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Through some incredible logistics I negotiated a deal and when I went to VCF East last month I had filled my luggage with a cardboard box and extra packaging so that this could be carefully packed and flown back home as checked baggage. There is nearly nothing that exists about this on the...

One of the things that attracted me to the Datamaster beyond it the most affordable system I could find was that it was said to have an expansion that was a precursor to the ISA slot. The catch however was that I've had conflicting information about how the slot was arranged, either...

Someone at the VCF Consignment was selling three units in varying condition and I drew the short straw. :( They all seem like they were from a portable programming system for GE radios and mobile telephones ( https://www.hallelectronics.com/getech/prog4.htm ) so they all came with the computer...

I picked this machine and its dock up (and again, it's missing the monitor hat...) from VCF East as "not working" and it turned out to be the AC adapter needed a recap. The machine runs aside from a missing hard drive and the usually floppy drive issues and it's actually very complete, the...

Someone linked them to me while I was at VCF East but I couldn't get into my paypal in time and they sold.... https://www.ebay.com/itm/296366394774 It was a listing for 18lbs of 8" floppy disks and a number of them implied they were all from an IBM System/32, including at least one official...

I was given this at the Interim Computer Festival two weeks ago and got around this morning to completely photographing it for bitsavers. That I can tell it substitutes a paper tape reader/punch and can read/write at 110 or 300bps using an ordinary cassette tape. The flyer says it can do...

As a (somewhat expensive) side project from the Sun MCA-3000 thread about two months ago I purchased a stack of floppy disks for the vehicle diagnostic system as an attempt to deal with the problem where Sun was stupid and decided using somewhat fragile and dirt sensitive floppy disk media in an...

I have three of these monitors. Two are crumbled messes of yellow plastic but I have another one which I bought about 14 years ago that's still completely unyellowed and was trouble-free until yesterday. For those who don't know the 1710AV was a 17" Trinitron monitor sold by Apple with built-in...

I have a Quadra 950 running 7.6 with After Dark 4.0 and the system is set to turn the monitor off completely after 60 minutes. A thing I have noticed is that when I press any keys using the Apple Extended Keyboard the monitor wakes but it seems like the screensaver crashes the system immediately...

I have a T30 Thinkpad which had its drive die a number of years back and I was forced to throw in any drive I had on hand to get it up and running again. Well I lost the Performance Lottery and must of picked the noisiest and slowest 40gb I've ever had to deal with so I activated XP, applied all...

I got a stack of 3M cartridges in their degrading shrink wrap packaging that have likely never been used. I did the visual inspection on one and found the band was intact and didn't lift oxide off the tape when I advanced it by hand. Not really a valid indication of if it would survive the first...

I'm done the hardware interface to connect a Speak & Spell to a ZX81 as per the Computers and Electronics "Talk can be cheap" article and now I'm working on the software. The article lists the code both in machine language and BASIC. It was also available on cassette. (Well, it was almost 31...

It was talked about in the #vc IRC channel that while I was being stupid and installing Xenix 286 I should also add a network card. ;) Xenix 286 does not ship with a TCP stack. That would be available for the 386 releases and later the SCO builds. From what I was told if you wanted TCP on...

Six years ago I built up a fairly decent Mac Pro 1,1 and then gave it faster drives, a newer video card, 16gb ram and did the SLAED Xeon CPU upgrade to make it a dual quad. Also ran El Capitan on it because at that time it was the last version of OS X to support the 1,1 (with patches). It was...

While it is my belief that next to the Toshiba Satellite series, the Compaq LTE Lite series of laptops were perhaps some of the best of the premium white-label laptops of the early 90's that were NOT built by IBM. Unfortunately it is still a laptop that like many others, requires preventative...

At the office I use a Protek 506 Digital Multi-Meter and one of the reasons I pulled it from the pile was it has a big honkin' serial port on top so you can view and save data to a computer. Of course I don't have the software. I can find plenty of reviews on the meter, some forum posts on it...

I was given a Priam 7050-10 8" drive yesterday and I've spent some time looking over the manual over in bitsavers. - http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/priam/Priam8_Maint_Jul82.pdf From what I can tell it's a rather early embedded servo voice coil drive that has a local "intelligent" interface and...

I picked this up last weekend at MECO and have been letting it dehumidify the last few days. Plugged it in and I get power, I get lights, I get motors and it comes up to a blinking READY with no errors on the display. Came with a stack of test prints as well so when it was originally for sale it...

I came into ownership of a Victor 9000 system and I'm still in the process of cleaning it up. It had what looks to be a copy of Kermit and another random floppy in the drive and I have not yet actually done testing yet to verify if these disks are any good. Victor 9000/Sirius 1 systems are...

So as we all started hearing over the last few months, Google was getting annoyed that ad blockers on Youtube were restricting their ad revenue and (possibly?) user tracking telemetry, so in September or so they started going down on people using ad blockers because as any of us who have logged...