Santo Nucifora 🇨🇦

Vintage computer collector and maintainer of

[Santo Nucifora 🇨🇦 @MrGoodBits]

Both of my DEC DTC01 Voice synthesis units are working great now. As such, I put a little demo of one of them singing Jingle Bells for the holiday season and #DOScember. Using an IBM PC AT and Telix for scripting. https://t.co/bkiUvpukid #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #DEC

[Santo Nucifora 🇨🇦 @MrGoodBits]

Good luck @bzotto Count me in, of course. We need to talk about one of those Sphere mugs at some point as it's not available up in Canada.

[Santo Nucifora 🇨🇦 @MrGoodBits]

@tschak Most of these systems are voice activated. When you pick up the phone, don't speak. If you hear silence, wait until the system hangs up. They likely won't call again. If you do speak, it will connect you to an telemarketer standing by and keep your number for the next time.

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@MarkJCarney, I don't know what @JustinTrudeau future plans are but consider a "Special Ambassador to the US" role specifically for the Canada and US Trade War. Not that you can't handle it but it will piss off POTUS. I am happy to pay more to live in Canada.

[Santo Nucifora 🇨🇦 @MrGoodBits]

Very excited to have one of the pictures of my Commodore 8296 from my website as the cover image of a new Japanese book on "Computer Nostalgia: Product Design for Early Personal Computers", I think. I wish I could read Japanese :) Looks like a great book.

[Santo Nucifora 🇨🇦 @MrGoodBits]

@OnyxCrack No, I've only had 3 KIM-1s with bad RAM out of 9 so far. I have replace a couple of digit displays as they had bad segments as well but otherwise, I've had good luck with them.

[Santo Nucifora 🇨🇦 @MrGoodBits]

This KIM-1 drove me crazy. With two bad RAM chips (one seemingly intermittent) and a bad display digit, it’s finally working. Now all if my KIM-1s are working for the first time.

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@w1ngselec @CelGenStudios I would guess this is the bus version. You need the right card. My 9 pin connector is slightly different.

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@CelGenStudios Hrmm... I have both serial and bus mouse. I've never taken them apart. I would guess there was a difference internally between the two?

[Santo Nucifora 🇨🇦 @MrGoodBits]

I think my definition of “LongLife” might be slightly different than these capacitors. This is from a Tandy Sensation power supply that would not power up. I can see why.

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@leonkiriliuk I've had this happen before. The only scam I could come up with, other than those who just forgot they ordered stuff, is that the buyer is giving the seller an interest free loan for a month or so.

[Santo Nucifora 🇨🇦 @MrGoodBits]

Here are some unused ceramic dual inline packages for integrated circuits. I have a few wafers in my collection, why not DIPs too?

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@hackaday I almost always choose the cheapest shipping option so it takes about a month.

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@KevEdwardsRetro I can honestly say I've opened one but not the others. I am not sure what the differences are.

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@ClassicII_MrMac Apple is waiting for someone to realize that the power button side is the top of the unit.

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@AtticThe Congratulations! Looks awesome.

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@KevEdwardsRetro I asked around myself as they are Second Edition books with no printing edition notes. No one has ever seen them. I got them from a defunct early Canadian Commodore dealer along with a bunch of other manuals. Among other things was a KIM-1 brochure.

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@techknight2 I figured they used Ninjaflex. I've used it to 3d print a belt in the past for an obsolete gear tooth configuration on a 1965 Olivetti Programma 101. Works very well.

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@RetroWizzard It's one of the motherboard assembly numbers for a Commodore 64. I thought that was common knowledge :)