The first try on my new scanner

[hunter]

1. How did you make it work?

I'm a hardware guy. Back in the early 'eighties I turned an LX80 Epson printer into a scanner. And I've recreated original IBM PCs and "Fat" Macs I've found in the trash as "modern" computers.

No longer. For more than a decade now I've managed to leave alone most of the important "antique machines" in my garage because I know certain people would be utterly appalled if I gutted them and gave them more powerful Raspberry Pi brains.

My remaining Ataris, Apples, Amigas, and PCs are period perfect. I only mess with their emulated clones on my current desktop.

I also like to think I've written enough that someone might emulate me someday. Maybe my current self is an emulation. Who knows?

My film cameras are all true to their heritage too. I develop film myself.

The camera I was dreaming of in high school I bought years later in a thrift store for $16. Occasionally I find great lenses for it too.

I always get a buzz when I find archaic technology for cheap.