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Building a Galaksija

Note: this is the first part of three articles about my experience building a 1980s Yugoslav 8-bit computer called the Galaksija. This part is mostly focused on the technical aspects of building this computer. Part II will focus on the history and the cultural impact of this machine. A BCS version of this article was published on RetroInfo. It is largely based on my sprawling Twitter thread about the Galaksija.Read More

Part II will focus on the history and the cultural impact of this machine.A BCS version of this article was published on RetroInfo.It is largely based on my sprawling Twitter thread about the Galaksija. Luckily, in 2020 it’s fairly easy and cheap to order a PCB online, and thanks to the great gerber files hosted on spetsialist-mx.ru “Russian Galaksija website”, there was no need to convert the old magazine scan. I combined the logos of MIPRO, Elektronika inženjering and Zavod za udžbenike i nastavna sredstva, the three companies involved in Galaksija production, and printed it on hard paper as a label.

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