More INIT HELLO fun at the System Source Computer Museum today!
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Hitting the road shortly for INIT HELLO, the new Apple II conference at the System Source Computer Museum in Baltimore. Fun, retro weekend ahead!
INIT HELLOINIT HELLO - July 26-27, 2025 in Hunt Valley, MDA new Apple II conference is coming to the System Source Computer Museum north of Baltimore, Maryland, this July 26–27, 2025.
One oversized, pricey 1980s Radio Shack Cable Switcher! 
#Tandy #RadioShack #TRS80 #RS232 #261499 #The80s #VintageComputing #RetroComputers #RetroGaming #WallOfRetro #NerdsOfVintage #HappyNerding #TheVintNerd #RetroToKnow
Forty years ago today, the Commodore Amiga 1000 was released to the world. With its unprecedented graphics & sound capabilities, powerful 16-bit CPU and custom chipset, and UNIX-like multitasking OS, the Amiga was a truly revolutionary system for its time. And, many are still in use to this day, with the platform seeing new software and hardware development from month to month.
I presently have three, myself. :-)
Happy 40th, Amiga!
Frozen arctic station – unfreezing totally
https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2025/07/frozen-arctic-station-unfreezing-totally.html
New Vid: A Wire Wrapped CPU built from Chips! 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7k9V1qbLZ8
So if you ever wondered how OpenBSD 7.7 (most recent one at the time of writing) works on 23-year old PC, I have recorded a boot process.
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (single-core 1.6 Ghz) from 2002. i386, of course
RAM: 512 Mb DDR2
HDD: Some Western Digital 80Gb hard drive from ~2004
Fresh OpenBSD installation without any tweaks and tuning boots in 88 seconds.
There's definitely a room for improvement such as turning off libraries reordering (we should't worry about security too much on such machine). Less then a minute is easily possible.
But still, results are amazing, I think. It's a 23-year old PC! And it runs the most recent OS without any trouble. Try to do that with Windows 11 or any mainstream Linux distro.
Also, #FVWM is pretty snappy and works just fine.
What was the most popular RAM size of #retrocomputers?
According my pseudo-random sampling of 119 machines, it's 64K.
Frozen Arctic Station – snow and helicopter
https://dimalinkeng.blogspot.com/2025/07/frozen-arctic-station-snow-and.html
Studio Changes Looking Good! Cables off floor. Gear mounted off-floor to get rid of stands. Everything wired for doing Live streams. Bonus: My guitar & Korg have room in the studio now. 
Currently reading up on the whole "memory situation" in #DOS
EMS/XMS/HMA/UMA/UMB
Its one big acronym salad. 
Great! Looking forward to what grows out of this! https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/commodore-acquired-for-a-low-seven-figure-price-new-acting-ceo-comes-from-the-retro-community #Commodore #c64 #amiga #retrocomputers #lowtech #commodore64
Tom's Hardware · Commodore acquired for a ‘low seven figure’ price — new (acting) CEO comes from the retro community
There is no reason to believe that the original title of this game was "Uncle Clive" or that the cover depicts an angry, jealous Sir Clive Sinclair smashing a BBC Microcomputer with his fist. Any resemblance is purely coincidental.
Welcome to 1976. 
Those were the days! 
"Basic Computer Terms”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-gpM-KfVng (15:44)
Amiga CD32 discs have interesting layout: first - data track, then - audio tracks, like this (captured with cdrdao):
Track Mode Flags Start Length
------------------------------------------------------------
1 DATA 4 00:00:00( 0) 03:12:44( 14444)
2 AUDIO 0 03:12:44( 14444) 02:45:05( 12380)
3 AUDIO 0 05:57:49( 26824) 10:15:33( 46158)
4 AUDIO 0 16:13:07( 72982) 03:02:22( 13672)
...
23 AUDIO 0 52:15:27(235152) 01:52:47( 8447)
Leadout AUDIO 0 54:07:74(243599)
Wondering is it always so? 
I only have several 
game and demo discs to explore 