Gammitin (Ben) 💾

"We need to verify your identity and age"

"Don't worry, your data is safe with us!"

Come and join our Discord server, our awesome members make cool stuff like this! 😍
Invite link: discord.gg/fEKk5JKxg
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Result!
I now have a working Commodore VIC-20, I'll do a full thread soon 👍

I don't use this Book 8088 enough......

Acorn A4000 Keyboard (1992)

Post something from the 70s! 🖤

Yes, that's what this is

Yeah, it's so great, really nostalgic isn't it

I think I'm probably in a minority, but I really enjoy doing Windows updates on legacy systems. I think it goes back to when I worked in I.T and had 20 machines on the bench, would build them, install the OS and then set them all off updating. Weird really but I love it! ☺️

IBM OS/2 Warp ☺️

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I intend to take YT more seriously this year and make some full videos, watch this space!

I haven't posted this for a while, here's my links for anyone interested:
linktr.ee/gammitin
There's an invite link (bottom link on my linktree) to the awesome retro community RHD, filled with knowledgeable, helpful & friendly retro enthusiasts and lots of awesome content.

Lovely designs, really well done 👍👍👍

It's back when Genius were at their engineering High Point 🤓

Yes it was "gmouse.com" and you're correct it had a very small memory footprint. I guess they really were Geniuses 🤓

Remember the green cutting board style mouse pad you got with it?

🖲️ Genius HiPoint - Clip-on Laptop Trackball [1992]
🖱️ Genius GM-6000 Serial Mouse [1989]
Both sealed and staying that way!

Happy Retro Friday folks 🤓

Japan Factory for Making Chip Material Destroyed (Published 1993)

For anyone interested in what these weird memory modules are all about, here's an article from 1993, that explains: www.nytimes.com/1993/07/05/b....

Trident TVGA8900D 1MB ISA 16-bit & 8-bit compatible Video Card (1992)

Very, it's used by many people, great bit of kit

And this is the IRQ line on my faulty C64 board. What I've ruled out:
Not the CIA's or VIC-II, it does the same with the CIA's out and the VIC-II works in my other board (Yes that's Mhz 😲)

So this is the IRQ line on my working C64 board, a steady, smooth 60Hz:

It looks like my kind of fun! 👍👍👍

Going back to this one, it's been a while!
Two identical c64 boards;
Top board no cursor ❌
Bottom board perfect ✅

Upper RAM fault confirmed 👍

Well, that's a win, let's see if it is the ram that has gone faulty!?

I joined 4 copies of the diag rom to make a 64k ROM image: