Mechanical TV, Without The Benefit Of New Parts

There are many experimenters who have had a go at a mechanical television, and though there are a few challenges, it’s a relatively straightforward project in 2026. A hundred years ago though…

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The Slacker G2 Personal Radio Player, released in 2008, integrated Slacker Radio's free music service with built-in Wi-Fi for playback on-the-go.

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Examining circuit boards from the Space Shuttle's I/O Processor

http://www.righto.com/2026/06/space-shuttle-io-processor-boards.html

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Examining circuit boards from the Space Shuttle's I/O Processor

The Space Shuttle's five 1 general-purpose computers played a critical role in each flight: controlling the engines, monitoring thousands o...

EC-221
Radio Shack
1977

https://handheldmuseum.org/device/radio-shack-ec-221/

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Radio Shack EC-221 - Calculators - Handheld Computer Museum

View 2 photos and learn more about this awesome vintage device.

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The latest version of AnalogTV https://analogtv.net now does full signal chain simulation of Apollo TV. This is not a "filter" or "shader" this is a full emulation of the signal.

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🥱 Oh wow, let's all gather 'round and geek out over the riveting tale of a 40-year-old video card that made the Apple II a "serious" computer. Reverse-engineering ancient tech to understand slot 3's quirks—just what every hip, modern reader was dying to know! 😂💾
https://www.wiseowl.com/articles/a2fpga-videx-01-the-card-that-made-the-apple-ii-serious/ #vintagecomputing #retrotech #reverseengineering #AppleII #techhistory #geekculture #HackerNews #ngated
The Card That Made the Apple II Serious — Wise Owl

The Videx VideoTerm was the 80-column card that turned the Apple II into a business machine. Emulating it on an FPGA means reverse-engineering a 1981 MC6845 CRTC design and understanding why slot 3 is unlike every other slot in the machine.

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A Chronicle of Kramatorsk's Pre-internet Era. Re-evaluating Memories with Mykola Kucheruk

https://peertube.eqver.se/w/h98Afeg9nc9jAormbnWKoF

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Hacking Routers Like It’s 2008

How long have we been hacking routers? To some of you who’ve been in the Hackaday audience for a while, the answer is “nearly forever”. In the early 2000s, they were one of the few consumer gadgets…

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