How am I going to resurrect this long obsolete computer? [video](youtube.com)
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How am I going to resurrect this long obsolete computer? [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgkhBOc5V-c
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Bjorka
this person's odd preferences about PCB stock authenticity versus their desire to use a modern parts or replacements for other things really confuses me.
they want vintage PCB stock but don't seem to care about other things. they want to feel connected to the PCB designers by reusing the original PCB layouts as shown in the paper manuals distributed with the equipment.
the very same people they reached out to and who told them their project is a fool's errand.
people simply do not make sense to me. not even a little bit. I am on Earth, but I am not of Earth.
I myself feel more like a PCB designer when I design PCBs, and less like a PCB designer when I copy someone else's design verbatim.
don't bother replying if you're going to try to explain anything, because I will not understand humans no matter how much I try.
it would make FAR more sense to me if they just said "I'm doing it this way because that's how I want to do it" and did not elaborate. the explanation feels like an enormous can of "if I explain it, people won't challenge my decision in the comments."
they want vintage PCB stock but don't seem to care about other things. they want to feel connected to the PCB designers by reusing the original PCB layouts as shown in the paper manuals distributed with the equipment.
the very same people they reached out to and who told them their project is a fool's errand.
people simply do not make sense to me. not even a little bit. I am on Earth, but I am not of Earth.
I myself feel more like a PCB designer when I design PCBs, and less like a PCB designer when I copy someone else's design verbatim.
don't bother replying if you're going to try to explain anything, because I will not understand humans no matter how much I try.
it would make FAR more sense to me if they just said "I'm doing it this way because that's how I want to do it" and did not elaborate. the explanation feels like an enormous can of "if I explain it, people won't challenge my decision in the comments."
What if you didn’t need to understand them and just took their explanation as enough - simply accept that people will come to different conclusions than you, and that that is okay?
I love those hippy-dippy lines connecting the pads on a vintage PCB.
Edit: possible: YouTuber not of Earth.
Edit: possible: YouTuber not of Earth.
This is a SOL-2?
This is an 8080 CP/M machine of the same era as the Apple ][.
I lusted after these machines in my early teens. The Exidy Sorcerer was a particular draw.
This is an 8080 CP/M machine of the same era as the Apple ][.
I lusted after these machines in my early teens. The Exidy Sorcerer was a particular draw.
It's actually about the SOL prototype as published with plans in the July 1976 issue of Popular Electronics. Probably only a single machine was ever completed, which was functional for a short period. A few PCBs were ordered, but the design was withdrawn in favor of what became the SOL 20 (with the authors, Bob Marsh and Lee Felsenstein, actively urging customers to wait for redesigned boards).
Compare the first video in the series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYx0s8SBC9Q
Compare the first video in the series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYx0s8SBC9Q
How little I remember of my own history.
It is so fragmented in the many years that have past.
It is so fragmented in the many years that have past.
I read about the guy who decided to "live" in Edwardian England. His whole flat, his wardrobe, really his whole life was Edwardian. The only thing he conceded to modern times was a refrigerator, I believe (as opposed to a literal ice box).
Flipping through old electronics and computer magazines from the 70's suggested to me that I might want to slip back to the 1970's myself. Some of it is nostalgia for the decade when I was a kid, some of it a kind of rejection of the modern era we've created. (My wife complains she has no idea how to operate our TV — not the case in the 70's!)
A long way of saying I kind of get this Tech Time Traveller.
Flipping through old electronics and computer magazines from the 70's suggested to me that I might want to slip back to the 1970's myself. Some of it is nostalgia for the decade when I was a kid, some of it a kind of rejection of the modern era we've created. (My wife complains she has no idea how to operate our TV — not the case in the 70's!)
A long way of saying I kind of get this Tech Time Traveller.