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May 21, 2021 By H. Nelson Spencer It could be said that 80-year-old Mike Marko, known to many as “Sparky,” was born with proverbial grease under his nails. Marko, the president and owner of Mike’s Inc., is this year’s selection for the IMX Achievement Award. Mechanically minded from the outset, he was never destined to be a desk jockey. He had this innate ability to fix things. Jim Marko with a young Mike Marko. (Photo courtesy of Mike’s Inc.) “I was always pretty good with my hands, thanks to my dad. He was my mentor,” Marko said. When his father, Jim, was an engineer on the mv. Midwest Cities, a single-screw, 850 hp. towboat owned by Lake Tankers Corporation, he arranged for Mike to work on the boat because they were shorthanded, said his son, adding, “I was only 8 years old and still in grade school in East Alton, Ill., but I helped out when I could during the summers. I got my t ....
Retro video terminal experience at the Slovenian Computer History Museum I’m Marko, a volunteer at the non-profit Slovenian Computer History Museum. For some time my passions have been retrocomputing and retrogaming, especially to try out all the interesting hardware from the 80s when I was born. After I made a successful unicorn exit from a mobile apps company I co-founded I found the perfect match for my next calling in our Museum Society, which has been collecting exhibits since 2004 while part of the Ljubljana’s (now defunct) hackerspace Cyberpipe – they were looking for a permanent space to call home and I wanted to become involved in preserving, exploring and presenting our computing past. I bought 700 m2 of real estate to provide to the museum rent-free and after an intensive planning and renovation period we were hoping to open to the public last year but of course this was prevented by the pandemic. ....