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Pentium 200 PC with Windows 95 and a Philips monitor. The screen reads "It's now safe to turn off your computer" in Polish. Also featured Bratek, a Polish commie-era telephone.
The Z8 was a microcontroller introduced by Zilog in 1979, competing with the Intel 8048. Note that the Z8 is entirely unrelated to the better-known Z80.
This is the side of the QUIP package that is down (toward the printed circuit board) when inserted into the socket. On each side two staggered rows of contacts are seen. The legends are printed on the kovar lid which seals the die cavity. The on-centerline oval and off-centerline round hole match plastic posts in the socket used for keying.
Note that Intel labeled their QUIP parts on the other side, along the probe contacts, so that the labeling was visible when the part was socketed.
For more info on ceramic leadless QUIP:
Two PhD students at a physics department wanted a computer on their own, and started to build a PDP-8 clone, based on what was available in the 1970. The system is built based on the Intersil IM6100 CPU. They had access to documentation via university. Everything is built by themselfes, beginning with the board layout, exposition, etching and soldering. They have extensive documentation on their work. There exist exactly two of those systems worldwide. Both still working.
Two PhD students at a physics department wanted a computer on their own, and started to build a PDP-8 clone, based on what was available in the 1970. The system is built based on the Intersil IM6100 CPU. They had access to documentation via university. Everything is built by themselfes, beginning with the board layout, exposition, etching and soldering. They have extensive documentation on their work. There exist exactly two of those systems worldwide. Both still working.
I have an old InnerDrive 40MB hard drive that wouldn't spin up. I cut it out of the old power supply enclosure and used a 3rd party power supply (from a firewire enclosure) to power the drive. You can see how I've connected the chassis of both the hard drive to the IIGS so the grounds don't float from each other and screw up the data transfer. The hard drive fortunately is a PC compatible MFM or RLL drive, pre-IDE, but using the same 4-pin power supply. The second IIGS is a loaner from a friend. I'm using a CFFA CompactFlash Apple II board to replace the hard drive.
My home made Covox Speech Thing Digital-to-Analog LPT (parallel port) stereo sound card. Fairly easy to build. The sound is not perfect but it plays stereo, 44kHz!
Paper feed and print head are visible here, along with the ribbon. There's a fuse in the back, and the paper tape punch is visible in the lower-right.
Two PhD students at a physics department wanted a computer on their own, and started to build a PDP-8 clone, based on what was available in the 1970. The system is built based on the Intersil IM6100 CPU. They had access to documentation via university. Everything is built by themselfes, beginning with the board layout, exposition, etching and soldering. They have extensive documentation on their work. There exist exactly two of those systems worldwide. Both still working.
Commodore Amiga 1200, Commodore 1802 display, Amiga mouse, Competition Pro joystick, Hitachi Super Woofer 3D boombox. Image NOT sponsored by Coca Cola.
This is the French language manual for the Oric Atmos by ASN Diffusion. Based on the English original by Ian Adamson, it was translated and updated by Jean Pascal Duclos.