Posted in vintage on Aug 13th, 2023
[photos: flickr – 486 of Theseus] I originally bought this 486DX2-66 system on eBay because I needed a legacy system with a floppy disk controller to run a Colorado tape drive, which it coincidentally had one, and Windows 95. The motherboard has VESA local bus slots on it too, something I wanted if I wound […]
Posted in vintage on Jul 29th, 2023
A series in yak shaving… I’ve been working on vintage equipment all summer, mainly from bringing back old computers and media back from Oklahoma with the intent of trying to get the systems running again like an old ’67 Mustang and/or retrieving the data for memories sake. I’ve quickly learned if it’s not an old […]
Posted in vintage on Jul 3rd, 2023
Starting in high school English I and onward we had to spend like 10 minutes every class period writing in a journal that we had to hand in at the end of the nine week period for grading. Presumably this was to get us to write more and use our words, and we’d be graded […]
Posted in vintage on Jun 18th, 2023
This is going to read like one of those annoying-ass online recipes because I’m gonna write down some of my experiences with the TRS-80 before I start getting into what I’ve been doing to get it going again. However it is Father’s Day and this was my Dad’s computer so it’s kind of fitting. After […]
