Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
I own a vintage 1986 Kapro 1 CP/M computer that I inherited from my father in 1989. He had used the machine in an effort to write a novel about his experiences as an embedded journalist in the Vietnam War. In 2014, in an effort to recover those writings, I came up with a method to connect the Kaypro to my @Apple Macbook Pro through a series of adapter cables. Through this connection, I was able to fool the Kaypro into thinking the MacBook was a printer, so I could "print" the word processing documents and capture the output on the Mac side. I filmed the process in 2014, but couldn't think of a way to present it in a way that would be at all interesting to anyone other than myself.
Fast forward to 2025, more than a decade later, and I became obsessed with the @AppleTV show "Severance," created by Dan Erickson and Ben Stiller. Several months ago, I saw an interview with Ben Stiller and Adam Scott on @TheVerge, where Ben mentioned that the design inspiration for the retro MDR workstations came from the Rhode Island Computer Museum (@RIComputerMuseum) While I have not yet visited the museum, I have been a Rhode Islander (literal and now honorary) for the past 19 years). I now had my storyline. I hope you enjoy it.
I did have some fun with AI image generation, using the Bing Image Creator from @Microsoft - I clearly marked in the video anything that is not real.
I have since learned that the actual machine from the RICM that was the basis for the MDR computers was the Data General Dasher - reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/s/U0FE9VGBOG
I own a vintage 1986 Kapro 1 CP/M computer that I inherited from my father in 1989. He had used the machine in an effort to write a novel about his experiences as an embedded journalist in the Vietnam War. In 2014, in an effort to recover those writings, I came up with a method to connect the Kaypro to my @Apple Macbook Pro through a series of adapter cables. Through this connection, I was able to fool the Kaypro into thinking the MacBook was a printer, so I could "print" the word processing documents and capture the output on the Mac side. I filmed the process in 2014, but couldn't think of a way to present it in a way that would be at all interesting to anyone other than myself.
Fast forward to 2025, more than a decade later, and I became obsessed with the @AppleTV show "Severance," created by Dan Erickson and Ben Stiller. Several months ago, I saw an interview with Ben Stiller and Adam Scott on @TheVerge, where Ben mentioned that the design inspiration for the retro MDR workstations came from the Rhode Island Computer Museum (@RIComputerMuseum) While I have not yet visited the museum, I have been a Rhode Islander (literal and now honorary) for the past 19 years). I now had my storyline. I hope you enjoy it.
I did have some fun with AI image generation, using the Bing Image Creator from @Microsoft - I clearly marked in the video anything that is not real.
I have since learned that the actual machine from the RICM that was the basis for the MDR computers was the Data General Dasher - reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/s/U0FE9VGBOG
