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Mate, I know you have a couple of TRS-80 Model I but check these babies out:

obsolescence | PiDP-8

https://bbspics.com/images/2019/02/0...462558cmv2.jpg

obsolescence | PiDP-11

https://bbspics.com/images/2019/02/0...3150_s_4_2.jpg

I'm going to get one of each immediately!

Wow those are pretty cool... ! I would like to buy one but I have to admit that I probably would not have the patience to learn how to program one. Instead I'd hope for a program that just made the lights blink. Or maybe I'd just stick a raspberry pi in the back and right a blinky program in Python or something.

This this out:



If you watch the video, pay attention to the click of the machine. It's a motor with an offset wheel or something, that is the actual "CPU Clock". This may sound stupid but I never really understood the purpose of a CPU Clock until seeing one on a relay based computer before. So cool.

That's pretty cool.

I built and still have a tic tac toe machine that uses relays and stators (the spinning switches inside pinball machines) to compute it's moves. I copied it from a much nicer version that was once at the Museum of Victoria.

This is the original, mines too messy.

https://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/items/399309

Does yours work? Even if its messy, take a video and post it. I love stuff like that.

I'll make a video, it works, it plays pretty well but you can always win if you start first.

take this 1970's shit back up the block

damn, people in this thread are rich and have so much free time.

best wishes.

Very cool, I'd probably get some old hardware like that if I had the time.

I wish..!

The oldest computers I have in my possession are 2 x TRS-80 Model 1's, and a TRS-80 Model 4. I mounted one of the Model 1's in a frame and hung it on my wall.

Check out what I did with the TRS-80 Model 4.

1980's computer connected to the Internet"
https://www.2much.net/gfy/tr4141.jpg

1980's computer on a LAN and FTP'ing to a Macbook.
https://www.2much.net/gfy/tr4324.jpg

Thats an old-school computer nerdgasm right there.

I miss old school stuff

Makers are recreating it, in wonderful devices we can all access.

I can't buy enough of these kits and retro computers. They provide hours of fun and for younger people give them the chance to learn how computers worked earlier on.

The work and effort put into the PiDP8 & PiDP11 kits is very impressive, more impressive is that if you can't build a kit you can buy one pre-assembled.

About 8 years ago I was in Florida and treated myself to a day at Nasa, and took the 4 hour tour option that takes you to the older launch sites. At each site were dozens of pieces of computer hardware of all kinds (and many had built-in cigarette ashtrays!). It was cool to see. I unfortunately lost the pictures I took that day... :(

Wish it was longer. Something very cozy about this.
I could fall asleep to these videos.

Here's another version of that computer.

Check this baby out :



I'd put this all over my basement wall.

Is this similar to what you built?