Eric

Finally done! Added MMU3 too!

Ceramic white 6502 CPU from 1975

Happy birthday to the MOS 6502! It was 50 years ago today that people were able to buy their first samples of the chip from a jar in a hotel room at WESCON.

Here's my oldest 6502 from the 52nd week of 1975. Still works perfectly!

A few more old gems of mine that my dad found in the basement..

Never too much

Reverse-Engineering Aleratec CD Changers for Archival Use Handling large volumes of physical media can be a bit of a chore, whether it’s about duplication or archiving. Fortunately this is a perfect excuse for building robotic contraptions, with …read more

Reverse-Engineering Aleratec CD Changers for Archival Use

Yes!! It’s so weird!

I am getting recommended your old videos (as well as others) now. I just sort by my subscriptions to get around it but it’s incredibly annoying. Important to note that the old videos being recommended I’ve already watched as well.

YouTube and their assessment of why a video is doing badly (or doing well)

Whatever changed with YouTube back between August 10 to August 17 has resulted in every video I've released since to get the same message and a massive drop in views .... * SIGH *

When YouTube decides your subscribers aren't interested, it buries the video and stops recommend it.

Demoralizing....

The delivery that arrived Thursday has been opened, a #Commodore COLT PC-10/PC-20!! They packed it very well & it is safe to say it arrived perfectly, plus the machine is clean inside & out in great condition!! Next to do is boot it up, just need more free time for that.

Where is the rest after 13??

That’s link only has the first post..

My Qume DT/8 used for archiving and imagine 8" floppies

After writing a disk, I imagine it again to make sure I got a good write. This is what a BAD disk looks like.

After cleaning the heads and then using another floppy, this is what a good write looks like.

It took a while and I had to throw away seven bad disks, but I was able to finally write three good 8" floppies.

Tonight, I spent several hours just trying to write three 8" double sided floppies using a Greaseweazle. It turned out to be a huge ordeal due to having multiple bad disks which clogged the drive's heads.

In the end, it worked out! The good old Qume DT/8 drive is a real workhorse.

Messy workbench with 3d printer parts strewn about

So many parts.. MK4s -> Core1

Trump: "They call me the president of Europe. Which is an honor."

Europe:

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How Intel’s 386 Protects Itself From ESD, Latch-up and Metastability To connect the miniature world of integrated circuits like a CPU with the outside world, a number of physical connections have to be made. Although this may seem straightforward, these …read more

How Intel’s 386 Protects Itself From ESD, Latch-up and Metastability

i am so sick of the dumbest people alive being in charge of everything and the second dumbest people alive writing opinion columns about how it's good

Sleep (NSCoding)

https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/sleep-nscoding

Sleep is a tiny open source Mac OS X application to put your computer to sleep directly from Spotlight. Just type "Sleep" on your spotlight window and hit the return key.

#macgarden #utilities #2014 #nscoding #patrickchamelo

Thank you!

Marketplace never disappoints..

We have just created the Only Human feed™!

This is a feed of Verified Humans: accounts which we have verified as belonging to real people. Truly the only feed that is free of bots and alt accounts.

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It seems to be on the motherboard but I only looked at it briefly last night!

Mac clone power computing computer case missing drives and looking sad

Power computing Mac clone badge

Saved this hot mess from the MIT swap fest this weekend.. it doesn’t power on because what looks like a dead short on the 12v rail. #newenglandretrocomputers #macclone #macintosh

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Uhg love .. love you .. stupid phone

Live you Mads! Sing this guy a song tomorrow!

Windows 3.1 for DOS box.

Original Windows 95 box

OS/2 for Windows box

Nextstep operating system original box

Found some of my operating system purchases in the early to mid nineties in my Dad’s basement. They are complete inside

We’re honored to report that over 11 million showed up for today’s No Kings protest, and totals are still coming in. Just… wow. WOW 😮! There’s nothing more to say.

This Police Academy reboot sounds hilarious.

@npr.org you guys have to do better. They already cut your funding (I am a monthly supporter). Miasma was a theory in ancient times. This playing both sides like they are equal when one is batshit insane is doing us all a disservice. Stand up for what is right. Be the press we deserve.