Hey, I'm Keri doing tech... Keritech. In my lab here in Gdańsk in northern Poland.
I'm pretty young for a nerd interested in old computers. 38 at the moment, been tinkering for over three decades. I could call myself an electronic engineer by Dave Jones' standards, though I'm all self-taught, dropped out after a semester of EE studies as I got demotivated after realizing I wouldn't learn vacuum tube tech there. Ha.
I mainly did audio and control/automation/embedded system work, some programming but not that much. The most interesting software project I did was in Python, it was a control program for my Raspberry Pi based "rpi2caster" control device for a Monotype composition caster.
I haven't been that long into vintage computing, really. It started with a ZX Spectrum +2 which I recombobulated and modded to get better video and get rid of noise on the audio output while preserving the cassette functionality.
I do repair, modding and restoration work, but I'll be more and more leaning towards the somewhat esoteric stuff like Soviet and Eastern Bloc tech, or '60s/70s tabletop calculators. I'm also into vintage displays and readouts, though I don't have anything besides Nixie tubes and vacuum fluorescent displays from my side of the globe. Panaplex, edge-lit, projection displays, numitron/minitron... I wish! They've become so expensive I can't afford them, but I'm open to opportunities to get some.
Getting into the Polish and European vintage computer afficionado scene. Who knows, maybe I'll take a part in organizing a Vintage Computer Fair in my country? I can't go to the States for economic reasons, but I watched the VCF East and Southwest on Youtube and that was hella impressive, I wish I was there.
American computers simply aren't around in my country, getting something from the States is out of the question for me economically and logistically. I live, work, run my lab and Youtube channel on a budget tighter than Ethel Granger's laces. Dreaming of getting an IMSAI 8080 someday. Greetings, Professor Falken... A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. (I love '70s...90s scifi movies just a bit too much)
I just got myself a Commodore 64C and am tinkering with it. I made a new and improved power supply in the original gray box. Vintage look and feel with modern reliability.
Since I have no floppies or cassettes, I'm limited to learning the BASICs of writing my own programs. I'll definitely build a datassette or 1541 emulator for it.
As for my own stuff, I have a Soemtron ETR220 tabletop electronic calculator made in the GDR. An impressive machine, all discrete germanium (not americium, not francium, not polonium and not chinesium) transistors, ferrite core memory and 15 Nixie tubes.
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/KeriSzafir
Hackaday: https://hackaday.io/keritech
I'm pretty young for a nerd interested in old computers. 38 at the moment, been tinkering for over three decades. I could call myself an electronic engineer by Dave Jones' standards, though I'm all self-taught, dropped out after a semester of EE studies as I got demotivated after realizing I wouldn't learn vacuum tube tech there. Ha.
I mainly did audio and control/automation/embedded system work, some programming but not that much. The most interesting software project I did was in Python, it was a control program for my Raspberry Pi based "rpi2caster" control device for a Monotype composition caster.
I haven't been that long into vintage computing, really. It started with a ZX Spectrum +2 which I recombobulated and modded to get better video and get rid of noise on the audio output while preserving the cassette functionality.
I do repair, modding and restoration work, but I'll be more and more leaning towards the somewhat esoteric stuff like Soviet and Eastern Bloc tech, or '60s/70s tabletop calculators. I'm also into vintage displays and readouts, though I don't have anything besides Nixie tubes and vacuum fluorescent displays from my side of the globe. Panaplex, edge-lit, projection displays, numitron/minitron... I wish! They've become so expensive I can't afford them, but I'm open to opportunities to get some.
Getting into the Polish and European vintage computer afficionado scene. Who knows, maybe I'll take a part in organizing a Vintage Computer Fair in my country? I can't go to the States for economic reasons, but I watched the VCF East and Southwest on Youtube and that was hella impressive, I wish I was there.
American computers simply aren't around in my country, getting something from the States is out of the question for me economically and logistically. I live, work, run my lab and Youtube channel on a budget tighter than Ethel Granger's laces. Dreaming of getting an IMSAI 8080 someday. Greetings, Professor Falken... A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. (I love '70s...90s scifi movies just a bit too much)
I just got myself a Commodore 64C and am tinkering with it. I made a new and improved power supply in the original gray box. Vintage look and feel with modern reliability.
Since I have no floppies or cassettes, I'm limited to learning the BASICs of writing my own programs. I'll definitely build a datassette or 1541 emulator for it.
As for my own stuff, I have a Soemtron ETR220 tabletop electronic calculator made in the GDR. An impressive machine, all discrete germanium (not americium, not francium, not polonium and not chinesium) transistors, ferrite core memory and 15 Nixie tubes.
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/KeriSzafir
Hackaday: https://hackaday.io/keritech
