DECromancer
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DECromancer
@_DECromancer
Vintage computing with style and poise | pronouns it, they/them
Toronto, Canada Katılım Haziran 2021
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@WoRCExpo Not so top secret... just a surprise! And very rare. Hands-on for everyone!
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@_DECromancer will be displaying some top secret graphical workstations and terminals from the 1980's at @WoRCExpo on Sunday August 28 2022!
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Thanks to @craig1black for covering David Gesswein's MFM Emulator! We are proud to sell this (and our "special edition" version) on our web store.
youtube.com/watch?v=q__R8k…

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Our final blog post reveals the QBone Yukon Gold edition - for the discerning vintage computer enthusiast.
decromancer.ooo/posts/qbone/yu…
Both Green and Yukon Gold QBones are now available at:
decromancer.ooo/qbone/

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@cyberat2600 As soon as this last delivery arrives, the store will open. We're at the mercy of DHL.
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@_DECromancer Do you have any sense of when these things will be available to order?
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@cyberat2600 We also sell MFM emulators which will work with any of the RQDX controllers, if that tickles your fancy. Available today. decromancer.ooo/mfm-emulator/
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@_DECromancer Awesome! My MicroVAX has 4mb of RAM (I think?) and the PDP-11 has 1mb so both could take more. I'm mostly excited about storage. I only have ESDI controllers and my disks are partially bad. I would have to take a second mortgage on the house to afford a SCSI controller!
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Part 3 of our QBone blog series is on mounting the BeagleBone correctly - a tricky problem!
decromancer.ooo/posts/qbone/in…
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Today's QBone post (Part 4) covers the difficulty of obtaining out-of-production QBus driver chips.
decromancer.ooo/posts/qbone/bu…
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@cyberat2600 Yes! That's exactly what it's designed to do. It'll also give you the full complement of RAM for your machine, if you haven't already maxed it out.
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@_DECromancer This is so exciting! I have both a PDP-11 and a MicroVAX, would I be able to use this board to add reasonable sized "virtual" hard disks to both?
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In Part 2 of our series on the QBone, we talk about redesigning the board to replace an end-of-life component: the Altera CPLD. decromancer.ooo/posts/qbone/cp…
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Excited to start telling the story of the QBone, how it helps bring DEC PDP-11s alive, and why we decided to start making them. decromancer.ooo/posts/qbone/in…
#pdp11 #dec #vintagecomputer
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