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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Testing out and getting my PS/2 Model 95, with a Pentium 66! Everything seems to be working well, and it has 64 MB of memory. I installed Windows 95 on it too. #retrocomputing

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Custom luggable PC I built, with a Pentium III in a BSI chassis.

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

My weird SE/30. I got it like this, all mods were done by the original owner. Low persistence green CRT Daystar 68030 50 MHz upgrade 128mb RAM Ethernet card No FDD, two HDDs Running A/UX and NetBSD

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Here’s my Shuttle 2 I just finished fixing. PSU had bad capacitors. It’s a C2D

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Know someone with diabetes? Check out the first blood glucose meter from 1970! It cost $650! As a Type 1, and someone into retro tech, this is such a cool item to own. #diabetes

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Just finished fixing up this NeXT Computer with the NeXT Dimension color video card. The computer cost $6,500, and when the video card launched, it cost $3,995, and the monitor was at least $2,995. Plus additional RAM, etc.

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Got my VT-100 back together and working. Now need to get the computer it goes to working too

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

My cleaned and working Lear Siegler ADM-3A dumb terminal. When it launched in 1976, it cost $995!

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I saw Lee Felsenstein speak at the System Source computer museum on Saturday. Had a great time there! He designed the SOL-20 and Osborne 1

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Nothing beats the black Bell and Howell Apple II, it’s strikingly beautiful A lot of these were used in schools, so I was lucky to get this from the original owner in immaculate condition. It also has a unique TransWarp CPU upgrade I added!

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Commodore PET 2001 from 1977 Finally got it all up and running, just need to finish the tape drive.

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

The first iPod Touch from 2007! Look at those icons… I miss them #ipod

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Look at this Macintosh Quadra 700 from 1991! You may recognize it from Jurassic park! It has a very powerful CPU upgrade in it, taking it from a 25 MHz Motorola 68040 to a 100 MHz PowerPC!

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Another terminal I fixed up recently Data General Dasher D3 from about 1979

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Replaced the battery in this iPod Nano 2nd generation. Was a little annoying but not the worst thing I’ve ever done. I had one like this as a kid, but I accidentally sent it through the wash! I found this one on eBay in really nice shape, but the battery was completely shot, but not swollen.

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

I recently got this Altair 680 (mostly) functional! It’s in really really nice shape, and was assembled in 1976! Yes, you do a lot of your programming via those switches on the front.

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Macintosh SE with an aftermarket video card that gives it a second full page monitor!! It’s so cool #computers

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Ripley the Tech Otter @ripleytech.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Nice and clean IBM 5251 terminal from 1977

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