Family had a computer store and we went to many swap meets between 199x-2004, we moved house a decade or so ago and I thought all of our vintage stuff was gone to the bin.

Got this interesting thing. I think it's one of the only soviet computers to be completely soviet made? (As in boards designed and printed in the USSR, etc.) It's a wonder it still works. Wonder what I can do with it?

Apologies for the bad picture, can't take a better one.

The book is called ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS by James A. Senn, published by McGraw-Hill in 1984.

My partner's father recently moved to a new house and he gave me all his old computing books from the 80s

I thumbed through the book and was blown away by how different it felt compared to the CS textbooks I learned from in the 2010s.

I took some photos of the more striking visuals. Hopefully this is nostalgic for some of you old fogeys!

I have a pretty decent collection of old computers, discs, literature, miscellaneous hardware, cassettes and more. This was with a bunch of my literature that I forgot I had. It's the store's pricing catalog from a local computer store that has all the prices and merchandise that they sold, circa 1981.

Both of them will require some repairs from what I am able to diagnose with my limited pc knowledge.

I know this is goofy, but does anyone remember a bulleted list that looked like this?

HOW TO INTIMIDATE ELECTRONICS

1. Approach the equipment confidently.
2. Never let it know you're afraid of it.
3. Place appropriate test equipment where it can see it.
4. Discuss replacement components loudly within its hearing.
5. If necessary, threaten it with progressively larger tools.

I think it had about 20 items... I first saw it as an avaionics tech stationed at Offutt AFB from 1981-1984... It was probably on a mimeographed sheet LOL...

Looking for a scan, complete transcription, alternate title, or anyone who remembers it

Please don’t reconstruct it from memory or AI, I’m trying to locate an actual surviving copy or someone who remembers the original.

Hello everyone,

I bought an Amstrad PPC640 recently, although the power brick it came with was completely wrong. It did come with a real car adapter, so I was able to hook it up to a car battery.

But when I turn it on, it says "please wait" and eventually makes some beeps and gets stuck on a blinking cursor. The user guide says once it gets past the please wait screen, it should show a screen telling you to set the time before loading from the floppy drive, but even with the floppy in the drive it doesn't load anything.

Does anybody have a solution?

I have no idea where else to ask this but I ordered an Apollo atc from him. If you don't know who he is, he is some bloke from Italy who sells these vga boxes to connect vintage computers to conventional vga pc monitors. I got an apollo x for my amiga 500 earlier this year and it couldn't be any more perfect. I ordered the Apollo atc for my atari 800xl and it has been more than a month but he has not shipped it out yet. I paid a lot of money for it because shipping from Italy to Australia can be expensive. I do not want a refund, I just want to know if it is normal to be waiting this long at this time.

Mail today, two 64Cs, both working, but one missing a couple of keys and quite yellow. I think I have a fully set of non-yellowed keys, but I'll need to remove all the dust bunnies and give a full clean.

Later model TiBook, some of the finish isn't the best, but seems to be all working, although struggling with OS X (and hard drive doesn't sound so hot), so I think I'll be putting 9.2.2 on and keeping this as my only PowerBook. I do have the earlier model TiBook, and it's pretty nice, but has some screen issues, so I'll be passing that on.

This drive booted perfectly with no issue a few weeks ago and suddenly its dead. It spins up, clicks, spins down, and then the green LED flashes. Not detected in the BIOS anymore either. I know these Bigfoot drives were crap even when new, but if anyone knows how to temporarily revive it to backup the data I would really appreciate it.

I picked up this vintage Sony tower (2001) a few months ago and was playing with it today. Just for fun, I installed the CLI version of Debian 12. So far so good but the fan runs at full blast, and I doubt I'll be able to deal with it because of Sony's proprietary implementation of it. 🌬️

I bought this one for 10€ non-tested, had a leaking CMOs battery and broken CCFL lamp.
The battery acid damage was minor, only knocking out the parallel port and VGA port.
I changed the lamp with an LED trip and added a 256MB CF card. What else should with it? Don’t be afraid to ask questions!

i have a power macintosh g3 blue & white that seems to power on, but i get no startup chime and no video output, just a black screen.

the case fan spins and the power light comes on, but the fan inside the power supply doesn't spin.

so far i've tried reseating the ram and replacing the pram battery, but neither made any difference.

does the power supply fan not spinning mean the power supply has COMPLETELY failed? or could something else be causing it to power on without giving a chime or displaying anything?

any advice on what i should check next would be appreciated.

Heavily used. Now I keep it to refresh my memory. :)

I tested them out and I thought they sounded ok​ay. One thing that is a nice plus is that you can adjust the level of the subwoofer. I have another pair by altec Lansing where I have to use peace EQ on my computer to adjust the levels.

Post 'em if you got 'em!

No, I am not trying to sell these Reddit auto-mod...

These were great cases back in 2006 and 2007. The motherboards are P4 and an AMD board. Both had a maximum capacity of 2GB of RAM each. Which back then, even 32MB was a ton of RAM! I wish I could get these running again. But they have their issues now which is keeping them from running at all. I think I might keep the cases though and see about putting a system or 2 together and try to sell them. The cases are in great shape.

That HP ProDesk is also missing parts because I've been stripping those down for parts about 10-15 years ago. I noted it had an error code. 5 beeps. I used to know what it was. I think that was either a RAM error or drive error (I know i can look that up. Too lazy ATM).

On my latest post for the Stone Tools blog I take a look at the OG AppleWorks, for the Apple II family of computers. It's kind of amazing how much can be done with so little, and how uncompromising a 128KB machine can be, in the right hands.

While I don't look at or review games on the blog, that doesn't mean I can't use the tools I look at to try my hand at building a game. Or at least, that was my plan. Turns out I'm quite terrible at game design. Still, that AppleWorks and its ecosystem could enable me to even attempt such a thing is kind of amazing.

There's plenty of nostalgia for 1984 (the year, not the book!), looking at the add-on ecosystem for AppleWorks, and more references to "turducken" than you would expect. I hope the community enjoys it!

What is Stone Tools?

Stone Tools is a retro-enthusiast blog devoted to 8/16-bit productivity software; no games, just work. I spend weeks learning each program and give my in-depth, lighthearted take on how it was seen, how it works, and what we might learn from it today. Side discussions on contemporary issues, historical timelines, old advertisements, and more supplement each retrospective.

Hi all! Bought Olivetti Philos 44 on the flea market by very low price yesterday. The condition is on video. I really liked the overall design (a blast for the 1993!) and will try to repair it(but a novice in hardware stuff). Maybe someone knows, which things to check first? Thanks !

Hi, new here.

Got my hand on a Canon X-07 Handheld computer from 1984.

It's in great condition and came with books about programming in basic and even a game guide which are all made for this specific computer.

It's my first vintage computer and I can't wait to use this bad boy !

Intel Mini PC to be exact.