As I mentioned in my last post about DeOldify, my results so far have been Mixed. I’m learning what makes a good candidate for DeOldification, and what kinds of problems the system of DeOldifying will work around, versus the kinds of problems that stop it from working. Here are the results of my recent experiments:

Whew, what a year! I bought a computer in March with the intent of using it to do some video processing and film preservation work. Then … well, this year happened. Last night, I finally finished setting it up, and I now have a great video editing rig (well, aside from the slow hdd, but we’ll deal with that next week), and I’ve started playing with some automated post-processing. Today, I’d like to show you DeOldify.

I have a bunch of tiny DOS computers for sale (among other things) and some of the DOS machines are super weird, so I wanted to take a minute to talk about them, their strengths, and the kinds of flaws, compromises, and limitations that only Early 90s computers have.

I’m selling some old computers and other gizmos. I bought a coffee shop, and this will help fund our first few weeks. This is a list of the things I still have available, along with a short description. I’ll keep this up to date as things sell, and will provide additional photos upon request.

I have an HP omnibook 300. It runs Windows 3.1 from ROM. It’s about the coolest computer that was ever made: Almost exactly the size of a notebook (8.5x11.2x1.5” or so), instant on, no moving parts, stiff but reasonably satisfying keyboard (rubber domes, but decent ones), a non-backlit, sunlight readable, reflective TFT LCD and it runs for weeks of daily use on 4 rechargable AA batteries. I could talk about the computer for a while, but I’d rather talk about how I have been using it and how I want to use it in the future. (Tools are, after all, only as interesting as what we use them for.)