Colin Hoad
@colinhoad
Senior Data Engineer. "Vintage computing enthusiast" - The Register I run a YouTube channel and blog dedicated to the Beeb and all things Acorn, Psion and more: colinhoad.com Discord: Pixel Art: Syarifudin Mahfud
My first visit to @retrocollective.co.uk today, and it was superb! Absolute privilege to meet, chat to and have my Beeb signed by the legendary Hermann Hauser
I miss the Zoom. A fantastic ice lolly, and also the TV ads going "a-zoom... a-zooom... a-zoooom"
Loving my new @compiler-explorer.com desk topper! Really nice quality and a huge improvement on my old IKEA one that had seen better days 😅 Thanks, @matt.godbolt.org and team!
New milestone achieved: 3,000 subscribers...! Gosh 😳 Thank you ever so much to everyone who follows my channel, it continues to be a hugely enjoyable hobby for me, so I'm very grateful to anyone who takes an interest!
...which means, pop a program in a simple text file, then cat that as your argument to ecoclient and boom: instant transfer across to the Elk via Piconet!
Haha Piconet supports BASIC injection within its NOTIFY implementation 🤣
Finally making some progress with the AP6 on my Electron Plus-1 (Retro Hardware edition). Got my SRAM and EEPROM chips inserted, jumpers set correctly and now registering on the Electron... next step is figuring out how to load a ROM image onto the EEPROM!
Bram Stoker's Dracula - DOS edition. I loved this game and even managed to complete it. While it's fair to say the 3D FPS didn't compare favourably to Doom etc. I still think it's a really enjoyable game and ties in nicely with the movie.
Had a brilliant time at the @computinghistory.org.uk Bring & Byte today, came away with rather a lot of stuff - too many bargains, insufficient willpower 😆 Really enjoyed chatting to everyone too, a grand day out! Thanks to the volunteers for running such a fun event 🙌
Daily dose of dystopia there from Starbucks. What next, Soylent Matcha Latte?
Latest new toy... a fully working, refurbished Psion netBook! What a beauty 😍
Never thought I'd get a chance to buy a new album on cassette in 2026 😆 I @garynumanofficial.bsky.social clearly knows his audience 🤘