Hello friends! As always, life ended being more complicated as expected, even if that is not a surprise in Argentina. I was somewhat active in my new YouTube Channel but never with enough time or energy to do a proper and long post like I always like to do.
So let`s do a quick wrap up of the year regarding my Retro Computing adventures. Thanks to a monthly event that is done in my city called “Cybercirujas” I was able to put my hands through the year in several pieces of retro tech hardware, some of that if reflected in the videos of my channel.
One of things I was able to reflect on was how much tech is just discarded or dismantled without a second thought about giving it a second life or maybe just to ask if it can be useful to anybody. A lot of education regarding this if needed, so I hope that my little grains of sand of this matter can be somewhat useful.
Here a sample of nice pile of motherboards that I saved from ending in E-waste, one of them was sporting an AMD FX 4100 CPU!
Without a doubt one of the highlight was a NEC Power Mate 8100 that was able to rescue along a NEC MultySinc V500 monitor.
You can watch the videos below regarding the restoration process, but I was lucky enough that aside a broken 3.2 GB hard disk, the only thing needed was new RAM and some love. Was my first experience pushing Windows 95 to its limits, so I learned a lot!
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And when I revived a "mystery" motherboard, that was quite fun to figure out!
I hope that in this new year I can dedicate more and better time to produce content, not only for my small YouTube channel but also some writing, I think what some subjects to discuss are hard to compress in a video format. But I hope to see everybody also subscribed over there!
I want to thanks everybody that has collaborated with coffees, even if don`t look like much it has help a lot in some harsh moments here. Argentina now has some possibilities of start to walk a much better path… but that is going to take a lot of time and at least for the immediate future things are still going to be very difficult.
Onward and the best of hopes for 2024!