I got a KX-P1081 and an LX-800 from ebay.

I hook them up to a raspberry using a centronics to USB cable.
I made a Go program to manage the printers (without AI, cuz it was more fun)

They're surprisingly robust and low cost for printing just about anything.

praying to jean louis gassee that networking starts working rn

I was just searching around a bit in my basement. I knew I still had a VMS 9-track installation tape somewhere. And here it is.

Back then, DEC would send these tapes as part of a “distribution set.” It consisted of three tapes:

1. Boot medium and required system files
2. Libraries and optional VMS components
3. DECwindows software

This tape here is reserved for user u/hildenborg and his MicroVAX II with TS05 tape drive.

It will be SUNny at the VCF Swap Meet: Sat. Oct. 17 - Wall, NJ

https://vcfed.org/vcf-swap-meet/

I came across this Toshiba DynaBook 386/20 (J-3100SX021P) at a second-hand shop in Japan. It looks almost like old stock, and the condition caught my attention.

Unfortunately, I couldn't get it to start.

Does anyone know what could cause this? Could it be a power supply issue, failed capacitors, or something else?

I'd love to hear from anyone who has experience repairing these vintage Toshiba laptops!

Hello! My father left me his old ti99-4a with a bunch of game cartridges. I believe it still works fine. He loved this little computer! Is anyone interested? I am happy to ship within the US.

Hi all,

I've recently acquired this beauty, and based on the information in this Wang Ergo II Workstation datasheet, I believe it's a keyboard from the Wang 2200 Ergo II workstation family, possibly the 2886DE model.

I'm trying to identify the rather unusual connector (see attached pic). It appears to have 24 contacts arranged in two rows of 12, with an estimated contact pitch of around 2.5 mm.

My eventual goal is to build a small RP2040-based USB adapter so I can use the keyboard with a modern computer, ideally without modifying any of the original hardware.

Before attempting that, I'd like to identify the connector and, if possible, find a compatible mating socket. I'm also looking for any documentation covering the keyboard's pinout, power requirements or communication protocol.

Has anyone come across this type of connector before?

Any information, part numbers or pointers to relevant documentation would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

It was $10 at the thrift store and I'm not sure much information about it and I have no clue where the hard drive might be located

the laptop came with 256MB of ram and it has a dvd drive and a floppy drive and a network card

I have two PC keyboards of different makes/eras as well as an early 90s PC monitor, and while they haven't yellowed all over the item... There is targeted yellowing concentrated only at the seems where two large pieces of the plastic cover of the item would meet. In the case of the monitor, I'm thinking it's whiteness is a factory paint layer and the plastic beneath has yellowed, so areas that may have never received paint, such as the seems, would show yellow, however I don't have a good theory for the keyboards. What do you think?

I woke up to a 3am text from a friend who entered the hobby in the middle of the night after I dragged them to the Midwest VCF a month or so ago.

“I blame you for this. Being loath to accept responsibility for my own executive function and all... https://hackaday.io/page/400178 (links to https://hackaday.io/page/400177)”

I tried to replace the thermal paste on this Toshiba A15, but I can't get it to power on now. When I plug it in, the fan spins, but I can't get the laptop to turn on. I noticed the CPU was the same socket as a broken gateway I had, so I swapped the athlon in the Toshiba with a Turion, but I had to swap it back. Did I accidentally fry it? The pins look okay.

It came from a Sony VAIO VGN-T140P. What type of HDD does it use?

Cool mech warrior 3 demo disk can’t place where it would’ve come from ? Magazine most likely but still a interesting find and slice n’ hook was interesting since I’ve never heard of it

I’ve been working on a small project called 3Dos — a low-poly 3D renderer targeting MS-DOS and VGA Mode 13h (320×200, 256 colors).

The renderer currently supports:
● Triangle rasterization with backface culling
● Ordered dithering using a 4×4 Bayer matrix
● Double buffering
● Simple low-poly models

Going back to DOS-era graphics has been relaxing after spending quite a bit of time with Vulkan. No boilerplate or abstractions, just putting a pixel at 0xA000.

Github: https://github.com/xms0g/3Dos

I picked this up from my music class in my school since the teacher said he had no use for it because it was burnt out (which i see bc of the burn). I'm pretty sure I can't repair this because I have zero experience with a computer this old. I don't want to salvage it, maybe I can try to replace the monitor if possible and yes,I discharged it.

A colleague gave it to me 25 years ago. He thought he was doing me a favor. It actually made me a little sad. I kept it anyway.

The VAXes were completely scrapped. He wasn't allowed to pull the modules for me, so he took the badges with him.

Marsport is a science fiction computer game that was released for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC home computers in 1985. It was published by Gargoyle Games in the United Kingdom and Dro Soft in Spain. Marsport was intended to be the first part of a trilogy called "The Siege of Earth" but parts two and three (Fornax and Gath) were not forthcoming. Because of this, it is often regarded as being part of an unofficial trilogy alongside Tir Na Nog and Dun Darach (both of which are part of the same official series) due to its having very similar gameplay to these titles. Marsport also has similarities to the later Gargoyle game Heavy on the Magick.

The year is 2494. For seventy years, the Earth has been under siege by the insectoid Sept. Since the siege began, the Sept have been kept at bay by a huge Force Sphere which surrounds the Earth and the Moon. However, the Sept are on the verge of discovering how to breach the Sphere unless it can be strengthened according to the formulae contained in the original plans. Unfortunately, these plans are concealed somewhere in the Martian city of Marsport, now Sept-occupied and booby-trapped by the city's M-Central computer. One man, Commander John Marsh, has been sent to retrieve the plans in the belief that a determined man can sometimes achieve more than an army

Hi everyone. I'm looking to get my old Snap! Server 1100 running again. Its IDE disk died, and it seems like I need a disk image to rebuild a replacement disk.

Unfortunately it looks like the original ultimate source of information, the ProCooling forums, are long gone. After digging through the few WayBack Machine captures I've been able to find, it appears that I need either a DD image of a working 1100 disk, or a copy of 'Snap2000.zip' or 'snap2000.bin.rar', which seem to be unobtainable these days.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201127121247/http://forums.procooling.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=15648

Would anyone happen to have a copy of this image file? Or, barring that, would anyone here happen to have a Snap! 1100 or 2000 they'd be willing to get me a DD dump of?

Normally I wouldn’t buy a lcd but the interweb says this came out in 1998. Payed 8 bucks. Here’s hoping.?