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My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Goodbye Chekov! You will be missed. Thank you! 🖖 www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Well it's done. It needed 11 memory chips replaced, one 74LS125, a few new tantalum caps, an XT-IDE, floppy drives cleaned, and a network card. Sad it's over. It was a great adventure but the IBM 5150 is functional again. Old Lunker. Makes my monitor look small. 🧐 I guess I'll just play a game.

A what did WHAT, and posted it WHERE?!

Had to jump through some hoops but The IBM 5150 has a working Intel EtherExpress 16TP and is connected to the InterWebs ... OK, not the Webs, just the FTPs and Telnets. Maybe the Gophers. 🐀🐁 It connected to its first BBS! 20forbeers.com:1337 LEET!

In order to configure the Intel Ether Express 16PT, I got a socket 7 ASUS SP97-V motherboard with an AMD K6 CPU. It has been a blast from the past with jumper settings depending on the CPU used among other things. It has been a LONG time since I last configured a motherboard using jumpers.

I am back from 2 weeks of international travel and getting ready for Sunday Funday from The Amiga Saloon! Lots to catch up on. See you tomorrow October 25th - 2pm EDT/6pm GMT/8pm CEST #commodore #commodoreamiga #retrogamer #retrogaming #indiegame LINK: twitch.tv/amigabill

Testing the 24 pin One ROM in the IBM 5150. Allows me to have GlaBIOS, the original IBM Oct 27, 1982 BIOS, the XTROMtest ROM and the Supersoft/Landmark diagnostic ROM on one chip that I can switch to as needed. I really love this project, lots of plans where this will work within DOS. onerom.org

The IBM 5150 smile....

New computers are great, but none carry the gravitas of a fully loaded BBC Master Domesday Machine.

I joined the RIFA smoking club this weekend. Took some #Macintosh computers to our #LAVCC meetup Saturday. And reveled in the smell of burning plastic and sadness.

I love these old IBM 5150 machines, there is this delicate balance on if and when to modernize it a bit. The drives are an easy choice for me, esp the HD. That old tech is ageing. But what about a perfectly good BIOS .. especially the old, slow, 60 second IBM version? GlaBIOS is so much faster!

@morefunmakingit.bsky.social Hi Lee, I have just commented your last video, telling you about a few things, that are good to have. Here are some pictures of those things: * ESD brushes * mouse toilets for SMD parts * different extruders

Spent some time today looking at these two Tandon TM-100-2 floppy drives for the IBM 5150 and playing "spot the difference" 🧐

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Woo!

I've started saving "found photos" of humans with video games as they appear on eBay because, idk, someone's got to

My Commodore 64 is the obsession #C64 #Commodore64 #8bit #retrocomputer #CapCut

It's NES day, and also my 10th wedding anniversary. No I did not plan it that way. If you wanna get me a gift, all I want is for you to watch this if you haven't, it took me 15 years to make.

The IBM 5150 continues to come together. Almost finished. Two 5.25" full height drives working, a CGA card, RAM/Parallel/Serial/RTC card, floppy controller that is capable of 1.4M drives, and since this beast really needs a C: drive, an XT-IDE with a 30MB partition. Waiting on an Ethernet card. 😁

PSA 📢 : Don't put the resistor packs in backwards. 🤪

Was the VICmodem the first modem to sell a million units? I dug into it. In this blog post, I estimate how many units actually sold and I share my methodology. And this one's personal, it was my first modem. dfarq.homeip.net/how-many-vic... #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

Slowly putting the IBM 5150 back together. Motherboard working, now I have a working keyboard. Inserted the RAM expansion/Parallel/Serial/RTC board and got a Parity 2 error .. bad RAM. Tested 54 chips. 11 dead (found another after pix). All bad chips are MT. I had enough to keep me at 576K

The Honeywell 101WN XT/AT keyboard repair and assembly.

My first ever BASIC program on an IBM 5150 🤪 Hello Bluesky!

Setting up a remote desktop session from a SPARCstation LX over to a Sun Ultra 1. Using the LX like this, makes the experience so much faster, super zippy!

The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.

I recommend NesHacker's videos on YouTube and this handy app for learning 6502 No messing around with VSCode setting up environments, Learn 6502 Assembly does it all in the app m.youtube.com/c/NesHacker jumplink.eu/Learn6502/en/

My day involves a stack of Atari computers, a laser disc player, digitizer, CRT, former Atari employee, and an ultra rare Atari cosmos How’s your day going? 

The four monochrome (MDA) display options of the Commodore 1950 monitor.

On Ebay, tons of these "Cycle Logic" CGA video cards. All about $35-$45 .. but so many of them, I was wondering if it was some sort of scam/hoax. So I bought one .. and they work well! Retro 8086/8088 is popular in China, they made condensed versions of IBM's CGA card. 8086cpu.com/lm6/79.html

An untested Socket 7 motherboard from the batch I was sent by @uhf-satcom.bsky.social 🙏🙏🙏 I'll be checking out tomorrow! Quite a cool board tbh, onboard video, onboard sound (C-Media CMI8330) (no connectors for either, so I'll try and make some). Jetway J-TX98B [1998]

I loaded Basic (DOS 3.21 version) on my freshly resurrected Atari PC3 the other week. I had no idea how to much more than this.

dBASE was a software classic. On October 12, 1991, it changed hands. Borland purchased its publisher for $439 million. But Borland's dreams of controlling 70 percent of the database market proved short-lived. dfarq.homeip.net/what-happene... #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

I'm surprised IBM didn't update their ROMs with a non-cassette version of BASIC. I mean, this machine does have two huge floppy drives. I do ❤️ that BASIC is a basic part of the machine. No keyboard yet, working on that, the Honeywell XT/AT keyboard has broken traces on the thin plastic sheet thing.

Cleaning an old XT/AT keyboard. I've cleaned old keyboards where the keys are just ugh and gooey ... this one, the keys ain't so bad but underneath!! Eeek!

Should I use AI to troubleshoot an old IBM 5150 8-bit motherboard? Exact same prompts, different suggestions, Google vs Claude.

I have been to market ™ Today I proved it’s still possible to pick up a commodore Amiga 500 with an expansion card for £20 Always keep in touch with your local friendly house clearance people.