I have been following the exact steps as outlined in this tutorial video, with no oddities happening along the way:...
So I got this Commodore PC-10 III, which the sellers photos clearly showed a different one without that red button at the front and a small Floppy Drive. It also cost me around 200€...
I've gotten really interested in old Computers since I got my Commodore PET 2 months ago, so to play some good ol MS Train Simulator and Stronghold 2, I got this massive beauty. Here is a little size comparison between it and my main PC...
Recently picket up this old Thinkpad T30 for 2 bucks at a local flea market. Its a bit scratched up and the battery is more or less dead but everything else is working fine. Its Pentium 4M, 1gb of ram and 40gb hdd might be a bit overkill for win2k but its really amazing. Running Firefox 13 and a webone proxy to deal with ssl...
After taking that pic, I got done cleaning the CBM. The entire Body, Board and keys all look a lot better now and im glad to say that after all of that, it turned on no problem as well!...
I've had some pretty bad experience about cleaning older Machines such as my NES, where I've accidentally rubbed a lot of the letters and number off and noticed too late. Thats something im particularly worried about when it comes to the keycaps. Is there a reason to worry or tactics I should try to avoid rubbing the letters...
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I've finally taken the jump into retrocomputing with something I've always wanted to own, a proper Commodore PET, or CBM 3016 to be exact!...
They keep this 20+ year old laptop around because it has a serial port and every now and then that comes in handy....
This should boot up on your run of the mill S-100 based system with an 8086. Maybe an 8080 too? Also, it reportedly runs under #simH as a virtual machine. According to some, this is the earliest known version of #86-DOS, not long after replacing #QDOS as its successor....
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The Interim Computer Festival is September 30th - October 1st in Seattle WA at the INTRASPACE event space at the Rainier Brewery. Registration is open.
You are a BASIC bitch, so type-in and share your BASIC listings here. Any and all BASIC dialects are welcome.
Source: AKAT-1 Analogue Computer (by Bethany Fox - ArtStation):...
The SDF Plan9 Boot Camp Fall 2023 is now open to registrations! The boot camp is free, come learn about the Plan9 operating system in a friend shared community setting with self-paced activities...
Heya! I thought I’d mention that I’ve been doing a bunch of development on the optical Timex Datalink watches! I have been carefully sniffing data from the original Timex software with a logic analyzer, and have fully reverse engineered every Datalink protocol, the serial Notebook Adapter, and even the CRT syncing graphics!...
So, I recently got this C64 for free, and I’ve been wanting to test it. However, figuring out how to connect a monitor has led me to various forums with home-made adapters that require soldering, a 5-pin DIN to 4xRCA to…? My monitor has VGA and HDMI, etc, the usual modern inputs. Someone claimed that the voltages are...
Finally got around to play around with Greaseweazle, and wish I had done it a long time ago! Greaseweazle is a tool to read and write raw data from many different systems. Want to read a CoCo disk, or write a new Amiga disk? I haven’t tried it, but it supposedly can even deal with 8" disks (if you have the drive and interface)...
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There’s a MUD I used to be into back in the day (it’s actually still online, and my characters still exist!), and I got several of my friends into it. Unfortunately, most of us didn’t have internet at home and could only play it in the school lab....
