Ikea Kallax is a great shelf for displaying an 80's VEF phones. I think I'll also add an ATA to this so all the phones would be usable.

VEF TA-611D. This is a special phone. In a bad way. You might have seen similar phones in my posts before, but this is a late model and it shows post-soviet manufacturers inability to adapt to the changing demand after the collapse of the USSR.

Firat time using a micrograbbers to debug my firmware. Cool stuff.

I sorted some stuff in my lair, tested if my computers still work and some visitors came to help with testing. :D

I'm thinking abiut designing an adapter for connecting a teleprinter to the modern computer. I know it has been done before, but it might be the motivation for me to learn something new. Recently I bought this AVR64DU32 board and I'm slowly working on the simplest code for it.

Got some good stuff from the technotrash! An LSI-11 compatible controller cards - HPIB, floppy drive, horifying serial port and some mysterious board with connectors and resistor arrays.

I started this thread on X, but will continue it here too. My restoration project now is the RFT F1100 teleprinter, made in east Germany somewhere in 80's.

Socks is angry.
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Funny ringtone of a VEF TA-D phone made in 1991.

Vivisection of a caller-id phone.

Today I stopped by a fellow enthuaiast and helped him to fix his Facit 4431 terminal video issues. That's a nice, silent terminal with green screen.

Heyoooo, this is me, a retro electronics dude from eastern Europe, Latvia. Data center technician by day, technomancer by night. For now my content will be identical here and on X.