It's ALLIIIIIVVEEE!! This UnixPC aka AT&T 7300 will be with me at #vcf this coming weekend. Come check it out! I'll have some other tasty stuff too.
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Vintage Apparatus
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Getting closer to having the 3b1 up and running for VCF East 2026! Hit some problems with the MFM emulator and the power supply, but I may have a working solution!
If this screen looks familiar, I bet I know where a chunk of your GPA in college went.
I thought this was common knowledge, but everyone I poitn this out to goes "Wait, really? I had no idea!" So here ya go, something that you can show off to friends at your next social event.
An Apple Power Supply feature that some people may not know about!
In one of my recent videos, I noted I had a Visual Commuter 'laptop' (really a portable) computer that I'd never seen before. I just found an ad for one on FBMP, nearby - I'm half tempted to get it just so I have one machine and one for spare parts. Seeing two of these rare birds is fascinating!
So, not so vintage, but fun anyway. I have a linux laptop many folks have seen in my videos - a 6th gen X1 Carbon I really like - but it has a bad CMOS battery in it. Finally sitting down to replace it tonight.
So, if you're a vintage computer nerd, and a bit of a collector, and maybe a bit of a pack rat, what does. your storage unit look like? Lets take a look...
What's in a Vintage Computing Nerd's Storage Unit?
Just picked up this fully functional Data General / One via a Facebook Marketplace. It's in amazing condition for 41 years old, with OEM case, printer, powersupplies, and cables.
The DG/One was the first battery powered fully PC compatible computer on the market
Lets take a look at a TI calculator from 1985 that could also run BASIC!
