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Playing with old computers, breaking them, maybe fixing them.
Wow!
May 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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my most epic monitor repair to date. Snapped in 5 places, 105 traces repaired...
youtu.be/Dsje26clJ-Q

#amiga #commodore #crt #RetroComputing
Broken Commodore 1085s epic repair
YouTube video by The 8-Bit Manshed
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January 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Picked up an old soldering station from a junk yard in Mos Eisley, seems to be stuck in Aurebesh mode.
January 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
December 22, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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How tall can you make a 5150?

#retrocomputing
December 18, 2024 at 11:49 AM
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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.
December 16, 2024 at 8:20 PM
Late 1960s early 1970s analog electronics was so colourful.
December 13, 2024 at 11:12 PM
IBM vibes
December 10, 2024 at 10:38 AM
Mac Vibes
December 9, 2024 at 11:18 PM
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Stability, framework updates, and Pico2/2W support in the latest release, check it out! github.com/BlueSCSI/Blu...

#BlueSCSI #SCSI #VintageMac #RetroComputing
Release v2024.12.08 · 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...
github.com
December 9, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Is the fastest 68k Macintosh an Amiga? I'm just asking. 😉
December 8, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Kevin Noki is at it again, amazing work.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grd_...
I Built Apple’s 1980s iPad Concept!
YouTube video by Kevin Noki
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2024 at 1:15 PM
@ronscompvids.bsky.social , I guess this connector is video out, but cannot say I ever saw it done this way before
December 3, 2024 at 1:54 PM
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Sometimes I don't understand why YouTube's algorithm doesn't recommend a video more widely.

@idlehandsdev.bsky.social made a banger this month, it should have a lot more views: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ4I...
Become Anyone 2.0
YouTube video by SeanHodgins
www.youtube.com
December 2, 2024 at 3:53 AM
Apple's A/UX on a Quadra 700, console access over serial with the VT220 terminal.
November 30, 2024 at 7:19 PM
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Sony made the MiniDisc audio format, and they also made laptops…so what happened when they put the two together? Let’s find out!
youtu.be/edKZVCiMpBk
That time Sony made a MiniDisc laptop
YouTube video by This Does Not Compute
youtu.be
November 29, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Raspberry Pi booting on the IBM 5151 monitor. This uses a phosphor that has high persistence, good for reducing monitor flicker, bad for motion. #retrocomputing
November 27, 2024 at 6:31 PM
If life gives you lemonade, make lemons , that's the saying right?

Some time back, I bought an IBM 5153 monitor, and it arrived smashed.
November 27, 2024 at 9:23 AM
Sometimes I think amber monitors were just a dream #retrocomputing
November 26, 2024 at 1:08 PM
When going Amiga go full Amiga !
November 25, 2024 at 7:48 PM
Deleted my twitter account a few weeks ago. Now on bluesky and seems like anything is possible again.
November 25, 2024 at 5:44 PM
In internet space no one can hear you eep
October 29, 2024 at 6:42 PM
Happy 40th Anniversary Apple #Macintosh
January 24, 2024 at 7:49 PM