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Huxley Dunsany
@Huxley_D
Just a guy who loves tech, gaming, #RetroComputing and mixed martial arts. Oh, and also capybaras. Capybaras are cool. 🖖
Mar 10, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
SCAM ALERT: I was trying to sell a mattress box-spring set on Facebook Marketplace, and I just dodged a scammer using a trick I hadn’t seen before. A short thread follows 🧵 1/7 First clue: the person contacted me by Facebook Messenger but their FB profile was completely blank - no pic, no biographical info, nothing other than a name. Not a 100% dealbreaker, but kinda suspicious. 2/7
Mar 9, 2022 • 14 tweets • 7 min read
In Jan. 1997 I was 15 and obsessed with computers. My family happened to be in San Francisco and we drove by Moscone Center where I saw banners proclaiming that MacWorld Expo was happening. The pic is me around that time 🙂

A short thread ⬇️

#RetroComputing #Apple #Mac #macOS I made a sign on a pizza box reading "SPARE MACWORLD PASS?" I only stood outside for ~10 minutes before a nice woman in a business suit gave me her pass and said "tell anyone who questions you that I'm your mom!" I went in and spent a joyful day exploring the exhibit hall.
Oct 2, 2021 • 16 tweets • 8 min read
Some of you #RetroComputing folks might remember this from about a month ago, when I found a huge cache of vintage tech stuff in a dumpster. One of the items I rescued was a really neat old minitower PC - it’s time to check it out!

#PCGaming I’ll be testing it alongside this sweet @IBM “G78” 17” CRT monitor I found a few days ago, in the same pile that contained the pretty iMac G3 I tweeted about a couple hours ago
May 29, 2020 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
Short Thread: *Beyond* excited: with some crazy luck, I found an unused DataRover 840. This was (I think) the only commercially-released hardware actually sold by #GeneralMagic, the folks behind the wildly-inventive Magic Cap Operating System. @generalmagicmov #retrocomputing ImageImageImageImage As if finding an unused & functional DataRover wasn't awesome enough, this one came with the difficult-to-find proprietary serial cable, which means it's theoretically possible that I'll be able to connect this to one of my mid-90s-era computers to sync data + install apps
Jul 15, 2019 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
[Short thread] So my 9yo kid has recently become aware of the vague concept of "hackers" and "hacking things," likely via word-of-mouth from school-mates who've been sucked into some weird YouTube channels. Since he sees me working from home regularly in my role as a Sales Engineer with a cloud security company, he then quickly reached the conclusion that I must be a hacker. I did not disabuse him of this notion, despite my total lack of any real hacking skills 😅