News
My Computer Likes Me when I speak in BASIC
Bob Albrecht wrote this nice little booklet to popularize the BASIC language in early seventies. I have now scanned a copy and made it available. The author was very pleased to see it online. For the full copy go here. |
VT50 restoration
A VT50 terminal that we received from Gunnar went through a thorough renovation and repair. In the process it was discovered it actually was a VT52 disguised into a VT50. Read more here. |
VT100 repair
We brought home a VT100 to display it together with the PDP-11/03 on the retrogathering in Västerås. Unfortunately it broke down during the checkout process. Now it is repaired. Here is the story. |
Norsk Data software and documentation
We have started to image Norsk Data floppy disks and scan or repository of Norsk Data documentation. |
Running Adventure on a PDP-11/04
The PDP-11/04 we received was missing CPU and memory. It was extremely dirty had a lot of problems with the programmer's console. Now it runs the classic Adventure game. See the story here. |
Cromemco System One restoration
The old Cromemco System One that we received many years ago has received a well deserved over haul and better documentation. |
HP9000/300
A nice, small HP9000/300 was revived. Just a few capacitors needed changing in the monitor, then it was as happy as when it was manufactured 30 years ago. |
Received a PDP-11/44 in the mail
A nice man in Switzerland offered a fully working PDP-11/44 machines to us for the cost of shipping. It was really very hard to turn down such an offer. So we didn't. This is the full story. |
PDP-11/04 restoration in the news
Our PDP-11/04 restoration has been featured in a Hackaday article and also in the Retro Computing Roundtable podcast. |
PDP-11/04 restoration project finished!
Finally, after almost one and a half year of work (not full time though...) I am finished restoring the PDP-11/04 computer and it works together with a contemporary tape drive and a printing terminal. The machine is running the CAPS-11 operating system and also the CAPS-11/BASIC. See here for the full story and also a short video clip. |