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Its 5 in the morning here so I may have said the same thing before so please bear with me. Personally in this situation I would look into burning roms. Depending on what you have and what you can get is how. If you can get a spare cartridge some how and the rom chips are still available or a modern equivalent is then bob’s your uncle. Option 2 is find the rom chip id possible then fire up kicad and basically recreate the board they have in order to print. Then do the first option. This is obviously a more in depth approach and would be worth looking for a community of others who have the same unit to see if anyone can help. A 3d case can be made too then. Hope this helps

Love it. Bought a kit when I was 13 from Neutronics and recall reading the book from Tom Pittman. Oh the memories. Thanks for sharing.

Really the problem is frivolous lawsuits -- and the other problem is that not enough people who _genuinely_ deserve decent compensation get anything other than made fun of. Look up what actually happened to the poor lady whose lawsuit gave us "Caution: Hot" warnings on everything, and you'll see what I mean.

The ZX81 was halted in the US when the TS1000 started production. They were both manufactured on the Timex assembly lines, so it was a simple switch over for them. (The TS1000 even had the same motherboard in it, which said ZX81 on it.)

15:56 I didn't expect you had the same chipset as my 1991 PC AT… I was back then half a world away, in Poland.

Your live action bits were gold. I honestly thought you were stock footage for the first few minutes.

I am surprised that there was no fire at the warehouse, with the site cleaned up the next day.

compass-it

Who remembers doing a park command before powering off a pc? My first pc was a tandy 1000 with dual 5¼ floppys with an add-on joystick controller but no mouse.

So much work went into editing this. Thank you!

Put the brick in the computer. You'll be surprised

Big thanks for showing. I have watche the video long time ago the first time. But recently I was given a bare TEC-1D pcb. So I started collecting information, documents and parts for assembling. Instead of a 2716/2732 I have put a XLS2816A EEPROM. It works great. Programming on my 866 works much easier than writeng/erasing EPROMS. The firmware called MONITOR 1B works ok. Have put online a short video showing the embedded greeting message. I would like rather to have the F revision PCB. Someone sold to local residents only. Do not mess with Aussies ;-) They do like crocodile Dundie. Craig Johnes refused sending it to me over the ocean. Stupid . Ebay global shipping allows sending goods to almost any location world wide with no trouble (customs ...) Anyway, he did some good work related with the TEC tough. RIP. Have fun.

Amazing, you brought up the Mark 8. My dad kitted it for the hobbyist market. Indeed, there was a user group called the Hal Singer User Group which was centered around the Mark 8. He was a part of that. My father then went on to the Homebrew Computer Club where he was at the first meeting and worked with Apple back then.

this is where the use of "bricked" to name a dead computing decive originated

30MB hasrd drive, I've got more memory as 3rd level cache on my CPU nowadays (64MB)

The year I was born

Why is this song catchy? If it wasn’t associated with Nazis I would have blasted it from my car

I have bricked a few drives in my time.

that's a spiffy lookin terminal

Jeez what a story

God, it's hard to imagine paying $1500 (in 80s money no less) for just 5 mb. I bought a 4 tb hard drive for 50 bucks on my last build.

Did they actually pay taxes on those "profits"? LOL

You are very funny

Great story telling

Very Ponzi

Fortunately I've not dealt with many sovblock pc clones. The only ones I remember were the ones at school. Even then, starting with the nineties most PCs were foreign imports. And the only pc that needed a floppy to get into the bios setup I ever encountered was an ibm ps/2...

Background "music" is too loud and distracting. Takes away more than adds to the presentation. Just ditch it. It serves no purpose other than to annoy. I don't think I can make it though this video, which would otherwise be excellent.

"Aegis" is a word I don't hear often.

I clearly remember the early 20MB hard disks in early portable computers. They added a huge premium (~$2000) to an already pricy business tool. I opted for 2 3.5" double densiy floppies. This decission was one I lived with for about a year. Then I purchased the most forward thinking computer of it day, The NEC Ultralite with a "whopping" 2MB solid state "silicon disk." It ran software faster than anything short of a super-expensive 386. It was also a mere 4.4 lbs. I carried it for two years and it still drew double-take whenever I opened it. Fully equipped with an external HD 3.5" floppy (that could format double density disks as high density) is cost me $2500. A bargan in 1989.

Did you ever find out if the bricks used MFM or IDE interfaces?

Gotta give them points for trying

I did a report on one of those in 6th grade! I even made a mock-up of it!

ed was electric desk a early program like lotus 1 2 3. we used it in tech school back in 1985

13:06 Holy autoexec echoes, Batman!

Good video! The Tiny BASIC users were the original open source movement. I bet today they like Linux. Also, while I'm here, I enjoy BASIC programming, but I don't have the skills, or time, or space for that matter, to run actual hardware. Naturally, I use emulators. If anyone wants to know about a good, free BASIC emulator, PC-Basic emulates GW-Basic and will make files in actually usable formats. You know, .txt, .csv, whatever you want. I'm not affiliated with that project at all. I just thought the other BASIC hobbyists might be interested.