Ivan Reyes » Computers

AT&T “You will” parody comic

Ivan — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 19:35:48 +0000

Here is a cartoon I made in 1994. It was a parody of the AT&T commercials.

MakerBot’s Cupcake CNC is the Altair 8800 of 3-D Printers

Ivan — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:28:55 +0000

$750 for this kit is great! This is the Altair 8800 of 3D printers. This technology will accelerate twice as fast as computers have. 35 years from the Altair 8800 2 MHz (each instruction takes 4 clock cycles) with 256 bytes of RAM to the 8 core Mac Pro Tower with 32GB of RAM / 2.93GHz processors / 64 bit OS. I can’t wait to see what these printers will be capable of in 10 years.

Altair Emulator

8008135 on the G4 Glide video – fo’ 3722145

Ivan — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:07:44 +0000

Glide OS looks interesting. I will have to give it a go soon.
I tried the Google Chrome OS but found it a bit slow even with lots of RAM thrown at it. I hope it is a bit more responsive on actual hardware (over the virtual box i had it running on).
While watching the G4 video video for Glide I almost spit out my coffee on this screen below. Juvenile and nerdy always makes me laugh.

Here is the full video ( What a horrible still!)

Game Trailers – E3 2010 – Web Tools

Nerd Merit Badges – inbox zero and open source contributor

Ivan — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:12:10 +0000

I just got my Nerd Merit Badges in the mail. I am really excited. They were a bit smaller than I expected but they are really nice. I can’t wait to put them on something.

Computers inspired by Computers!

Ivan — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:45:58 +0000

Blaise and I made this video yesterday because we really liked “Kittens inspired by kittens!”

It was a collaborative effort between the two of us. He made up half of the comments and I made up half. It is not that hard to guess which ones are which. He was not forced or pressured to do it in any way. The Kittens inspired by kittens video has been a favorite around here since we saw it, and is quoted constantly by both of my kids. They also love Icanhazcheeseburger and understand the humor.

They are both super nerds already and enjoy and understand a good bit of computer related humor. Memes spread around our home very quickly. We had a blast making it, and we just wanted to share the fun.

The voice in the background was his brother and mom letting us know they were leaving for soccer practice, not coaching him.

Here is the inspiration.

Atari 800XL – I loved this computer

Ivan — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:27:48 +0000

Nothing shaped my love of computers more than this slick little black box. I loved this computer! The design still holds up. I think it is one of the best looking home computers ever, but I am bias. I still miss punching in lines of code from a magazine for hours just to play a simple game, my favorite of which was Escape from Epsilon. You can download Escape from Epsilon here, if you are so inclined. The magazines where Antic and Analog and every month they would come chock full of awesome programs written in Atari Basic and Assembly Language. Here is an example of the code.

It had 64k and I was luck enough to get a 300 baud modem, a bad ass indus GT Disk Drive the “Ferrarri of disk drives” and a cassette drive to prevent having to retype those games. Many an hour was spent war dialing for working BBS’s from long print-outs of numbers. There were a few other kids in my class who had modems as well, and a few of them where in the know.

This video reminded me of those days.

Lively – Google’s Metaverse is here

Ivan — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:29:35 +0000

Google has entered the virtual world game with Lively.
I am excited because I know they can foster the support of the users, and content makers.
I’ve created a room for the shizzle group. Come visit if you get a chance.