I’m lucky enough to be in that sweet spot generation of not having grown up with the internet and all it can offer, yet experiencing first hand its invention and first mass consumer take up in the form of the BBS. Not young enough to have been exposed to smart phones and devices as soon…
A First Repair
Can one really call oneself a retro computer hobbyist without getting your hands dirty? Without bearing the scars of hot solder on your wrists or holding onto solder flex for too long and taking the skin off your fingertips? No! No, you can’t. I am, therefore, happy to report I am now a retro computer…
If
“If you do it first, I’ll do it.” I wasn’t going to jump. I had no desire to risk physical pain or fragile dignity, but I really wanted to see him jump. He almost certainly wouldn’t make it. And then what? Guilt? Adrenaline? Would I feel alive or would I continue to sink? I was…
Pisswell & Lucky – An Introduction
“Out the water! Wind me up no more. Off home with you, thrall, pathetic thing! Hey wretch, I’ll send a singeing spear. That’ll wet your whiskers with blood.” “You are kidding me?” “No, seriously, word for word. He always spoke like that, all poetic and fancy. I’m lucky old Hjorleif was such a terrible shot.”…
Welcome
This is my retrocomputing, micro and flash fiction site. A place for me to document stuff, write and to put down random story ideas as they come to me. The intention is they will be fully formed true micro/flash fiction pieces with a start, middle and end. The site is intentionally left very simply and…