Tasty » Adam Sampson's retrotech bookmarks

Global Mariner edit / delete

Lots of pictures of ships from the 1950s-1970s -- everything from enormous tankers down to Chinese junks.

to history maritime retrotech ships transport ... on 16 March 2016

Taybus Vintage Vehicle Society edit / delete

If you see a suspiciously old bus around Dundee, it's probably this (Arbroath-based) society...

to bus dundee history retrotech transport ... on 16 March 2016

HP Memory Project edit / delete

The history of the Hewlett-Packard company, with lots of interesting documents (e.g. the internal newsletters from various eras).

to electronics history hp retrocomputing retrotech test-equipment ... on 22 January 2016

Tim's Homepage edit / delete

Floppy emulator, RAM expansion and network interface for Amigas using an FPGA, and some UKNC reverse-engineering. Includes a picture of how to mount the odd Russian chips with staggered rows of pins.

to 1801 amiga electronics fpga retrocomputing retrotech soviet ... on 22 January 2016

Музей электронных раритетов edit / delete

Huge collection of Soviet-made ICs -- lots of information about what's in all the different series.

to 1801 555 chip ic retrotech russia soviet ... on 07 January 2016

WarrantyVoid - the electronic sound toy and keyboard modification site edit / delete

Aimed at circuit-benders, but has a very comprehensive list of home keyboards with descriptions of the technology they use and the sounds you can get out of them. I came here looking for details on the Casio CZ-230S I'd just bought...

to casio circuit-bending electronics instrument keyboard retrotech synth yamaha ... on 31 December 2015

BVWS - British Vintage Wireless Society edit / delete

Now with scans of all the 405 Alive and (earlier) BVWS Bulletin issues.

to 405 bvws history magazine radio retrotech tv ... on 25 October 2015

Troy's Vintage Video edit / delete

A comprehensive collection of vintage video and TV equipment, and some extremely impressive homebrew electronics along the same lines. His iconoscope camera is jawdropping.

to electronics iconoscope retrotech tape tv vcr video ... on 13 September 2015

Hammond Tonewheel Organs edit / delete

Modifying a Hammond M-100 series spinet organ to behave more like a B-3.

to electronics hammond leslie organ retrotech tonewheel ... on 29 June 2015

HammondWiki - Home Page edit / delete

A very comprehensive wiki about playing and maintaining Hammond tonewheel organs. Useful reference even for those of us who're just playing a software simulation...

to electronics hammond instrument music organ retrotech tonewheel ... on 29 June 2015