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Hi, I just wanted to announce the birth of our PiDP-10 replica kit, and with that, a new overview site. Because a PiDP-1 replica is coming up later this year, and so we will have a reasonably complete range of DEC's main models. It deserved a website to integrate them all into a single story...

Hi, Just a heads-up: there will be a Vintage Computer Festival in Switzerland again this year! Like the last three years, it'll be in Zurich's Rote Fabrik cultural center, at the shore of Lake Zurich. November 24 & 25... Here's an impression of last year's event. There's a nice line-up of...

Hi, Just a heads-up: there will be a Vintage Computer Festival in Switzerland again this year! Like the last two years, it'll be in Zurich's Rote Fabrik cultural center, at the shore of Lake Zurich. November 24 & 25... Here's an impression of last year's event. There's a new & nice...

Hi, Just a heads-up: there will be a Vintage Computer Festival in Switzerland again this year! Like last year, it'll be in Zurich's Rote Fabrik cultural center, at the shore of Lake Zurich. Here's an impression of last year's event, but you might want to press the mute button first ;) There's...

Hi, I'm abusing the work of Angelo for propaganda purposes, but... We hope to show his pretty amazing PDP-6 replica at the Vintage Computer Festival in Zurich next month. Amazing, because of course only 27 of these machines were made, and none of them has been in working condition since...

Hi, We're having a Vintage Computer Festival in Zurich on November (http://vcfe.ch) and one thing we'd really would like to add to the roster is a proper exhibit on the Atari - especially, the 8 bitters. If there's anyone here who'd like to take up an exhibit table on that, please let us know...

Yay! There will be a Vintage Computer Festival in Switzerland again this year. This time, it'll be held in Zurich rather than Winterthur, in the Rote Fabrik cultural center, at the shore of Lake Zurich. There's already a nice line-up of exhibits and presentations. But as we have plenty of...

Hi, I just completed the design of my PiDP-8, a kit replica of the venerable PDP-8/I, after exhibiting the prototypes at the VCFeX: Now, I'm gearing up to produce a batch of kits, and I'd like to collect expressions of interest in the coming two weeks. In other words, see how much interest...

Hi, I just finished the first prototype of my PDP-8/I replica, in time for the VCFeX... Based on SimH running on a Raspberry Pi, it will not be everyone's cup of tea - not Real Stuff after all. But here it is nevertheless: I wanted to make an open-source hardware kit to get myself the PDP-8...

Hi, I think I've read all the M24 posts but could not quite get to my problem. I bought a M24 (as I really liked them back then) and: - had to unplug the hard drive as it clearly had crashed, rattling noise. - on powerup: no video (but you hear the monitor come on), no beep, keyboard LEDs...

Hi, In case you live in Switzerland, we have our 10th monthly VintageBytes meeting in Lucerne, Switzerland on January 28th. This will be a workshop event: build the $10 KIM Uno kit, a modern-day pocket version of the venerable KIM-1. See here for details on the event, or here for a PDF...

Hi, I'm designing a front panel for a PDP-8/I replica project. This will be a low-cost replica, but I'd still like to make it as faithful to the original as the budget allows. Below is what I have so far: a PCB plus the acrylic front cover I designed for it. My problem: I've never seen a...

Hi, If you live in the area: Vintagebytes.CH has a special event on November 11 demonstrating a PDP-8, see link below: http://vintagebytes.ch/2014/10/19/vintagebytes-ch-veranstaltung-8-the-pdp8-minicomputer-family-the-pc-of-its-time/ This time we have a new location in Zurich instead of the...

Hi, Earlier this year I posted about my KIM Uno, a handheld KIM-I clone extended with a 6502 programmable calculator mode. Also added are microchess and 6502 disassembler in ROM. The first batch of 75 kits has been sent out, so I'm sampling interest for a second run. (just to make sure: this...

Hi, I posted a message two months ago during development, but now my KIM Uno is done… It is a handheld KIM-I clone -- just to make sure: done as a non-profit hobby project. It costs just $10 in parts, and for the next few weeks, I can send PCBs/kits at cost price to anyone who is...

Hi, I just got word that there will again be a Swiss VCFe this year. VCFe.ch Halle 710, Barbara-Reinhart-Str. 25 8404 Winterthur, Schweiz The official flyer is here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xsslxse91o82mba/vcfech.pdf Regards, Oscar.

Hi, I just finished a KIM-1 emulator that runs on the Arduino Uno. I could not come up with a more creative name than KIM Uno, for which I apologise... But although I'm planning to add some more functionality in the coming weeks, the current version seems to work well. It only requires a...

Hi, There is a new, simple to build FPGA "Homebrewing" project out, in case you missed it: http://searle.hostei.com/grant/Multicomp/index.html Multicomp, it's called. Grant Searle basically created a "box of vintage parts" in FPGA and lets you mix and match parts to create a synthetic...

Hi, I found this card in a recently acquired Apple IIe. It carries a Z80 card plus RAM, and is labelled as a "cachecard". Some Googling confirmed the existence of the card, but nothing more than that, not even a picture... It looks like a rather nice Z80 card for my Apple, but are manuals or...

Hi, It is a bit off-topic as regards to Vintage Computing, but for the homebrewers among us this is, I think, a pretty spectacular development: using a plotter with conductive-ink pen to homebrew PCBs. See here (link) - the video at 3:20 shows the idea in practice. May not be perfect, but I...