Today’s #RetroTech

Shyvers Multiphone 1939

World First Streaming Service. At its peak over 8,000 units were installed

Unit connected to Dedicated Phone Line
Drop coin & connect to female DJs
They pick & play your request, from 78, down the phone

Based in Seattle. Service ceased about 1959, when Jukeboxes started to offer 100 plus Selections

@obsoletemediauk

Today’s #RetroTech

Shyvers Multiphone 1939

World First Streaming Service. At its peak over 8,000 units were installed

Unit connected to Dedicated Phone Line
Drop coin & connect to female DJs
They pick & play your request, from 78, down the phone

Based in Seattle. Service ceased about 1959, when Jukeboxes started to offer 100 plus Selections

@obsoletemediauk

So you replace a fuse with an iron nail, which causes a transistor to run so hot it burns a hole in the PCB. So what do you do? Apparently some fine repair tech came to this problem and the apparent solution was to jumper over the now totally burned traces and then add wires and hang the now missing transistor from those. Because why not?

This is a WhiteStar pinball platform driver board I got for spares long ago, but I think it's glorious in all of its tech goreness.

#pinball #arcade #electronics #techgore #retrotech

So you replace a fuse with an iron nail, which causes a transistor to run so hot it burns a hole in the PCB. So what do you do? Apparently some fine repair tech came to this problem and the apparent solution was to jumper over the now totally burned traces and then add wires and hang the now missing transistor from those. Because why not?

This is a WhiteStar pinball platform driver board I got for spares long ago, but I think it's glorious in all of its tech goreness.

#pinball #arcade #electronics #techgore #retrotech

Working on a sequenced music engine for the Sega Saturn. Got it playing back both PCM samples and 4-op FM patches!

(the screen is turned off in OBS b/c my laptop really struggles and the music timing gets a bit screwey)

#retro #retrogamedev #retrotech #SEGASaturn #homebrewgames #gamedev #chiptune

Working on a sequenced music engine for the Sega Saturn. Got it playing back both PCM samples and 4-op FM patches!

(the screen is turned off in OBS b/c my laptop really struggles and the music timing gets a bit screwey)

#retro #retrogamedev #retrotech #SEGASaturn #homebrewgames #gamedev #chiptune

Dreaming of getting my hands on a Lenovo ThinkPad X201 tablet someday! Imagine the possibilities with a clean install of Slackware. That legendary keyboard and robust build would be perfect for a lightweight and customizable Linux experience. Anyone in Brazil 🇧🇷 know where to find these gems? Let's make it happen! 🤩
#ThinkPad #Lenovo #Slackware #LinuxDreams #RetroTech