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retro.moe
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| | | | | I assumed that the Commodore 1581 was failing because of a bad WD1772 IC (as documented in Part I). So I ordered a WD1772 replacement and the IC socket, I developed some basic desoldering skills, watched some desoldering videos, and also got a cheap desoldering iron from Radio Shack: So, I removed the board from the Commodore 1581 and started to desolder the IC. To my surprise, the $11-buck desolder iron worked pretty well. I was able to remove all the solder from the pins in a few minutes. | |
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www.myminifactory.com
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| | | | | Big Mess Of Wires (BMOW) produces a most-excellent Floppy Emu for various vintage Apple hardware.On the Apple IIgs, amongs others, it can emulate a SmartDisk hard drive but to be able to boot from those disk images on the IIgs, you need the Daisy Chainer.More info athttps://www.bigmessowires.com/shop/product/daisy-chainer/ Unlike Floppy Emu however, this controller board does not have an enclosure, leaving you with electronics open in the air. Furthermore, the absence of support can cause a strain on the... | |
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playdos.online
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| | | | | Recently I've gotten into a little synthwave electronic music, listening in the evenings to enjoy a nice drifty, nostalgic vibe. I've got Hue color lighting | |
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gwern.net
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| | | A classic pattern in technology economics, identified by Joel Spolsky, is layers of the stack attempting to become monopolies while turning other layers into perfectly-competitive markets which are commoditized, in order to harvest most of the consumer surplus; discussion and examples. | ||