Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) was at one point the 2nd largest computer company in the world. Defining the mini computer, with its PDP range. It would eventually go one the create the VAX line of computers and its VMS operating system, and well as the Alpha processor.

Its time to look at the history of DEC, and its PDP line of machines, and build the PDP-11 replica kit the PiDP-11

Thanks to Poke, for letting me use their music, if you want to hear more https://soundcloud.com/user-455711299

You can get your own PiDP-11 from https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11-get-one

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For #doscember2021, I'm going to look at a version of DOS you've probably never used on a machine you probably thought could never be a PC.

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All bought for £1 off eBay. Retro does not have to be expensive.

To try these games your self, go to http://www.bbcmicro.co.uk and be amazed you can run a BBC emulator in a browser.

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Last year I cleaned up one of the most unpleasant smelling machines I've ever been near, a very mouldy Amiga 500. Having used it for a year it's time to pimp my A500, and my tank mouse.

The aim of the Amiga A500 Upgrade is to get a good looking gaming machine, rather than somthing targeting the most power hungry Amiga applications, and games ported from other platforms.

If you're interested in the Terriblefire TF536 I'd have a look at the Terriblefire YT channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgHJudlHQiKGx-eSXwpLi8Q, you'll learn a fair bit about electronics and the inner workings of the Amiga, and also about one Scottish band in particular.

The pervious A500 video where you can discover the vital role dentists played in the birth of the amgia is here https://youtu.be/s9LBa-Wtvdk

In what is becoming a Halloween tradition for this channel it's time to look a vampire card (its as close to indulging themed content as I'm ever likely to get), this time we are looking at the Vampire v2 for the A1200.

Vampire v4 standalone https://youtu.be/YRr74v2tPzM

My thanks to BigGun for the help with getting it flashed and working.

The power pc (PPC) A1200 in a tower case happened at an interesting time in the Amiga's history. Commodore had gone bankrupt, the Amiga's new owners seemed to have no love for the Amiga, and with no new Amiga on the horizon 3rd party hardware providers created their own future for the Amiga.

After waiting more than a year, the Retro Computer Festival happen and I went, and I mostly remember to film a video.

Sorry about the video quality and sometimes iffy audio, it was all shot on my phone.

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Casio thought it had a found an untapped market for consoles, a whole new customer base who they assumed where not using the current crop of consoles. So Casio lunched the Loopy, and its may well be worse than you think it is.