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Panasonic Senior Partner
The Panasonic Senior Partner is an attractive IBM clone portable with a built-in printer.  The Panasonic Senior Partner running DOS 2.1
I built a boot disk to be stored with it, and I gues... read more
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The lost NASA tapes
This is an article that illustrates the importance of preserving the skills needed to preserve ancient data from being lost. From Computerworld online: The lost NASA tapes: Restoring lunar images after 40 years in the vault A Mac Pro and 40-year-old tape drives are helping restore the or... read more - Total messages in this thread: 1 |
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Bubble on a 16v 3300 uf
has been restoring an Altair 8800 S/N 220744K. By participating in the restoration process I have learned a whole lot and I am starting to apply this knowledge to this and other projects. For starters, I am going to test every electrical component and compare with another 8800, same model. I wan... read more - Total messages in this thread: 3 Last Post: Altair 8800 power supply capacitors 06/30/2009 |
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VTL-2 for Altair 680b
Just a quick note...I have been working with Grant Stockley to build and test ROMs for VTL-2. I helped test. Grant sent me a copy of the three PROMs needed to load Very Tiny Language 2 (VTL-2). Here is the current status. I put all three PROMs in place. I was not able to boot to BASIC, instea... read more - Total messages in this thread: 3 Last Post: VTL BASIC for 680b - Working 06/25/2009 |
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Analog Computers 1961
 The cover of Popular Electronics December 1961, featuring analog computers.
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Altair 680b (2nd)
 Two versions of the Altair 680b. The left unit has the older round toggle switches, the right has the newer flat switches. Click for larger image.
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Heathkit H-19 Restoration
Thank you for Herb Johnson who helped troubleshoot and advise repair strategy I bought an H-19 terminal a while back for parts. The previous owner had started converting this computer into a sort of H-89, with power for disk drives and a cassette port. She/He did not get very far. Voltage re... read more - Total messages in this thread: 1 |
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Another VC Hacking Weekend
This time we were put up by Mike Lowen, who hosted the weekend. Pictures: http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/VCW/ At a minimum,progress was made with the following 2 Heathkit H-89 Computers 1 Heathkit H-19 Terminal 1 Altair 680 - testi... read more - Total messages in this thread: 1 |
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Atari 800 ... portable?
Well not exactly. This unit sports a handsome Casemaker travel bag.  The Atari 800 with a Casemaker travel bag. Click image for larger version.
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Cataloging ESF wafer library
I am in the middle of cataloging all of my working ESF programs. I have been side-tracked by other projects, but soon enough I'll get through it all. ...a few screen shots taken during testing: http://www.vintagecomputer.net/tandy/trs80_1/exatron_stringy_floppy/ I sold my spare Exatron Stringy... read more - Total messages in this thread: 2 Last Post: format wafer in 2nd stringy drive 05/29/2009 |
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Donner 3500 - an early portable computer
Pushing the exploration of portable computing one giant step farther (for me), here is a quick glimpse of the Donner 3500...  The 1959 Donner 3500 portable analog computer. Click fo... read more
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Hobbyist Computerized Bulletin Board
I have posted a scan of the Nov 1978 Byte Article (page 150) Hobbyist Computerized Bulletin Board by Ward Christensen and Randy Suess This is the important article about the famous CBBS/Chicago BBS - Considered the first home brew BBS. http://vintagecomputer.net/cisc367/byte%20nov%201978%2... read more - Total messages in this thread: 1 |
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Old Timer's Day at PACS
The Philadelphia Area Computer Society cordially invites the members of MARCH to: "Old Timer's Day" Saturday, May 16th 2009 Super Giant food store Community Center, 2nd Floor 315 York Road Willow Grove, PA 19090 With a special guest appearance by: Bill Degnan from 12 to 1 PM. Th... read more - Total messages in this thread: 2 Last Post: Slides from Meeting 05/17/2009 |
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Video of Altair Playing Music
On page 6 and 7 of the Feb 1976 Dr. Dobb's Journal there is an article about using the Altair 8800 to make music by sending radio signals to a nearby AM radio. The article provides a program listing in octal, and the ... read more - Total messages in this thread: 1 |
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Landenberg Today Article
Yours truly is on page 86 http://www.bluetoad.com/publication/?m=507&l=1... read more - Total messages in this thread: 1 |
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