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Minolta Dynax 7xi
Minolta AF 35-105mm 35-105mm f3.5/4.5
Minolta Data Card (1/45s, f4.5, 0.0, 75mm)
AgfaPhoto APX 400 @ 1600
Foma Fomadon Excel stock for 13min. (20°C)
It still works, though loading the games using a tape recorder set to a specific volume is extremely tedious in 2006!
Just removed and replaced this "popped" Rifa capacitor from an ACT Apricot Xi c.1983/5 computer's power supply (Astec PSU).
I was walking by my car and thought, the bumper sticker looked great after rain....
READY. is what some old people might remember as the prompt of Commodore BASIC. I had not seen it in many years, but after falling in love again with my 35 year old C64 and joining the retro-computing filter bubble in some social networks, I see it almost every day.
I am aware, that no reasonable person will recognize the meaning of the bumper sticker :-)
The retro-computer hobby is like collecting vintage cars, just cheaper.
HP 9810 Calculator (1974) This is really god old US craftsmanship. Everything made of steel and the CPU build up on 4 boards full of High Speed Schottky TTL ICs
Years ago, before the official launch of the Bay Area Rediscovery Project, we drove down Route 1 from San Francisco and through Princeton-by-the Sea just north of Half Moon Bay. We spotted some restaurants that looked intriguing and vowed to come back; the perfect foil for the Rediscovery Project. So on a rainy Saturday, we ventured south.
The one restaurant that we had spied previously that seemed to be the most intriguing was Barbara's Fishtrap. It seemed popular enough with all of the diners that were packing the available tables sheltered from the rain. It also had enough kitschy decor to suggest that it was a dive. So we had high hopes going in.
Sadly, our hopes were dashed like driftwood flung upon the breakwater by the waves outside the harbor. The food, with the exception of the crab cocktail, was utterly disappointing, particularly when considering that we selected items off the "specials" menu. The cooking was entirely uninspired. Perhaps we would have thought differently if we had ordered the fish and chips off the regular menu, but we were trying to eat healthy, which was probably our first mistake.
Disappointed and strapped for cash because Barbara did not take credit cards, we into downtown Half Moon Bay to the only BofA for miles around. Down in spirit, we spotted a sign for an eatery stating "craft beer and fine wine." But as inviting as that sounded, we were gun shy after our lunch experience, so we forged ahead to Pescadero as per our original plan in the hope that our afternoon would improve if we put more and more distance between us and lunch.
Arriving at Pescadero, the outlook and our moods remained rather gloomy as we couldn't find any place to park along the main drag. Turning around, we eventually found the one parking space that was available in front of Downtown Local, an interesting looking coffee shop with motorcycles in the windows and a couple of Apple IIe's in the back. We ducked in and hoped the caffeine would raise our spirits.
Arduino UNO provides 6 bit data and the necessary handshaking logic for a vintage Burroughs SSD0132-0040 Self-Scan gas plasma display c.1976. The row of LED blinky lights, aside from being mesmerizing, shows the state of the interface logic with delays built into the sketch to help diagnostics (on my first attempt I had the 6 data bits in reverse order).
The wire shrouded in red heatshrink tube on tag 10 of the lower connector is the +250 volt DC supply required by the Self-Scan
La sala dei BBC Micro ricorda l'aspetto del laboratorio informatico di una scuola britannica negli anni '80.
The BBC Micro room reminds of what an IT laboratory of a British school in the '80s would look like.
Macintosh 512K factory upgraded to Plus (M0001AP) with keyboard and mouse, ImageWriter II printer, and third-party hard disk drive, 3.5-inch drive, scanner controller and tape drive. The 5.25" drive is my mistake — it is from an Apple II and should not be connected to this set.
Questa parte del museo è dedicata alle macchine da ufficio.
This part of the museum is dedicated to computers designed for office automation.
...Well, sort of....! RCA CDP1861 pixie output connected to a VGA LCD monitor using a "Gonbes XVGA Box" display standard converter marketed mainly for legacy industrial CNC units.
Questo Apple IIe fa bella mostra di sé su di un tavolo a forma di cubo di Rubik.
This Apple IIe makes a lovely appearance on a Rubik cube-shaped table.
Commodore 64 with Datasette tape drive and Commodore DM602 display (Monitor80). Loaded on screen is Easy Script word processor.