The ReEnthused History Locker

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Texas Instruments Exactra 31 Calculator
Exactra 23 Calculator
Texas Instruments Exactra 22 Calculator
[Prototype?] Exactra 21 Calculator
[Rare] Exactra 20 Calculator
[Rare] Exactra 19 Calculator
Complete (U.S.) Exactra line of calculators by Texas Instruments. All of these were released in 1974. The handhelds were intended as a low-budget line. The Exactra 19 in particular was specifically designed based on requests from the University of Ohio for a cheap calculator, so these may have all been targeted at college students. The desktop unit is the odd one out. However, it sold for $49.88 in 1974, which was only slightly more than the cost of the Exactra 20, which was $39.88. The Exactra 19 cut costs aggressively by design, and only cost $16.30. I haven't seen prices for the 21, 22, and 23. It seems strange to me that Texas Instruments hid the company name on the back and referred to them as "Exactra" rather than "TI". The Exactra 19 and Exactra 20 apparently got a European release as the TI-1900 and TI-2000. However, these are quite rare. The TI-1900 is so rare that I have never even seen a photo, and I have not seen a TI-2000 for sale yet. Maybe this line will have a family reunion some day.
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I just upgraded my retro setup with a 19” Dell Trinitron monitor. But man, are those things big and heavy, it barely fits on my desk.
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[Cancelled Game Console] Philips In2it
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Texas Instruments LADY 1200 Calculator
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[Rare] Protoype(?) Connor Computersmarts VHS and Cartridge-based Game Console (1987)
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Nintendo Game Boy Camera
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LJN VideoArt complete collection. Here are all nine games released for this system.The games were in clear clamshell packaging with the manual cover serving as the front box art and the manual back serving as the back box art. All you got was the cartridge, the manual, and maybe a flier advertising the games. Thus, all of my games are CIB except "My Favorite Doll", which is loose. The generic "Activity Cartridge" was bundled with the console, and I don't believe it had a manual or was ever sold separately. Now, does anyone know where I go to redeem my "VideoArt Proof of Purchase Points", or remember what they could even be redeemed for?
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Texas Instruments PC-100C Print/Security Cradle
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[Rare] SRK Implant Power Calculation (Customized TI-58C calculator)
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[Rare] SRK Implant Power Module
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Leisure Library Module
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Master Library Module
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Apple Macintosh Portable
After a year and a half of tinkering, searching and probing around i’ve finaly jury rigged my Mac portable into showing a sad mac code with matching sad chime. This means that most of system should be working, but the power management isn’t driving them. So, maybe... who knows, it might actualy boot someday...
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Nintendo Official Sticker Album (Merlin - 1992)
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A moment of late 70s/early 80s weirdness from Mego. These cartridges are both called "General Information", have the same label, and are copyrighted 1978. Thus, they should have the same content, correct? Nope. In 1978, Mego released "General Information", as the first cartridge for their 2-XL robot. Then, in 1981, they recorded a second version of the same cartridge (not to be confused with "General Information II" and "General Information III", which were different programs with different labels) with major content changes. It now contains two programs instead of one, an interview with Benjamin Franklin, and 2-XL's theme song. The second version is rarer, as it was released the same year that 2-XL was discontinued. However, for whatever reason, Mego never changed the label or copyright date. The only way to know is to listen to the content. As far as I know, the slightly different blue color and the lower placement of the label are down to quality control or sun exposure, and they are irrelevant to the contents.
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Shadow Warriors (Nintendo Game Boy)
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Nintendo Gameboy (1989)
A Nice New Glass Lens For My Game Boy Screen. Replacing The Old Scratched Plastic One.
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WWF Superstars (Nintendo Game Boy)
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Via Voice for Windows Release 10 (CIB)
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The Complete Texas Instruments TI-1600 Line from 1976. These calculators were produced in an effort to slim down existing Texas Instruments calculators from "hand-held" to "pocket-sized". The main obstacle was the VFDs ran on 9V batteries. As such, Texas Instruments had to commission the French company SAFT to make custom 9v batteries. The circuit boards are shaped like a block-letter "C" to allow the battery to sit next to them to make the calculators as small as possible. This line was discontinued when Texas Instruments released their first LCD calculator, the Ti-1750, in 1977. The lower power consumption of LCD allowed for the use of smaller button cells, which allowed for calculators even slimmer than the Ti-1600 line. None of these are working. They may not be able to draw enough power from only the adaptor, and the custom batteries are long dead. There may also have been battery leakage.
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Texas Instruments TI-1650 Calculator
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Ghostbusters 2 (Nintendo Game Boy - Japanese Version)
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LJN Videoart Main Board. I have identified most of the components. 7805CSP is a standard 5v voltage regulator. EF6805R2P is an implementation of the Motorola 6805 microprocessor. EF9367P is aGraphics Display Processor produced by Thomson. The D41416C-15 appear to be 4-bit 16K DRAM chips. The TSGB01019ACP is sadly a complete unknown. The various "74" chips are generally known as "Glue Logic", used to connect between other components. T74LS04B1 is a Hex Inverter. T74LS373B1 is an Octal Transport Latch with 3-state Outputs. I'm not entirely sure what DM74LS374N is.
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LJN VideoArt, The most advanced game console on the planet
LJN Videoart: Note on internal construction and disassembly. Okay, when LJN made the oversized top piece that covers the comparatively small circuit board, they made it as one solid piece. I'm still not sure how they slipped the gray plastic piece in there. However, I now know how they snapped the tiny circuit boards for the buttons in place. They slipped the buttons' circuit board between The grey plastic button panel and the inner part of the white top shell. The circuit board then sat on pins from the white shell. They then heated the white plastic from the inside to melt the pins and hold the buttons' circuit board still. I think this was a terrible design choice, and it isn't just because it meant I had to dremel the case to get the button panels out.
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Wario Land - Super Mario Land 3 (Nintendo Game Boy)
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Nintendo Game Boy Advance SP
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Allright, just received a Ti486 SXL-40. An even beter upgrade processor for my Toshiba T5200. This is the 8kb chip that i believe can be clock doubled. This means that the old 386DX 20MHz will be screaming at 40MHz.
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Texas Instruments Majestic Line Reshoot. I figured that I should take another picture of my calculators from Texas Instrument's "Majestic Line". I took the original picture back in June 2018, and I mentioned that I was just missing the Gould's Pumpulator to have a complete set of all of the Majestic Line members that were released in the U.S. Here we are over a year later, and I finally have one. The complete U.S. Majestic line consists of all of the calculators pictured here except for the four calculators on the right side of the bottom row. Those are members of the Majestic line which were not released in the U.S. There were some unique model numbers such as the TI-15 and TI-31. There were also minor tweaks, such as a Brazillian "Money Manager" with a brown case instead of black. Personally, I care more about unique model numbers, and I probably won't chase down small tweaks that cannot easily be searched for.
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[Rare Calculator] Texas Instruments Gould's Pumpulator
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Second bit for the Apple 2c. The monitor stand and an Apple branded printer. I have 0 experience with Apple 2 computers, so this is gonna be a lot of fun.
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The Legend Of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Nintendo Game Boy)
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First half of an Apple IIc haul. The apple 2c, monitor, extra drive, box of manuals, boxed set of finance software, full set of original apple 2c disks and a whole load of floppies and printer ribbons. I couldn’t fit the monitor stand and the printer in my motorcycles cases. So i’ll pick those up tomorrow. The computer also comes with the original box, which is a first in my collection.
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[Rare] Texas Instruments TI-5050 Portable Electronic Printing Calculator
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Toshiba T5200/100
And it’s in the Toshiba T5200. And even with the most ineffective settings turned on, there’s a nice speedboost. My testgame was Raptor: Call of the Shadow, which would really slow down when the shooting and explosions start. Now it runs a lot smoother, and it should improve with better settings. And it needs a heatsink, as these upgrade CPU’s run HOT🔥
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Toshiba T5200/100
IBM PS/2 P70 model 8573-121
2 Texas Instruments TI486DLC/E 33 processors in PGA132 format. These are upgrade CPU’s for 386DX motherboards and can give these older motherboards quite a boost. It should boost the performance of my Toshiba T5200 (386DX @ 20MHz) quite a bit. The other one will be tested in my IBM P70, also a 386dx @20MHz. These are the 1kb cache memory models without a clockdoubler. I’m still searching for a SXL 40 or SXL2 50, which have 8kb cache and a clockdoubler.
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[Philip's In2it - Cancelled Console] Basics Box And Basics Key Game Cards
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Mini Oscilloscope 2" CRT Clock
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Terry Pratchett's Discworld: Soul Music
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Texas Instruments Microterminal TM 990/301
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New project just arrived. An Advantech PPC123. I’m going to try to use this as a Win XP computer. It comes with almost every port under the sun, including a game/joystick port. But... ctrl/alt/del to log on to NT, thats a problem with no keyboard. Touchscreen works though
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After much searching, I now have a presumably complete collection for the Mattel See 'N Say Video Phone (1989-1990). This is an obscure VHS-based console, and possibly the most obscure piece of my collection. I say "presumably" because I have never seen an official games list, and all I have is the box with a picture of a stack of four VHS tapes.
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LJN VideoArt, The most advanced game console on the planet
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The IMCS Mouse Pen (CIB) - "The Natural Way to Input"
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Battle Of The Tapes! Not many movies got S-VHS releases. Now that I have an S-VHS VCR, I want to see how much of a difference the "Super" part made.
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Soviet Pop-Station from 1988. The Electronics IM-26 by Elektronika.
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Something a bit random. Found this on Ebay, I really like the concept. It’s a 3” CRT from an old scope, used as a clock.
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How To: Capture Video from the "View-Master Interactive Vision" VHS console (or how to get it to display on a picky TV)
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Olivetti M21
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Yorx BP-1000B Triple Cassette Player (1986)
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