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  Recent Find – Monteverdi AM/FM, 8-Track, Phono Console Stereo

  Published April 22, 2012 - No Comments

  I picked this item up from a local hardware store which occasionally puts out “flea market” type product they acquire when they attend property auctions. This is a Monteverdi CCD-4578 console stereo system. These are the types of full featured stereos I used when growing up. Al ...

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  TRS-80 Hard Drive System – Now Operational

  Published April 12, 2012 - No Comments

  I was sitting on a TRS-80 hard drive system for a couple of years without doing anything with it. I did plug it in to my Model IV, just to see what would happen. I figure anything between a successful system boot and a successful release of smoke and ozone would result. Turns out, I [...]

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  Transferring programs TO a TRS-80

  Published April 9, 2012 - No Comments

  For years, I owned a TRS-80 Model IV two-disk system. I purchased it in the late 1990s at a community yard sale for only $25. Since then, there was little I could do with it. All I had was an L-DOS 6.3.1 boot disk. If all I wanted to do was format floppies, or type [...]

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  Vintage Electronics Workbench

  Published January 23, 2012 - 2 Comments

  Since vintage electronics are a hobby, and not necessarily something I’m able to generally furnish the home with, I needed an adequate space in my house to work with the stuff instead of simply “collecting it”. Enter the Man Cave. In particular, my Man Cave. A portion of ...

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  Milton Bradley’s Microvision – The First Commercial Interchangeable Electronic Game System

  Published January 3, 2012 - No Comments

  Forget your Nintendo DS, DSi, 3DS, or one of the many variations of cartridge based games in the past 30+ years. None of them are as innovative as Milton Bradley’s original cartridge based system, called Microvision. My first experience with the Microvision was a few days after Chris ...

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Recent Find – Monteverdi AM/FM, 8-Track, Phono Console Stereo

Published April 22, 2012 at 10:05 pm - No Comments

I picked this item up from a local hardware store which occasionally puts out “flea market” type product they acquire when they attend property auctions. This is a Monteverdi CCD-4578 console stereo system. These are the types of full featured stereos I used when growing up. Although this one is one of the older style [...]

TRS-80 Hard Drive System – Now Operational

Published April 12, 2012 at 9:50 pm - No Comments

I was sitting on a TRS-80 hard drive system for a couple of years without doing anything with it. I did plug it in to my Model IV, just to see what would happen. I figure anything between a successful system boot and a successful release of smoke and ozone would result. Turns out, I [...]

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• Recent Find – Monteverdi AM/FM, 8-Track, Phono Console StereoPublished April 22, 2012 at 10:05 pm
• TRS-80 Hard Drive System – Now OperationalPublished April 12, 2012 at 9:50 pm
• Transferring programs TO a TRS-80Published April 9, 2012 at 11:07 pm
• Vintage Electronics WorkbenchPublished January 23, 2012 at 1:51 pm
• Milton Bradley’s Microvision – The First Commercial Interchangeable Electronic Game SystemPublished January 3, 2012 at 9:59 pm
• Some of my Timex Sinclair magazine libraryPublished January 2, 2012 at 11:26 am
• 2011 Ending… What to do in 2012?Published December 30, 2011 at 7:31 pm
• Attending Maker-Faire for the first time – Part 1 (a summary)Published August 17, 2011 at 9:17 pm

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