Notices by Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)

I really fancy building a RISC-V based PC, I've been looking at these Mini ITX form factor boards by MilkV, could be another fun project for 2025!

Linux for Playstation 2 Kit (2002)

It's that time of year again, when I try to hide John McClane amongst my wife's pristinely decorated tree....

Wow, the 171MB Seagate HDD is still working and it boots into MS-DOS 5.0. There's some 'interesting' names batch files on here 🤣🤣🤣

I've used an 18v PSU, we seem to have some life 😁 dudes!

Remember to always clean your balls!

The drive seems to be working well after 30 years....

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Compaq Contura Aero 4/25 486 laptop (1994).
Cost me £12, it needs repairs to the screen bracket & a clean. Also I have no idea if it will work, additionally it has no PCMCIA floppy drive. BIOS info stored on a hidden partition on the HDD, no floppy = problems

Coherent (UNIX-like OS), first released in 1980, final release in 1994.
It was open sourced in 2015, here's the download link for anyone that's interested in checking it out (4x Floppy Images):
github.com/gspu/Coherent

Here's the new Big Box PC game I picked up for my collection last weekend:
Deus Ex [2000]

Even powerful magic cannot contain the evil dark forces within!

Nice little gaming/computing haul from my shopping trip!

Acer AnyWare 1100LX [1990]:

I have something cool and exciting arriving soon to refurb and fix up, should be a great blast from the past! 👍

archive.org 🫂 😢

Easy "anyone can do with minimal effort" Retro-brighting tutorial:
I have been asked many times how I retro-bright things, so I wanted to share the method I used, that's very simple, requires no special tech and gives fantastic results.
(Use relevant PPE, gloves etc.)
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2.5 day update: still cooking, but looking 👌

Early Saturday morning paper craft today, I made a little reflector to catch as much Autumn sun as possible. These three are all ready for retro-brighting, I wrapped them all separately so I can swap and move them around, let's check back in a few days or so....

I've fully refurbished the Plextor PlexWriter on the bottom, inside and out, I need to get these other three sorted! 👍
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They turned out nicely!
Before
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After