I don't know if it's good for this to be here or not. Only tech adjacent. It's probably better suited topic for Milliways, but at the same time definitely retro activity.

I started scanning the old family photos left after my grandparents. There were some from when my great grandparents moved to the US some time in the 1920s for a couple of years (well great gramps and great granny separated and she moved home).
Could someone identify that piece of retro tech great granny gets out of for me please?

Could be a Ford Model A

RandomStranger wrote on Yesterday, 09:04:

I don't know if it's good for this to be here or not. Only tech adjacent. It's probably better suited topic for Milliways, but […]
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I don't know if it's good for this to be here or not. Only tech adjacent. It's probably better suited topic for Milliways, but at the same time definitely retro activity.

I started scanning the old family photos left after my grandparents. There were some from when my great grandparents moved to the US some time in the 1920s for a couple of years (well great gramps and great granny separated and she moved home).
Could someone identify that piece of retro tech great granny gets out of for me please?

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I am going to guess at a Durant Motor Corporation, Star Cars (brand/line) Improved Four Coach.

Both look similar, but I couldn't find the exact same looking model. Anyway, I found 2 Christmas postcards which imply I knew it wrong all my life. One is addressed to Aldersyde, Alberta, Canada, though I have great granny's passport so I know they definitely went through the US to get there. The other has no address, it might have been sent in an envelope. One mentions my grandma's elder sister being home schooled because the school only teaches English, half the post card was written by her. They ended up much further west than I imagined. I believed they were both born here, not in the US or apparently Canada. I wonder what happened with great gramps after they separated. Aldersyde seems to be small community, but this was a century ago.

I suddenly decided to disassemble my Casio CT-360 last night/morning. Man, such a pain in the as$. Many ribbons, all soldered, so I had to juggle the boards around to get the thing shelled. I couldn't figure out out the keyboard comes out, so I cleaned it all as one piece. Turned out great, thing looks brand-new (almost).

I got the thing in a free pile and it mostly worked (dirty pots), but it had a broken switch for the "Casio Chord" system. While I was in there, I decided to do something about it. I initially thought the switch was just physically broken, but the chord system didn't seem to work correctly and this is explained now that I've seen the inside. There were just pads on the board that were supposed to line up with the switch-part on the casing - broken.

I other retro news, I got a "broken" Dallas RTC to work! It was totally operator error. When I acquired the chip, it had all the pins, two up for battery, two up for crystal. I finally noticed how most of my other ones have two more pins folded up. Datasheet says that pin 21 is RTClr, which would explain why it didn't work.

I have another one that might actually be broken, too. It doesn't boot the computer it goes in (Epson AN-4C50, gives video card beeps), it makes another test system go kooky (doesn't know what CPU is present), and of course, gives no sh*t about what time it is. Haven't tried a third system, but I'm pretty sure it's kaput.

RandomStranger wrote on Yesterday, 15:33:

Both look similar, but I couldn't find the exact same looking model. Anyway, I found 2 Christmas postcards which imply I knew it wrong all my life. One is addressed to Aldersyde, Alberta, Canada, though I have great granny's passport so I know they definitely went through the US to get there. The other has no address, it might have been sent in an envelope. One mentions my grandma's elder sister being home schooled because the school only teaches English, half the post card was written by her. They ended up much further west than I imagined. I believed they were both born here, not in the US or apparently Canada. I wonder what happened with great gramps after they separated. Aldersyde seems to be small community, but this was a century ago.

Century old births marriages and deaths are usually easier to get hold of than anything 100-20 years ago. Canada has old census info up, and WWI recruitment cards, you can find if great grandpappy registered for service.