrial paul rand look to it. i love that it's still on a building downtown
@philipdrobar i'm not sure yet. i've managed to miss it every single year so far if i can, i'll probably drive down
of particular interest to me is the upcoming Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo on june 22
the chilliwack retro computing club will be there, demoing TRS-80 and Nabu equipment, and there will be a talk about the history of computing in canada
Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo: A celebration of retro gaming like no other. Information includes a breakdown of where and when each event including free-play, dealer hall, music performances, panels, and tournaments are taking place within the venue.
(www.vancouvergamingexpo.com)
time for fairly obscure canadian retrocomputing history
IBM Home Computing seems to have been a canada-only chain of retail stores that sold IBM products. it didn't last long here - maybe 5-10 years - before it disappeared in the early 2000s. we had a single location in downtown Edmonton City Centre Mall in the mid-90s.
it wasn't the place to go for the best deals on hardware and software. everything was sold at retail prices, and i remember seeing very few sales. i remember buying my Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold at the downtown location as a first-year university student for the princely sum of $300.
as you can see in the last photo - buying an IBM in 1994 was a major investment. you could buy three used cars at the time for less than a pentium desktop.
does anyone else remember these retail stores? did they exist in the US, or was it a canadian chain?
update: according to this page, there were 29 stores in canada
https://en.everybodywiki.com/IBM_Home_Computing_Stores
and it did indeed close chainwide in 2002-2003:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/ibm-canada-to-shut-stores-as-result-of-shrinking-retail-sales/article1021826/
i grew up alongside one of the largest lakes in canada watching The Beachcombers, and never really knew where our driftwood came from until now. what an incredibly well-written article on the ecological significance of pacific ocean driftwood
https://hakaimagazine.com/features/the-trees-that-sail-to-sea/
once a week henry goes what is termed in the literature nutsyfurbuttsy