Looking for floppy disks meant pulling a bunch of things off shelves and in my house that meant a pile of retro tech. So I've dusted things off, taken some photos and written up posts. Those are queued for the next week or so but here's some extra bits and pieces for fun.
To start, my very first keyboard, a Yamaha Portasound PSS-170 I've had almost my whole life. These came out in 1986, there's a good chance my parents bought it on sale a few years later.
It's been heavily used by three feral children (myself and my sisters), dragged all around Australia for almost forty years, I even played it in at least one band. It has taken more abuse than just about any piece of technology I've seen and still works flawlessly. Beautiful.
Funnily enough, this keyboard does fit my retro home computing theme. It uses a cutdown version of the OPL2, the FM synthesis sound chip found in the Sound Blaster and Ad Lib sound cards.
Moving on, here's a weird calculator from 1977 with a VFD display. Its so chunky but I forgot to get a photo showing off how thick it is. Never found out much about this one, I just think it's pretty.
Last for now, a portable TV from the '80s that may be broken. Unfortunately there's no VHF or UHF broadcasts near me so I don't know it's faulty or there's just no signal to display. It scans but never stops. I originally got this to act as a mini screen for my Commodore 64 but haven't had any luck yet.
