#vintagehardware — Public Fediverse posts

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. […]

The Sentinel Assam: Legendary ‘Shutter Guru’ Nalini Kanta Baruah’s vintage cameras gifted to Tezpur University. “A collection of vintage cameras belonging to legendary Assam photographer Nalini Kanta Baruah, popularly known as the ‘Shutter Guru,’ has been donated to the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism (MCJ), Tezpur University, marking a significant addition to the […]

At long last -- my Amiga 2000 has a CPU speed switch!

( Fast and Faster )

A "new" 40MHz 68030/882 accelerator with 8MB 32-bit FAST RAM is slotted in and wired with a switch, there on the front. Base 68000 system has 8MB 16-bit FAST RAM, a respectable fallback for cycle-exact OCS/ECS demos.

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Digital Preservation at the University of Cambridge Libraries and Archives: Digging for Data: Recovering Files from Forgotten Word Processing Systems. “The collections we work with contain disks from machines that were once used professionally but are now largely forgotten. While imaging the disks themselves was possible, none of our usual tools, or others we could find online, were able to […]