New video! Trying to fix a wonky C64 board which has been worked on previously.

YouTube: https://youtu.be/mkGEXlQ84wk
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/gRhqjexEYWjRZFaFjUr5q4

Commodore 64 ASSY 250407 Blank Screen Repair

https://makertube.net/w/gRhqjexEYWjRZFaFjUr5q4

We're open today 10-5pm!

https://icm.museum/join.html

If you join as 'EXEC' you will receive a framed 11" x 17" limited print of the SDF 36th anniversary Mecha by @laemeur

Elliott Brothers film/tape drive

#filmhandler #film #cyberpunk
#photography #technology #retrocomputing #machine #abstract
#retroinformatica #tnmoc #Elliott #elliottbrothers #vintagecomputing

I have been slowly making some progress on my Amiga email client. I was able to connect to my local IMAP server and pull subject and sender info. SO much more to do but have to start somewhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVsL7bQpJjA

I wish I could find some early AMD boxes. My Pentium Overdrive is sealed. #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

Victor Borge advertising floppy disks in 1979?!

Doom Music Playing on a Bendix G-15 Vacuum Tube Computer

"The Bendix G-15 is currently the oldest running digital computer in America, which begs the most important questions ever? Will it play Doom?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no0CkQk7id0

In case you happen to be in southern Great Britain around end of May, you might be interested in visiting the Retrofest 2025 in Swindon: https://www.retrofest.uk #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrofest #retrofest2025

My student, Zach, has been working to debug why our bottom tape unit has been misbehaving. We are fairly certain that the issue is a short in the interface cable between the top and bottom units, because the problem appears on whatever unit is on the end of the daisy chain. Stay tuned. But in the process of monkeying with it, there was a period of time where they both worked just fine! #dec #pdp12 #pdp #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #umdpdp12

Take a retro dive into the Atari Southern Amis #bbs Historical 3D Maze online game! Navigate twisting corridors, avoid dead ends, and race the clock — all running on #Atari 8-bit OS. This classic-style text maze blends nostalgia and challenge, showcasing the creativity of the Atari BBS scene. Best experienced only in ATASCII over telnet at southernamis.ddns.net #bbsing #southernamis #vintagecomputing #atascii #atari #retrocomputing #fujinet

Why the Apple II Didn't Support Lowercase Letters (2020)

https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/2833/why-the-apple-ii-didnt-support-lowercase-letters

Media Format upgrade changes going on in the studio today

Last weekend at #VCFe I once again encountered the meme that using original power supplies for your home computers of the 80s is bad because the line voltage was raised by 10% from 220 V to 240 V since then.

So instead of 5 V, as the story goes, they now deliver 10% more and would be outside the specs. But no, that's not how voltage regulators in power supplies work. They regulate voltage. That's their one job.

I just recalled that old music players were heavily inspired by physical devices.

Great Valley Products was to the Amiga as Applied Engineering was to the Apple II.

(And, at the very end, AE started releasing some Amiga hardware, in fact.)

Found interesting old software, called SPASM, by Perry Cook. It's a Synthesis of the Singing Voice, Using a Waveguide Articulatory, Vocal Tract Model.

Detailed PDF included: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~prc/SingingSynth.html