proprietary hardware

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Oldschool music, Commodore 64 > Commodore SID

(on Wikipedia)
was hardsid.com
HardSID Linux Driver
https://www.facebook.com/pages/HardSID/83072518350

A hardware card to use a Commodore 64 SID chip and authentically play its music.

  • Abandoned.

It’s been quite some time, and the website isn’t working.

The moderator of the mailing list was quick to approve my signup.

Sandor reports that the home page had hosting issues and now they’ve moved to Facebook

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Hardware > Music >

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Back when it was a thing, I had a CD player which could play MP3s.

This unit is entirely out of date now, but the assurance of quality which would be created with this one may well carry forward to their newer models. Be assured that my opinion of both the brand and the reseller is still poor.

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commodore 64 logo on black

Computers, Platforms >

(on Wikipedia)

A legendary platform in its time, it’s not relegated to being an oldschool computer.

This was a major project for a long while, as I made a pilgrimage to this platform and stuck with it as my only computing resource.

  • Often given the shortform “c64”.

See also:

  • C-One, a re-creation with more contemporary hardware.



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Whoops, I broke my HP 200LX.. I’ll have to get it repaired before I can re-open this project.

HP 200LX image

Portable computing, Quiet computing > Oldschool >

(on Wikipedia)
(home page, archive)

An early-1990s

A portable computer.

Clamshell, Full QWERTY-keyboard with a keypad and macro keys, authentic Intel 8086 hardware, true DOS, a task-switching application, and a number of GUI applications and productivity software. It is truly a portable computer.

  • Abandoned — HP decided to switch to the Windows CE-supporting palmtops in their Jordana-series of palmtops, even though the 200LX was still a moneymaking operation.



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