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It survived the ride!
#RetroComputing #VintageComputing #CRT #RetroGaming

02.11.2025 19:32 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Guide to Electronic Components A list of parts each with a photo of a SOT-23 package Bipolar Transistor MOSFET JFET Voltage Regulator Diode Supervisor Thyristor Voltage Monitor Temperature Sensor Voltage Reference Varactor Magnetic Field Sensor EEPROM Resistor Divider LED (but with a red SOT-23 package that is glowing!)

Here's a handy guide to some electronic components.

30.10.2025 03:09 — 👍 775 🔁 146 💬 25 📌 11

I bought my PS2 on release day. (24/11/2000). Here is the receipt. It cost friggin' 600 euros (including one game).

29.10.2025 20:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Since I ultimately became a Computer Science Engineer, you can imagine the impact opening thoses boxes back in 1997 had on my life.

29.10.2025 19:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have retrieved the original boxes from my first PC from my parents' attic. #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

29.10.2025 19:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

YouTube video by Retro Tech Restorations More vintage audio gear to test - Audio Autopsy Episode 3

Audio Autopsy Episode 3 is online now. youtu.be/IrffaSZoOQg

29.10.2025 17:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you're booing Norris, Verstappen, Hamilton or whoever, I don't care, you're an idiot, and you shouldn't be let in a grand prix again.

#F1 #MexicanGP #RaceFans

26.10.2025 21:52 — 👍 25 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Cable spaghetti

25.10.2025 08:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Recording some background music for my Halloween party next week.🎃👻

24.10.2025 08:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

YouTube video by Retro Tech Restorations A Philips tape with some very bad sticky shed syndrome.

This is what sticky shed on Philips tapes looks like.
youtube.com/shorts/OEgEm...

21.10.2025 14:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

YouTube video by Retro Tech Restorations An alignment was all this tape recorder really needed - Sony TC-630 - Part 3

So the Sony TC-630 is finally finished!
youtu.be/agCzFYj3yzI

11.10.2025 08:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nice. But for peak nostalgia I would prefer ICQ.

09.10.2025 14:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Nice!
I have the same itch when I see Kodak, Fuji or Agfa signs still hanging above (what used to be) photography stores.

01.10.2025 19:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A bit ashamed to share this, but this is what happens when you don't check your pinball machines' batteries for 10 years. Luckily I installed a separate battery holder 10 years ago when I restored this machine. Check your batteries, fellas!

17.09.2025 15:38 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

YouTube video by Retro Tech Restorations Testing some more audio gear - Audio Autopsy Episode 2

Since the first Audio Autopsy video did quite well, I made another one. Again, I test 3 items of vintage audio gear from my stock.
youtu.be/zv2KYYnBOhw

13.09.2025 23:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I was actually in Germany last Thursday and I got it too. We were in the car so we got 2 phones plus the car audio buzzing. Quite the jump indeed.

13.09.2025 14:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thief (film) - Wikipedia

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31.08.2025 21:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Well, I wasn't expecting that. Nice!

31.08.2025 17:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

an older man wearing a hat and a tank top is sitting on a bed . ALT: an older man wearing a hat and a tank top is sitting on a bed .

26.08.2025 13:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This deserves an "Oh Nice!", pronounced like Onslow from Keeping Up Appearances

26.08.2025 13:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

YouTube video by Retro Tech Restorations Getting my hands dirty on this tape deck - Sony TC-630 restoration - Part 1

My newest video is the first part in a restoration series on a Sony TC-630 reel-to-reel tape recorder, aka the solid state three head stereo music centre with retract-o-matic! youtu.be/zRWOnTAJqB4?...

25.08.2025 21:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

a black speaker is sitting on the floor next to a wall ALT: a black speaker is sitting on the floor next to a wall

22.08.2025 21:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

YouTube video by Retro Tech Restorations The worst tape mold I've ever seen

Wanna see some mold?
youtu.be/5woi2Rv6Sh8

14.08.2025 21:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

YouTube video by Michael Yates Tape Head Demagnetizer Review, Before & After Sound Test, Akai, Sony, Cassette deck, Reel 2 Reel

I was also skeptical at first but this video convinced me. So I bought a demagnitizer and I can also hear a difference on my gear.
youtu.be/MmnEqJMAm8g?...

12.08.2025 20:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yes, this is really a thing. The drawback from this type of demagnitizer is that it only demagnitizes the head, and not the other metal parts in the tape path. Also, it's probably not as strong as a handheld demagnitizer.

12.08.2025 19:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Wait... you have a deadkey for cedilla?! What kind of masochism is this?

05.08.2025 17:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

YouTube video by Retro Tech Restorations Testing some vintage audio gear... will they work?

A bit of a different video this time. I took 3 previously untested items from my stock and checked if they are working. If you're interested you can follow along.

On a side note, this is the first video where I speak directly into the camera. Still feels a bit weird. 😅https://youtu.be/bR6C7ZnM3Xk

04.08.2025 14:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Let's hope the pieces don't break into pieces!

03.08.2025 09:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

YouTube video by Nordischsound Ozzy Osbourne Immortalized in Chiptune – Paranoid on C64

🤘🤘🤘
youtube.com/watch?v=dEmy...

29.07.2025 20:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

YouTube video by Retro Tech Restorations The Telefunken Jubilate 8 is now fully restored - Part 4

I finished the restoration of the Telefunken Jubilate 8 and I'm incredibly pleased with the result. This radio looks magnificent!

youtu.be/6s-OKO-M7O0

28.07.2025 13:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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