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Take Back the Sky
Because the first private manned US spaceship should be named SERENITY!

August 12, 2018

Browncoat Ball Offers a Unique Opportunity for Fans to Celebrate Their Love of Firefly and Serenity

In 2004, the Chicagoland Browncoats decided to hold a one-night banquet that was planned as a formal Sino-Western ball like the one in the Firefly episode “Shindig.” The event was such a hit that Browncoats decided not only that they would do it annually, but also that they would host it in a different city […]

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Esme’s Cloud

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The Wanderings and wonderings of a sentient cloud.

August 13, 2018

The Moral of the Tail . . . Don’t Vex a Poet My Dear (Filth invovled)

Is it fair to judge a poet’s nature from their verses alone? Gaius Valerius Catullus (c.84 BC–c.54 BC) thought not, …

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March 29, 2018

Steel Survivor: An IBM XT Tale

This month actually marks the IBM 5160's 35th birthday, so why not show off my working (and pretty much complete) specimen. This is one of the later models: half-height floppy drive + ST-225 hard drive, 640K motherboard (fully populated), last BIOS revision (05/86). The latest date code on the chips is 8649, so this machine was made shortly before the XT was discontinued altogether. I received this from Trixter, truly a gentleman and a scholar, along with a separate box of stuff to round it out: an IBM PC/XT keyboard, a joystick, some software/games (including a boxed IBM PC-DOS 3.30), and the Guide to Operations. The machine itself is very well-equipped too, complete with an XT-CF adapter, an IBM CGA board, and a Sound Blaster Pro 2.0, but more about that in a bit.

This thing went through a bit of a misadventure en-route to me. USPS turned out to have some inexplicable restrictions on package sizes to my country -

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