Re: please take it upon yourself to list your oldest computers
Posted on Today, 20:39
My oldest one is Sharp PC-1500 Pocket Computer, so 1981.
Re: WANTED: Photos of vintage laptops for a large-scale documentation project!
Posted on Yesterday, 09:29
Don't want to discourage you, but if you ask me, it will be a complete waste of time. The goal "to document just about every laptop released in the 1990s" is too much even for the Wikipedia, so if I was you I'd narrow my goal down to one manufacturer or even to one model and collect at one place all …
Re: digital hoading
Posted on 2023-11-28, 17:44
As long as it doesn't affect your everyday life I see no problem at all. Cause come on, there are millions of people who see no problem at all with kicking a ball for hours or jumping like crazy every weekend on a dancefloor. 😀 What is really important is if you personally are happy with your …
Re: Keeping track of parts and builds - inventory/asset tracking
Posted on 2023-11-28, 16:17
My ideology is "Hobby should serve a hobbyist, and not vice versa". So all what I have is an Excel spreadsheet for tracking purchases, their shipping, and where they are stored. In addition I have a folder (with number of subfolders) where I store images of the items I have. And related materials …
Re: How many games are there?
Posted on 2023-10-27, 18:27
It's like asking how many books are there. Who cares. What does really matter is how many good ones are there.
Re: How many video cards / VGA cards or GPUs do you have?
Posted on 2023-10-21, 13:54
Since only one out of more than 100 computers I own is a desktop, I think I have only one videocard. Or maybe two, since Dolch PAC portable also has to have some videocard inside. And I have no idea what are they. 😄
Re: Do you think prices will stay high?
Posted on 2023-10-21, 13:44
Prices will drop only when Youtube will be closed. In other words never. 🙂
Re: 5.25" Floppy Drive - Y-E DATA
Posted on 2023-10-14, 16:31
Vendest wrote on 2023-10-14, 08:48: I cannot be sure if it is compatible with the IBM PC's format but it was advertised as 1.2MB, not 360kB. I do have a SHARP X1 (8-bit) using a 1.2MB so I'll try swapping the drives. I mean Japanese Floppy Disk Drives used weird formats. I guess same was true also …
Re: phases of vintage computer interest
Posted on 2023-10-14, 07:53
... 2. Force myself to actually use it for more than 10 minutes until I realize that it isn't fun, then stash it away and never use it again. Yeah, those moments when you "suddenly" realize that it is actually not a gem but a piece of old crap and your contemporary cheap generic PC is way much …
Re: 5.25" Floppy Drive - Y-E DATA
Posted on 2023-10-14, 07:36
Are you sure it is compatible with the IBM PC's format ? That's what I've found on the Internet: Double-sided double density (2D) 256 bytes/sector, MFM, 16 sectors/track, 40 tracks 256 x 16 x 40 x 2 = 327,680 bytes, commonly known as 320kB. This is a common format for domestically produced 8-bit …
Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware
Posted on 2023-10-08, 08:23
Guys, I'm amazed. How do you manage to find any trends at a chaotic eBay market where you can find exactly the same item at the same time for $20 and for $500? And it always was like that. Second hand items markets are in general like that. 🙂
Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans
Posted on 2023-10-06, 20:58
dormcat wrote on 2023-10-06, 20:51: IMHO practicing abacus helps arithmetic but not mathematics If you ask me, today it's good only as a back massager. 😄
Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans
Posted on 2023-10-06, 20:53
But let's go back to the topic. Even though I'm not going to buy the Commodore 64, I've purchased the Commodore 1531 Datasette and the X1531 cable in order to connect it to one of my PCs.
Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans
Posted on 2023-10-06, 20:31
They were buying and stealing everything they could because they were simply unable to design something good by themselves. Thanks for the correction. I've read a story about a Western scientist/engineer visiting USSR in 1980s carried a Japanese scientific calculator (by Casio or Sharp) with him …
Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans
Posted on 2023-10-06, 20:21
American Home PC revolution started from January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics magazine: 102622635-05-01.jpg And Soviet Home PC revolution started from September 1982 issue of Radio magazine, where Communist party started publishing series of DIY articles: f.1982-09.000.jpg f.1982-09.036.jpg
Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans
Posted on 2023-10-06, 19:57
The Ruskies.had an 8086.clone., perhaps an 8088 also. I have 3 ofntheir 8086s. Have yet to test them. Nothing I own currently runs at the moment. They cloned both and in addition also 8080, 8085 and Z-80 CPUs ... and many many more other different chips like 8051, 8031, 8035, 8039, 8748 etc. They …
Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans
Posted on 2023-10-06, 19:42
What the hell happened to this discussion? Somehow a topic about different fan bases evolved into a discussion of communism and capitalism. Speaking of communism I can only say that commies didn't manage to clone the Commodore 64. 🙂 The Soviet had their own computer systems for research and higher …
Re: First computers you've used
Posted on 2023-10-06, 10:23
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Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans
Posted on 2023-10-06, 09:01
Ensign Nemo wrote on 2023-10-05, 22:33: What the hell happened to this discussion? Somehow a topic about different fan bases evolved into a discussion of communism and capitalism. Speaking of communism I can only say that commies didn't manage to clone the Commodore 64. 🙂
Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans
Posted on 2023-10-05, 18:34
Personally, I've never been a fan about mass production or profit maximization. Both are instruments for exploitation, I think. I'm more comfortable with individualism, homebrewing and things that last for decades. Exploitation, yeah, right. All those computerized plants with industrial robots and …
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