Notices by Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social), page 3

Oh wow, look at this amazing mechanical keyboard it has, not documented anywhere on the internet!
It has Alps SKFR/SKFS low-profile switches! 😍

This doesn't look great! 🤣

I've replaced all the iffy caps in the PSU, seems to be fine now.
Moving onto the motherboard, that 10uF cap is fried (not related to my mini explosion), time to pop a couple out and give them a test:

Some indoor fireworks up in this joint!
💥 BOOM💥
Warning: don't trust the voltage on those variable laptop PSUs!
That was exciting 🤣

I've stuck a 10uF Aluminum electrolytic capacitor in here temporarily, I really want to see if I can get any life out of this, all darkness so far!

Yep, it's pretty much just shorted out!

Testing a good one: this is correctly reading as 10uF and good V-loss:

😍

Two very different 386SX-16 'laptops', both from 1990.
Left: A Taiwanese Acer Anyware 1100LX
Right: Japanese Epson PC-386 Note A

💾 Have a great Friday evening and weekend folks, it's time for my retro fun to begin. 💾

This Acer has hands down the best ever monochrome screen I've ever seen on a laptop, it's a triple supertwist nematic LCD, the clarity is absolutely beautiful 😍

I have just the mouse for this! 👍

Epson PC-386 Note A update:
I got the original hard drive working, whoop!
It has an original install of MS-DOS 3.3, so I'll be preserving that. I've switched out the drive for a CF card, currently installing the Japanese PC-9800 version of MS-DOS 6.20.....

Genius GM-7!

A little Saturday retro computing 'hack':
Usb floppy drives from places like Amazon, only write HD 1.44MB disks, have you ever wanted to write a DD 720k disk on a modern computer easily, without something like a Greaseweazle?
Get yourself a Dell MPF82E, it has a USB port

---Curriculum Vitae----
My Hobbies and Interests
- Installing Operating Systems on really old computers.
- Cleaning dirt, dust and suspicious stains off old retro computer hardware.
- Pro-Tetris stacking computers into impossible storage space areas.

ICQ

Trin's back home and she's a beauty! 😍📺

@foone really sorry to hear this, you're crazy talented and any employer would be lucky to have you! Good luck with the job search my friend.

Another retro project to check out, I'll be building one of these (or five!). Very simple and easy to make and use - SD Card to Parallel Port Adapter(s) and MS-DOS Driver.
https://github.com/nilseuropa/sdpp

Sneaky peak of my new retro collection additions: 8088 and NEC V30 machines.
🤞 Fingers crossed they're delivered safely 🤞