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  1. Future project... IBM 5160 I recently got. Has a CGA, floppy, hard disk and lpt boards. Faulty power supply I need to resolve first.

    This was my first PC growing up, so a lot of nostalgia fixing one up.

    #IBM #8088 #Retrocomp #vintagecomputing #640k

  2. Can someone id this thing? It's from the Soviet Union. None of the writing seems to indicate a year. I don't know how to read Cyrillic though.
    :boost:

    #retroComp #electronics #retroComputing #sovietEra

  3. its here!

    had to remove the screw thingies to plug in to the ST... which are all that holds the outer shield on 🙃

    oh well, might have to glue it on?

    connected to Level 29, as is tradition

    the wifi modem won't connect to the house wireless for some reason, so i connected it to my phone

    that's right, this 520ST has 5G wireless connectivity!

    #retrocomp #retrocompuing #Atari #AtariST #BBS

  4. @ahto i use Thortsten Otto's gcc toolchain on a raspi 4 as i find amusement in using modern compilers to target old systems as if they were embedded systems 🙃

    tho-otto.de/crossmint.php

    i can rapidly test software using hatari's GEMDOS drive emulation

    to write disks to run on real hardware i've got a bondi blue iMac era TEAC FD-05PU USB floppy drive 😁

    #retrocomp #retrocompuing #retrocoding #Atari #AtariST #C #gcc