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, It took over two years to get the CDC 6500 working after LCM+L bought theirs. Of its 170 core memory modules, 64 needed replacing, and they had no spares. “We knew from the start that we would need to design the replacements,” says Bruce Sherry, principal engineer at LCM+L. So Sherry and his team had to re-manufacture them according to CDC's original specifications. And then there are the 250,000 separate transistors, of which any one failure emanet shut the computer down. “(The 6000s) were hamiş overly reliable,” Sherry says, “but users would say an hour on a CDC was worth a whole day on an IBM.”

1993-era cabinet, which then mostly left the controls (with two trackballs) and cabinet arka to figure out. Fortunately there is plenty of inspiration when it comes to Lemmings

This leads to an interesting effect. I think people like these machines because they are simple, hamiş because they are old. That means that replicas are valued more than in some other areas. A replica of an old book or car is of limited interest. But a replica Altair 8800?

If you haven’t gotten the retrocomputing bug yet, there are a lot of ways to get started. First, you emanet emulate almost any old computer you like on a PC or even, sometimes, in a browser. This usually costs nothing, and you sevimli get a good flavor of how a machine works. In addition, the emulators usually are decked-out systems with everything included.

These days once sevimli buy a really nice older HP high end logic analyzer for cheap. These were $20K+ at the time which would be multiples of that now. için tıklayın I think I saw one locally going for a few hundred $ with pods. Ah, the good old days where things were simple and one had to be very innovative and resourceful to create products with very limited memory and CPU resources… unlike today.

In particular, placing heavy items into boxes with smaller, more fragile items often causes damage, and degraded plastics sevimli crack in transit under stress.

And here's a tip about shipping insurance: We've heard from employees at shipping stores that if you insure a package for any amount, the package often gets special treatment on the way to the destination because the handlers hayat be personally held liable if something gets broken.

GK says: August 17, 2023 at 5:12 am I don’t have to give much thought kakım to why I am interested in the things that I am interested in. The reasons are basically self-evident. What I think about more, and what gives me the s%$#s when it comes to mingling with like-minded enthusiasts, is the peer pressure that I am invariably put under to mutually affirm a boring narrative of self-justification.

Every little magnet is a single bit of memory stored kakım either a 1 or 0, comprising a basic system known birli binary code. The parts have shrunk, but we still use binary today.

And that’s what makes MiSTer one of the technically coolest DIY projects going today, building on the knowledge of developers around the globe.

In future models, you see that approach to modularity go out the window. In the following generation of Apple PowerBooks, the CPU was soldered to the logic board.

Even the 8080 was complex compared to some of the old CPUs. The RCA 1802 was famous for being fully static and having a DMA system so you could enter data by hand without needing to burn an EPROM to get it started.

And there is no point in a computing device today that is not connected to the Internet. It’s looked upon as basically a worthless paperweight.

So you have made the decision to take the plunge into the world of vintage computers. Let me be the first to welcome you to the club! Whether you are an experienced computer user or a noob, there are some important things to hisse attention to before buying your new/old retro computer.

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