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1 year

This just feels SO WRONG!

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@craig1black

2 years

You know you're into retro computers when you are out for a walk and find a random Pentium processor in your pocket... #truestory

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1 year

I guess that's it -- my 3rd channel is gone for good because I was found to be impersonating myself. It really feels great to have had all the facts reviewed so "carefully" and to have been treated so fairly by Google/Youtube....

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4 years

An amber Classic Macintosh? Yes! Because, why not? :-)

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@craig1black

11 months

Here is a mildly interesting leftover from when Mac OS supports CRTs...

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@craig1black

3 years

This token ring card is showing some pride! 🏳️‍🌈

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@craig1black

2 years

I've gone caseless for my lab computer and I'm loving it! Just having access to all the ports brings much joy, not to mention how easy it is to install/remove components now. #caseless #ryzen

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@craig1black

3 years

Happy 40th birthday to one of the most important computers ever. The @IBM Personal Computer Model 5150.

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@craig1black

1 year

It seems @YouTube has suspended one of my channels! They say "We have reviewed your content and found severe or repeated violations of our Community Guidelines." Apparently I'm impersonating "Adrian Black" and "Adrian's Digital Basement!" In 2023 you can't be yourself!

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@craig1black

2 years

Commodore QA: Amiga 2000 Rev 6. Date codes put this board around 1991.

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@craig1black

2 years

"Micro" computer

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@craig1black

3 years

Second shot is in! #GetVaccinated

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@craig1black

2 years

I'm back in the basement after a fun #VCFMW ! Thanks to all who stopped by to say "Hi" and all the warm and welcoming folks at the event.

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@craig1black

3 years

I had a guest in the Digital Basement

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@craig1black

1 year

I have a box filled with RJ11 coiled cables, and after looking online I couldn't immediately find a quick pictorial guide on how to identify a Macintosh keyboard cable. So, here is my crude MS Paint guide to doing just that.

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@craig1black

1 year

I just published a video on the whole "third channel saga." I'm happy it's resolved, but I wish we could have reached a resolution in a different way. I really appreciate the community support on this as I don't think it would have been fixed without it.

YouTube deleted one of my channels (UPDATE)

As the title says, YouTube has deleted my 3rd channel, a channel I used mainly for Patreon videos and other non retro content. YouTube will not give me any d...

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@craig1black

1 year

I woke up this morning to find my 3rd channel restored! Yay, I guess. What's funny is I made a video about this saga last night which I was going to release when I woke up. I'm still going to release it, but will re-edit to add a foreword and an update at the end.

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@YouTubeLiaison

1 year

@craig1black Looks like your 3rd channel is back up and running! Can't even imagine the frustration, but thanks for providing all the info in this thread for @TeamYouTube to follow up on 🙏

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@craig1black

3 years

What an amazing early 80's spread! A real cornucopia! 🦃

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1 year

Nothing like paying for an expensive app (on both Android and iOS) to it suddenly go subscription. Where is my refund? I guess I'm SOL...

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@craig1black

2 years

Sometimes you can't beat an analog scope ... Trying to get this disk drive working.

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@craig1black

1 year

Just boarded a flight. Flight time is over 6 hours and a maskless guy sitting in the row in front of me is hacking his lungs up. He looks very sick. I had hoped the pandemic would have made people realize it's not cool to get everyone around you sick... Guess not.

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@craig1black

1 year

Does anyone know what this extra socket is on this Contaq 486 motherboard? The manual calls it the NPU socket but it is smaller than a 486/487 chip and larger than a 386 chip. I have a few boards with it..

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@craig1black

1 year

I'm bummed! Some idiot broke into and tried to steal my truck. In the process, they damaged the ignition cylinder so the key won't turn anymore. The frustrating thing is, changing the ignition cylinder isn't hard, *IF* you can turn it to the start position. Argh!

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@craig1black

1 year

Back in the early 80s, this cool and innovative Z80 based computer was released to consumers in Canada. After all these years, the NABU Personal Computer is back. What cool things can the community create for it? Video:

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@craig1black

3 years

Compaq Portable finally serviced and done! I love this machine and it's nice to finally be able to use it. Compaq put a lot of thought and care into its design, so it is a delight to work on. I'm very to lucky to have this mint specimen. Now, how long before a tantalum shorts??

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@craig1black

2 years

One dead SD2SCSI. This is a cautionary tale to anyone using these expensive things. They are not robust and die if they get unexpected voltages on the wrong pins. This happened when I connected an internal SCSI ribbon one row off. Internal drive and Mac are fine, this is dead. :(

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@craig1black

3 years

Friday, October 6, 2017. The first time I touched a C64 in my life. Before this date in 2017, I had only briefly used one at a friend's house. How far I've come! I found this boxed machine for a good price from a local seller here in Portland. (Back when that was possible!)

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@craig1black

5 years

Meet my creamy dreamy Commodore 64! #c64 #daretobedifferent

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@craig1black

3 years

I was watching The Crown on @netflix and spotted a Commodore PET being used. Completely period correct and appropriate! A TI-2500 calculator can also be seen on the desk. #retrotech

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@craig1black

2 years

I sometimes get comments that I use very expensive tools to fix things. I took that to heart and made a video showing me diagnosing and fixing a C64 with only inexpensive and easy to find tools: I was surprised how well it went!

How to fix an 8-bit computer with only cheap tools

#cheapGear #oscilloscope #troubleshooting #commodoreIn today's video, I'll demonstrate troubleshooting and fixing a C64 with only inexpensive tools. No $3000...

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@craig1black

3 years

Keyboard fixed! Woot!

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2 years

Landed in the basement: A Model M for a terminal. Does anyone know about an adapter to go from this to PS2?

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@craig1black

4 years

HP 150 computer. Just figuring it out. Sadly it has issues with it failing system tests with System Test Failed 000C and sometimes 100C. Also this memory test failure 3F08. It is so damn cute though!

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@craig1black

4 years

Sometime back in the early 80s, there was a very happy kid. A 1541 from Toys 'R' Us! And they took good care of it. This drive is mint!

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@craig1black

2 years

No Adrian, you can't edit video on an original Apple ][! (The machine isn't mine, only borrowed. If only...)

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2 years

Here is a sealed box of floppy disks sold for $4.94 on clearance from Fred Meyer. I wonder when they stopped selling 5 1/4" disks?

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@craig1black

2 years

Color me shocked! 😳 I was removing this TMS2532A from a socket and the lid came off! WTF! The chip is ruined now sadly... Luckily I had just burned it, so it isn’t some rare and long lost ROM.

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@craig1black

2 years

Today has been rough. Spent hours this morning figuring out my Macbook Pro M1 connected to ethernet via a thunderbolt dock was taking down my entire network! Guess what the fix was? Wake up the sleeping Mac and reboot it! WTF! Power cycling everything else first had no effect.

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@craig1black

1 year

I wanted to give a huge thanks to everyone who get angry with me about this situation, which clearly helped!

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@craig1black

3 years

Trying to be a bit more healthy, so I’m on a lunchtime bike ride. Cold but beautiful! #MountTabor

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@craig1black

3 years

How we watched TV in the kitchen, 1980s vs 2010s. Sony Trinitron KV-9400 vs Apple iPad

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@craig1black

4 years

China strikes again... Got these 10 EPROMs from AliExpress. Instantly suspected shenanigans due to identical markings on each even though clearly two different types of chips. A little rubbing with IPA and surprise! 100 and 120ns chips. At least I know what they actually are!

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@craig1black

2 years

A lovely viewer dropped off this Atari Mega ST the other day. They didn't have a keyboard for it, so I'm looking for solutions to connect a mouse and keyboard to it. One PS2 kbd/mouse adapter available from a shop in Belgium isn't available anymore. :-(

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@craig1black

2 years

A friend of mine did some amazing work. Apple IIgs with a bad floppy controller IC, so he swapped it with one from a dead Mac IIx and it freaking works! 344S0041 is from the IIgs and 344S0062 is from the Mac. The '62 supports 1.44mb disks but the IIgs still won't. If only...

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@craig1black

4 years

It has been just under 13 months since I found and restored the abandoned "Field Found" Commodore 64. I wanted to report that I just plugged it in to find that, true to form, it still works perfectly! #survivor #HappyNewYear #BuiltToLast

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@craig1black

2 years

Woot! No more controller port false errors. :-) A ways back, viewer Mike had sent me the new revision of the harness adapters (thank you @svenpetersen191 !!) I finally made extra long ribbon cables so I'm set to fix the rest of those C64s!

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@craig1black

1 year

I'm trying to make some Apple II disks using ADTPro 2.1.0 but have spent hours trying to get it running. How can Java be so utterly terrible? Everything I read shows version 52 being JRE 8... argh!

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@craig1black

3 years

How many other companies sold this joystick as their own? #ibmpcjr #tandy

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@craig1black

2 years

Another C64 mystery! This time we have a breadbin with an unbroken warranty sticker. How is that even possible? LOL

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@craig1black

2 years

I had the most amazing time at @vcfmidwest 17! Thank you everyone for the great conversations and introductions. Speaking in front of a packed room with my fellow YouTubers was totally surreal. See y'all next year!

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@craig1black

1 year

Yes, older ATX PSUs often output both -12V and -5V. Great for use with old vintage PCs.

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@craig1black

3 years

I cannot believe #Deoxit is sold with the most f#@*ing crappy spray nozzle in the industry!! Infuriating garbage, makes me honestly hate this product. Every time I use it, half of what comes out of the can drips out of the side of the nozzle and onto my hands and desk. 🤬🤬🤬🤬

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@craig1black

4 years

Working on a new project. That's a Mac Classic CRT analog board hooked directly up to a Pi4. Running into endless software issues on the Pi with Raspberry Pi OS' crap DPI software implementation!! I've reached an impasse.

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@craig1black

2 years

Why are packing peanuts a thing??? Nothing feels as good as spending an hour trying to clean up the basement after opening a package with them....

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@craig1black

4 years

If you've ever seen the movie Real Genius (1985) and wondered what the computers were in that movie, wonder no longer. They are none other than the HP 150. (And a HP 9133H 3.5" disk drive and 15mb or 20mb hard drive) Are there any other movies featuring the HP 150 in them?

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@craig1black

11 months

Eight cans of 90s-tastic Freeze Spray -- I guess I'm good for the rest of my life.

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2 years

Who remembers Egghead software? Apparently, they will NOT be undersold!

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@craig1black

4 years

Lithium battery leaked on this motherboard. Recommendations on a solvent for cleaning it up?

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@craig1black

1 year

Thanks to Dan and Ravi for having me on the Retro Hour podcast this week. If you know me, I like to talk and have lots to say!

Adrian's Digital Basement - The Retro Hour EP361

We chat to the awesome Adrian Black from Youtube channel Adrian's Digital Basement

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@craig1black

3 years

After watching Big Clive's recent video on hacking bulbs, I took a $1 18 LED dual regulator bulb that ran at 14w and swapped the sense resistors so now it runs at 5w. 3.3ohm resistors were swapped with 14.0ohm resistors from a dead hard drive. It's now a forever bulb! #DollarTree

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@craig1black

2 years

Yesterday, I spent all day getting this Compaq Interwave (STB UltraSound 32) card running with Gravis Ultrasound drivers. It worked in the end, but I can’t help but feel a bit let down by the whole Ultrasound experience.

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@craig1black

2 years

Duraleaks strike again … sigh … I used this device a week ago and it was not low on battery.

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@craig1black

1 year

I just upgraded my 3D printer with an Ender 3 S1 Pro. All I can say is WOW! It was unboxed, set up and printing in 30 minutes. I'm actually excited about 3D printing again! My old printer was such a pain, which made me reluctant to use it.

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@craig1black

4 years

Such an oddity! 386DX motherboard with 32bit VESA Local Bus slots. Opti 82C495XL chip set.

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@craig1black

2 years

I'm borrowing Clint's tweet to say I'll be there at @vcfmidwest this coming weekend as well! Time for some retro overload!

LGR

@lazygamereviews

2 years

In-person LGR Thing happening soon! I'll be exhibiting at @vcfmidwest in Elmhurst, Illinois on the weekend of September 10-11. Gonna be one heckuva lineup of YouTubers, vendors, and generally awesome tech folks, check out this list Hope to see ya there👍

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1 year

This is/was the URL to the 3rd channel, in case anyone was wondering:

Adrian's Digital Basement Extras

Hello, yes this is my 3rd channel. This is the channel that got deleted by YouTube in April 2023 for impersonation (of myself) but then restored after community outrage. I generally don't post public...

www.youtube.com

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@craig1black

2 years

I'm looking for recommendations on good Linux distros with a GUI that work well on 486 machines while having a working sound, network stack, etc.

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@craig1black

2 years

I was just out on my bike and came across this poor JVC CRT TV abandoned on the side of the road. :-( I resisted the urge to go grab my car and rescue it! It looked to have component inputs, so pretty useful set. Location is on the map if anyone wants to grab it! #pdx #crt

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@craig1black

3 years

I was able to retire the ROM adapter stack on my repaired TI99 thanks to the ability of my Data IO 2900 to burn TMS-2532 EPROMs. Woot!

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@craig1black

2 years

Just a couple Intel 8742 MCUs from the early 80s. (They are from the 8048 series, Intel's first MCU. The '7' stands for UV erasable.) The 8042 was used as the keyboard controller on the motherboard of every IBM PC AT and clone.

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@craig1black

2 years

I was on Bil Herd’s live stream this morning! The recording is up for anyone who wants to watch and/or listen to us shoot the breeze about retro tech and more!

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@craig1black

2 years

Simple and useful mod for the #Commodore 1702: Add a jumper link behind the switch as seen in the first pic. Now both front and rear video inputs are wired together. Switch becomes Composite or Chroma+Luma selector. (Audio inputs already wired together on this monitor.)

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@craig1black

3 years

Now this is a cool project! A video converter and player for classic Macintoshes:

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@craig1black

2 years

It was so amazing to meet @crtdude at #VCFMidwest 17! We are both CRT junkies that can't stop rescuing and fixing them!

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@craig1black

4 years

The digital basement by flashlights. Yep, the power is out, so nothing retro happening tonight. 😒

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@craig1black

4 years

I just figured out I could attach a sprayer right onto the bottle of IPA!! *Mind Blown* 🤯

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@craig1black

1 year

Fun video from Leo Binkowski, someone who worked at NABU back in the 80's developing software for the NABU computer. Leo has still has a huge cache of hardware and software for the machine, so if old games for the NABU are soon available, we can thank him.

NABU Games Programmer Leo Binkowski - Sept. 29/84

Sept. 29/84 CJOH TV "Regional Contact" Leo Binkowski of NABU, 6:50pmFor those interested in all things NABU. This is a profile a local TV station did on me w...

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@craig1black

2 years

Mt Tabor on this wonderful warm summer evening. Life is good!

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@craig1black

2 years

I’m on the hunt for a scan of the manual and disk images (or copy of the files from the disks) for the Microsoft Mach 20 card. I want to make a video on the card, but I’m unsure I can get it working without the manual and software.

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@craig1black

2 years

I had the absolute best time today on the Portland Bridge Pedal 2022! 20mi/32km of bliss our with what felt like the entire city.

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@craig1black

6 months

Sweet, was trying to create an account on and when I clicked the activation link, I got this. Awesome experience...

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@craig1black

2 years

I put out a video on Oct 8 and for the first 24 hours, the video got about 34k views but I earned exactly $0.004 of revenue. YouTube support told me "nothing is wrong" and "all is normal." Clearly YouTube gives exactly zero f***s about creators...

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@craig1black

2 years

@TeamYouTube I just loved the response I got from the support engineer who looked the revenue for my Oct 8, 2022 video and told me "Upon checking and double checking on our end, I would like to assure you that your revenue is working as intended; I do not see any alarming drops"

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1 year

I guess any hopes of losing weight are gone!!

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@craig1black

2 years

@lazygamereviews I saw this sign the other day when heading to drop stuff off at the dump. 🐎🌄

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@craig1black

3 years

An unopened bag of Haribo left in the car during Portland's recent beat wave. 🌡️🔥I'll need to try this on camera! #melted

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@craig1black

1 year

@RMCRetro @TeamYouTube This kind of thing worries me Neil. What if this happened to one of our main channels one day? No recourse, no explanation, just gone.

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@craig1black

3 years

Just spotted: Rammy's car! 🐏

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@craig1black

3 years

I'm in Amiga hell! Trying to get it booting off an A2091 card with zero luck. It sees the drive and I can partition it, but after a reboot, it won't show it on the Workbench. A2091 w/7.0 roms and Kickstart 3.1. Tried multiple drives and two cards. Does this even work w/KS 3.1?

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@craig1black

2 years

I needed to capture some DV footage and my lab PC had no more PCIe slots. So, I ordered one of those splitters that miners use (4x slot to four 1x slots) and it friggin works. It's ugly but works. Now, I'm capturing perfect DV footage on Windows 10!

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@craig1black

3 years

Shot 28 min of footage for a video I'm doing on my iPhone. Plug the phone into my PC to copy the video file off the phone so I can edit. Find out @Apple doesn't allow you to copy files over 4gb off the phone, at least to a PC. I'm feeling very frustrated and annoyed...

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@craig1black

3 years

I can't count how many comments I've gotten about not covering up EPROMs I install into computers. I wondered if a paper sticker is even enough to prevent chip erasure. Let's test!

Do paper stickers protect an EPROM from getting erased?

I have always wondered if a paper sticker on an EPROM is enough to keep it from getting erased. Let's test!EPROMs are designed to be erased by 253.7 nm UV, w...

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@craig1black

4 years

What is this madness??! This is the most rebuildable C64 PSU I have ever seen! No potting. Screws to take it apart. WTH!

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@craig1black

2 years

Some replacement Soviet era 2101 SRAM chips. Am I correct in thinking these Tesla chips were all made in Ukraine? 🇺🇦

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@craig1black

4 years

Another woodgrain 12" B&W CRT TV in the basement. (Franklin Ace 1000 there for scale.) Sadly the labels have fallen off the back, so I don't know the age/model number of this little TV. Should I made a video about it?

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@craig1black

2 years

Thanks to a Canadian viewer for sending in some goodies from the great white north.

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@craig1black

4 years

Cats are fans of my videos too!

Simon Zerafa 🖖 (@[email protected])

@SimonZerafa

4 years

@craig1black It seems that Spot is very interested in your hardware debugging session on that Apple II motherboard 😁

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3 years

Who's ready for a little 1984 IBM PC/AT 5170 "extreme" overclocking? :-)

Followup: IBM 5170 "extreme" overclocking (w/ associated BIOS patch)

Turns out the IBM 5170 Type-3 BIOS has code in it to prevent overclocking! I already showed you could run the 6mhz Type-1 board at 8mhz in a previous video -...

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@craig1black

4 years

Who's ready for a test drive? (And then a lease) @lazygamereviews

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@craig1black

2 years

Neat project sent in from a viewer. It's a way to use a Raspberry Pi inside a breadbin case but retain the joystick ports and keyboard. No proprietary or commercial parts needed as it uses a Teensy for the Keyboard/Joystick ports. Thanks Mauricio!

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@craig1black

4 years

#Vote

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