The vintage Okimate 10 and 20 thermal color printers can print in black and white on thermal fax roll paper without a ribbon.
Here's a roll paper stand I created that you can print.
https://www.printables.com/model/1364930-okimate-1020-printer-roll-paper-holderstand
Functional keyboard with broken keyboard screw mounts. Did someone throw this across the room when it destructed? #retrocomputing
So my 11 year old is sitting with the back of an envelope and a pencil, converting decimal numbers to binary.
They failed math last year in school. But they want to make a Gameboy Color game so they decided to learn Assembly... I just have to help them keep focused and they'll learn it.
But the most important thing that they need to learn is that grades don't define how smart they are. And for me the important thing to learn is to chill out and just let them wiggle and go on tangents
Huh. It actually works. Imagine literally any piece of electro-waste from today still working in 50 years after you resolder a missing trace or pin back on. #retrocomputing
I think I found the problem with the BASIC ROM. #retrocomputing
Some highlights of the #MSX Summit held in São Paulo, Brazil, in July 19th. It was AMAZING!
Geeze. Dead SID and dead BASIC ROM too. No output on the audio test and no text on the screen when booting normally. #retrocomputing
@vga256 I dug out the source code and put a small HTML wrapper around it to explain it.
This version of the code is the last version, dating back to October 1988. It includes buffering blocks in RAM to avoid the performance problem with writing each 128 byte block to disk, and two different ways to cheat and abort a perfectly good transfer to avoid getting charged.
38 years later I'm proud of the cleverness, but not proud of the cheating. ;-)
Comprehensive Test Set Released For The Intel 80286 https://hackaday.com/2025/07/24/comprehensive-test-set-released-for-the-intel-80286/ #Retrocomputing #arduinox86 #80286 #intel #286 #cpu
Just had a delightful chat with an elderly friend who reminisced about using the Wolontis interpretive language on an IBM 650 computer in the late 1950s.
Now that's what I call #RetroComputing
Comprehensive Test Set Released For The Intel 80286 - Remember the 80286? It was the sequel to the 8086, the chip that started it all, a... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/24/comprehensive-test-set-released-for-the-intel-80286/ #retrocomputing #arduinox86 #intel #cpu
Ugh, this thing must have gotten hit by a dying power supply. Two 4164, PLA and VIC2 dead. But it’s back. #retrocomputing
After running through a stack of 250 donated 5.25“ inch floppies, here‘s my breakdown:
27 original disks, most still having the original content on them and reading okay!
30 good 1.2Meg HD disks
22 good SSDD 180K disks
103 good DSDD 360K disks
But also roughly 70 disks thrown away for being not readable at all or defective sectors.
I definitely have a good complement of disks on hand now :)
Bueno, lo conseguí: primera vez que consigo ganarle a la máquina en el justo de futbol de KONAMI… y tuvo que ser en un emulador, en este caso openMSX, que es ideal cuando uno tiene una ROM que ejecutar.
ps. @runjaj, mandaste mi productividad a la porra 
#MSX #openMSX #Konami #KonamiSoccer
#コナミ #サッカー #RetroComputing #RetroGaming #emulation
Awesome finds: Original and almost pristine copies of OnTrack Disk Manager 3.3 and Microsoft GW-BASIC. These disks were perfectly stored and still read! #RetroComputing #VintageComputing
I need your help!
This floppy was destroyed by the preowner, and I seem unable to locate a disk image for this driver version anywhere.
Maybe someone has a good source?
#RetroComputing #VintageComputing
29 years ago today, Caldera sued Microsoft for antitrust violations. Caldera proved Win95 has DOS under it, Microsoft settled for $280 million, but then, in a surprising twist, someone else ended up suing Caldera. #retrocomputing https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-caldera-microsoft-lawsuit-of-1996/
PONG charged -- stylish #homebrew game for БК0010 Soviet computer
Its dev Manwe talks about the game in the video below (turn on auto-translate CC, if necessary)
#retrodev #retrocomputing #demoscene #retrogaming
БК0010 game: PONG charged
Packing
#AppleII #retrocomputing rocomputing
