I found my sister's old phone today. The battery was dead, but when I plugged it in it acutally started up. It initializes to 1/1/2009.

Look at this thing! It's adorable! Why don't phones look like this anymore? Can we have this back?

New battery for this little guy 😊

The black looks slightly weird from the back, but since the display bezel is also black, it doesn't actually look out of place when the computer is open.

#eeepc #windowsxp #retrocomputing

I'm looking for a very small USB sound interface for a mini PC project. Something like the one in the picture below.

Doesn't have to be fancy, it should literally just be able to output PC audio and not sound completely horrible. But it needs to be small, USB dongle sized.

Any recommendations or personal experiences? There's a ton of them available on Ebay and Amazon, but I imagine they vary quite a bit in terms of quality.

#askfedi #audio

Okay, if I apply power to an LCDs inverter board, without any kind of signal being present on the TDMS interface, should the screen's backlight come on? Because it doesn't...

For reference, I'm talking about a 15''' iMac G4 display.

#retrocomputing #imacg4

Out of work with lots of free time, it's the perfect opportunity to level up my skill set! 🤓

#retrocomputing #smolweb

Are there any typewriter experts here? I got this little guy the other day, it's a Privileg 300 T from the 70s I guess, judging by the design.

These seem to have been quite common, there's a lot of them on the used market, but I can't find much info about them.

So, does anyone know more about this machine or maybe has a link to a manual?

And in particular, does anyone know what that lever on the left labeled "H - L" does? [Edit: it selects how hard the paper is hit]

[Edit] Lots of great answers, thank you all very much! Have a look through the answers for more info, it seems to be a mechanism made by brother in probably 1974.

#typewriter #schreibmaschine #retrotech

Setup for the #oldcomputerchallenge 2024, starting tomorrow:

- Macbook Pro Core2Duo running Windows XP and OSX 10.6.8 as well as a modern minimalistic Linux distro (Crunchbang++)
- iPod
- Discman
- Dumbphone from 2003

If I can get it working right I also have a white Macbook from 2006 that I'd love to play around with, and a Mobile Pentium 3 Laptop from 2001.
Oh, and an iMac from 2001 as well... so yeah, I won't get bored :)