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Super neat way to get hardware protected mode on a Z80!

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The Z80's secret feature discovered after 40 years!

For years, it's generally accepted that 8 bit microcomputer CPUs does not have hardware support for protected mode. However, my recent discovery shows otherw...
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No need to yell "it belongs in a museum!" this time, because it already is in a museum. #retrocomputing
A MicroBee computer setup on a desk, with modem and monitor.
Close up photo of the MicroBee logo
Close up of the "beemodem"
Framed info panel all about the microbee personal computer
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There's something else this thing came with though I am particularly fond of - a Banksia 28.8Kbps modem.

Banksia is, near as I can tell, an Australian company that produced modems - and nothing else I ever saw.

This was the brand of modem I had as a kid, dialling BBSs. I had this exact type of 28.8Kbps modem even into the internet dial-up era, never getting a 56k modem at all - i went straight to cable internet from 28.8.

So I'm delighted at getting one of these again! #
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And now, the final part of The Haul - the machine that all these games came with.

It's an LC 575. It doesn't power on, unfortunately, or so I'm told. I plan to open it up and do an inspection for blown caps and the like at some point soon, probably when my better-than-me-at-electronics friend is free to give it a look.

I'm hoping I can get this thing working again - I used a Mac Plus during my school days, along with Apple ][ early on.

But this era of Mac is foreign to me.

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Colored floppy disks. Yay or yay? # # # #
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I had no idea black hole visualizations with this level of fidelity went back so far. Brilliant! #space #RetroComputing

mg

2022-01-13 16:39:14


first simulated image of a black hole, calculated with an IBM 7040 computer using 1960 punch cards and hand-plotted by French astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet in 1978.
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Anyone want to buy a “new” Microbee?
Price is too steep for me. #retrocomputing

https://microbeetechnology.com.au/store/256tc-se-8-of-8-inc-dual-floppy-drive.html?fbclid=IwAR2CZ3sl1pqVOa-175OdFxni4DrkgCcM7zkn1lDGFX-3UcOf9tFO0wCpRpk

256TC-SE #8 Z80 & Coldfire dual processor computer - Microbee - Microbee Technology - The home of the Microbee computer - Online Store

Microbee Technology is the home of the famous Microbee range of computers. We specialise in electronics kits for hobbyists, electronics design services to get your product idea to production ready state, surface mount & through hole assembly service…
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John K

2021-11-09 04:20:46


It’s amazing that this IBM flowcharting template from 1963 works just find when used with an ipad! #retrocomputing

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Boy does this sound familiar lol. This is from "The Soul of a New Machine" on the Data General's first 32-bit machine in the late-70s/early-80s #retrocomputing goodreads.com/book/show/7090…
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Forgive me if I'm sharing this a second time but I'm still impressed that someone made a socket compatible FPGA-based 6502 that will run at 100 MHz in an actual Apple II, Commodore 64, etc. #retrocomputing e-basteln.de/computing/65f0…
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I bought the Stone Design Suite back in the early days of OS X #RetroComputing

Tedium

2021-07-20 23:00:42


What app stores looked like before the App Store: bit.ly/3rfQL0Y
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What a bizarre story about a bizarre chip. #retrocomputing dfarq.homeip.net/ibm-486slc2-cp…
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Solaris ran on PowerPC? Fascinating. I miss the days where we had diversity of hardware and CPU vendors. I guess that's why I'm a big fan of ARM and RISC-V... #retrocomputing
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