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Gammitin

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Obsessed with Vintage / Retro tech - I collect, repair, upgrade retro Laptops, Desktop Computers, Consoles, unusual tech. Also love Gaming and Cats 😸

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New Star Trek Big (Giant) Box game for my collection:
Star Trek: Federation Compilation (Larger European Version) [1999]:

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It's nearly double the length of a normal Big Box:

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@vga256 👇

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---Curriculum Vitae----
My Hobbies and Interests

  • Installing Operating Systems on really old computers.
  • Cleaning dirt, dust and suspicious stains off old retro computer hardware.
  • Pro-Tetris stacking computers into impossible storage space areas.
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Trillian Messenger [2000]

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If you remember this, you're a very naughty person! 😈
Sub7 [1999]:

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ICQ

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Can anyone help me find info on this (non-Apple ADB) Mouse Systems Mouse?
All I can find is info about the Apple ADB version (A3), it's a really early Optical, similar to my Sun M4:

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Trin's back home and she's a beauty! 😍📺

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I may have to dig my Phillips CDi out of storage, to Christen my 'new' CRT TV!
Any Mad Dog McCree fans out there?

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Next is an Atari adventure, just my kind of Friday night - I'm seeing if I can work out why my Atari 2600 is DoA!
12/24v Trucker portable TV to the rescue!
This is so useful, it has composite and also an analogue TV tuner inside 👌

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Well that was a super easy fix, just needed tonnes of contact cleaner: cart slot, power connector and joystick port! All working great, time for a deep clean! 🪥🫧🧼

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Dirty Bertie!

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Minimal circuitry, Maximum fun!

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Slightly older than me:
28 AUG 1981

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It's out of the shell!

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Making some new toggle switch shrouds is on the To-do list

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Loving the 6507 CPU!

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ATARI Innovative Leisure

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Rub-a-dub-dub my Atari VCS is in the Tub.

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🪥🧼🫧
What a satisfying clean-up, it looks like when someone might have got it for Xmas in 1981!
To-do list:
▶️ Make new switch shrouds
▶️ Repaint the edging on the bezel around the controls
▶️ Obtain an Atari CX40 joystick
▶️ Composite Mod

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Mouse Systems Corporation M-1 Mouse (OEM version: Sun Type 4)
This is one of the two first optical mice to be released for sale, back in the early 80's. I'm going to strip it down and deep clean it!

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I've made some Mouse skates out of those sticky feet you can buy for electronics, that stop them scratching surfaces. The mouse mat is metal and this should stop it damaging it.

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But how does it work?
It has two LED emitters one red, one green, the reflected light is focused by the two spherical lenses, then the light is reflected again by the mirrors on the case's top, this is then detected by the two receivers on the circuit board and decoded.

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This thing looks beautiful, it's fully scrubbed and cleaned and it actually operates 100x better now all the dust on the internal components is gone.
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Ready to rock 'n roll!
That metal mouse mat looks like it should be a 1970's album cover!

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