This week’s livestream is up in the air. There are two variables.
1) A Digikey order
2) Cleaning the office.
Current plans: July 11 @ 7:12 PM CST
Alternative: July 12 @ 6:00 PM CST
If the stream is moved to Thursday, there will be a hard stop at 8 PM CST.
The livestream I have scheduled for tonight is tentative right now. I may move it back depending how time goes tonight. It's the usual 8:12 PM CST if it goes on.
Double 3/25C!
The one on the left was a Facebook Marketplace find. This was featured on my channel a year and half ago. The woman that sold to me was very nice.
The one on the right was in a semi recent livestream. The body on this one was in nice shape, aside from one very busted hinge mount. It does have an interesting problem. It likes to blow fuses on the display inverter. This only happens when power is turned on with the lid closed.
Join me on Friday, June 14th @ 8:12 PM CST for the ImageWriter II stream. This will be my last stream for the month.
The goal is to get this printer functional on the following:
PowerBook 165C running MacOS 7.5.3 (the easy one in theory)
386 based Compaq portal running Windows 3.1 or 95 (I really hope I can figure out the video problem with the 3/25C by then)
IBM ThinkPad running Windows XP (serial to USB, bleh)
HP Compaq 6730B running Windows 7
Something on Server 2022 (probably serial to USB blehness)
youtube.com/live/g1NVOvufP34?si=Nrclxg_9QejaMMRX
I was on the right path after all! I figured the drive needed to be initialized! This is BlueSCSI attempt #2.
Remember this Intellivision? It was on my 3rd livestream. Now it’s at its forever home, The Wisconsin Computer Club.
I wasn’t expecting anything for it, but they were so kind to give me a Compaq SLT 286 in immaculate condition. I’ll show that off at some point. Thank you to the @wisconsincomputerclub4668 for everything.
Livestream could be delayed for the most unusual reason. The weather is nice and I’m determined to break a personal exercise record today.
I’m not sure if the livestream is happening tonight. It might be moved later or to another day. Some unexpected errands may happen today.
This week the Prolinea 575e will be thawed out. I want to try out Apple Rhapsody on it. Most of its hardware has drivers for Rhapsody allegedly.
I picked up more Compaq Portable goodies this past weekend. I’ll reveal these on a livestream(s) although I’m not sure what date(s) that will be yet. Some need work, some need a lot of work.
I'm here to fix vintage computers (mostly Compaq systems) and help those fixing theirs. I also will post anything that will help the community as a whole. An occasional video that has nothing to do with computers will appear. Every once in a while I'll rant about something when I'm in that mood.