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DickFiasco@lemm.ee to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org · 5 months ago

Sweet barn find

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Sweet barn find

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DickFiasco@lemm.ee to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org · 5 months ago
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2,200 Forgotten Vintage Computers Are Being Liberated From a Barn in Massachusetts
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The NABU Network was an obscure, forgotten part of Canadian tech history—until the day the internet noticed that thousands of NABU machines were being sold on eBay at rock-bottom prices.
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  • EleventhHour@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    More information on the Nabu computer.

    https://hackaday.com/2022/11/28/nabu-pc-a-1984-z-80-computer-you-can-buy-today/

    In 1984, this was a pretty hot computer. Today, it’s of a trendy interest to retro computer peeps.

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    That’s great! They deserve to be freed from the confines of the barn. Now they roam around in the wild and get a breathe of fresh air.

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      I wonder how long it will take before the majority of them ends up in landfill.

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        This is an old article. I believe the original seller already depleted their stock. There’s a lot of good components in them for tinkerers and some folks still have interest in recreating the original services. I bought one while they were still being sold cheap, the things really were just like brand new

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          What was the state of the capacitors on the circuit board, since those are generally the first to go.

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    That was a super interesting read, thanks for posting

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