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The Commodore 64 Ultimate is really a masterclass in how to make a new #retrocomputing product the right way.
While I don't have one, I really appreciate the attention to details and the way they're marketing it.
Also astounding that there were so many naysayers (I unfollowed or blocked so many retrocomputing people who were outright hostile to it). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Dieses Jahr im Sommer hatte ich ja einen Amiga 500 übernommen, nebst einem großen Karton Disketten und Zubehör. Mit in der Kiste: eine Dose Energy-Drink, originalverpackt. #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #amiga

🖨️ Thunderscan: A clever device transforms a printer into a scanner
#computing

My first attempt at desoldering a BGA chip and it worked really well. Chip cleaned up nicely as well.
Disclaimer: I don't plan on using this chip or board again. So, I don't need it to work at the end.
#retrocomputing
#desoldering

I just managed to pick up eight "Sun Netra 210" 1U UltraSparc-IIIi servers yesterday. In case any #retrocomputing enthusiasts here (particularly those of you I know personally) are interested in such equipment, please let me know. #sun

Can confirm this works on macOS 26, thank you Greg
#retrocomputing #apple #flyingtoasters

The wildest thing about this eBay listing is that it would absolutely not surprise me if they actually sell it for this price
#retrocomputing

Ooh, and Intext has a basic terminal program!
#retrocomputing

Hi #retrocomputing #retro peoples, I've got an HP D510C/845G machine, part number 268899-999 that needs a CPU- everything else is in the machine except for the CPU. What should I get (including fans, and paste recommendations)?

30 years ago... wouldn't it be nostalgic to play Commodore 64 games on your PC, asks this German article from PC Player 12/1995.
I love meta-retrocomputing.
#retrocomputing

Is there such a thing as a USB to 50 pin SCSI adapter? I have a HD from a Mac SE/30, before I destroy it I wonder if there is anything on it? Its the drive from my wife's Mac when we met and got married so umm.. its old. I know Linux could read these formats years ago, not sure if that is still the case. #RetroComputing

Surprise find on the bottom of my box of audio cables. I’ve probably never used it… I don’t have any #MIDI devices around, but it’s still recognized by macOS, so I guess it works, even though the package says it requires a “PowerPC G3 CPU with 233 MHz or higher clock speed.”
#retrocomputing

Is there anyone in #brazil who would help me by purchasing some (small/lightweight) #retrocomputing items available domestically from mercadolivre and ship them to me in Germany? #followerpower

Keep: HP mouse pad
Discard: Microsoft Office CDs
#retrocomputing

Keep: HP mouse pad
Discard: Microsoft Office CDs
#retrocomputing

- Aldo Reset
- Laurent Rueil
- The Softman
What am I?
#retrocomputing

Woo! Got Intext EPROM working on my Epson HX-20 after quite a fight!
After Ghidra'ing the ROM dump to figure out what the error it was giving was about, I figured out it needed me to go through BASIC and do a CLEAR to specify a 'ram file' size for it to use.
Now, to figure out a Ghidra patch.
#retrocomputing

Today's #retrocomputing quiz!
Guess what this 16 lbs laptop from 1991 cost, in today's money.
Solution in a reply.

Well, I had the dip switches set incorrectly and it was trying to test memory that didn't exist. Fixed that and the floppy drives seem to work as well...
I'm also impressed that the Dell System 200 DOS 3.3 Master disk (circa 1987) is still working.
#retrocomputing
#IBM5150

Keep: HP mouse pad
Discard: Microsoft Office CDs
#retrocomputing

«VoilŠ un aperçu du monde de demain!» Eh bien, je regrette de vous informer que l’ordinateur ne nous a pas sorti des embouteillages…
#retrocomputing

A pretty period perfect fun song by
The British IBM
for you #retrocomputing #bbs nerds:
B B S
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Starting your week by getting your DUX in a row ;-)
#retrocomputing #hpux
https://hachyderm.io/@thejpster/115521<…

Things in my drawer. An IC my father ordered for repairing the joystick port on my C64. I remember he ordered two different IC's and it was the other one that needed replacement.
Don't know if these are hard to source nowadays.
#retrocomputing #c64

lol eBay #retrocomputing listing

Hi #retrocomputing peoples, I've got an HP D510C/845G part number 268899-999 that needs a CPU- everything else is in the machine except for the CPU. What should I get (including fans, and paste recommendations)? #askfedi

Who's ready to clean some floppy drive heads? Not really the way I planned to spend my day off but things are reaching dire straights for available floppy drives. Starting to hold up other projects.
#retrocomputing

«VoilŠ un aperçu du monde de demain!» Eh bien, je regrette de vous informer que l’ordinateur ne nous a pas sorti des embouteillages…
#retrocomputing

I've written up, my adventures with the Epson HX-20, summarising the last few months of toots on it!
Have fun:
#retrocomputing

Starting your week by getting your DUX in a row ;-)
#retrocomputing #hpux
https://hachyderm.io/@thejpster/115521

It's alive!
The IBM 5150 (AKA IBM PC) just needed two caps on the 12V line replaced. The monitor had some plastic rattling around in the case. Both of those were pretty easy to solve.
#retrocomputing

tfw when you floppy drive weighs about 15 times as much as your computer
#retrocomputing

Starting your week by getting your DUX in a row ;-)
#retrocomputing #hpux
https://hachyderm.io/@thejpster/115521

Ein vergilbter Nachttischlampen #iMac (#PowerPC) im Studio eines Fotografen.
#RetroComputing #Stilleben<…

For a while in the early 1980s Apple used this sort of model/serial sticker, and I love the design of these
#retrocomputing

I’m once again asking the #retrocomputing community to please back this Kickstarter! Really want to read this story! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bzotto/go-computer-now-the-story-of-sphere

Huh? This motherboard seems to exist in the very short lived AGP world we're 1X is available but not 2x or 4x. Explains why none of my nicer cards will POST with it.
#retrocomputing

Can you fund this already, there's two days left in the Kickstarter and it's over 90% funded.
Sorry that I'm annoying, I'll stop when it's funded.
#retrocomputing
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bzotto/go-computer-now-the-story-of-sphere

Anyone in the US wants this stack of EDGE magazines? PM me an offer and where you live and I can find out shipping cost (USPS Media Mail).
#retrocomputing #EDGE

These are just so pretty inside and outside
#retrocomputing

Mmmmmh capacitor plague era. Anyone need a project P4 motherboard? Has AGP slot, onboard network and sound. Yours for price of shipping in US. DM me.
#retrocomputing

I hate trying to work with OS/2. I'm told this worked on IBM systems, but it's a pain in the ass on anything else. Right now, it can see the drive, crate partitions, but not volumes. And it needs volumes to install.
I'm at the point where I be happy if it nuked my two windows installs (because I can put those back) if it would just install itself....
#retrocomputing

Ok much less wonky now. Still not there but it’s getting closer. :)
#retrocomputing

Does anyone have a restore CD for a Toshiba Satellite Pro 425? (might be the same as for the 420).
Yes, I know that archive.org exists. There’s various restore CDs there but I couldn’t find one for the 420/425 series.
(If you have one and can’t image it, I can do it for you and archive it.)
#retrocomputing

Time for another #retrocomputing quiz!
This NEC laptop from 1990 weighing in at 19 lbs and having a 16 MHz 386SX and a 100MB hard disk sports a color 6" EGA display!
How much did it cost (inflation adjusted to today's $)?
Reply with your guess; answer in a reply.

#retrocomputing quiz time, how much do you think this 1994 optical 2.6GB (or 5.2GB if you use both sides of the disks) storage system sold for (in today's money)?
solution in a reply