DevilishDesign

Oooh, I know!! 😀

Just backed this myself :)

Go Computer Now! – The Story of Sphere Computers A book telling the extraordinary story of Sphere, a 1970s Utah personal computer maker far ahead of its time—until its sudden collapse.

Hello! I'm very proud to announce that my yearslong research project into the lost Sphere computer, corporation, and community has launched a crowdfunding campaign today for a professionally-printed hardcover book, with a compelling narrative and images! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bzo...

Hmm, tricky one. I'm guessing it originally came from a factory owned by Acorn? 🤔

Do we know where this prototype is? Museum, private collection?

JetPac was the first computer game I ever played. 16k ZX Spectrum 😍

A beautiful case with an Elektor Junior came into my collection.

With the Digitus KIM-1 on the left, center first version, right Rev A

Being a bit lazy today but I really need to sort through this box of boards

You can’t beat an MK-14 for a wonderful piece of history. I’m really looking forward to getting this one working again 😍

Ok, lets play...

Top centre - Commodore 8296
2nd Row - ADM 3A, IBM CGA/EGA Monitor, Televideo 912
3rd row - ADM 5, 2x TRS-80 Model 4s

YouTube video by More Fun Fixing It SALE DAY at The National Museum of Computing in Bletchley

The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley held a sale day to shift some of their unwanted stock and raise money for the museum. I went along to see if I could pick up a bargain.

A huge thank you to the sponsor of this video www.pcbway.com

Poor Barry! 🤣

Thanks to @tnmoc.bsky.social for putting on a most excellent jumble sale! I've picked up a couple of projects that will keep me busy for a while 😀

😍. At least it must be battery powered 😉

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'Firing up Kicad' ......

Only the RS232 expansion to get and I can move on to another obsession 😂

If you see this, quote with a time travel movie that's not BACK TO THE FUTURE.

A teletype printed Mandlebrot image along with BASIC program used to generate it on an Altair 8800

Write once, run anywhere! (1/2)

At #retrofest a few weeks ago I really enjoyed the setup @devilishdesign.bsky.social had with an Altair 8800 using a teletype as the user interface. He very kindly printed me off a listing of his BASIC Mandlebrot generator.

Awesome Stuff! 😀

Indeed! I thought it would have been a lot more common. Obviously not much use on the Teletype but there were far more optical readers about.

Mike has also uploaded it to his website....
deramp.com/downloads/al...

I copied the tape using my high speed reader / punch which took under a minute. Figured the optical reader was less likely to damage the tape than the Teletype :)

I've posted a copy of the tape on this thread...
forum.vcfed.org/index.php?th...

Woohoo! Microsoft BASIC 2 loaded from paper tape! 😀

Copy of the tape made. Let's try and load it 😟

Going through some old paper tapes and found this. It's version 2 of Microsoft BASIC from 1975. Version 1 was never released to the public which makes this Microsoft's first commercial product and it's not been archived anywhere! Time to break out my tape reader... 🙂

YouTube video by More Fun Making It Short Circuit Roadtrip - Visiting a Retro Gallery/Collection/Shop/Museum

What's the best thing to do on a sunny day at the seaside?
Visit @shortcircuit.org.uk of course!
Join me and my pal Thomas as we poke around a vintage computer "Gallery" and chat to the amazing people behind it.
We also had ice creams and a lovely seaside lunch.

This morning, I have been mostly testing Apple II disk drives. They all work! 😯

Oooh, I had the blue one back in the day (Slightly earlier version without the front USB). Athlon XP 1800+, Radeon 8500 and a pair of 60Gb HDs. Had it paired with a dark grey 21" SGI monitor.