The Digital Orphanage

Creating Retro Technology Insight and Entertainment on social account

[The Digital Orphanage @TheDigitalOrph]

I fancied some blue-sky thinking, so joined the great migration.
The interface is familiar and lots of familiar retro faces!
https://t.co/wmKiSLjnzX
#Bluesky

[The Digital Orphanage @TheDigitalOrph]

When I find Amiga items in the museum stores that have incomplete info and photos on the Amiga information sites, I always like to help them out.
https://t.co/pJdEHA9NT0

[The Digital Orphanage @TheDigitalOrph]

@DubiousEngineer @MuseumComputing Thankfully not! Not like the time I bought a pumpkin and a tub of vaseline from Tesco. The vaseline was to preserve the pumpkin carving, honest!

[The Digital Orphanage @TheDigitalOrph]

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 the @MuseumComputing !

[The Digital Orphanage @TheDigitalOrph]

Amazing to think 1970's computers are still out there doing what they were designed for!
https://t.co/rHmR5EWeiS

[Museum of Computing @MuseumComputing]

👻 Get ready for BYTE NIGHT!!! 🧌

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

To buy tickets visit: https://t.co/xyLuOutI00

#Halloween #RetroGames #Spooky #Swindon

[The Digital Orphanage @TheDigitalOrph]

☑️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?

[The Digital Orphanage @TheDigitalOrph]

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

[Museum of Computing @MuseumComputing]

To the World's Greatest 'Hacker'!
Do you know anything about this item? Did you make it or perhaps present it to Kevin Mitnick?
Found in a house clearance warehouse its new owner would love to know more about it.
https://t.co/wWXHumqRCO
#cybersecurity #hacker #hackernews #history

[Museum of Computing @MuseumComputing]

The Museum of Computing would like to thank @shortcircuit104 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. Looking forward to supporting next year's event!

[The Digital Orphanage @TheDigitalOrph]

Music WITHIN the Star Wars universe that's great to listen to... it's about time.
https://t.co/NL2gqaLB07

[The Digital Orphanage @TheDigitalOrph]

A few more checks needed but a new LOPT has fixed this Atari ST monitor for @MuseumComputing
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.

[The Digital Orphanage @TheDigitalOrph]

@TheRetroMartin @MuseumComputing Thanks for helping in the morning Martin! Much quicker with your help. It was dark when I finished, but here's how it looked this morning, and it's much quieter in the gallery now.

[The Digital Orphanage @TheDigitalOrph]

@TheRetroMartin It's the promised land Martin. Come stake out your plot.

[The Digital Orphanage @TheDigitalOrph]

I fancied some blue-sky thinking, so joined the great migration.
The interface is familiar and lots of familiar retro faces!
https://t.co/wmKiSLjnzX
#Bluesky

[The Digital Orphanage @TheDigitalOrph]

@RMCRetro @IdentityDisc @MikeDiver Wow, I'd forgotten all about the little green handheld car driving game I had as a kid. Memory unlocked! 🔓

[The Digital Orphanage @TheDigitalOrph]

It really is an amazing storage facility, that even has a conservation area. Currently it's storing over 300k objects! Here are some more photos while I go off to try and find £65m down the back of the sofa to build one of my own! That would solve our museum's storage issues!

[Museum of Computing @MuseumComputing]

Our curator had a very interesting visit to the opening of the Science Museum Group's amazing new Hawking Building. Named after the brilliant theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking, the huge storage facility left him both impressed and inspired.
Now open for public tours!

[The Digital Orphanage @TheDigitalOrph]

@RMCRetro @RovesFarm Does Gilbert think Goat Simulator is retro yet and are they looking forward to the remastered version?

[The Digital Orphanage @TheDigitalOrph]

@RMCRetro Be careful how you use that code!
https://t.co/wymd1YQCGw

[The Digital Orphanage @TheDigitalOrph]

@RMCRetro @c_valerianis When I saw your first post I thought about plastic sleeves for postcard collectors.

[The Digital Orphanage @TheDigitalOrph]

Always make sure your balls are clean and fluff free!
#retro #Computing

[The Digital Orphanage @TheDigitalOrph]

@RMCRetro I wonder how many people you've triggered with that small boat 😂