I received my Mega-Cart order yesterday… and it works as advertised, so I am not disappointed any. Even its packaging was first-rate — making for an authentic feel of that home computing era. So as far as homebrew electronic projects go, this is a real gem to own. In addition to having my Quikman game [...]
Posts Tagged hardware
Magic!
Apr 16
Geek Toy: uIEC/SD
Mar 10
I have spent a fair amount of time these past few months tinkering with nostalgic, vintage computing. Particularly with my favorite Commodore 8-bit line in the VIC 20 and the 128. I thought that the only way to restore old binary programs and diskette images back to its original state was to buy an original [...]
Commodore 128
Feb 7
I originally purchased this machine in June 1985 for $299.95. It was during my first job after college at Klitzner Industries, a manufacturer in Providence. I was one of three PDP-11 BASIC and DIBOL programmers, an operator, and a manager of their data processing department. I first spent my first two month’s salary on a [...]
More vintage stuff
Feb 4
I got some more great deals on ebay, which I consider to be buried treasure, to expand on my vintage computing fun. With the earlier stuff purchased, that raises my investment to $375 total. I think I will stop there, because I now have to re-organize my playroom to make best use of my new [...]
Quorum of Twelve
Jan 24
A lot of time and work has past since our blade server technology proposal, proof-of-concept, purchase, installation and configuration. Now we get ready to implement one of the cornerstones of this year’s projects by migrating our Peoplesoft Financial applications from HP/UX servers into one BladeCenter, while re-locating our core clinical applications from its current rack [...]
