Loreley: Linux boot on YouTube

2026-05-24

New YouTube Short: Linux booting on the Loreley 68030 single-board computer.

USB HID Phone: hardware basics on YouTube

2026-05-14

New video on YouTube: basics of the USB HID Phone hardware, with a calculator demo on the command line.

Retro Computer Stammtisch, Munich

2026-05-10

Afternoon at the Retro Computer Stammtisch in Munich: old machines, good company, and a flea-market TI-92 Plus to hack.

VCF Europe 2026 in Munich

2026-05-02

VCF Europe 2026 in Munich: Some retro stories, and an Apple Lisa snapshot. Still running on May, 3rd: https://www.vcfe.org/D/

Loreley schematics and PCB layout published

2026-04-17

The Loreley schematics and PCB layout are now published.

Established

2026-04-12

This website was established on 12 April 2026.

USB HID Phone - A FeTAp 611 rotary dial as a USB keypad

A FeTAp 611 rotary-dial telephone turned into a standard USB HID keypad - driven by a PIC18F2550 and a tiny four-state pulse-counting FSM. No additional host-side driver, just plug it in and dial.

VB68k

A minimalistic 68000 board with 256 kBytes of ROM and 16 kBytes of RAM.

Loreley : A minimal 68030 SBC running Linux

A minimal 68030 SBC running Linux.