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What I remember from the Bicentennial in 1976. My family threw our bikes into our Chevy van (no seatbelts or car seats of course) and went down to the shore in the town we lived in. We attached paper Red White and Blue streamers to our bikes with tape and biked around. We watched the parade, they threw candy at us kids on the sidewalks.

A slightly non-traditional view of tonight’s Sail Boston fireworks reflected on a building on Fan Pier / Pier 4. #boston #fireworks #sailboston

The seller has beaten the Hemmingway short story, with their sign “Heathkits Never Built”

Tomorrow (Sunday, April 19, 2026) is the first MIT swap of the year. This is an electronics flea market/hamfest held at MIT inside of a parking garage every month during the non-winter months. It cost $6 to enter ($5 if you print out a PDF from their website.) lots of retro computing, Arduino, ham radio, general electronics, and associated fun stuff https://w1mx.mit.edu/flea-at-mit/ #electronics #cambridgema #mit #hamradio

Classic Macs, unbuilt s-100 bus kit, microprocessor trainer, Original Altair ($5000)

Apple earrings made from computers, interesting front panel, old sun pizza box, white ti-99

Apple ii cards, handheld, basic calculator, computer, an old quiz trainer that used paper overlays with a wire to match questions to answers

The Swapmeet made it all the way up to the sixth floor of the parking garage, really interesting weird keyboard, a receiver to track your birds!

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org pancakes the day before, and then had my neighbors over for French toast and coffee after we shoveled for a couple hours during the blizzard.

Apple Newton’s of various vintages, and test equipment of various spin

Handheld computers, Altair modern reproduction , Imsai 8080 reproduction, sun small box

Apple QuickTake cameras, Mac classics, and Apple ii with green screen monitor

More microprocessor trainers, original IBM-PC, free daffodils, whiz kids Tandy comic

Old crts, chio Seiki, free pa horns (should have taken!) old and new scopes

Oscilloscopes, alpha smart, robot, crt terminal

EKG, blast shield! Awesome old analog control panel, hammadlhnd radio

@wx1g Like the swallows returning to Capistrano, the VT-100s return to Cambridge....

@jevidl Welcome to town, I just did that same process a couple years ago, let me know if you have any questions!

And to close out this thread (unless I find more cool photos later) a picture of what I came home with. I spent 10 bucks on an Apple ADB cord to revive an old machine I have, and the rest were from various free boxes, including a TV antenna of some sort, a composite to HDMI adapter and a tiny radio speaker

Old computer show buttons, Possibly an old control data terminal

@neilvandyke@mastodon.online I just eat them like a burrito, dipping the end in the wasabi/ soy sauce but my wife like hers cut up. I don’t like how they get squished when cutting (I probably could do something to make the nori less rubbery )

@GamesMissed I've seen that also. The new old stock ADB cord for $10 couldn't be beat though!! Still need to rustle up a printer cable for a StyleWriter II and a adb mouse but I'm in no rush!

@literatesavant i’m not sure if the original Free advice guy is still around or not but I’ve seen articles about someone in Harvard Square with their free advice guy sign recently

@cadair I think when the Fediverse gets over-explained, it turns people off, the main thing for the radio club is that it’s a Twitter like communications channel that is popular and open source. My thought is you don’t need to run your own server or have to explain any other nuts and bolts just that it’s a social media channel that people can sign up for and your club can have a presence that’s great for announcements, news, and blog like items

@nixCraft I loved both. So powerful. I can't remember now if I was using Turbo Pascal or Turbo C++ but I loved making strange TSR programs / apps.

@jef@mastodon.social I wonder if we could make a computer that shows lovely images until it crashes, and then and only then, would show you a Spreadsheet.

@bascule@mas.to "A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies, a chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure."

@sfoskett "It'll bring you a beer!" was the sales pitch!

@sfoskett I think they wanted $100 or $150