QNX on the Commodore 900 – Raiders of the lost hard drive [video]
7 hours ago
- #hardware restoration
- #digital archaeology
- #retrocomputing
- A talk about restoring a Commodore 900, a rare 1984 budget Unix workstation that was cancelled after Commodore bought Amiga.
- The speaker acquired a prototype with a faulty power supply, monitor, keyboard, and hard drive showing a 0xFF error.
- Efforts to revive it involved disassembling the Z8000 BIOS, reverse-engineering the keyboard, and decoding the hard disk format.
- Successfully restored the machine and assisted two other Commodore 900 owners in making their units fully operational.
- Presentation given at a retrocomputing event, highlighting digital archaeology across continents.