Forced maintenance on our VAX/VMS systems…
Due to some ENEL (Electric company) scheduled maintenance, power was disconnected for more than 3 hours, sucking out all the
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TOP2004 EPROM programmer: a simple mod!
Some time ago we expained how we fixed our EPROM programmer TOP2004. We saw that if we plug some BAD
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Freakware GNU/Linux 0.4beta … finally published!
Now we can say… finally! 😀 Around 1999 we, Freaknet Medialab, at the time located at the CSA Auro squat in
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Willem PRO 4isp EPROM programmer fix…
Anni fa, credo fosse il 2006, acquistammo questo programmatore di EPROM che ci sembrava al momento il migliore in circolazione.
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Merry Christmas 2013!
ASCII ART printed in 1985(?) by CEA Catania system operators, on a UNISYS / Sperry UNIVAC System 80/20 computer, with
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Olivetti LOGOS 9
Purchased today at the Siracusa flea market, for about 4 Euro. The picture below are about the battery and acid
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Ferranti ULA 2C210E
Today, during the inventory, in the package of the Timex Sinclair 1000 we found this surprise … 🙂
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Hartmann & Braun Contronic S
Yesterday Domenico and Memo came visit us; they bring this fantastic HP industrial computer marked Hartmann & Braun Contronic S,
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Bad Capacitors on Macintosh Classic II
Not only do these bad capacitors become short or lose their electrical characteristics: some of them release even acid, that
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Unknown chip…
This is the CPU / ALU inside an Emerson Electronics desk calculator, model TM-12, dated around 1974… does anybody know
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