Anyone got an old 486 or pentium 1-3 pc they wanna get rid of? My kid is really interested in playing with old computers #vintagecomputing#retrocomputing
Well, I got into our loft; and in between more valves, ancient capacitors, huge speakers, my dads university notes, yet more slides to scan, I found my pile of yet more keyboards.
I see a Sun 3, Sun 4, and maybe 5, 2 archimedes keyboards and some others - that'll be a job to clean up.
(I was hoping my dad might have kept an FX-80 but I don't see it, or his pile of Nixie tubes)
Seller of 2004 Sony Laptop said he hadn’t tested the sound that it was probably just missing the driver. I think it’s a bit worse than that 😅 Well it was 40$. Audio out works though so I can just route the sound back to my speakers via the Mac.
Turns out Windows XP will probably give the best performance to run Amiga apps in WinUAE so I may not even get Linux on this. I will have to hide the boot image though so I don’t feel ashamed.
@paulrickards DC of either polarity should work but it comes with some caveats. The circuit may or may not be sensitive to the effects of using rectification diodes which have quite a voltage drop and can be a source of electrical noise. This drop can depending on the circuit also shift 0V earth to well above or below which introduces all manner of ground loop problems if the device connects to anything external that is also grounded.
@paulrickards I owned a ScanMan 256 (still have it somewhere, I think). I don't think I ever got a straight scan out of that thing. 🙂 It requires a robot-level steady hand.
👆 I read the story of Don Estridge, the manager who led the development of the IBM PC. His decency is moving and long gone in the tech industry.
That story is worth reading not just for how Estridge pushed the boundaries of the computer industry, but also how he pushed the boundaries of humanity in business. Which these days is an oxymoron.