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  1. UH-OH.

    Every time I press a key, either it doesn't do anything or it prints a bunch of unrelated characters. It also beeps a lot of times, like if the keyboard's buffer was full, but it still prints characters 🤷‍♂️
    I never debugged a keyboard problem and, honestly, have no idea how an #AT #keyboard works...

    #retrocomputing #dos #intel8088
  2. I'm not sure if the floppy drive is 720 or 1.44, but for food measure I popped in a 720k floppy from the #amstrad ppc-640 luggable pc.
    ...and it reads it correctly! It's booting DOS!!!
    Let's find a compatible keyboard and play something!

    #retrocomputing #dos #intel8088
  3. NO. WAY.
    I've got a video output and it's clearly running! It's counting memory!
    It has 640k, as usual

    #retrocomputing #dos #intel8088
  4. Cleaned all the traces the better I could, it doesn't seem the acid eaten them all the way down... so I tried to follow them and test them for continuity. They seem all to be still connected 🙂

    #retrocomputing #dos #intel8088
  5. I've got a #philips PCD-103 like this one (photo by the Internet) that has been in storage for over a decade and now I'd like to restore it.

    #retrocomputing #dos #intel8088
  6. Ah yes, the Intel 8088, the Mona Lisa of #microprocessors, forever revered in the hallowed halls of... Error 403 🏛️🔒. Who knew a chip could be so exclusive that even its fan club gets denied entry? 🚫🤡
    spectrum.ieee.org/chip-hall-of #Intel8088 #Error403 #TechHistory #ExclusiveFanClub #HackerNews #ngated

  7. Ah yes, the Intel 8088, the Mona Lisa of #microprocessors, forever revered in the hallowed halls of... Error 403 🏛️🔒. Who knew a chip could be so exclusive that even its fan club gets denied entry? 🚫🤡
    spectrum.ieee.org/chip-hall-of #Intel8088 #Error403 #TechHistory #ExclusiveFanClub #HackerNews #ngated

  8. Ah yes, the Intel 8088, the Mona Lisa of #microprocessors, forever revered in the hallowed halls of... Error 403 🏛️🔒. Who knew a chip could be so exclusive that even its fan club gets denied entry? 🚫🤡
    spectrum.ieee.org/chip-hall-of #Intel8088 #Error403 #TechHistory #ExclusiveFanClub #HackerNews #ngated

  9. Ah yes, the Intel 8088, the Mona Lisa of #microprocessors, forever revered in the hallowed halls of... Error 403 🏛️🔒. Who knew a chip could be so exclusive that even its fan club gets denied entry? 🚫🤡
    spectrum.ieee.org/chip-hall-of #Intel8088 #Error403 #TechHistory #ExclusiveFanClub #HackerNews #ngated

  10. The 8088 is an 8-bit chip, as I guess many folks on Mastodon know. But what is the 16-bit Intel 8088 chip? It's a poem by Charles Bukowski: allpoetry.com/16-bit-Intel-808 #intel #intel8088 #bukowski

  11. Finally, An Open-Source 8088 BIOS - The Intel 8088 is an interesting chip, being a variant of the more well-known 8086... - hackaday.com/2023/10/20/finall #retrocomputing #intel8088 #intel #bios

  12. Per la nostra rubrica #retro parliamo di #Book8088, un portatile #XT basato su #Intel8088 che potete comprare nuovo oggi. La grande domanda è: ma dovreste? Analizziamo un po' di dati
    #laptop #IBMPC #MSDOS

    bufale.net/book-8088-il-retrol

  13. This is a fascinating writeup of the BOOK 8088 - a modern mini laptop with a decades-old Intel 8088 processor. It would have been a dream in 1981. Today it's a frustrating mess. But still kind of awesome. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/0

  14. Going deep with the Book 8088, the brand-new laptop that runs like it’s 1981 - Enlarge / The Book 8088, a strange homebrewed curio that recalls the ea... - arstechnica.com/?p=1943551 #retrocomputing #ms-dosgaming #windows3.0 #intel8088 #features #book8088 #freedos #gaming #ms-dos #tech

  15. Weird AliExpress laptop with Intel 8088 CPU will take you back to the MS-DOS era - The "Book 8088" la... - arstechnica.com/?p=1940475 #intel8088 #ms-dos #tech