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Playing with old computers, breaking them, maybe fixing them.

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Wow!

06.05.2025 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a man stands in front of a sphere with the words science written on it ALT: a man stands in front of a sphere with the words science written on it

Titanic is a science movie , you gotta go for

10.02.2025 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Broken Commodore 1085s epic repair
YouTube video by The 8-Bit Manshed Broken Commodore 1085s epic repair

my most epic monitor repair to date. Snapped in 5 places, 105 traces repaired...
youtu.be/Dsje26clJ-Q

#amiga #commodore #crt #RetroComputing

15.01.2025 19:10 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Are your jumpers set for CGA ? If 5 and 6 are both off then motherboard is set to MDA

11.01.2025 22:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We had a power brown out, and it just scrambled the display. The powercycle fixed it.

07.01.2025 18:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Picked up an old soldering station from a junk yard in Mos Eisley, seems to be stuck in Aurebesh mode.

07.01.2025 17:31 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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It's the IBM 5151 monitor , shipped with the original IBM personal computer in 1981

30.12.2024 16:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
stardot.org.uk - Index page

www.stardot.org.uk/forums/ would be my first choice , have fun πŸ‘

26.12.2024 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

#SonicScanlineSunday

22.12.2024 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 61    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Are, are you the puppeteer ? 😜

20.12.2024 17:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How tall can you make a 5150?

#retrocomputing

18.12.2024 11:49 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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No love from @hackaday-feed.bsky.social on my latest project. Maybe repost to let them know I’m not dead.

16.12.2024 20:20 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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The possibilities ✨️

14.12.2024 13:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Does seem have an improvised feel πŸ€”

13.12.2024 23:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This board is from an old PAL test pattern generator

13.12.2024 23:14 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Late 1960s early 1970s analog electronics was so colourful.

13.12.2024 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1
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Thanks. Here is another shot in progress from underneath. The inside is reinforced with resin

12.12.2024 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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No tube replacement , CRT all the way πŸ˜‰

11.12.2024 06:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It was shipped with a keyboard in the same box. The monitor was just sitting on the keyboard. During shipping, the monitor had no chance as the uneven base resulted in cracks, and then the rest of the damage occurred.

10.12.2024 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes indeed, and hope the battery has not exploded, as they tend to do.

10.12.2024 11:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
IBM PS1 2011, 80286  2.5MB RAM

IBM PS1 2011, 80286 2.5MB RAM

IBM vibes

10.12.2024 10:38 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mac Vibes

09.12.2024 23:18 β€” πŸ‘ 405    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 3
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Best used with Stacker CPU management. Get the most from those stacked CPUs

09.12.2024 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Release v2024.12.08 Β· BlueSCSI/BlueSCSI-v2 This update is recommended for all users and should be the end of any odd SDIO timeouts or errors that were experienced by a small number of users. With the SDIO rewrite by @androda last release an...

Stability, framework updates, and Pico2/2W support in the latest release, check it out! github.com/BlueSCSI/Blu...

#BlueSCSI #SCSI #VintageMac #RetroComputing

09.12.2024 13:53 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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STs are ok too I guess

08.12.2024 18:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Exactly πŸ’―

08.12.2024 13:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Is the fastest 68k Macintosh an Amiga? I'm just asking. πŸ˜‰

08.12.2024 12:50 β€” πŸ‘ 381    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 1
I Built Apple’s 1980s iPad Concept!
YouTube video by Kevin Noki I Built Apple’s 1980s iPad Concept!

Kevin Noki is at it again, amazing work.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grd_...

05.12.2024 13:15 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Gotcha, I forgot that some of those had no video out.

03.12.2024 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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@ronscompvids.bsky.social , I guess this connector is video out, but cannot say I ever saw it done this way before

03.12.2024 13:53 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

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