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Hi again all, (EDITED to add "Maybe this thread can be for all to add info on any version of the Programmer")

well as some of you know I was asked to copy ROMS out of my INFORMER 207/102-V22.. so I have gone and dragged out my what I would call modern hobby marker Programmer.

Its a Willem Eprom programmer and of course stupidly I did not store the software tha...

Introducing the MicroCore Labs MCL8080+




The MCL8080+ is an Intel 8080 emulator written in C which runs on the ATTiny85 microcontroller. Instead of the 40-pin package that Intel used the MCL8080+ local bus is implemented with a...

I aquired a 5 MB Profile drive about 10 years ago that I intended to save for an Apple 3 but ended up getting priced out of that interest very quickly. When powered it looked like it was having trouble finding some tracks as the ready light hangs a few times on startup. Eventually, I found the Apple II card for it and threw it in my II+. To my surprise the drive works fine from ...

This is going to sound extremely dumb and unbelievable coming from me but while I have seen videos on how IC's are made from the arrival of the raw wafer to the encapsulation of the bonded die inside the chip package I've never really looked into how long the process actually takes. Sure, for modern ultra high-density chips like CPU's and GPU's the process is slower (and I have ...

I bought this laptop for $12 at a local estate sale.

Here it is booted off a DOS floppy. It came with the 18V power supply, still works and puts out the correct voltage.
Unfortunately, the plastic standoffs for both hinges are cracked. What i...