Do you possess any kind o' hardware we can qualify as obscure, unknown and forgotten? What's it? How it landed into yer hands? Does it still work?
In my case I have this tiny (8") Arcus monochrome CRT which I got for 10zł (about 2,2€ / 3$) in unknown condition back in 2023. Plastics are yellowed and have visible damages, but electronically in perfect condition (heats up quickly, good and sharp image on it's native resolution (640x480, le VGA resolution) and all potentiometers work smoothly). Assuming from warranty stickers on bottom it comes from late nineties. And well, pretty light for a CRT (weights as much as 22" LED monitor)
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Obscure, forgotten hardware
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Re: Obscure, forgotten hardware
I see ye had pretty a lot of this stuff. Did they have any purpose or were just sitting around? What fate they faced?
Can ya tell more about it? Sounds interesting
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Re: Obscure, forgotten hardware
A Micron I think, in a box. Replaced by a monitor and large pdf files.
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As far as I understand, they were brought home from industry specifically as family computers. Once a Pentium tower found its way into the house, these basically sat abandoned in the basement since. Sadly they were recently discarded.
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Re: Obscure, forgotten hardware
I remember back in the mid 1990s my next door neighbor brought over a single board which I started to dabble in cam basic which was the embedded directly onto the ROM on the SBC.