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Michael Canode, NZMCA #19250

Wed, 14 Aug 2019 13:53:01 +0000

First system was Ohio Scientific "Superboard": bring your own power supply, monitor, I/O. Morphed through three Tandys (Tandies?), including model 200 portable, and four "PowerSpec" systems, made by Micro Center (my current employer) Nowadays, I use a nine-year-old MacBook to create the RV club chapter Web site, write and teach How-To Clinics for Micro Center Customers, and view "vintage silicon" sites like your own! :-) :-)

Dean Cooper

Thu, 25 Jul 2019 19:57:19 +0000

Hi all.

I have a Sinclair Spectrum for sale if anyone is interested.

May need a new keyboard button membrane.

let me know if interested.

Also some spectrum and C64 games.

Dean. globalfoodsdirect@gmail.com

Robert Stek

Thu, 04 Jul 2019 19:01:51 +0000

Just discovered your wonderful site as I get back into retro-computing. As Firesign Theater's Nick Danger says, "Thanks, you've saved me a lot of investigative work!"

You really should check out Jim Battle's Sol-20 emulator and add it to your list.

[www.sol20.org]

John Hearns

Thu, 30 May 2019 12:45:52 +0000

Hi Terry. I saw your tweet about the Dick Smith colour board. I never saw such a thing.
I have the TRS-80 Hardware Manual. Do you have a copy? I guess it might be worth figuring out where this board would connect to.
As an aside I have a lower case TRS-80
The character generator is capable of lower case. You need to solder on an 8th RAM chip though as a piggyback on one of the existing chips. The address line is one of the legs bent outwards and soldered on by a short wire.

Alistair Clark

Mon, 25 Mar 2019 11:14:13 +0000

Hi Terry We are all getting older (I'm 78) and the question arises what to do with our keepsakes? System 80's and Colour genies. My 4 children between 22 and 29 aren't going to be interested. Although I haven't turned the computers on for some time I suspect they will still go. I did have a hex keypad on my System 80 and an Atari type joystick connector beyond that. I've also seen an advertisement for Custom Computers who did a lot of upgrades for me.

Albert Bee

Fri, 25 Jan 2019 13:10:09 +0000

Hi Terry,
I like your retro videos, and I hope that you will also do some on those software that were the heyday 3 or 4 decades ago, like Visicalc, 123, Wordstar, Dbase etc. I recommend you try out Ashton Tates' Framework II(or III or IV) that runs on top of MSDOS and has a user interface similar to Windows, way before Windows came onto the scene.

Best regards
Albert

ALI KEMAL ISTANBULLU

Mon, 07 Jan 2019 21:11:50 +0000

Thank you for your nice videos. When I was child (around 6 years old) I stare my eyes over these circuit boards and 8bit computers. I was dreamed on what happen inside them. Electrons moving one way, bits flying and big brothers words hanging around with their friends. Then what happened my father bought me C64 with tape drive. And my dreams comes true and my career began. Now I m Electrical Engineer and programming machines. When I watched your clips on Youtube I feel same childhood days inside me. Thank you again. Good job. Regards.

atoxique

Wed, 26 Dec 2018 11:29:58 +0000

Hi tezza! Hope you had a great Christmas!!

Stuart Johnson

Sat, 22 Dec 2018 00:30:32 +0000

As an expat Aussie I love your online videos and enthusiasm on all your computers. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t jealous you have a wonderful collection I stubbled onto your videos via youtube a year or so ago and still playing catchup. As it’s close to Christmas hope you have a wonderful Christmas and New Year.

Charles Hudson

Mon, 03 Dec 2018 18:14:35 +0000

Greetings, Terry!

I've seen your postings on VCFED and recently saw one on the subject of using ADT to transfer to an Apple IIgs. Came by here to look for a link but couldn't find it. Ah, well.

-CH-

Matthias

Fri, 23 Nov 2018 13:14:30 +0000

After being "infected" by a CBM 3016 around 1980, my first owned machine was a Colour Genie in 1982. Very good memories, even got it off the attic recently, hooked up to a 50" flatscreen... still the same blurry screen :lol: But: my youngest >really< enjoyed playing Frogger and others, and I played Invasion for the first time in decades. Hard to get the software onto the machine, so started a software cassette player: did not want to have all these WAV files but play directly from CAS selection lists. Maybe make it a bit more polished and flexible, then make available for download. Anyone knows regarding copyright still active on these tapes? Doubt it, but you never know.

Tezza, thanks for this nice site, I think I have to get some software running and also find out which manuals or books I still have, not to forget the old Z80 books. Some might be in my parents attic still, unfortunately far away at the other end of Germany), but I should get this packed in one place here.

Keep up the nice site!
Matthias

Preet Sangha

Sat, 01 Sep 2018 12:21:33 +0000

Just saw the TRS80 from 77! That was the first computer I ever touched! Wrote my first ever program on in 78! Still programming to this day.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

Dag Erik Hagesæter

Sat, 11 Aug 2018 12:51:36 +0000

Greate site. I like the way you document your projects. Keep'em coming.

Simon

Sat, 05 May 2018 21:21:38 +0000

Hi Terry,

Great site! Great videos on YT. Hope all is well with you and keep up the good work!

Kind regards,

Simon.

Matthew

Thu, 26 Apr 2018 01:41:09 +0000

Hi,
I have been doing some searching on an old Telecom computer I have in the garage. found out it is a ICL one per desk from your site. Any ideas on how much it is worth as I need to clean some space. It is an awfully big and heavy machine.

William Trader

Sun, 25 Feb 2018 09:03:09 +0000

Learned a lot about systems I could not afford as a kid and young adult. Thanks for the well made videos.

ttzo

Thu, 28 Dec 2017 16:35:44 +0000

hello, i read your post about eprom
its nice, i have a problem with
programming RTC DS1216D
do you have any info how buy used ALL-11
programmer? or other way for programming

Patrick McLauglin

Mon, 25 Dec 2017 21:08:18 +0000

Absolutely marvelous work and documentation your doing. I particularly gleaned a lot of education from your 8" Floppy Drive effort.

I designed an IBM format compatible controller (FDC-10) for the Apple II back in the late 80's that allowed an Apple to read and write to FM & MFM formatted discs from CP/M and the up and coming IBM of the time. I had lots of fun doing so, but soon after focused on the DaynaFile that did the same, but for the Mac.

Andreas

Thu, 07 Dec 2017 03:01:11 +0000

Hey Terry,

I love your YouTube channel. But been a while though since you made a new video. I hope all is fine with you and this real-life thing (I heard about ;-) ) doesn't pin you down, preventing showing new (old of course!) hardware reviews.

Well it's December, so alrwady a Happy Christmas and good New Year!

Jason Weber

Mon, 23 Oct 2017 01:59:25 +0000

G'day Terry.
Just pulled a DS Sys80 out of mothballs. Turns on (Power LED) but thats it. Hitting F1 enables the cassette desk to operate.
Troubleshooting in the manual points to a DS549 Transistor (which I can find no reference for online).
Only if you have time, would it be possible to flick me an email and maybe help troubleshoot this old girl?
The Dick Smith System 80 was my childhood computer and I'd love to be able to get it up and running again.