Had a weird thing happen just now. I looked over, my whole workstation had no power. Initially thought the power strip died. Switched a plug, nothing. The whole wall/outlet is out. Go outside, flip the switch. Come back in, things are back on. Power is back to the wall.
But I believe the Windows 7 machine my father in law gave to me several years back is dead. Won't turn on, always has before easily. It was lagging a lot, I used it daily for many years. Suuucks.
Looks like it's time to break that Windows 2000 machine out of the closet and put Linux on it 😂
Thanks to @bendaubney who hooked me up with this review link for the GX620 back from 2005! It was a beast then, and she was nearly old enough to vote before she just died this year. What a life she's had. 😂
Set up the other PC I had in the closet. Another old Dell (I thought it had Windows 2000, it's XP). I last actively used it around 2012-2013. Plugged it up, works, clearing off garbage software (Chrome!) I discovered that in true music freak form, I forgot I have like ~20GB of great music mp3s on here. Add the more recent stuff from my phone, I'll be almost back up to speed. Today's playlist is wild. I still listen to like 80-90% of it. Check the old apps in the 2nd pic before I deleted Tweetdeck, etc! 🤣 The BlackBerry one stays forever. 😍
Also found this Vintage Atari 520 ST Game System Machine on Goodwill. It's currently priced at $60 with the auction ending on May 29. Someday I’d love to get more into the Atari machines, both the 8-bit and 16-bit, they seem to be a bit of a dark horse that could have been much more popular even than they were. More details here: https://www.shopgoodwill.com/Item/199889478.
This one almost pains me to post, I want one of these so bad. But it’s pickup only in San Diego, CA: A NEXTStation along with MegaPixel display, keyboard & mouse is up for auction! Current price is $61. Only a few days left, it ends on May 29th. For anyone close enough to San Diego, this might be a heck of a deal because the pickup only tends to go for reasonable prices from what I’ve seen. Take a look here: https://www.shopgoodwill.com/Item/199889590
Inspired by @mac84tv 's recent adventures with the classic 1999 Compaq (in all its original be-stickered glory), I decided to answer the question literally no one asked: What if t-shirts advertised themselves like late-90s PCs? 🤔
What’s your take on files of others you find on vintage computers? Is it like an archeological finding, letters in a box in the attic, interesting pieces of the past? Or a privacy thing we shouldn’t really read or keep, and delete/format instead? #RetroComputing#vintagecomputers
If you're going to write a description of something for sale, why not go all in... (seriously, take a look at the description. The 800 is fine, nothing particularly remarkable about it, but omg the description.
Let's talk about an Atari 800.. I bought this Atari 800 together with two 810 floppy drives as in good condition and working for a not insubstantial amount of money. These are quite rare in Germany, but awesome overengineered early examples of homecomputers. Let's see what we got 🧵#retrocomputing#atari#vintagecomputers#repair
Disk image archive and info resource for the Sanyo MBC-550 PC "compatible" from 1982. It's an interesting clone that features better-than-CGA 640x200 resolution 8-color graphics, ending up with a few unique titles, as such.
As people are asking, here's the drill I went through to configure my Mac to allow my Apple IIe (and other vintage systems around the room) to "dial in" to it via WiFi232 or other WiFi modem devices.
Many people have forgotten about PCMCIA, but in its time, it was the widely accepted way to add functionality to laptops and other mobile devices. In this video we use a Toshiba Libretto notebook computer to recover data from an old PCMCIA SD Card.
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