birli you dig down, you notice the CPU and RAM sit on a daughterboard that plugs into the laptop's logic board. This opens the possibility for upgrades. Indeed, in the late 1990s and early '00s, it was possible to buy CPU upgrade cards from third-party companies.
Dad got two Commodores back in the early 2000s at different times to replace ours that had a broken J key and guess what? Despite the pictures they ALL had a broken J key!!! Back then though you couldn’t return broken stuff so were stuck with it.
I went bey far birli collecting a (one) electrical fuse from a Mercury Ferranti mainframe. Still don’t know why nor what for…
sdlkjf lkjsdflk says: December 28, 2020 at 3:07 pm What does the speed of this CPU mean for some retro games which require a “turbo button” because they run too fast on anything faster than an 8088 at 4.77mhz? There was never a 300mhz 486 back in the day. I kişi only imagine how fast one of those games would play on this. Seems like if you really want the retro hardware you should just stick with the real retro hardware. Things like caps don’t often go bad on these. The biggest sıkıntı of old retro 386/486 boards is the damn NiCad batteries many of these used for the RTC/CMOS back in the day before the Dallas RTC/CMOS/Battery modules or just a plain old coin cell started to be used.
The internals were based somewhat on the IBM System/360’s technology. Interestingly, it used a touch-sensitive keypad instead of a traditional keyboard. From what we’ve read, it seems this system had a lot of firsts: the first system to use a domestic TV kakım an output device, the first system to use a cassette deck as a storage medium, and the first purpose-built educational computer.
Here are just a few of the machines—all responsible in one way or another for major steps on the computer's evolution from whole-room laboratories to the desk and into the pocket—that LCM+L chose for its collection.
This old gadget came out all the way back in 1980. It was a follow-up to Apple’s “Apple II” series, which had debuted in 1977 and was enjoying a successful run. The Apple III, though, was pretty much dead on arrival; its first 14,000 models had major technical difficulties and were pulled for a redesign.
eBay is derece a cheap way to get vintage machines, but it is often the quickest, since you're more likely to find exactly what you want listed (unless what you want is very rare).
She was also influenced by one of her grandfathers, who would salvage small engines, broken vacuum cleaners and other electrical items that he could use to make low-cost repairs.
You've got a couple of options, though. You hayat buy another of the same machine you're restoring and cannibalize it for components.
eBay remains the most popular ortam for buying vintage computers, and for good reason. It offers a vast selection of machines, from common models to rare finds. You'll find everything from Commodore 64s and Apple IIs to more obscure systems like the Sinclair ZX Spectrum or TRS-80.
. Except for that one machine of my childhood that slipped away, and I’m wondering if I should put out the multiple hundred bucks + a drive from Denmark to Italy to pick it up :/
To use digital copies on your vintage computer, you might need additional hardware like SD card readers designed for vintage systems (e.g., SD2IEC for commodore Commodore computers).
“They implemented not one but two virtual machines that could run in less than 640 kilobytes of memory. The benzeyen izlence is only about five kilobytes. It’s really eye-opening in terms of how much more efficient we could be.”