Hey there there everyone!
Yep, still me with my super awkward quetions…
Is there maybe anyone with working (or even just barely*) old hardware?
We’re talking mainly C64 era minicomputers, micro computers, consoles etc… electronic stuff, including peripherals.
Just in case.
I’d love to put my hands on stuff that maybe would go thrown away or rot forgotten in a cellar/attic.
*by “Barely” basically it simply doesn’t have to be blown up completely.
As long as it’s the matter of de-soldering chips and/or removing other semi-replaceable parts or cleaning up I can do it.
I have a box in the attic marked “ancient computer stuff”. In it is a C64, an atari 1024ST and an ancient apple macintosh. There’s also a ton of peripherals and stuff in there.
I was required to have both a slide rule and a TI LED calculator my freshman year in college. I guess that they didn’t trust calculators in 1976. When I got my PPL in ‘87 my Cessna flight kit came with an E6B. But they allowed digital calculators for the flight planning part of the check ride. Maybe for the written too, but maybe not. They wanted to see if you could read a graph in the POH.
I was an HP guy. RPN is the way to go. I still have my 11C although it needs batteries. A great calculator for engineers. It had some of the heavy duty numeric methods equations in the firmware.
Yeah, 80’s era HP calculators are legendary for their build quality. I’ve got an HP 12C that I bought in 1984 that still functions perfectly. I can’t remember what decade I last replaced the batteries, but the display is still strong. Were there not emulator app for my phone and iPad, I’d still use it regularly.
