Friday, August 31, 2012

CP/M on Apple II

CP/M Operating System on Apple II
Yesterday I started wielding with the CP/M Operating System on the Apple II. CP/M runs on Apple II machines with the use of Z80 SoftCard by Microsoft. 6502 and Z80 processor in single machine, makes a powerful retro computer. The Apple II specific software is still better though, even if slower.

Monday, August 13, 2012

Retro computing meeting

Last week I attended a meeting of people interested in retro machines and computers. I had the chance to see one of the last machines produced in the Pravetz factory and saw in live the Pravetz 8S machine which was produced in early 1990-ies and had almost all the chips inside cloned from the Apple II.
Other rare item was the Oric 3 inch disk drive and vintage Elka calculators.
More than 5 hours chat with people taught me many aspects of the hardware and software hacking on the machines of the early 1980-ies.

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Sony VAIO - the cool laptop


For more than six months now I've replaced my Dell Inspiron N5010 with a Sony VAIO, I received better machine but crippled in some aspects. I can no longer record audio from my synth and the web camera is awful. Check out my full review on my website.

Welcome

Welcome to my new blog. Here I will be blogging about the retro and cool technology that I touch in my daily life, but also I will blog about the new technology and gadgets. Everything cool and tech and in some kind of retro will be seen here.
Enjoy.

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