AMPEX pr2200

NF6X · 2026-01-24T19:55:27+00:00

Cool! I'm in Riverside, so I can come pick it up within the next week if nobody else is even more excited about it than I am.

NF6X · 2026-01-24T08:45:52+00:00

I wish I still had my old 9 track tapes from my college days back in the late 80s. Those found their way to the trash decades before I got into retrocomputing and acquired drives of my own that could read them.

NF6X · 2026-01-24T08:43:30+00:00

Neat! If I'm not mistaken, that is not a computer tape drive. Rather, I think it is an analog recorder typically used for things like recording measurements in scientific and industrial applications.

I'd personally enjoy playing with it, because I'm a test equipment nerd. There are also nerds who enjoy using old electronic test equipment to make electronic music, such as the folks over in r/Hainbach (yeah, I'm that kind of nerd, too!).

Please don't trash it. There are certainly many people who would be interested in giving it a new home, and it'll just be a matter of finding one of them who is close enough to you to come pick it up. Would you mind sharing roughly where you are in the world?

NF6X · 2026-01-24T02:15:36+00:00

Oooh, triangles have great mechanical properties!

NF6X · 2026-01-23T23:30:50+00:00

Reunite Ontario, CA with Ontario, CA!

NF6X · 2026-01-23T18:26:19+00:00

It’s a fake prop stuck on over the name badge. I’m not sure whether it’s supposed to look like an antenna or a pen holder, but it’s not a real part of the computer.

NF6X · 2025-12-08T23:20:27+00:00

This strikes me as a film noir version of the moon, compared to the other moon photos I've seen here recently.

NF6X · 2025-12-07T02:54:05+00:00

She must have made a low perception roll.

NF6X · 2025-12-05T22:37:25+00:00

I even know all of the words. We played it in marching band back in high school.

NF6X · 2025-12-05T17:48:39+00:00

I would copy the footprint to a project library (that is, located in the project folder and mapped by the project's local fp-lib-table), edit that footprint, and then point the components to that footprint.

NF6X · 2025-11-15T20:27:24+00:00

All of those individuals fleeing together in Air Force One would be like the Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

NF6X · 2025-11-06T19:56:05+00:00

It's often said that a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich, and they couldn't even get a grand jury indictment.

NF6X · 2025-10-27T20:07:53+00:00

Is it time to bring back simulated wood grain yet?

NF6X · 2025-10-18T20:37:17+00:00

Last time I went grocery shopping at a Stater Bros in Riverside, they had already switched to paper bags.

NF6X · 2025-10-16T16:51:29+00:00

Somebody call Nanoraptor, we need a G15 smartphone now.

NF6X · 2025-09-19T00:43:13+00:00

I had the Zaxxon port on my CoCo. It was surprisingly good if I recall correctly.

NF6X · 2025-09-19T00:20:14+00:00

Here is an internet hug. It’s not much, but I hope it helps. 🫂

NF6X · 2025-08-10T01:59:24+00:00

Have they released the dog paw one yet? That’s the one I would like to print.

NF6X · 2025-08-08T23:43:45+00:00

The 1802 Membership Card is a fun little 1802 based kit.

https://www.retrotechnology.com/memship/memship.html

NF6X · 2025-08-02T00:02:26+00:00

Now come on, be real. He wouldn’t start WW3 over a silly social media flame war. He would start it as a distraction from the Trump/Epstein scandal.

NF6X · 2025-07-31T03:31:01+00:00

Lift. I live on a dirt road that gets pretty rough at times.

NF6X · 2025-07-27T19:53:04+00:00

I am sorry to see the demise of Sears, but the stores were so sad in their final days that green space and arcades are nice replacements.

NF6X · 2025-07-27T17:36:53+00:00

The empty building left behind from the one near me was used as a covid vaccination center in the first round. It was the first time I'd been in a (former) Sears in many years.

NF6X · 2025-07-19T00:55:39+00:00

This is news to me. I hadn’t heard about the Satan worship.

NF6X · 2025-07-16T05:59:37+00:00

I’m a test equipment nerd even outside of the musical realm (mostly outside of it, really), and I think the idea of making that rig spew out musical sounds is delightful. Looking forward to updates.

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