Loaded up for #vcfwest #vcfw this weekend - a bunch for the consignment room, and a handful for the freebie table

And a bag of goodies for pre established trades 😁

If you are at vcfw, say hello

What is VCFW you say?
https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/

#computing
#vintagehardware
#hacking
#hackers
#hardware
#hardwarehacker
#hardwarehacking
#upcycling
#personalComputing
#personal_computing #vintagetech
#vintagecomputing
#geek
#hacker

#Freecycle find - #Edirol (#Roland) PCR-M30 #midi #keyboard

Cleaned the gooey rubber off the knobs & such, now to get the drivers working

#computing
#vintagehardware
#hacking
#hackers
#hardware
#hardwarehacker
#hardwarehacking
#upcycling
#personalComputing
#personal_computing #vintagetech
#vintagecomputing
#geek
#hacker

props to the person on #freecycle offering up some #CD media - the #BIOS update for these #ThinkPads will _only_ run/boot from CD or floppy - no joy making a boot-able #USB so I go old school. 🤷

That #DVD-RW / #CD-RW combo drive (FRU 39T2829) worked like a charm - and the random eject issue is not happening with this one.

#laptop #vintage_laptop
#computing
#vintagehardware
#hacking
#hackers
#hardware
#hardwarehacker
#hardwarehacking
#upcycling
#personalComputing
#personal_computing #vintagetech
#vintagecomputing
#geek
#hacker

Scored an #ebay_find for a replacement CD/DVD drive - ended up upgrading to the #DVD-RW / #CD-RW combo drive (FRU 39T2829).

The current CD-RW has the "phantom" eject issue, where the tray ejects without any prompting. My research online indicates the eject button on the drive is messed up some way, and the easiest approach is to swap out the drive. The seller accepted my counter offer, and with shipping it was a no brainier.

Now, we wait...

#laptop #vintage_laptop
#computing
#vintagehardware
#hacking
#hackers
#hardware
#hardwarehacker
#hardwarehacking
#upcycling
#personalComputing
#personal_computing #vintagetech
#vintagecomputing
#geek
#hacker
#ebay_finds

Welp, confirmed the #t43 #ibm #thinkpad that I have will not go above 2.5GB of memory 😞

Swapped out the dead #BIOS battery though

#laptop #vintage_laptop
#computing
#vintagehardware
#hacking
#hackers
#hardware
#hardwarehacker
#hardwarehacking
#upcycling
#personalComputing
#personal_computing #vintagetech
#vintagecomputing
#geek
#hacker

Success! found an "Sonnet Tempo SATA Express Card 34 with 2 eSATA Ports" over on #eBitch aka #eBay

A good seller experience - timely shipping, arrived promptly - packing could be better though, wrapped in a #walmart #wallyworld bag inside a cardboard box? 🤦‍♂️

The #Expresscard was auto-detected in #windows10 on the #lenovo #R400 as a "Silicon Image SiI 3132 #SATALink Controller", drivers were pulled from online and installed, and I was wiping an old hard drive in my #eSATA drive dock in minutes.

#computing
#vintagehardware
#hacking
#hackers
#hardware
#hardwarehacker
#hardwarehacking
#upcycling
#personalComputing
#personal_computing #vintagetech
#vintagecomputing
#geek
#hacker
#ebay_finds #BoycottWalmart #WalmartSucks

anyone have any #PCCARD #expresscard sitting around, hopefully for #eSATA or #usb3 ? I'm looking for some with a #vintagecomputing project currently on my #workbench - #IBM and #lenovo #thinkpads

Shopping for them online has been problematic... and there are none on #craigslist in my area.

#computing #vintagehardware #hacking #hackers #hardware #hardwarehacker #hardwarehacking #upcycling #freecycle #personalComputing #personal_computing #lazyweb

@annascrafts If you substitute "miscellaneous bits of electronics and wire" this also accurately describes many of the #HardwareHacker types I've met (myself included).

I feel this in my bones.

Hello fellow Mastodonians, there's some people attempting to make a documentary and recovery some masters of an iconic TV show from my childhood - ReBoot:
https://old.reddit.com/r/ReBoot/comments/18mh18i/the_master_tapes_for_all_of_reboot_have_been/

They need some help trying to find a D-1 Tape machine. I figured some of the folks here interested in hardware / computing history might have a lead on this sort of thing.

#ReBoot #HardwareHacker #History

The iPod with the SSD, USB C and Bluetooth
https://facelesstech.wordpress.com/2023/12/09/the-ipod-with-the-ssd-usb-c-and-bluetooth/

#ipod #hacked #hardwareHacker #modders

#HardwareHacker and #DefCon #BadgeLife friends. I've never done #PCB fabrication (at least, not since the days of single boards with hand drawn tracks dipped in acid baths), if I have the #Gerber files for something I want a small number of before early Aug, is it viable? Where to I start? Recommended providers etc?

I hope this inspires some #hardwarehacker to make an Xbox controller out of this $500 scissor-lift controller

If any of my #hardwarehacking #hardwarehacker #retrocomputing followers know the answer to this question about troubleshooting physical connectors of a #piscsi / #rascsi device, I'd really appreciate it.

I built one of these about a month ago, and I tested it yesterday on a retro Mac - the drive wasn't detected on the SCSI bus.

I checked the troubleshooting instructions in the #PiSCSI Github Troubleshooting page (https://github.com/PiSCSI/piscsi/wiki/Troubleshooting) and built out a set of jumpers in the DB25 connector, and ran the python test script. The result wasn't good.

I'm now in the process of getting a real DB25 breakout board with a plug so I can rule out my janky jumper wires as a culprit in the test going south. But my question is: If these six pairs of pins (shown in red boxes) are truly not signalling properly...wat do?

I'm not sure where the fault lies - is it a failure of the chips soldered onto the board? There was a lot of surface-mount that ain't perfect but seems to work. Is there some other component that has failed? It's hard to know how to approach the problem at this scale.

Any ideas?

in the spirit of Christmas (I don't like christmas) I am making lists.

For lack of algorithms (yay!) It's a bit of work to get my timeline to be more like I want (nay!).

More naughty than nice because I miss a steady stream of #hardwarehacker content on my timeline

I should probably check if I can take my lists with me when I inevitably change instances.

I wish I could see other local timelines as a pinned column on the desktop version.

#feditips
#makinglists

Okay, an #introduction: Professionally I'm an #SysAdmin / Systems Engineer working currently in the Medical and #ERP fields. As a #WindowsAdmin I use #scripting to make my days easier with #Python and I'm currently teaching myself #nodejs.
Recreationally #Maker, #HardwareHacker, #3DPrinting, and #Watches. I love #cars #Porsche and mechanical things. I always have an #Arduino project on hand and I support the #EFF. ✌