Spotted at the System Source Computer Museum: Missile Command 3.0 running on a Xerox Alto.

How many people wrote games for the Alto?! I wonder if this guy went on to bigger things?

Managed to get a Commodore 64 AEA User port to TNC cable.
* Trying to find the manual or details
* Looking for an image of the original PackRatt Software for the Commodore 64 if possible?

Anyone in the Fediverse able to help? Thanks!

Picked up my first ever amber monitor at the INIT HELLO vendor/swap room on day one. Adjusted a little and it looks great!

This piece of beauty is the MSX Spectravideo SVI-738 Xpress a "portable" computer with 80K of RAM, 3.5 fdd, and it worked with CP/M because it was able to work with 80 columns. The original price we see is about 600€ (without inflation adjustment).

New video! Troubleshooting, repairing and improving the VIC-20 Diagnostics Cartridge and Harness that turned out to be broken in the previous video.

YouTube: https://youtu.be/7GSwavjNaFU
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/tn6bKEQN3eF7r6CKsexFSt

We're expanding our gallery space in August to set up a Thinking Machines: Connection Machine with an event to celebrate the 40th anniversary. Join as a BOOTSTRAP member to attend the preview and get a behind the scene peek at the CM2's HOST, a Symbolics 3670 LISP machine, as we restore and recover its *LISP (StarLISP) programming system.

https://icm.museum

https://toobnix.org/w/57vV3XjbcdEjNVqYGTzZJ4

I'm looking forward to seeing you all at the Amiga/040th event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.

https://amigameditation.guru/

In nicht mal einer Woche ist das erste Vintage Computer Festival Europa in der Zuse-Stadt Hünfeld. In der Ausstellung wird auch eine PDP-8/l zu sehen sein. Nicht das Bausatzmodell auf dem Foto, sondern der "echte" Computer von 1969. Alle Details zur Veranstaltung: https://www.huenfeld.de/vcfe

Wer mehr über den PiDP-8 Bausatz erfahren möchte, klickt bitte hier entlang: https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-8
#VCFe #VCFeZuse #dec #pdp8 #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing

More INIT HELLO fun at the System Source Computer Museum today!

Getting back to nerd stuff now;

I ran into a bit of an issue a while ago with my Acorn Archimedes A310; the floppy drive had been left alone for 30 years with no disc in it, as a result the upper read head spring had, well, lost it's springyness and did not descend when a disc is inserted

To compound this issue the A310 is designed as such that the front face of the disc drive forms apart of the case itself, so unfortunately I can't just use any drive, and to further compound it, the drive (Sony MFD-63W-00D) is unusual that the eject button and activity LED are on the same side, so a compatible drive is gonna be very tricky indeed

Luckily, this isn't the only thing that Acorn used this particular drive in, earlier Acorn released a version of the BBC Master called the Master Compact, this put most of the computer itself in a wedge style keyboard, with an external pizza box style "drive unit" with a power supply and drive; I was able to acquire a known working one of these, and to sweeten the deal, these drive units don't use the monolithic drive case case front face design so I can easily throw in any old 3.5 inch drive and I don't need to destroy a piece of hardware

One quick transplant later, my A310 now has a working floppy drive! I'll now probably use my leftover Master drive unit for my Greaseweazle since it provides power to the drives and overall just keeps things nice and clean

Check out what is on display at Interim Computer Museum

https://icm.museum/blog/?p=268

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We’re open until 4pm today!

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My first #modem. 2400bps, so what, about 255 bytes per second, plenty fast. My favourite #BBS was Underground ubbs in #Nakkila
And I did some early browsing, that was quite painful already.
I was lucky once with lighting, only trace was cut, easy enough to fix.
#vintagecomputing #hardware #vintagetech #vintagehardware

Amiga retro-computing enthusiasts might like this online tool that allows you to browse / explore Amiga Disk Files (ADF) or Hard Disk Files (HDF)…

https://vamigados.github.io

Making some #ChalkArt with the family

flaremation leapmaker on eBay came up and personally installed an HDMI flickerfixer for our Commodore Amiga 2000 today!

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