Retrojab

Hello there, everybody! I'm happy to announce I'm finally back home, and I can finally make real blog posts again. My 1993 laptop arrived, and it works!  First time I booted into it, it asked me what the time and date was. This means that the cmos battery (the battery that keeps its inner clock ticking, and remembers bios settings) is dead. Altough, from what I've heard about this laptop, it's fully modular, meaning you can replace the battery, hard drive, cmos battery, floppy drive, and even CPU without disassembly. As you can see, it currently runs windows 95. I'll probably format the hard drive and do a clean install of MS-DOS, windows 3.1, and 95. I will most likely make a review about this laptop tomorrow. Good night everyone!😇

Well, hello again! After leaving my grandparents' house, I went to the camp I currently find myself in. This post is mostly about showing signs of life, (altough I will start posting again in a few days), and I also wanted to show you the cool record/radio/cassette player I found at the place we're staying at: As you can see, it's really cool. I would definitely want something like this.  Have a nice day! 💐

Well hello there! While searching for the supposed Sega mega drive, I came across a really old radio: (by the looks of it, I can't find any documentation online) It's functional, altough it's missing a few things, like the frequency adjustment knob, and the battery cover. It takes 2 AA batteries. It's really dirty, altough I already cleaned it a little. I like it a lot, I'll try attaching some kind of knob, and taping the batteries instead of using the cover :)) Oh, and also, I found the laptop of my dreams on okazii, and ordered it for 350 lei. It's an old Zenith Z-Note Flex. I'm not quite sure yet, but online sources say it either runs on an Intel 486DX2 66mhz processor, which would be absolutely ideal, or a 486SL, which tops at 33mhz. About 3 megabytes of ram, a TFT 640x480 screen, a very handy little screen above the keyboard, on the top left, which shows things like remaining battery, or audio volume. It has a built-in micropho...

Hello everybody, I want you to know that I've gone away to my grandparents home, in another city, between the mountains. It's really nice here, but I won't be able to post any serious content, because I don't have access to my collection or a computer. I'll only be gone until the 15th of July. In other news, I've been exploring my grandparents attic, and I found two TVs from the 1970s. They're both pretty much broken... Especially the one on the right. These TVs used vacuum tubes, which I haven't really covered in my CRT Televisions post from two days ago, because they're not that important in TVs, in my opinion. I might cover them if I ever get my hands on a vacuum tube radio. (which I probably will) Oh, and also, one of my mother's brothers told me that an old Sega Mega Drive might be hiding somewhere in this attic... I will definitely make a post about it, if I find it.

Sources: Wikipedia , home.bt.com , tech-faq.com , howstuffworks.com I guess my first real post will be about these guys. They weren't abandoned too long ago, having been manufactured until surprisingly recent years (2015). Everybody has seen one of these: They are still common in lots of hotels, and even in households on a lesser extent. Most people would laugh at the thought of getting one of these nowadays, thinking they are just bulky and awful pieces of trash, but CRT technology is a lot more fascinating than most people would believe or imagine it to be. In fact, the two tube TVs in the image above are my own, and I got one last summer, the other one last spring. I promise, the image looks way better in reality on both of them than it does in my not-that-great photos :) CRT stands for cathode ray tubes. Cathode rays were first discovered in 1869 in a primitive Crookes Tube . In 1897, the earliest cathode ray tubes were invented by german physicist Ferdinand Braun , ...

Hello world! Welcome to Jab's Romanian Retro Corner, or Retrojab, however you want to call it, my first blog. This Blog covers (or will cover) lots of information about retro electronics: -Reviews of old Computers, and their operating systems. (Classic Mac operating systems, classic windows operating systems, and others, like MS-DOS) -Hardware repairs, as well as software repairs, disassemblies, and upgrades. -Retro pc game reviews and hardware recommendations. -Retro gaming consoles (NES, SNES, Gameboy, and others), how to refurbish them, best video output methods. (I won't be covering video game console hardware modifications, only repairs) -Retro console game reviews. -A little history about most things. -Retro music formats (like the compact cassette, open reels, vinyl) and machines that play them, as well as how to refurbish them, or simple repairs like changing a belt on a walkman. (if I'm unlucky enough to get one with a bad belt) -Modern solutions for ret...