SaustrupI made a thing! For those 3-4 people in the Fediverse who tinker with #Nascom and #GeminiMicrocomputers, I present: The 80-Bus Stop - convernient and safe storage for your 8x8" expansion cards. Enjoy ;-)
@etchedpixels @bonkers I think I read somewhere that some of the #Nascom guys started Gemini Microcomputers?
@etchedpixels @bonkers I know about xbeaver and am in contact with the author. I've always has a fascination with profession hardware like this, you know, wrapped in a minimum of +1mm metal plating 😂 I never laid my hands on a #Nascom system, but as I understand it, they were sort of the precursor to the Gemini.
Any other #Nascom or #Gemini #vintagecomputing geeks out there? I inherited a rather large collection from my late dad, but so far I've only found a handful of people why are into the #Galaxy computers made by Gemini Microcomputers Ltd., and none in the Fediverse yet. The Geminis were made in #England and mostly featured the #Zilog #z80 although they very briefly ventured into Motorola 68K world before throwing in the towel.
Extreme ElectronicsFound my first computer this week.
Nascom 1 (1978 ish) built into a wind up gramaphone case, swappable roms (tiny basic and a monitor IIRC) space for a Phillips EL3302 cassette player (that i also have some where) also found my software on tape.
Really need to archive those :)
Z80 at 4Mhz , 2KB onboard 1KB video, 1K user. 4K expansion (8x 2114's)
Jason DyerNext on All the Adventures: the first original adventure game written in Danish.
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/08/19/skatte-jagt-1982/
#retrogaming #adventuregame #videogames #textadventure #interactivefiction #denmark #danish #nascom
Wolfgang StiefNascom Tastatur in Sperrholz. Nascom sind Einplatinen-Bausatz-Computer auf Z80-Basis, erschienen 1977 (Nascom 1) und 1979 (Nascom 2). Das Foto ist vom VCFe 24.0 (2025). #onepicaday #nascom #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #z80 #VCFe #VCFe24
Computeum VilshofenSodala, die Katze ist aus dem Sack, das garnicht so geheime Ausstellungsstück ist ein #Nascom 1 - und dank Josefs fleißiger Reparaturarbeit läuft er auch wieder:
Nascom 1
Der Nascom 1 Rechner ist eine freundliche Leihgabe von Reinhold Donaubauer, den er selbst Ende der 70er zusammengebaut hat. Der aktuelle Zustand ist unbekannt, die Spannungsversorgung abgetrennt. An der Tastatur fehlt die Reset Taste, der Trafo hat primärseitig kein Kabel angeschlossen, ein Video
So my dad and I went on a last #roadtrip together. We rarely spoke, and almost never about personal things. He had two other families after mine, and gave most of his attention to the people right in front of him. That unfortunately meant that both of his grandchildren missed out on their grandfather and vice versa, which is probably the thing I'm most sad about. Fortunately we managed to catch up a bit during the last three months before he died.
When we spoke, we spoke about electronics and computers. The car is full of ancient vintage computers I saved from his estate. For the curious, it's Z80 based, #Nascom compatible computers from #GeminiMicrocomputers. More about that later.
So here he is, and so are some of his things. Peculiar how I'm flooded with emotion, when I hold some of the tools that I remember from growing up in his computer workshop. It was one of the few things we shared and he taught me - #computers and #electronics.
Walrus 🏴Once upon a time, I had a Nascom 1. But this is my Nascom 2, before I added an amber monitor. It must have been late 1980s...