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Retro Electronix LTD.

Brooklyn-based vintage synthesizer and computer restoration, repair and customization
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04/12/2026

The only true way to sync your iPod, workarounds are just not cool enough 😎
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03/22/2026

Last night’s trash find!
I always wanted a “Darth Vader” Macbook 🥹

Macbook 2008, Core2Duo 2.4, already put in a fresh new hard drive and expanded it to 4GB RAM, ready to install Lion.

A little bit banged up with some plastic chipping (as it is common with these models) but all round in pretty good condition
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11/28/2025

heredé algo bastante interesante hoy … 😏

got a bit of an interesting inheritance today … 😏

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11/23/2025

Me pongo las pilas para poner contenido de mi viaje a Japón de Julio. (Gringos hit “translate” for 🇬🇧🤨)

Acá un paseo por un Hard Off en Tokyo que quizá muchos que visiten Japón van a poder acceder, siendo que está muy bien ubicado. A pesar de no ser el mejor a nivel precios, por encontrarse en el medio de la ciudad, no está nada mal, especialmente en diversidad de cosas que se puede encontrar ahí. Les hago una pasada rápida como para tener una idea.

Encontralo en Google Maps así:
📍 Hard Off & Hobby Off Ueno Okachimachi Store ハードオフ・ホビーオフ上野御徒町店
📍〒110-0005 東京都台東区上野４丁目６−6
Al toque de la estación Okachimachi de la línea Yamanote.

08/22/2025

It’s about time I start posting some stuff from my recent trip to Japan. I’ve been a bit social media averse since I returned but let’s turn that around a bit.

Random tech/game related photos here but soon I’ll post about the stuff I crawled through, found and bought over there. Stay tuned.
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06/12/2025

Today’s street finds!
Love this era of computing, the late 90s and early 2Ks

shouts to who would probably enjoy these 1995 and 1997 Mac User mags 🫡
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06/10/2025

24 years ago today, I was at .ar 2k1. Great memories!
Here’s s a pic of me talking to the legend Ana María, an old lady who absolutely loved digital art and would attend every FP back then and talk with everyone, some random party shots and a pic of the Mindprobe liveset (gotta live a big ass CRT on stage 😂).

Not sure who took these pics but it wasn’t me, so credit to them.
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05/30/2025

A companion for my Gateway PII-450!
Rescued this Gateway PIII-550 machine in my neighborhood, after a lot of TLC and ten attempts at a Windows installation, it’s up and running right next to its sibling.

Swipe to see restoration process pics!
Specs:
- Pentium III @ 550Mhz
- 128MB RAM
- 16GB CompactFlash on the IDE board
- Nvidia Riva TNT2 M64 16MB (malfunctioning, replaced by another one with double RAM)
- Soundblaster Live! 5.1
- Ultra ATA100 card (removed because i can’t find drivers that work)
- 56k modem card
- Replaced poopy DVD-ROM with working 52x CD-RW drive
- 3 1/2” floppy drive
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04/29/2025

I’m a proud “cyber ciruja”, so I pick up s**t from the streets often. When a box of computer books from the late 90s crosses my path, I have to rummage through that s**t!

I grabbed two books from this pile, the second one had a CD-ROM still attached to it which I can happily report was undamaged and is now available for everyone at the Internet Archive. You can find my uploads in the link in my bio, I have a lot of stuff to upload but haven’t yet found the time. Eventually I’ll archive it all.
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03/07/2025

New acquisition: Suncom iController (PC serial version)

if you haven’t figured it out already, I am a bit of an input device fanatic 😅 I wanted one of these since I first caught glimpse of the C64 version in an ad in Compute!’s Gazzette, back in the late 80s.

I literally had been eyeing this particular unit on eBay for years, until it went down to a reasonable price. I am glad to report that it works although the driver disk wasn’t as lucky. Not only the spindle had detached from the media, after fixing it with some delicate double sided tape work (stick glue wouldn’t work), it turned out the disk was full of errors I was unable to get rid of even after several cleaning sessions 😔 bit of a shame since it seems this disk is nowhere to be seen online and I was really looking forward to archiving it.

The device itself isn’t bad, and it’s marginally better than using my Libretto’s built-in navpoint. This is a great addition to my weird Suncom collection.
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