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  1. I really wish I knew more information about my old computer.

    It was beige, looked like a Tandy 1000 but was not a Tandy 1000.

    It had an amber phosphor monochrome monitor, but I am not sure if it was a match with the computer; it probably wasn't.

    It had an old MFM hard drive, 14 MB I think, around 20 if I compressed the whole drive.

    I kinda want to recreate it but don't know what to look for, because playing ZZT on it was peak 1995 for me.

  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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