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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 06
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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 06

by Mark Frauenfelder
May 2006
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
6h 55m
English
Make: Community
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RETROCOMPUTING Old Hardware: Anything but GarbageBy Tom Owad

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Laser printers and photocopiers are full of especially interesting mechanical parts, with myriad gears and a variety of sensors and electromechanical components.

When my Laserwriter 12/640 PS tragically passed away, I ended up with drawers full of useful and fascinating components.

Photograph by Tom Owad

Old computers vary greatly in their desirability. A handful of systems are in great demand. No Altair 8800 or DEC PDP-8 is going into the trash, but more common computers, especially ones that were popular in schools, are still headed for the dump by the truckload. What’s to happen to ...

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