#261 Up and running

[Jorge Amodio]

#261 fully assembled and blinking!

Joining the rest of the family in the retro corner.

No major issues to put it together and get it up and running.

I’m using VNC to use the GUI on the Raspberry 5. Hint, you will need an HDMI dongle to make the RPi believe it has a display attached.

[Matthias Barthel]

Nice collection👌 have fun.

Matthias 

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Cheers
- Jorge

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[Sean Sliwinski]

Impressive collection!

Sean

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[R Clark]

Very Nice! Looks similar to my collection.  I see you build a Lego Saturn 5 too. Mine is laying down on its stand. These retro computers are fun to play with.  Good conversation pieces too!  I see a HAL-9000 there. I built one myself.  One of the things you can do is spray paint the button with transparent smoke to dampen the glow. I drilled a hole for the LED in the back white diffuser <sp>  too.  Powered by a Pico W board. It also turns my office lights on-off. Anyway, I like your collection.

[Jorge Amodio]

Nice setup 

Here is a more wide angle of the full “cave” that serves also as my home office/personal lab 🤓

- Jorge

On Dec 9, 2025, at 13:44, R Clark <rbclar...@gmail.com> wrote:



Very Nice! Looks similar to my collection.  I see you build a Lego Saturn 5 too. Mine is laying down on its stand. These retro computers are fun to play with.  Good conversation pieces too!  I see a HAL-9000 there. I built one myself.  One of the things you can do is spray paint the button with transparent smoke to dampen the glow. I drilled a hole for the LED in the back white diffuser <sp>  too.  Powered by a Pico W board. It also turns my office lights on-off. Anyway, I like your collection.

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[R Clark]

Nice area to play/work. Like the Nixie clock. Did/do you work for Nasa/SpaceX or just like their rockets?  I used to be more involved in Model Rocketry and even got my Hi Power class 1 cert, but didn't take following steps for 2 and 3 after the kids left home. One of my kids qualified for TARC back in DC.  So we got to shake hands with Buzz Aldrin back there at the time.  That said, I try to catch all the launches I can, like today's NRO launch, and landing of booster back at LZ 2.  Never get tired of watching!  I enjoy flying R/C as one of my main hobbies. I am still not quite retired yet.  My computer 'experience' started in the 80s, so missed all the PDP drama. Schools had VAXs, and my first home computer was a DEC Rainbow while in college pursuing my CS degree. Part of my summer job in those years was working on  and backing up a PRIME computer system  for the  local power company.  That is how I spent my Friday nights into Saturday morning... Kept me out of trouble I suppose....

Where did you get your Altair?

[Jorge Amodio]

Yes our company works with NASA, we already sent two landers to the Moon, working on #3 and #4, waiting for NASA to announce the award for LTV and we are building a constellation of satellites around the Moon to provide position, navigation and timing (PNT) and data communication services at and around the Moon. The latter is my project.

We are also involved in the Moon to Mars program and many other projects, nuclear power/propulsion, etc.

-J

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[Sean Sliwinski]

Another impressive build set

Sean

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[Sean Sliwinski]

Wow,!

Great builds everyone

Sean

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[Bill E]

You lab is certainly a lot neater than mine! I'm fortunate in that my wife lets me keep all of my Pidps in the living room. They have turned out to be of great interest even to non-tech people, especially once I explain what they are and the history behind them. All but the -8 (OS8 is just too boring, sitting in a busy-wait loop) have been running continuously, other than a couple of reboots because of Linux updates, since I built them, all on UPSs. RSX-11 on the 11, ITS on the 10, and my rotate program on the 1 that cycles thru lines, snowflake, and spacewar. What you can't quite make out lying under the PC monitor are my pile of laminated PDP-1 instruction cards, ascii-flex conversion card, and IOT cheat sheet for the drum, DCS, and IOT 32 BBN clock. BTW, I'm up to 3K painful lines of PDP-1 macro now. It's kind of fun. If you like suffering.

Bill

Bill

[R Clark]

You are lucky!  My wife likes my computer stuff 'downstairs' in the office/computer room/library and out of sight!  Likes the minimalist look... So it goes.   Very nice.

[AB]

nice setups guys... keep 'em coming!

Andy