Want to have everyone who knows what they’re doing flip the bozo bit on you? Refer to reasonable preventative maintenance as “shotgun recapping” and go on about how you “diagnose failures” and try to keep everything possible “original.”
Those original capacitors will eat traces and vias before there’s a failure to diagnose, dumbass.
@pixel And yet, some YouTube bozos actively promote not replacing ancient electrolytic capacitors “unless they’re damaged or test bad” in order to “keep a system original.” #retrocomputing
Anyone got an old 486 or pentium 1-3 pc they wanna get rid of? My kid is really interested in playing with old computers #vintagecomputing#retrocomputing
Well, I got into our loft; and in between more valves, ancient capacitors, huge speakers, my dads university notes, yet more slides to scan, I found my pile of yet more keyboards.
I see a Sun 3, Sun 4, and maybe 5, 2 archimedes keyboards and some others - that'll be a job to clean up.
(I was hoping my dad might have kept an FX-80 but I don't see it, or his pile of Nixie tubes)
Seller of 2004 Sony Laptop said he hadn’t tested the sound that it was probably just missing the driver. I think it’s a bit worse than that 😅 Well it was 40$. Audio out works though so I can just route the sound back to my speakers via the Mac.
The CBM 8050 utilizes MN2114 SRAM chips, which are 1Kx4 SRAMs. The advantage is that they don't require refresh, as DRAMs do. But they were of course more expensive. However as there are only 8 for a total of 4KB of memory the cost factor was probably not that great. Plus otherwise you would have had to have extra ICs for the refresh signals... #retrocomputing#commodore#commodorePET#cbm8050
time for fairly obscure canadian retrocomputing history
IBM Home Computing seems to have been a canada-only chain of retail stores that sold IBM products. it didn't last long here - maybe 5-10 years - before it disappeared in the early 2000s. we had a single location in downtown Edmonton City Centre Mall in the mid-90s.
it wasn't the place to go for the best deals on hardware and software. everything was sold at retail prices, and i remember seeing very few sales. i remember buying my Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold at the downtown location as a first-year university student for the princely sum of $300.
as you can see in the last photo - buying an IBM in 1994 was a major investment. you could buy three used cars at the time for less than a pentium desktop. 😬
does anyone else remember these retail stores? did they exist in the US, or was it a canadian chain?
No shortage of discrete logic in this NEC PC-8031 disk drive. The rusty full-height 5.25" floppies are going to be "fun" to get working again. #retrocomputing#pc8001
Had a weird thing happen just now. I looked over, my whole workstation had no power. Initially thought the power strip died. Switched a plug, nothing. The whole wall/outlet is out. Go outside, flip the switch. Come back in, things are back on. Power is back to the wall.
But I believe the Windows 7 machine my father in law gave to me several years back is dead. Won't turn on, always has before easily. It was lagging a lot, I used it daily for many years. Suuucks.
Looks like it's time to break that Windows 2000 machine out of the closet and put Linux on it 😂
Set up the other PC I had in the closet. Another old Dell (I thought it had Windows 2000, it's XP). I last actively used it around 2012-2013. Plugged it up, works, clearing off garbage software (Chrome!) I discovered that in true music freak form, I forgot I have like ~20GB of great music mp3s on here. Add the more recent stuff from my phone, I'll be almost back up to speed. Today's playlist is wild. I still listen to like 80-90% of it. Check the old apps in the 2nd pic before I deleted Tweetdeck, etc! 🤣 The BlackBerry one stays forever. 😍