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Atlantic/Nostrand, Brooklyn, July 2017
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New York Penn Station, July 2017
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Kupa river spring, Risnjak National Park, Croatia, August 2017
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Risnjak National Park, Croatia, August 2017
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Zagreb, Croatia, August 2017
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Baltimore, MD, September 2017
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Brooklyn, September 2017
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Gowanus canal, Brooklyn, October 2017
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Near Hartford, VT. October 2017
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Southern Vermont, taken from Amtrak’s Vermonter train in October 2017
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Sunset Park, Brooklyn, October 2017
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Coney Island Mermaid Parade, June 2018
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Second Avenue protected bike lane, New York. May 2019
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Taking a break at 10th Ave, New York, May 2019
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Under Manhattan Bridge, May 2019
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NYC DOT Church Avenue Transit & Traffic Improvements presentation
Portions of this text have been published on Streetsblog in the article: Entitled Drivers Seek to Undermine Bus Lanes, Safety on Church Avenue On Tuesday evening, July 30th, NYC DOT presented the plan...
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Polar Bear Plunge 2020 at Coney Island
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Biking for MS in Croatia: 130km from Zagreb to Sisak
Note: This article was written before the start of the Coronavirus pandemic. If you are able to, please donate to Make the Road NY, one of NYC’s largest community organizations serving the working...
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On May 1st, I biked to Manhattan and left Brooklyn for the first time in 50 days. The post Biking in NYC, May 2020 appeared first on Vlado Vince.
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Repairing a 2006 black Macbook during quarantine in NYC
This is a pretty all over the place post about the quarantine in NYC, budget cuts and E-Waste recycling, old Macbooks, RSS feeds and the history of podcasting. If this sounds fun, please read on. It...
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Restoring a 1993 IBM Model M keyboard
A few weeks ago I posted about going back to repairing old electronics as a means of distraction and coping during quarantine. I’ve spent the past ten days out in the street protesting, but working on...
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(Failed) attempt at remotely re-gaining LDAP admin access to a Macbook in 2020
At my day job our team manages a lot of laptops, some of which are Macbooks. Since the Macs account for a fairly small share, we never implemented an MDM solution like Jamf, so we largely depend on...
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Beepy Model M speaker mod
My IBM Model M keyboard came with an integrated PC speaker, but it wasn’t obvious what it’s meant to be used for. I came across it when doing the restoration, but didn’t think much of it. The speaker...
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How I traveled internationally during the pandemic and ended up making a...
In late July we traveled from NYC to Croatia to see my family. Upon arrival, we quarantined for two weeks and decided to get tested. Unfortunately, I spent hours trying to confirm simple info about...
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Exploring old computer tech from Yugoslavia
Note: This was originally published as a Twitter thread. In 1948, Yugoslavia was expelled from Cominform, the Soviet information agency, in retaliation for its "non-aligned" status; deprived of...
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Encountering WD SMR mess in real life with TrueNAS/FreeNAS
Note: FreeNAS recently rebranded as TrueNAS. Since I still haven’t upgraded my system I’ll be referring to it as FreeNAS in this post. Earlier this year, I tangentially followed the story on Western...
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Building a Galaksija, Part I: The Tech
Note: this is the first part of three articles about my experience building a 1980s Yugoslav 8-bit computer called the Galaksija. This part is mostly focused on the technical aspects of building this...
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Building a Galaksija, Part II: The Origin Story
Note: this is Part II of three articles about my experience building a 1980s Yugoslav 8-bit computer called Galaksija. This part is mostly focused on the history and the cultural impact of this...
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Unlocking an SPA-2102 ATA in 2021
Note: this post was originally published as a Twitter thread. Recently I watched Cathode Ray Dude‘s videos on faxing from Windows and dialing up at home, and I was inspired to experiment with modems...
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Building a Galaksija, Part III: Audio cassettes, magazine listings and radio...
Note: this is the third and final part of three articles about my experience building a 1980s Yugoslav 8-bit computer called the Galaksija. This part is mostly focused on software creation,...
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Remembering Josip Gobac, my grandfather
Josip Gobac, 1932 — 2021 Note: this is the English translation of the obituary I wrote for my grandfather in Croatian in October 2021. You can read the original here. On October 14th Josip Gobac, the...
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This is a recording of the talk I gave at A New HOPE conference on 7/24/2022 in NYC. I have posted it here until the official recording is available at https://www.youtube.com/user/Channel2600. The...
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Remembering my grandfather for 100 days
Following Elon Musk’s takover of Twitter, I decided to finally leave that platform. I’ll be writing about my history and complicated feelings about Twitter in the future, but for now I’m archiving...
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This is a translation of the article I wrote for Kulturpunkt.hr about the demise of Twitter, my personal history and feelings about what’s going on after Elon’s takeover, and my hopes for building...
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Orao WiFi/RS232 and Orao Terminal emulator
Edited May 16 2023 Orao was a Yugoslav 8-bit computer developed by Miroslav Kocijan for PEL Varaždin in 1984. Orao was common in elementary schools, mostly in Croatia, through the late 80s. Since...
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Reliving my past and de-bricking a Compaq iPaq 3650 in 2023
A few weeks ago I got a Compaq iPaq Pocket PC, model 3650. While this device originally came out in 2000, I remember using it circa 2003 when my mom got it for work and passed it on to me because she...
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Macintosh in Yugoslavia – a belated #MARCHintosh2022 retrospective
It’s MARCHintosh! The month of March when the vintage computing community shares projects, creations and other content related to the Macintosh, in the vein of DOScember and SEPTandy. It’s almost...
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Making a Galaksija computer FAQ
Galaksija next to Voja Antonić’s Supercon 2022 badge, at VCF East 2023 Last edited: 27 May 2024. Introduction Galaksija is a Z80A based microcomputer designed in 1983 in Belgrade (Yugoslavia, now in...
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Yugoslav IEVT TY key switches – SMK style switches in disguise
Back in 2020 I built my first Galaksija computer, using the original single board design. Building this computer was quite a challenge for me, as I was pretty inexperienced with electronics. But the...
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Designing custom characters for the Galaksija
Galaksija computer stores its characters in a separate 2716 Character generator ROM. While these characters are fixed in the ROM, you can easily design new characters and burn them onto your EPROM....
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Sourcing a replacement iPaq 3600-series battery
A few months ago I got a Compaq iPaq H3650, the same model that I had almost twenty years ago. This device left a strong impression on me, so even though I had (unfortunately) long ago gotten rid of...
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TRS-80 Model I restoration
Introduction In early June I went to the VCF Swap Meet in Wall, NJ and picked up a supposedly functional TRS-80 Model I. I haven’t been very interested in TRS machines (other than owning a CoCo 2 for...
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Yugoslav adventure games
Note: this article was originally written for the Club de Aventuras AD magazine. You can read it in Spanish translation starting at page 68 of Issue 60 of CAAD. Home computing in Yugoslavia, a country...
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There and back again: a Macintosh 512K saga
My 512K running System 6.0.4 Yugoslav edition (with MacSnap 1MB memory and SCSI extension boards) Note: this post is based on a Mastodon thread. Last summer I got a Macintosh 512K at the VCF Swap Meet...
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I get knocked down, but I get up again: my Sisyphean Macintosh SE/30 struggles
My SE/30 running System 7.5 Slovenian Edition In early September I published a post on Mastodon, with what was meant to be a humorous comment. “Oh no”, I said, implying that there is something wrong...
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Using TashTalk with Mini vMac to participate in #GlobalTalk from your...
It’s MARCHintosh! The month when the vintage computing community celebrates the classic Macintosh experience. This MARCHintosh started with a bang – seemingly overnight, the #GlobalTalk network took...
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My GlobalTalk Setup #1: Apple Internet Router configuration
It’s the middle of MARCHintosh! Thanks to the unexpected GlobalTalk craze, I spent the first two weeks of March having a great time participating in the world’s first global AppleTalk network. The...
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Galaksija and Računari u vašoj kući: 40th Anniversary Celebration
Galaksija 2024 and Računari u vašoj kući 40th anniversary re-issue In the 2020s we’re celebrating many anniversaries related to the early days of home computing: 2022 marked the 40th anniversary of...
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Mitigating the CrowdStrike outage without BitLocker keys + how to get into...
The organization I work for thankfully wasn’t affected by the CrowdStrike incident, but I ended up assisting a subcontractor who works at our site since their IT team was of course swamped all day...
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