Tandy 25-1000A:
Intel 8088
Soon an 8087 for FPU calc
Fuji Electric FK302-26 20MB Hard Drive on a WD1002A-WX1 Hardcard [en.wikipedia.org]
Tandy Memory Plus RAM Expansion - 512KB
Parallel Port Expansion Card (Tandy Branded)
XT to PS/2 keyboard Adapter [texelec.com]
PICOMEM [texelec.com]
I2S Ad-lib Module [texelec.com]
DOS 6.2, DOS 3.2, Windows 2, Windows 3

Personal Computer:
GA-Z170X-Gaming 7
Intel QQLS (9980HK ES)
G.Skill Ripjaws X CL15 2x8 GB
ASUS ROG STRIX Vega 64 OC
Samsung 990 Pro 2TB + WD SN850 1TB
nsCDE + FVWM is my preferred environment.
Arch + VistaPlasmaTheme as a secondary.

Sharp-PC-4502 [ This one gets the much needed lift up next ]
2x 3.5in floppies
640KB RAM

Thinkpad R52
Debian x86

Peripherals:
AOC CQ32G4VE (2560x1440)
Varmillo VA87M
Logitech G Pro X Superlight 2 (200dpi, noaccel)
Moondrop Aria II (Apple 3.5 dongle)
VM-2 Monochrome (Tandy)
Varmillo XL Mousepads (2x Consort Yu, Crane, 2x Lovebirds-You)

Lab Environment:
HPE DL380G9 (6-C, 64GB DDR4)
Storage Backend

HPE DL360G9 (12-C, 64GB DDR4)
Frontend

HP EliteDesk 800G1 (6-C, 16GB DDR3)
Test VMs

IBM 7042-CR6 HMC x2

IBM 8284-22A (6-C, 384GB DDR4)
Emulation Provider

IBM 8202-E4D (8-C 128GB DDR3)
Archival/Backup
IBM i Playground

Blog writeups are starting now, finally have enough to write about to actually make a meaningful website, this is a long-term commitment same with my personal project, expect this to take time.
All of it is written, and built, by hand, with no automation tools, and no outside assistance.

Character Counter: 17,510

Public Learning Environment Progression:
I have the systems in place, I have the base operating environments installed, I have basic firewall implementation at the host and network level, I have the networking *mostly* finalized, finalizing backup strategy, and prepping for performance testing.

I intend to provide a stable environment with targeted performance goals, as to keep myself in a position where I won't drop the project, and give myself realistic expectations from a workplace.

I spend my time learning what makes the world work, from the enterprise workforce in the background processing every bit of information users generate daily, to the machines we interact with in person to achieve the things humanity now takes for granted. Most of my time has been allocated to electrical engineering, enterprise computing, legacy computing, years of hosting/managing services/game servers for others and myself, offering troubleshooting services/advice, vintage computing, vintage restoration, and some mechanical things like small engines/transmissions. Production work mainly revolved around game hosting, re-hosting services, troubleshooting customer installations/applications, while maintaining the actual production systems. The communities I've been given the privilege to administrate, moderate, or else-wise, vary in scale from small minor projects with friends to large communities, large marketplace communities.

~4 years of active production work,
~5 years of managing active communities of various scales,
~10 years of self teaching anything under the sun,
~300 hours of accredited courses.

For a full break down:
Flashing GPUs, Motherboards, various other chips.
CoffeeTime Modding LGA1151 with BGA/ES chips.
Physical Hardware modifications on various things, primarily GPUs.
Restoration of Vintage Systems, modern integrations of said devices in a lab environment.
Mining Cryptocurrencies (Before the main-stream explosion).
Content Moderation / Game Server Moderation.
Re-hosting, Hosting, Troubleshooting, Customer Support.
Mission Critical decision making, in production environments.
Mainframe Emulation and Interaction.
Maintain and run a functional/operational homelab hosting services over years, mostly comprised of POWER systems, using Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the infrastructure with AIX as a learning project / supporting element.
Hyper-converged Infrastructure, Advanced Virtualization, Mainframe Emulation, Clustered Virtualization.
Server hosting for myself (of course!), creating my own communities (of course!), and ultimately, trying everything I can to gain experience where it mattered.
Disaster recovery for a small customer base coupled with disaster recovery from a hostile former employee, who had full credential access down to the databases.
Consultation in regards to expansion, and minimization of cost.
Small engine repair, dirtbike restoration, transmission rebuilds.

In the future I still intend to get in to custom PCBs! Electronics Repair already started. Blog writeups started. Finishing a freshly built multi-architecture environment for mvs emulation, using x86 as a backend storage/management solution, front-end production solution, coupled with POWER processing the emulation, using mostly open-sourced solutions, hopefully soon ready to export to the web. I do intend to get in to tape backup, data deduplication.

TSO is still my most favorite topic, and I will likely end up spending a lot of time on TSO related environments, or things that can come together in various fashions to form a complex system out of random spare solutions and a lot of virtualization.


It is very unlikely to be on my 'friends' list, feel free to try though.
No, I do not, and will not, have personal profiles on social media.
Yes, I do offer help to anyone who asks if the problem interests me.

Obligatory Wall of THANKS:
Amelia (Hardware)
Imran Afzal (Red Hat, UNIX)
Jeff Bisti (IBM, Z)
SoftDevLabs (Fish/David B. Trout)
Ryan Cooper (Youtube)
Brian's AI and Linux (Youtube)
Clabretro (Youtube)
Moshix (Youtube)
BigSphereTraining (Youtube)
Donna Hovey (Youtube)
HS Tech Channel (Youtube)
Texelec (Kevin, Sara)
Viatek Solutions, Executive Personal Computers, Synergy Industrial
FreddyVRetro
CICS-L, RACF-L, IBM-MAIN, IBM-VM, (insert mailing list here)
Jack, Silas Day, Krutav Shah, far, far more names to remember.
And of course, The Computer Chronicles.