This is probably the only Gravis UltraSound-related thing I'll sensibly collect. This is the Gravis MIDI and Joystick Adapter, and I'm super thrilled to have picked one up for a reasonable price in this condition. At some point I'll carefully pull things out for a closer look, including scanning the paperwork, but in the meantime - did you ever have/use one of these? What'd you use it for/with? Let me know!
Tonight's Edinburgh Hacklab : Repairing a tiny little 1992 Philips Minitel/Viewdata terminal as used by Bank of Scotland for the HOBS home banking system. #retrocomputing
I didn't realize ACM makes available the full-ish archive of the LISP Pointers journal SIGPLAN published from the late 1980s to the mid 1990s. It contains most of the papers of most of the issues, an historical treasure of practical value.
And there we have it: replacement 6502 and 6522s from Rockwell for the gutted 1541 I repaired a couple of weeks ago. Now the drive is back into full working order!
The 6522 chips are relatively new and not MOS branded, but I think it's better than a non-working drive! #retrocomputing#commodore#c64#floppydisk
Floating around online, there are some original scans of the Colonels Bequest design document. Included are some 80's printer sheets that have this very specific style for background art review. I really wanted to recreate that look in scibud, for no other reason than cause. But... yea
Left side: design documents. Right side: the debugging output from scibud. Not too shabby.
I should recreate the paper-yellowing and water stains from years of use.
"It is well-known that some Boeing 747s, for example, use floppy disks to load critical software updates into their navigation and avionics computers.
In San Francisco, the Muni Metro light railway, which launched in 1980, won't start up each morning without a floppy disk that controls the railway's Automatic Train Control System."
Hat vielleicht noch jemand eine MOS 8501 CPU für den #Commodore#C16 über? Die hier wurde vom Vorgänger bei einem Reparaturversuch falsch herum auf den Sockel gesteckt und ist dabei gestorben. Das Gerät soll weiter leben. #Retrocomputing
The history of corporate presentations from film slides to PowerPoint. Back in the day we all did our fair share of presentations, but likely with far less fancy film slide equipment.