Saturday, January 28, 2023

A tour of my retro computer workstation

Just for fun, I thought I’d share with you a brief tour of my retro Commodore C128 workstation and all of the components that go into this setup that I enjoy using so much. Some of it is new(er), but most of it is well over 30 years old, yet still functional.

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Saturday, January 21, 2023

New Berkeley bookshelf speakers from Electrohome

I noticed that Electrohome had a special “early bird” deal on their new model of compact powered bookshelf speakers, so I took them up on their offer. There were two models available, the 20 watt Huntley and the 30 watt Berkeley; I got the Berkeley EB20s.

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Friday, January 20, 2023

Building the Konstruktor 35mm SLR camera

This is another nice addition to have in my collection; the Lomography Konstruktor 35mm SLR. This one is another DIY kit, which took me just a little over two hours to complete. And I have to say, this is a great little camera that takes some pretty good photos and is enjoyable to use.

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Sunday, January 1, 2023

Lawrence of Arabia on Laserdisc

As a special Christmas gift, my wife was able to find me a copy of “Lawrence of Arabia” on Laserdisc! This is one of my favorite classic films and I’m so glad to have it in the collection, once again.

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