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I have two shelves now

Listening to music how nature intended

Ive never heard a laptop sound worse. The problem preventing it from booting was that some ribbon cables were corroded and needed a clean. Sadly the pointer nub ribbon was a complete write off. Ill keep it in the laptop until i find a replacement. The noisy fan was easily dealt with using WD40

Got an amazing deal on a sony vaio pcg-1a1n (U1). Printed a replacement mouse nub (file is on thingiverse). Now it looks complete but still doesnt start

A full dump of wikipedia (w/o images) thats available offline. Very good to have!!

Sadly the IBM ThinkPad 230Cs is a complete loss. Such a shame since its a really rare machine. I hate NiMH batteries with every fibre of my being

Beautiful heathkit ib-1103. Its not calibrated (tested with 120kHz) and it unlinks when i use a higher timebase. Also i dont think there should be 3 decimal points

Bunker techno

Also a recent purchase: The NEC MobileGearII MC-R520. It runs windows CE and i have no idea what to expect. Sadly its missing its stylus, but for 10€ you cant complain

Have ordered a cool japanese electronics kit that includes a microcomputer (TI TMS1100 (4 bit)). Will post some more when it arrives

To top this one off, have a bit of Mono OPL3 goodness (the sony Picturebook is waiting on a new polarizer

Runs Doom OK, but has a few lags. Unsurprising, since its basically running a glorified 486DX

Works just fine now. (Cassette for scale)

Replaced the shitty proprietary connector with a standard dc barrel jack

Got two old subnotebooks/palmtops from japan (Vaio PCG-C1XF, Casio Cassiopeia Fiva 102S). One has vinegar syndrome and is in overall bad condition. The other however is in much better shape. Had to hotwire both but its good to see they both function and have healthy sounding hdds

An update for the FM-New7, i fashioned a cable that converts the 15khz RGB to Composite/S-Video. Had to custom order a PCB from @pcbwayofficial.bsky.social for it.

Got an absolute steal on these two subnotebooks/palmtops from the 90s. A Casio cassiopeia mpc-102m62s and a Sony VAIO pcg-c1xf. They were like 30€ and 15€ respectively

Great success!!

Neuron oscillator

Perceptron

First test of the PTZ mount (fried one driver on accident so i had to switch wires)

Buying test equipment from japan is surprisingly cheap

Analog amp meters are the best

Nah, everyone knows that diseases are caused by bad smells. Why do you think the plague doctors had fragrant herbs and flowers in their beaks

Now u get to whack someone else

I call it the Gayser

You like vintage computing, dont you?

Might just be me, but i have been so incredibly tired and apathetic ever since 2025 began