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I am no longer able to continue selling & supporting (when needed) my KIM Uno DIY kits, so I need to sell all of my remaining kits and associated parts Here's a look at my eBay listing for the kit - see Item #156178808351 - I have sold kits primarily through eBay for the last 3 yrs, though...

I have a new batch of KIM Uno kits available for sale. The KIM Uno is a MOS KIM-1 hardware emulation based on an Arduino ProMini (328P) microcontroller, designed by Oscar Vermeulen. Please see eBay item 156178808351 for photos & more information. The listing description contains a link to...

Hi Chuck, We did have a number of locally badged PCs here in the TC Metro area, names like Northstar and others, but I don't recall coming across anything under the Stearns name. Do you know which models they sold?

Sure, I collected vintage computers for years. At one point, there were over 75 machines in my collection, so I get the appeal. But I never saw much interest in this common "commodity" x86 PC hardware. I collected mostly pre-IBM home computer gear, CP/M systems, some Mac models and a few early &...

How could old 386SX systems be worth anything today? Where's the value - just for playing DOS games? I must have chucked a dozen or more of those things, never did I dream they'd hold any sort of interest. I remember having Slackware 7 installed on my SX20 pizzabox. It was too feeble to run X...

I once had a 386SX pizza box machine. It was the usual beige color, but it had square bright blue feet on the case bottom corners. One of the buttons (power, drive eject) may also have been this same blue color. Very unusual color accents for your average beige box. Anyone know who might have...

I need one TDA1022 Chip to repair a piece of equipment I'm working on. Please LMK what you have. Yes, I'm aware of eBay offerings. Thanks in advance!

Steve, Hey, thank you for your fine work! Guys like you make the F/OSS world go 'round. I've not installed one on my own PET 4016, as I really have no use for 80col software, but others seem to really like your boards. I've probably sent out 25 or so to various places in USA & Canadia...

I have a few more boards arriving in about two weeks. There are currently (3) pcs that remain unsold. VCFED price is $5/ea including shipping to the USA. Canada is possible but slightly more, you hosers

No. It's nothing as common as Jupiter Lander, nor is there a "gravity" or other physics element in the gameplay. And it came on cassette..

Nah, it's a navigate-the-maze game.. fairly static, a test of nerve kind of thing. And it was almost certainly on cassette, as I never had a 1540/1 with my VIC.

Hey folks, Trying to recall the name of a game, from my earliest times as a VIC owner. This would have been ca. 1982.. It was a maze game, you could say, where you piloted a ship around the screen, avoiding walls & obstacles, scoring points (I believe..) and attempting to clear the screen...

@DeltaDon Thanks for finding that, though it's a typically info-poor YT video. Really, all points of interest could have been covered in about 20-30 seconds - and he never bothers to tell us WHICH WIRE IS WHICH, though this seems to be critically important. From the first schematic, it seems...

That's what I was thinking, FWIW. But no t knowing what it expects is bugging me. So do I just ignore the 'extra' conductor, or tie it to +/-?

Btw, I believe the original plug had a 3 conductor design: Outer cylinder, inner cylinder and center pin. So it seems all 3 conductors were being brought into the laptop case