#vintagehardware — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #vintagehardware, aggregated by home.social.
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Hackaday: How Gold Plastic Syndrome Is Killing Toys And Game Consoles. “In a recent video [Sqwerks] does a deep-dive into the problem of disintegrating plastic enclosures of Nintendo DS consoles. These original NDS handheld consoles have a metallic-like coating that appears to interact with the ABS plastic, causing yellowing as well as extreme brittleness and correspondingly broken hinges. […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/06/hackaday-how-gold-plastic-syndrome-is-killing-toys-and-game-consoles/ -
Hackaday: How Gold Plastic Syndrome Is Killing Toys And Game Consoles. “In a recent video [Sqwerks] does a deep-dive into the problem of disintegrating plastic enclosures of Nintendo DS consoles. These original NDS handheld consoles have a metallic-like coating that appears to interact with the ABS plastic, causing yellowing as well as extreme brittleness and correspondingly broken hinges. […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/06/hackaday-how-gold-plastic-syndrome-is-killing-toys-and-game-consoles/ -
Hackaday: How Gold Plastic Syndrome Is Killing Toys And Game Consoles. “In a recent video [Sqwerks] does a deep-dive into the problem of disintegrating plastic enclosures of Nintendo DS consoles. These original NDS handheld consoles have a metallic-like coating that appears to interact with the ABS plastic, causing yellowing as well as extreme brittleness and correspondingly broken hinges. […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/06/hackaday-how-gold-plastic-syndrome-is-killing-toys-and-game-consoles/ -
Hackaday: How Gold Plastic Syndrome Is Killing Toys And Game Consoles. “In a recent video [Sqwerks] does a deep-dive into the problem of disintegrating plastic enclosures of Nintendo DS consoles. These original NDS handheld consoles have a metallic-like coating that appears to interact with the ABS plastic, causing yellowing as well as extreme brittleness and correspondingly broken hinges. […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/06/hackaday-how-gold-plastic-syndrome-is-killing-toys-and-game-consoles/ -
Hackaday: How Gold Plastic Syndrome Is Killing Toys And Game Consoles. “In a recent video [Sqwerks] does a deep-dive into the problem of disintegrating plastic enclosures of Nintendo DS consoles. These original NDS handheld consoles have a metallic-like coating that appears to interact with the ABS plastic, causing yellowing as well as extreme brittleness and correspondingly broken hinges. […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/06/hackaday-how-gold-plastic-syndrome-is-killing-toys-and-game-consoles/ -
Pour fêter l'histoire de la micro-informatique européenne,
Voici un petit hommage au Philips VG5000µ de 1984.Construit au Mans, équipé du Zilog Z80A à 4 MHz et du fameux chip graphique EF9345. C’était une machine taillée pour la crise . Elle exigeait d'acheter l'extension VG5216 juste pour pouvoir brancher des manettes... Le véritable esprit DIY des années 80 ! 🐘⚙️
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#RetroComputing #Minitel #VG5000 #OpenTech #VintageHardware #HistoryOfTech
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Games That Weren’t: Two Long Lost Commodore PET Adventures Recovered After 45 Years. “The original Commodore PET editions of Brian Cotton’s Catacombs and Goblin Towers, published by Supersoft back in 1981, have been recovered after being considered lost for around 45 years thanks to Marcel Lansing.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/08/games-that-werent-two-long-lost-commodore-pet-adventures-recovered-after-45-years/