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Ask HN: Which of the yesterday's hardware are you tinkering with?

• JPLeRouzic 4y ago
  I like 6502 family, in old time I built on a Sym-1 with a home made 16ko dynamic RAM, a real time monitor to pilot four analog MOOG synthesizers. A few years ago I bought a LSI-11 and a PDP-11 CPU (because of the ROM) on ebay. As I lacked the motivation to build myself a Qbus I bought a VaxStation 3100 which worked for one month and failed afterward. Yet another old computer in my house!
• derwiki 4y ago
  No love for TRS-80? I don’t have a physical one but I’ve enjoyed playing around with emulators.
• the_only_law 4y ago
  None right now, but I have several on hold projects. Probably most interesting is my ISDN work. I have a ton of equipment from line analyzers, CO emulators, H.320 videophones, etc. The plan, if I ever find it in me to get started again, is to build my own user land ISDN stack (erlang and C have been what I’ve used so far) that supports a range of BRI and PRI hardware with support for extension. I also want to play with making a few fun reference applications for it, like an H.320 to Discord video call bridge. For some neat old computer I have that I haven’t gotten around to playing with are an HP A600+, an SGI Indy with an IndyCam, a very good condition HP-86B (wish I hadn’t sold my serial port cartridge) as well as an old HP X11 terminal that I’ve gotten to work with modern Linux once, but not since. I’d love to get my hands on a PDP-11 mini or IBM 5100 with APL, but those don’t go for sale often and tend to be pretty expensive.
• tluyben2 4y ago
  MSX-2 and Amiga; I like MSX the best as I understand the hardware (from a hardware and software perspective) best.
• snvzz 4y ago
  Favourite: Amiga. Tinkering recently: Amiga, C64, 386/486 PCs.