Most PCs tend to boot from a primary media storage, be it a hard disk drive, or a solid-state drive, perhaps from a network, or – if all else fails – the USB stick or the boot DVD comes to the rescue… Fun, eh? Boring! Why don’t we try to boot from a record player for a change?… [more]
Description: A portable full-track tape recorder.
Manufacturer: Kudelski SA
Made in year(s): 1958-1968
Country of origin: Switzerland
Status: Working… [more]
The infamous PC junior celebrates 40 years since its day of announcement, and for this “special occasion” I have decided to make a short re-visit to one of the experiments I did 3 years ago: booting from a vinyl record utilizing the cassette tape interface… [more]
Description: Single speed, 4-track stereo tape recorder.
Manufacturer: TESLA Pardubice
Made in year(s): 1980-1983
Country of origin: Czechoslovakia
Status: Working, in good condition… [more]
Description: Two speed, 4-track “Hi-Fi” tape recorder.
Manufacturer: TESLA Přelouč
Made in year(s): 1982-1986
Country of origin: Czechoslovakia
Status: Working, in good condition… [more]
Description: Two speed, 4-track mono tape recorder.
Manufacturer: TESLA Pardubice
Made in year(s): 1973-1976
Country of origin: Czechoslovakia
Status: Got rid of it… [more]
Description: An 8080-based 8-bit computer.
Manufacturer: TESLA Piešťany (later TESLA Bratislava)
Made in year(s): 1983-1989
Country of origin: Czechoslovakia
Status: Working… [more]