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Image 1 — I believe this is a Chinese version of the Kyotronic 85 (TRS80 Model 100)
Image 2 — I believe this is a Chinese version of the Kyotronic 85 (TRS80 Model 100)
▲ 47 r/ChineseRetroComputers+1 crossposts

I believe this is a Chinese version of the Kyotronic 85 (TRS80 Model 100)

This although baring the famous name, I’m unsure of its originality. (Or officality, it may be a Chinese clone with the same name.) why I’m suspicious of it is its back says translated “Beijing Computer Company” and that is not the original production place of the Japanese Kyotronic 85.

u/Parking_Constant_960 — 4 days ago

Planning to become a gun owner in the future, but I live in Seattle (oof)

As some online researching did, I learned that in Washington state our gun laws are pretty much decimated. Due to me not being at the age to get a gun license yet I think I would want to talk to some real gun owners about things to know, and what sorta bad stuff is gonna happen since I’m at Seattle. Also I made a discovery that technically, I’m pretty sure a California complaint AK47, is illegal in Washington due to it having a stock+pistol grip and a pretty long barrel.

Which sucks.
(Before this I was mostly a GBB person.)

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u/Parking_Constant_960 — 7 days ago

My E-Waste camcorder

I picked this up a year or two ago. I never got a battery for it. It takes SVHS and I really like it. What should I do with it?

u/Parking_Constant_960 — 8 days ago

Japanese all in ones are really interesting… too bad this one is a bit busted.

I received this today and I hooked it to an external monitor to test everything else works, which they do! Except the GPU. I think something may be wrong…

Have any of you got any ideas?

u/Parking_Constant_960 — 9 days ago

Hello fellow Thinkpad owners, I want to ask: why do many shame the SL series? Is there a reason?

I personally own a SL410 and it’s a great machine in my opinion although obviously cut corners comparing to my other thinkpads. Of course I am running XP on it vs any other OS…

Also personally I think the keyboard is nice. Perhaps I am just lucky?

u/Parking_Constant_960 — 9 days ago
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Early Chinese Home Computers

The CEC series and PZ series were early home computers that were locally produced in China. Most of these machines were BASIC machines and competed with Laser 310s (more high quality Hong Kong made machines) and other imported Japanese and American machines that were rarer.

Sources: Googleing, 闲鱼

u/Parking_Constant_960 — 10 days ago

SDHS (山东高速) special made HP computer with custom boot screen!

This is a very nice piece of Chinese computer history. It is a wiped SDHS laptop that was in circulation in that company. These are almost impossible to find inside of China let alone outside.

u/Parking_Constant_960 — 11 days ago
▲ 151 r/thinkpad

Think different? Think IBM.

My collection of IBM thinkpads. Most of these are special Chinese versions that were made in Japan or other surrounding places then shipped in. Models:

X41T (tablet) running XP tablet version.

A30 running Windows XP pro bootleg (CHAN bootleg)

R51 running clean Windows XP IBM oem version

R52 running clean windows XP Chinese pro

R40: dead

T40 running Windows XP home Chinese version

“T60” 560X, was windows XP heavy customization before hdd death.

u/Parking_Constant_960 — 12 days ago

Newest thinkpads! Fresh from the e waste center, a R52 and T40. Both work but the R52 has some lcd backlight issues. Any ideas?

The R52 has an extremely dim display and is bright for a split second when booted up at the start.

u/Parking_Constant_960 — 13 days ago
▲ 45 r/crt

Alright guys. So after hammering the customer support for Goodwill CRTs about their other units they once had for sale, they started selling their other units.

So if nobody remembered, these are “new” “goodwill” crt s made for cctv purposes and recently I posted about this. Now, something changed, they released newer and more interesting products that are crt based. Cool. They also have the same shitty photoshopping in the adverts.

u/Parking_Constant_960 — 13 days ago

The spiciest battery that, ironically, hasn’t become a spicy pillow :(

This is a “little spice” iPhone clone thing that has a battery themed around spice. This thing is terrible but very funny.

u/Parking_Constant_960 — 13 days ago

Just a few of my new ewaste find CPUs. Most of them are old enough to be in this subreddit.

So there’s a slot 1 pentium II (they also had a slot 1 pentium iii as well), a normal ceramic pentium, a Cyrix MII gold plate ceramic cpu, a laptop intel i7 processor and a barely eligible for this subreddit, i7.

u/Parking_Constant_960 — 14 days ago

My extremely reliable Dell Latitude D600. I need fixing advice.

The screen has this blue tint and occasionally it blue screens with the shown errors, making me feel something is wrong with the RAM. Besides that it is very clean and works great. I’m hopeful that the blue scale of the lcd isn’t a GPU close to death indicator.

u/Parking_Constant_960 — 14 days ago

I picked up this Dell Latitude D600 for free and though it has problems I like the wallpaper.

So I’m posting this here since I think people would like this. Then imma ask other subs for help on fixing this thing.

u/Parking_Constant_960 — 14 days ago

The Chinese CEC-1 Educative home computer with a Microsoft BASIC compatible system.

This is among the earliest mainland Chinese local affordable home computers and paved the way for the development of the famiclone education computer environment in the following years.

It was meant to link up to a tv a most home computers were and directly competed with Hong Kong Laser 310s Laser 200s and Taiwanese Apple II clones.

u/Parking_Constant_960 — 14 days ago