TRS-80 Repair Part 0

Today I learned the dangers of shipping a TRS-80, which, you shouldn’t. It came with the CRT dropped, front panel cracked, CRT mount points cracked, and the tube socket damaged. Slowly replacing parts to see if I can get it to work, in the mean time I did a quick Acetone repair…

🔗 https://techiegirl.net/trs-80-repair-00/

#RetroComputing #TRS80 #RetroTech #Repair

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A damaged TRS-80 with a crack across the front chassis; a screwdriver lies in front for scale

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The same TRS-80 front panel after a quick acetone treatment — the crack is much less visible

Time to post some #GRiD #Compass photos!

This laptop was presented in our local #hackspace by a guy who bought him to use, but found that there are no easy way to install programs, transfer files, use GRiD Compass emulator on PC, connect this laptop to the network — so he started working and solving beforementioned problems A LOT — as usual for anyone who is deeply in retrocomputing

#RetroComputing #RetroHardware #GridCompass #photography #TechPhotography #RetroTech

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GRiD Compass laptop with amber display. There is a GRiD logo on the display with a perspective lines on the background.

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Keyboard of a GRiD Compass — mechanical (?) keyboard with a QWERTY-layout. There is a GRiD "system card" on top of the keyboard with a list of specific keybinding, starting with "CODE" key plus letter.

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GRiD Compass laptop with amber display. There is a main menu of GRiD OS on the display.

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GRiD Compass laptop with amber display. There is a menu of some application (?) with keybindings on the left of menu items.

The iMac was the product that brought Apple back from the financial brink.

Did you own one of these in the mid-late 90s?

#Apple #RetroTech

#Apple #Retro #RetroTech

Have yourself an 8-bitty little Christmas 🎄👾

🎶 Up On the Housetop was performed using two Atari 2600 consoles playing together in stereo 🤯

The full 2003 album celebrates classic retro platforms, including:
Spectrum • NES • VIC-20 • Atari 2600 • Game Boy • C64 • Atari ST • X68000

⬇️ Download The 8bits of Christmas by The 8bitpeoples
https://archive.org/details/8bp038/8bp038-06-goto80-last-christmas-hot-digi-remix.mp3

#8Bit #Chiptune #RetroTech #ChristmasMusic

#Apple #RetroTech

Just a quick note to say I’ve set up a Patreon for anyone who enjoys or benefits from the BBS, textmode, and related services I run.

Everything will stay free to use as always, but if you’d like to help me keep the lights on (and maybe fund a few upgrades), any support would mean a lot.

You can find it here:
https://erb.pw/y/patreon

#BBS #RetroComputing #Textmode #ANSI #ASCII #RetroTech #qUAntUmRaDio #thEgrAvYtrAIn #DigitalNostalgia #SupportIndie

Here’s a 26 year old movie playing on a 20 year old TV. Life is good. Modernity sucks.

#Movies #RetroTech

Or DexMedia might also ship them to your region if you have a land line.

In my area they mail them to certain neighborhoods where the geriatric boomer brigades and the hippy generation are known to still reside. The last place I lived 4 years ago they still delivered them every year. In my new place they don't deliver to my neighborhood. For everyone else you need to order them, and they are only available for certain areas.

I surmise that the print phone books will never be completely extinct. They are critical infrastructure if the data grid goes down in some disaster. There are still millions of active copper phone lines across the country, and the way they were buried, it should be another two generations before all that copper corrodes. I have lines that are 50 years old and still in good condition. It is just sitting there, waiting in case it is ever needed.

#YellowPages #WhitePages #PhoneBooks #Telephones #Phones #RetroTech