Short Update Number 2: I still have this!?

 

Short Update Number 2: I still have this!?

// Wow, I forgot this existed...

    

    Another Update, I have gone through many changes since I first wrote my last update. I got promoted at my job that required a lot of travel and lost all personal time for my hobbies for about a year. I ended up leaving there earlier this June.

 

    Hopefully I can now have a bit more time to write up on this. Probably wont, but who knows?

 

    My collection has changed a lot and I have a couple old posts still in draft mode. The coolest acquisition I made is a PDP-11/03, which I hope to write up on and then maybe later try making a video of. It took a lot of tinkering, but I managed to get it to boot and load up RT-11 and XXDP. 

    I will write up more later on that!

    Many systems I used to have have either been sold, traded, or given away. I wont say what is gone, but I can confirm it most definitely was not the Tandy. I have also become quite active in the VCF community, started docenting and working on some of the old equipment in the Mid Atlantic museum in Wall, NJ. I have also been fairly active in the Retro Tech discord server asking and giving help there. 

 

    I hope to have more stuff posted in the coming months. Maybe if I focus on it I can turn my hobby into a full time gig, but that might be too much wishful thinking, especially with my track record of just writing. 

 In the meantime I will focus on workshop days and building up my experience in vintage minicomputers of the 70s. I am gonna need more RAM for my 11/03 24KW is not enough to run UNIX like I plan to. Another item on my list is some kind of VAXen.

Can you tell I have moved my obsession away from Mac and to DEC? 

 

Last thing before I go, remember the Mac Mini that I baked, well the colors inverted funky when baked again turned blues to orange and whites to blacks it was kind of cool, but then it died again so it was recycled.