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January 25 2025 Board Meeting Attendance: Kai Robinson, Colin (This Does Not Compute), Justin (jdmcs), Bruce (Branchus), Jacob (Androda), Jeff (trag) Note that Kai and Bruce are no longer members of the Board, they attended to assist in knowledge transfer as stated in the Board Governance...

November 30 2024 Board Meeting Attendance: Kai Robinson, Colin (This Does Not Compute), Eric, Justin (jdmcs), Bruce (Branchus), Jacob (Androda) Absent: Josh (Drake), fogWraith (Christian) Agenda: Item 1: Holiday Gaming Sessions / Game Server Notes: Last year's gaming sessions were fun, so...

September 14 2024 Board Meeting Attendance: Kai Robinson, Colin (This Does Not Compute), Eric, Justin (jdmcs), Bruce, Jacob (Androda) Absent: Josh (Drake), fogWraith (Christian) Agenda: Item 1: Discussing the creation of an Administrative Group Notes: The Director of IT/Ops and Treasurer...

This is a stealth project I've been slowly working through for some time now. With Comm Slot II Ethernet cards being hard to come by, and often for high prices, it seemed like a decent target for recreation / re-engineering. My approach here was originally going to be "remake the official...

April 13, 2024 Board Meeting Attendance: Kai Robinson, fogWraith (Christian), Jacob (Androda), Justin (jdmcs) Absent: Josh (Drake), Eric (eric), Bruce (Branchus) Agenda: Item 1: Governance Policies Notes: Board Governance Policies have been agreed upon and now they need to be presented to...

As I just discovered this morning, the Exabyte 8505 tape drive (and likely others in this series such as 8500, 8200, 8205, 8700, 8705) are affected by the leaky SMD capacitor plague. These drives have a vertically mounted power converter section which naturally has leaky capacitors dumping...

March 2, 2024 Board Meeting Attendance: Jacob (Androda), Justin (jdmcs), Kai Robinson, Bruce (Branchus) Absent: Josh (Drake), Ron (Ron’s Computer Videos), Christian (fogWraith), Eric (eric) Agenda: Item 1: Governance Documents Action Items: Androda to recompile all the notes and edits...

February 3, 2024 Board Meeting Attendance: Christian (fogWraith), Jacob (Androda), Justin (jdmcs), Kai Robinson, Bruce (Branchus), Eric (eric) Absent: Josh (Drake), Ron (Ron’s Computer Videos) Agenda: Item 1: Forum and Board Governance Documents Notes: There have been many situations over...

Hello everyone, we in the current Board have a proposal for the community. First, the proposal. And then the reasoning will follow: * We would like to extend the length of the current Board's term to 3 years. A more detailed post on reasoning from Kai will follow (Kai is ill right now, and...

December 16, 2023 Board Meeting Attendance: Christian (fogWraith), Jacob (Androda), Justin (jdmcs), Kai Robinson, Bruce (Branchus) Absent: Eric (eric), Josh (Drake), Ron (Ron’s Computer Videos) Agenda: Item 1: Board Terms Notes: We are basically at the end of the 2023 Board Term, and there...

In line with the announcement of the Tinker Different Merch Store, here's a thread for feedback.

Announcing the Tinker Different Merch Store! The store URL is: https://shop.tinkerdifferent.com Here you will find: The Tinker Different 2024 Calendar, in two different form factors Hoodies with the Tinker Different logo Mugs emblazoned with the Tinker Different logo Mouse Pads with the SE...

November 11 2023 Board Meeting Attendance: Christian (fogWraith), Jacob (Androda), Eric (eric), Justin (jdmcs), Kai Robinson Absent: Josh (Drake), Ron (Ron’s Computer Videos), Bruce (Branchus) Agenda: Item 1: Calendar Competition Notes: We've totally lagged behind schedule on this...

With the Vendors section going away, this thread will serve several purposes: * Reference to my store's URL * New product announcements * Product Suggestions * Product Support Tech by Androda, LLC website link This is my side business / hobby company dedicated toward trying to solve problems...

October 7 2023 Board Meeting Attendance: Bruce (Branchus), Christian (fogWraith), Jacob (Androda), Eric (eric), Justin (jdmcs) Absent: Kai Robinson, Josh (Drake), Ron (Ron’s Computer Videos) Agenda: Item 1: Access Control Considerations Notes: A Moderator had been granted more...

Please note that there were no board meetings in June or July due to a lot of scheduling conflicts. August 26, 2023 Board Meeting Attendance: Kai Robinson, Christian (fogWraith), Jacob (Androda), Eric (eric), Ron (Ron’s Computer Videos), Justin (jdmcs) Absent: Bruce (Branchus), Josh (Drake)...

In order to assist the BlueSCSI sellers in testing their devices, I created this semi-monstrosity known as either the SCSItron or BlinkyTester or something along those lines. It's the SCSI-est thing I've ever made. It consists of a standard 50 pin SCSI input connector, and presents a bunch of...

May 13, 2023 Board Meeting Attendance: Justin (jdmcs), Kai Robinson, Christian (fogWraith), Jacob (Androda), Bruce (Branchus) Absent: Ron (Ron’s Computer Videos), Josh (Drake), Eric (eric) Agenda: Item 1: Funds Remaining, and Donation Banner Notes: About 5 months of operational funds are...

I am in process of working on a 7 megabyte Macintosh Portable RAM Card. It works in my test Portable, and I've sent one off to be tested in a Backlit portable. For me it has booted System 6.0.8, passed the Snooper RAM test, and plays games like Tetris and Risk with no issues. Why 7 megabytes...

March 11, 2023 Board Meeting Attendance: Kai Robinson, Jacob (Androda), Eric (eric), Bruce (Branchus), Christian (fogWraith), Justin (jdmcs) Absent: Ron (Ron’s Computer Videos), Josh (Drake) Agenda: Item 1: Clarifications on Recycler / EWaste Guidelines Before Moving Forward Notes: There...