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Adding Magnetic Bubble Memory to a vintage computer, an iPDS-100 Personal Development System
In this video, I take an iPDS-100 vintage computer circa 1982 and add Magnetic Bubble Memory to it. The iPDS-100 was manufactured in the early 1980s by Intel and was sold as a personal development system, featuring EPROM programming and emulation capabilities for 8051 and 8085 CPUs. This particular iPDS-100 has two 8085 CPUs in it, allowing you to run two programs concurrently on a split screen. This allowed you to not just program EPROMs and emulate processors, but also to run a variety of software such as editors, assemblers, compilers, etc. It ran an operating system called ISIS-II, and it also ran CP/M. My iPDS did not include the necessary iPDS-120 "multimodule adapter" necessary to plug the iSBX-251 Bubble Memory modules into it. So I built my own! It was a little difficult getting the dimensions exactly right, but I pulled it off and was able to install the replacement adapter and get my iPDS to use bubble memory and to boot from it. I also show how to blank check, program, and verify a 2532 EPROM. For more vintage computer projects, see www.smbaker.com/
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Rockwell AIM-65 6502 Vintage Computer: Display Board, Speech Synthesizer, Basic, and Forth
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I explore the Rockwell AIM-65 vintage computer. This is a 6502-based computer from the late 1970s. This computer came with 4KB of RAM and 20KB of ROM, and had some kind of calculation program installed for what I think is a manufacturing company. It came in a nice all-metal industrial case. I build a display board that uses the 6545 CRTC chip to render composite video. I also build a speech syn...
I built an 8008 Supercomputer. 8 ancient 8008 vintage microprocessors computing in parallel.
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I've done some videos lately on the 8008 CPU, widely regarded as the world's first 8-bit programmable microprocessor. Previously I built a nice little single board computer. In this video I connect eight of these 8008 microprocessors together, designate one as a controller, design a shared memory abstraction between then, and use them to solve a simple parallel computing program Conway's Game o...
The Best Votrax Text-To-Speech Synthesizer: Aicom Accent Votrax SC-02 8-bit ISA PC Card
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I've played with a lot of other text to speech systems, including the Votrax Type-N-Talk, various CTS256/SPO256 solutions, etc. This Votrax SC-02 based speech synthesizer, the Aicom Accent has phenomenally good text to speech technology for the time. Part of this is due to the increased capabilities of the SC-02, which offers more parameters than the SC-01 (and certainly more than the SP0256A-A...
I built a Jupiter Ace clone, and 3 new modules for it!
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I came across a project on hackaday.io called "Recreating the Jupiter Ace" and I decided to try to reproduce this myself. I downloaded the author's Kicad files, had the board fabbed up by jlcpcb, and built myself a 2024 Jupiter Ace! I ran into a couple problems, which I diagnose and resolve in the video. Then I designed three modules for it: 1) RAM expansion, 2) Raspberry Pi Supervisor, and 3) ...
80188-based FORTH Computer Vesta OEM-188 aka "Radio Electronics RE Robot Brain"
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While working on my recent 80186 CPU Board project, I came across an eBay listing for the Vesta Technologies OEM-188 single board computer, which is based on the 80188, and it even has the FORTH programming language in ROM. Will it even boot MS-DOS with a serial console? Let's find out. This board was also featured as part of a series of articles in Radio Electronics Magazine back in 1987. This...
MS-DOS on an Ancient Heathkit H8 computer using an 80186 CPU Board
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Did you ever wish your vintage H8 8-bit computer ran MS-DOS? Probably not... but what if you did? In this video, I upgrade my H8 computer from its stock 8080 CPU to a 16-bit 80186 CPU. This is an upgrade from 2MHz to 25Mhz, and an increase in the memory bus width from 8-bit to 16-bit. The retrobrew SBC-188 was the basis for this design, which I modified to use the 80186 with its 16-bit data bus...
Olivetti M20 Z8000 Computer: Upgrades and New Boards and Speech Synthesizers and ZORK!
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I finally got my hands on an Olivetti M20 computer, this one came all the way from France! I've been looking for an M20 ever since I did the Z8000 clover computer project a few years ago. The Olivetti M20 computer seem to have been particularly popular in Europe, and were designed and manufactured in Italy. The typical M20 has two floppy drives, each either 320KB or 640KB in size. Some may have...
Mini-08 single-board computer based on the 8008 CPU
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I take my 8008 H8 CPU board and I refactor it into a standalone single-board computer. The 8008 CPU is widely considered to be the world's first 8-bit commercial programmable microprocessor. My single-board computer features the 8008 CPU together with up to 128KB of RAM and 128KB of ROM via bankswitching, and a 8251 UART for serial I/O. It runs Basic, Forth, and has a build-in monitor and can p...
Heathkit H8 Vintage Computer with an 8008 CPU Board (Not 8080... 8008 !!)
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I wanted to experiment with the 8008 microprocessor, so I decided to produce an 8008 board for my trusty Heathkit H8. The H8 by default ships with an 8080 CPU board. I've previously upgraded it, including upgrading to an 8085. But what if we went the other way... What if we went all the way back to the 8008 CPU? Can we make the H8 work? Can we implement the front panel monitor? Run basic progra...
RC2014 and Heathkit H8 Vintage/Retro Punched Paper Tape using a FANUC PPR (Portable Punch Reader)
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My second video on using punched paper tape with vintage computers. I found a FANUC PPR (Portable Punch Reader) on eBay. I repaired it. Then I modified my RC2014 using a custom serial board and a custom BASIC interpreter so that I could load and save BASIC programs to punched paper tape. I also augmented BASIC so I can use the PPR's printer to print program listings. Then I connected this to my...
Bubble Memory Part 2: Single-Board Bubble Computer and my return to the RC2014
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I build a single-board computer that includes a bubble memory storage device. Bubble memory is a technology that stores bits of data using magnetic domains on a substrate. This board uses the 7110AZ bubble memory storage device together with the associated support chips. The single board computer pairs the bubble memory and support circuitry with an RC2014-like Z80 computer (16K ROM, 32K RAM, a...
AKI Typesetter Keyboard/Punch repaired and automated with Raspberry Pi
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I wanted to introduce my retro computing projects to punched paper tapes. Reading paper tapes is conceptually fairly simple, and there are numerous options out there including DIY. However, punching is more difficult because the mechanism is more demanding. I bought an AKI Typesetter Keyboard on eBay. It was advertised as being nonfunctional. I repaired the device, and then reverse-engineered e...
Heathkit H-47 massive 8" Floppy Drive Unit
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I bought an H-47 to go with my Heathkit H8 computer. This would have been a considerable upgrade back in the early 80s, going from the H-17 which offered 100KB per disk (later 200KB with double-sided support) to the H-47 which had one megabye per disk. The H47 is also considerably faster than the H17. In the video I take a few quick looks at the internals, then I format and sysgen a disk on my ...
Magnetic Bubble Memory Storage on a Heathkit H8
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I ditch my modern compactflash board for a period-accurate "Bubble Memory" board. Bubble memory, using the 7110AZ bubble memory device, is a 1 megabit nonvolatile storage medium that makes use of magnetic bubbles together with a garnet substrate. It was a remarkable and elegant technology for the time, but ultimately lost out to RAM and HDD technologies that offered higher bit density, higher s...
Trump Card Z8000 PC Coprocessor card Part 2, 1980s Vintage, Lost software has been found!
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Trump Card Z8000 PC Coprocessor card Part 2, 1980s Vintage, Lost software has been found!
Heathkit H8 Part 4: 16 Megabytes of RAM in a Heathkit H8 Vintage Computer
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Heathkit H8 Part 4: 16 Megabytes of RAM in a Heathkit H8 Vintage Computer
Heathkit H8 Part 3: Designing an 8085 CPU Board for the Heathkit H8
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Heathkit H8 Part 3: Designing an 8085 CPU Board for the Heathkit H8
No Vinculum? No Problem! Emulating an 8-bit VDIP1 using a Raspberry Pi
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No Vinculum? No Problem! Emulating an 8-bit VDIP1 using a Raspberry Pi
Heathkit H8 Part 2 - a Zilog Z8000 CPU board for the H8
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Heathkit H8 Part 2 - a Zilog Z8000 CPU board for the H8
Heathkit H-8 Part 1: Trying out the Tape Board, and Designing a Speech Synthesizer
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Heathkit H-8 Part 1: Trying out the Tape Board, and Designing a Speech Synthesizer
The Trump Card: Zilog Z8000 Coprocessor for the IBM PC by Sweet Micro Systems 1984 Vintage Computer
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The Trump Card: Zilog Z8000 Coprocessor for the IBM PC by Sweet Micro Systems 1984 Vintage Computer
A modern Single-Board Olivetti M20 Clone, another Z8000 computer
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A modern Single-Board Olivetti M20 Clone, another Z8000 computer
Zilog Z8000 retro computer part 3: Video and Keyboard using TMS9918 or Yamaha V9958
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Zilog Z8000 retro computer part 3: Video and Keyboard using TMS9918 or Yamaha V9958
Zilog Z8000 retro computer part 2: CompactFlash, Floppy, Pi Supervisor, and speech synthesizer
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Zilog Z8000 retro computer part 2: CompactFlash, Floppy, Pi Supervisor, and speech synthesizer
Scott's Z8000 CP/M-8000 Clover Computer
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Scott's Z8000 CP/M-8000 Clover Computer
Repairing a Convergent Technologies Miniframe, Part 2
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Repairing a Convergent Technologies Miniframe, Part 2
Restoring a $25,000 Convergent Technologies Miniframe CTIX Unix Computer, Vintage from 1985
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Restoring a $25,000 Convergent Technologies Miniframe CTIX Unix Computer, Vintage from 1985
Vintage Heathkit SB-610 Monitor Scope restoration using Hayseed Hamfest recap kit
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Vintage Heathkit SB-610 Monitor Scope restoration using Hayseed Hamfest recap kit
Raspberry Pi Based DDS-VFO for my 1970-era Drake 4-Line Tube Ham Radio
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Raspberry Pi Based DDS-VFO for my 1970-era Drake 4-Line Tube Ham Radio

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  • @arecproject6719
    @arecproject6719 4 дні тому

    Hi, I saw your video and I fell in love with it. On Sunday I bought a trunk with thousands of components at a flea market, I understood that there was something good in the middle. in fact I managed to find different versions of the 8041, 8085, 8088, 8086, ram, rom, eeprom, plus hundreds of TTLs as well as thousands of transistors, capacitors, .... etc. I wanted to know if you could help me choose the best versions of components and build a computer from scratch. It has always been a passion of mine. I hope you can help me, thanks...

  • @DAVIDGREGORYKERR
    @DAVIDGREGORYKERR 9 днів тому

    Does the FORTH for the 80188 use the multiply and divide instructions of which there are many also there is a mode that means that you have to be in the zero ring to have access the hardware and the other rings are possibly user rings.

  • @victoews6842
    @victoews6842 13 днів тому

    hmmmm. junk? 16 blinds installed for the past 14 years Today i encountered my very first problem. I'd say that's pretty good quality.

  • @DAVIDGREGORYKERR
    @DAVIDGREGORYKERR 15 днів тому

    What about building a H8 with an AMD A10-7800k or A10-7850k which brings out connections for feeding a VGA and HDMI connections for a VGA display or TV as the VGA Adapter is inside the AMD A10-7800/A10-7850k, but system will need 32GB of RAM.

  • @DAVIDGREGORYKERR
    @DAVIDGREGORYKERR 15 днів тому

    It is unfortunate that the INTEL 80187 is not around anymore as they have been recycled into Gold maybe I am wrong.

  • @beecele6666
    @beecele6666 18 днів тому

    Thanks! Easy demonstration in seconds

  • @derekchristenson5711
    @derekchristenson5711 20 днів тому

    Cool!

  • @jaym5938
    @jaym5938 24 дні тому

    lol

  • @carlossantiago4845
    @carlossantiago4845 26 днів тому

    FUSIX is not Linux, it is a Unix R7 with some system V enhancements.

  • @Swenser
    @Swenser 27 днів тому

    Will try making my own splitter Y cable. Too easy.

  • @starex_inspiringminds
    @starex_inspiringminds Місяць тому

    can it measure time?

  • @EirikrTinkerTries
    @EirikrTinkerTries Місяць тому

    This one would be a fun project on the various homebrew board sites! Looking at GitHub there are two open-source projects. 8008, 16KB RAM, and the tiny, tiny, FUZIX UNIX-like OS crammed onto here?! Perfect. Or have to find someone like the ZealOS 8-bit hardware guy who could write it in assembly to be super duper tiny.

  • @EirikrTinkerTries
    @EirikrTinkerTries Місяць тому

    Will FUZIX work on this? Would be interesting to have modern UNIX-experience on something so oddball!

  • @DAVIDGREGORYKERR
    @DAVIDGREGORYKERR Місяць тому

    Take it out of an AMSTRAD PC1512

  • @GoAwayStupidAI
    @GoAwayStupidAI Місяць тому

    I remember reading about bubble memory and being really curious. Thanks for satisfying that curiosity!

  • @DimasFajar-ns4vb
    @DimasFajar-ns4vb Місяць тому

    android smartphone is amazing good job sir

  • @kensmith5694
    @kensmith5694 Місяць тому

    BTW: In its era, ISIS was a better OS than the CPM or DOS you could get. IIRC, ISIS had 6 file buffers normally so you could have up to 6 files open efficiently. The programming language for writing code, assuming you didn't do it in ASM, was a thing call PLM. The design of the PLM language had some problems with it but you could write code that worked using it. They also had fortran for it. They had a system that worked like a batch file but not really. If your file took no arguments things were simple bit if it took arguments what they did was insert the argument into a new copy of your batch file. I used there MDS system which I think cost a lot more and weighed too much to carry it.

  • @johnn0hj
    @johnn0hj Місяць тому

    I have one of these systems without pods and hope to get cp/m running on it some day.

    • @smbakeryt
      @smbakeryt Місяць тому

      Let me know how it works out, once you get it up and running!

  • @AppliedCryogenics
    @AppliedCryogenics Місяць тому

    Back when mezzanine connectors had 0.1" pin spacing.. good times.

  • @esra_erimez
    @esra_erimez Місяць тому

    Wow, this is very impressive.

  • @senilyDeluxe
    @senilyDeluxe Місяць тому

    Fixing vintage arcade machine PCBs I can tell you it's more like 4 times out of 5 is it OK to substitute LS logic with HCT. And maybe 1 time out of 5 can you use HC (without the T). Sucks when your electronic component supplier doesn't have the part you want... (these old boards have timings that are... fragile. De-glitching capacitors are the norm... put in a chip with marginally different timings, bam! Machine stops working or does weird stuff) Never heard of the iPDS-100, now I want one. With a Z80 and a 6502 pod if these exist (of course all the PROMmers you can get and the EPROM simulators). And I'll likely spend hours in that hex editor and EPROM simulator mode (although I do have a Centronics Printer Port EPROM simulator that I use a lot).

  • @SusanAmberBruce
    @SusanAmberBruce Місяць тому

    Another brilliant video, thank you, Dr Baker.

  • @alexandermirdzveli3200
    @alexandermirdzveli3200 Місяць тому

    I was hoping to see DIR running in foreground while the EPROM was being programmed, but oh well, the video was great fun anyway.

    • @smbakeryt
      @smbakeryt Місяць тому

      An opportunity missed! I'll have to see if I can shoot a video next weekend. What I'd really like to do is run Conway's game of life on one CPU while burning an EPROM... (but then I'll have to code it up)

  • @Dr_Mario2007
    @Dr_Mario2007 Місяць тому

    MRAM is also a decent option for those missing out on bubble memory technology - it functions similarly to bubble memory technology yet with magnetism to store data. I got a Zilog Z80 CPU to play with.

  • @ostrov11
    @ostrov11 Місяць тому

    ... спасибо, хорошая работа.

  • @DanafoxyVixen
    @DanafoxyVixen Місяць тому

    Very impressive! never heard of the iPDS-100 before, must have cost a lot back in the day XD

  • @IRVremy
    @IRVremy Місяць тому

    Ok I don't know about the rest of you but I would keep the fish

  • @trevorhamblett9467
    @trevorhamblett9467 Місяць тому

    Great video, I learnt 6502 machine code/assembly on one of these versatile robust machines back in 1981. I retrieved my AIM65 from storage to have play and have started to recreate your Display card which really makes the machine more usable.

  • @expectnothinbasic966
    @expectnothinbasic966 Місяць тому

    Thank you so much for this video. Cheers from Vegas 🍻

  • @followthetrawler
    @followthetrawler Місяць тому

    Wow - as well as being Convergent trained on Mini and Megaframes - I was also trained on servicing these - their networking capability was brilliant - RS422 multi-point if memory serves...

  • @followthetrawler
    @followthetrawler Місяць тому

    I was a Min and Megaframe service engineer back in the early 80's - did my training at Amersham in the UK. I loved those machines.

  • @daniellewis5302
    @daniellewis5302 Місяць тому

    @15:00 Something about that chime sound is just so pleasing. Speaking of thunderstorms, the voice sounds a lot like what you'd hear on 1990s weather channel broadcasts - for obvious reasons I'm sure.

  • @RaquelFoster
    @RaquelFoster Місяць тому

    It would make more sense if the Rockwell AIM-65 was some kind of anti-interceptor missile developed for the Rockwell B-1. Maybe if you type in the right numbers it can 3D print you one?

  • @michaelwessel4953
    @michaelwessel4953 Місяць тому

    Oh yeah, thinking of which - I still need a speech synth for my Microprofessor 😊 nice video, thanks for sharing. We certainly share a common Obsession when it comes to vintage speech synths 😂

  • @alexgayer85
    @alexgayer85 Місяць тому

    What a cool machine

  • @senilyDeluxe
    @senilyDeluxe 2 місяці тому

    Just a few years ago, I pulled one out of a public dumpster. I couldn't believe my eyes! And it works! It's got BASIC installed and there is a huge circuit board in its "basement" with 36k of RAM (18k battery backed 6116 and 18k non-battery backed 2114 and yes I know 18k is a weird number) as well as a few ROM chips. It didn't come with the cable that connects it to the AIM-65 though and I haven't dumped any of the ROMs yet or tested the RAM, I just removed the VARTA Destroyer Of Boards (TM) battery. (first thin I did was take it to a retrocomputing expo and wrote a small BASIC program that would scroll "LEGALIZE DUMPSTER DIVING" across its gorgeous bubble LED display - as in Germany, I'm pretty much a criminal stealing antique computers out of dumpsters)

  • @patrickantonio6306
    @patrickantonio6306 2 місяці тому

    There’s your like and fallow good man

  • @goofyrulez7914
    @goofyrulez7914 2 місяці тому

    I had one. It was fun to build but I got bored with it later. I did download the internal code and disassembled it, learning 6810 code in the process.

  • @8bitwiz_
    @8bitwiz_ 2 місяці тому

    I love that alphanumeric LED display.

  • @netdudeuk
    @netdudeuk 2 місяці тому

    Thanks Scott. Always love your videos. What do you use to compile for your 22V10s ? Thanks.

  • @EpsilonsReviews
    @EpsilonsReviews 2 місяці тому

    Oh man, I’d do anything to get to mess around in forth on that thing! Amazing stuff ❤

  • @rubencosta7697
    @rubencosta7697 2 місяці тому

    great video, thanks!

  • @miked4377
    @miked4377 2 місяці тому

    that computer is so nice....I love rare hardware..I have never seen this model....very nice.what year 78 79?

  • @MatsEngstrom
    @MatsEngstrom 2 місяці тому

    Cool. The AIM-65 was my second computer back in the day. I first got a KIM-1 in 77, then the AIM and finally an Apple ][ some years later. After that it was an IBM XT and the "exciting magic" feeling of computers went away and it all became a bit more boring.

  • @edgeeffect
    @edgeeffect 2 місяці тому

    : ACE 10 0 DO ." FORTH IS ACE" LOOP ;

  • @alexandermirdzveli3200
    @alexandermirdzveli3200 2 місяці тому

    Thank you for a marvelous trip!

  • @The.Doctor.Venkman
    @The.Doctor.Venkman 2 місяці тому

    I first saw this at college when I was 17 years old (1982) It was used to teach us 6502 machine code programming. This is so nostalgic - Thank you!

  • @alpcns
    @alpcns 2 місяці тому

    Brilliant stuff! Great video, thank you for sharing!

  • @esra_erimez
    @esra_erimez 2 місяці тому

    These machines were long before my time, but I love these videos.

  • @ostrov11
    @ostrov11 2 місяці тому

    This is a 6502-based computer from the late 1970s. This computer came with 4KB of RAM and 20KB of ROM, computer I have a soft I have a soft spot for 8-bit development spot for 8-bit development from the late 1970s. and had some kind of calculation program installed for what I computer from the late 1970s. think is a manufacturing company.computer from the late 1970s. It came in a nice