The Varese Retrocomputing 2024 is upon us! The event will be held on September 15 in Tradate, in the province of Varese, at the historic Villa Truffini, located in Corso Paolo Bernacchi 2. The opening hours to the public will be from 10:00 to 17:00. [...]
Good morning to all vintage computer fans! You are cordially invited to the Varese Retrocomputing 2024, an event to be held in Tradate, in the province of Varese, on September 15, 2024, from 10:00 to 17:00. Last year edition was [...]
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If you are among vintage computer enthusiasts, you certainly know the Commodore Amiga: real masterpieces in the history of computers. This machines, launched in the late 1980s and in the 90s, conquered the heart of numerous [...]
September 17 is around the corner, and vintage computer fans will soon immerse themselves in the retro atmosphere of the Varese Retrocomputing 2023! This event promises to bring fans of technology back in time, allowing them to relive the golden age of [...]
Good morning to all vintage computer enthusiasts! You are cordially invited to Varese Retrocomputing 2023, an unmissable event to be held in Tradate, in the province of Varese, on September 17, 2023, from 10:00 to 18:00. The Varese Retrocomputing 2023 [...]
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Good morning friends! Today I conduct you in a short but exciting journey in the Ctrl+Alt Museum museum in Pavia. Together with Davide and Alberto Fornasiero of the Historybit Museum, we ventured into an unforgettable experience. From the moment I crossed the [...]
I'm browsing a website... generated by an original Commodore 64! Unbelievable: the Commodore 64 is now a web server! Daniel Nagy has created a web server with the Commodore 64.
Do you remember the IBM 300GL that I purchased some time ago? I had talked about it in this article. Now, I decided to update the computer a little and enhance it with some tabs: a sound card and a network card. I also have [...]
Francesco Sblendorio has integrated ChatGPT, OpenAI's artificial intelligence, at the RetroCampus BBS. Here's how to use ChatGPT on the Commodore 64! To connect, you can use the Commodore 64 with a WiFi modem, or, alternatively, you can use your computer, opening [...]
Finally I finished assembling the vintage computer shelves I bought on Amazon! 🙂 I mounted them in the office. I'm filling them with the back computers I have in the collection, but also with devices and cards [...]
Today we talk about this Philips NMS 8280: a vintage computer that I bought back in 2021, when I went away to buy a huge batch of computers! The Philips NMS 8280 computer The Philips NMS8280 is a computer of the [...]
Is this IBM 300GL computer vintage enough? Intel Pentium II processor at 400 MHz, 512 MB of RAM and 2 GB of hard disk!
Let's test the Philips VG-5000 I bought on eBay? The seller stated that it is functional.
Introducing my new Commodore Plus4 and Sinclair ZX81! Sometimes it happens to make completely irrational purchases!
In this episode of the video course on the basic language of the back computer, we introduce the MSX Basic. It is a very powerful language, with many commands. In the same video, let's see how to save and upload the basic program to tape. You don't have a computer […]
Finally, here is a step by step tutorial to build an audio/video cable for MSX Philips VG 8000, VG 8010 and VG 8020! By connecting your vintage computer to the TV via the composite audio/video cable, rather than through antenna, image and audio [...]
Here is the video of the unboxing and testing of 6 cartridges for Commodore Vic20. Finally, my Commodore Vic-20 will have more game cartridges and a RAM expansion. Beware of scams! In the video, we also do an in-depth look at possible scams to which [...]
The Commodore SX-64 is back! The one which, as I had shown you in this article, had arrived damaged, destroyed during transport. The story of my Commodore SX-64 When I received the damaged Commodore SX-64, I must admit, I was quite upset […]
I found the advert for this computer on eBay: it's a Philips VG 8010 MSX, which I was missing from my collection. All things considered, it had a fairly interesting price, because other offers I had found on the same computer were actually more expensive. […]
Vi presento il mio "nuovo" Commodore 128D 100% NON testato, che ho acquistato su eBay. Lo proviamo? Secondo voi, funzionerà? Acquisto del Commodore 128D 100% NON testato Mi capita, di tanto in tanto, di acquistare qualche computer vintage per la […]
Good morning and welcome back on the blog and on the Valorosoit channel. If you like retrocomputer and vintage electronics, you are in the right place! Today we take the Commodore Amiga 1200 test, which has just arrived from Ebay, through the Amigatestkit utility. It was [...]
Today short video... on the road! Como Fun, at LarioFiere, Erba (CO). I visited Como Fun, a new and immense fair of comics, games and pop culture in Lariofiere, between the provinces of Como and Lecco, less than an hour [...]
Do you know what ASMR videos are? They are those videos in which you record only the sound of some objects, rather than the sound of people while eating... So here is an ASMR video on the sound of all the keyboards of the back [...]
Today we talk about the repair of the Commodore Plus/4, which I had ordered on eBay. Do you remember? I had arrived with an inadequate packaging and, above all, not working ... Repair of the Commodore Plus/4, diagnosis of the fault In this first article of the repair of the Commodore [...]
Anche oggi... video triste! Ho ordinato su eBay un Commodore SX-64, il Commdore 64 executive: la versione "portatile", per intenderci. L'inserzione eBay mostrava un computer perfetto e funzionante. L'unico difetto, dichiarato dal venditore, è l'assenza della tastiera, che dovrei trovare […]
Many of you have asked me how the dispute on eBay ended, relating to the Commodore Plus/4, which arrived defective, which I showed you in the last video. The situation went very well and, in this article, I will explain to everyone […]
I wasn't sure I wanted to publish this video, also because, in the end, I felt enormous DISAPPOINTMENT! Towards the middle of the video I start to feel less cheerful! Here is the unboxing of a Commodore Plus/4 that I bought on eBay... with... disappointment! Some […]
On the occasion of my visit to the HistoryBit retro computer collection, I had the pleasure of meeting Davide Fornasiero, together with his brother Alberto Fornasiero. Davide has always been passionate about vintage technology. He made this documentary, which describes the evolution [...]