The decade-old Lenovo ThinkPad W541 has a new operating system.
Author: Garrett Fuller
A tour of the Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum
Telephony history — from a replica of Alexander Graham Bell’s 1876 liquid phone to modern smart phones — is on display at a quaint St. Louis museum.
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Trip to Kewanee
More than a decade after learning about Kewanee Boiler, I finally made the 6-hour trip to Kewanee, Illinois.
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Cleaning a classic rotary phone
After coming down with the “phone bug” (or phone-itis), I found my grandparents’ 1972 Stromberg-Carlson 500D rotary telephone in their basement. I decided to give it a good cleaning and test it out.
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Roanoke passive reflector towers
What’s better than one passive reflector tower? How about two?
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Check out my new Mastodon account for periodic updates, photos of/for projects and more!
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Five months of OpenIndiana: Thoughts
After five months of “daily driving” OpenIndiana Hipster, I have been adjusting to using the descendant of Ma Bell’s operating system — Unix System V.
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Horns Across Missouri 2025
I plan to further document former AT&T Long Lines microwave relay sites in Missouri this year.
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Reviving the W541 with OpenIndiana
My third Lenovo ThinkPad has a new lease on life.
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The quandary of whether to continue using WordPress, or continue my transition to a static website created from scratch, lives on.
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