Tom's Tech Blog

Category: Status Updates

  • Happy 2025!

    This year I plan on rolling out more posts and videos. Some of the projects in the works are breaking out my TI-99/4A, an IBM RISC 6000, an HP 9000 / Alpha series, and showcasing some handy SCSI2SD interfaces that work great on vintage Apple and servers. Also, I have some Sun workstations that are collecting dust.

    Also, I have several small electronics projects – a small Altair 8800 that needs to be showcased, a Ben Eater inspired 6502 board by Dawid Buchwald, a Zeus 8-bit computer with VGA, various RC-2014 Z80 project boards, a very broken C64 board. An IMSAI computer kit is also on the list somewhere there. There are lots of things we can work on together!

    Wishing you a prosperous 2025 to you and yours!

    Tom Pipes

  • Vintage Computers

    It’s like I can’t get enough vintage computer! My old buddy from High School and I have awoken a monster. It started with Vintage Commodore Computers, Apple Computers, old iMacs, and has grown into old PC’s. The desire to relive the old days is as powerful as ever. With this comes a huge assortment of new electronics to help the old tech working. Serial Wifi232 modules, IDE-CF modules, SCSI-CF, IDE-USB, Gotek’s, Floppy interfaces and data acquisition tools, and other fun items. Then comes the breakig out of the old ISA and PCI cards and rediscovering them and their fun configurations with PnP vs jumpers.

    Then there’s software. Old OS’s, Hardware drivers, old software. Games, running BBSs! Yes that’s a thing!

    Does it ever end? Do I ever want it to end? Probably not. My friend says we’re “Purchasing our past one piece at at time!”.

    What do you think? Do you suffer from the same syndrome?

  • Hello world!

    This is my page for all things tech. It’s here to be a resource for yours and my enjoyment. Check back periodically for updates as this will be a work in progress.