ATSystems
Experienced Member
And the Lord said unto VCF, "He's your problem now, may I have mercy on your souls"
Greetings Earthlings!
Long time lurker turned registered user Mikey reporting for duty! I keep bumping into links via google and thought it was time I started adding some signal to the noise where I could. My history is largely in stage and sound but my day job has always been IT, recently rediscovering a bunch of beige boxes stashed under my parents house from when I moved out 19 years ago swept me with a wave of nostalgia and, remembering how much cool old junk (70's era Wang terminals, "give it to that nerd kid" DEC and PDP hand-me-downs etc) I wrecked in the name of learnings, a desire to defend all the olden kit I can lay my hands on. Some sort of karmic repentance I guess. Watching a bunch of primary school kids marvel at these behemoths doing their thing at a history of computing day I recently schlepped a bunch of kit to kind of cemented my desire to preserve some of this gear as well.. For future generations of course.. Not at all for my own gratification.. No siree! :lookroun:
No really, one of them actually jumped in fear at the sound of a TRS Model II floppy drive reading. Poor little darling thought it was going to bite his hand off. Bless!
My battle fleet currently consists of;
- My first microcomputer, a TI/994a with display and disk drives
- My first XT, a Sperry 3070
- Various 386 and 486 kit that I owned and abused through my youth/early teens
- A complete IBM 5101 setup
- A complete Olivetti M24, recently saved from a junkyard (and the reason I signed on, Trixter and Valerio, heads up )
- An Osbourne Executive
- A bunch of Trash 80 gear including an in box Model I and Model III
- A dual processor 486, 4RU server which, till late 2017, was in production with a previous employer (honestly, I was fine taking it instead of a payout, I promise!)
- A Commodore 4096 that someone kindly crammed an 8032 mainboard into (under restoration)
- Some REAL early (1971 datestamped) NCR displays (10" and 18") who's origins I can't for the life of me identify, also under restoration
I'm also big into analogue synths and audio gear and do a bit of of repair/restoration work for cats here and there, I own some old Roland and Korg kit I'll occasionally patch together and record some ambient noise with. My analogue chops are a lot better than my digital in terms of diagnostics and troubleshooting, I have a lot to learn but I haven't managed to let the smoke out of anything I'm working on currently, so either it's already been released, or I'm doing something right
Look forward to shooting some chip with y'all :D
Greetings Earthlings!
Long time lurker turned registered user Mikey reporting for duty! I keep bumping into links via google and thought it was time I started adding some signal to the noise where I could. My history is largely in stage and sound but my day job has always been IT, recently rediscovering a bunch of beige boxes stashed under my parents house from when I moved out 19 years ago swept me with a wave of nostalgia and, remembering how much cool old junk (70's era Wang terminals, "give it to that nerd kid" DEC and PDP hand-me-downs etc) I wrecked in the name of learnings, a desire to defend all the olden kit I can lay my hands on. Some sort of karmic repentance I guess. Watching a bunch of primary school kids marvel at these behemoths doing their thing at a history of computing day I recently schlepped a bunch of kit to kind of cemented my desire to preserve some of this gear as well.. For future generations of course.. Not at all for my own gratification.. No siree! :lookroun:
No really, one of them actually jumped in fear at the sound of a TRS Model II floppy drive reading. Poor little darling thought it was going to bite his hand off. Bless!
My battle fleet currently consists of;
- My first microcomputer, a TI/994a with display and disk drives
- My first XT, a Sperry 3070
- Various 386 and 486 kit that I owned and abused through my youth/early teens
- A complete IBM 5101 setup
- A complete Olivetti M24, recently saved from a junkyard (and the reason I signed on, Trixter and Valerio, heads up )
- An Osbourne Executive
- A bunch of Trash 80 gear including an in box Model I and Model III
- A dual processor 486, 4RU server which, till late 2017, was in production with a previous employer (honestly, I was fine taking it instead of a payout, I promise!)
- A Commodore 4096 that someone kindly crammed an 8032 mainboard into (under restoration)
- Some REAL early (1971 datestamped) NCR displays (10" and 18") who's origins I can't for the life of me identify, also under restoration
I'm also big into analogue synths and audio gear and do a bit of of repair/restoration work for cats here and there, I own some old Roland and Korg kit I'll occasionally patch together and record some ambient noise with. My analogue chops are a lot better than my digital in terms of diagnostics and troubleshooting, I have a lot to learn but I haven't managed to let the smoke out of anything I'm working on currently, so either it's already been released, or I'm doing something right
Look forward to shooting some chip with y'all :D