Bell and Howell Restoration
After 13 months, you can finally see the Bell and Howell get some love.
Comments (17)
Really enjoyed that one :-)
I had forgotten about this model, but recalled there were a bunch of clones of the Apple II. I checked the book Sophistication & Simplicity and it does dedicate a couple pages to the Bell & Howell version.
Very nice work David.
Wow... what a great job you did... a beautiful machine still deserving much love. Never had the chance to obtain one.. perhaps sometime...
Very nice, getting so much out of it despite being a badly abused unit! As for the scratches on the keys: I saw Techmoan use Brasso for getting scratches out of plastic (IIRC, that was in the Dolby S video). Another option might be toothpaste.
Another sorry old machine saved :) also for scraping, I can recommend picking up a few Lego separators. Those things are really handy for scraping gunk and prying cases apart.
I forgot to acknowledge the Bender line from "The Deep South" episode of <i>Futurama</i>.
Nice catch! I wondered how many would catch that!
Great job on the restoration. I also have the Apple II version of Karateka.
Awesome job! Using the resin like that as a really great way to fix that ugly hole. I'll have to keep that in mind for the future!
Really glad to see you reaching out to other domain experts to complete the restoration. The hole filling process was fascinating.
Great video, Just wondering if you got the memory expansion board working with this system?
I actually found out it is just a RAM drive.. not really a memory expansion.
Great video.. amazing job with the lid.. was wondering how you would solve that. Did the bell and Howell version have it's own monitor like the disk drives.. and noticed under one of the keys had a shortcut for "Bell" in the video. What was that used for?
If you press control-G it will just make a beep. The "bell" was common on dumb terminals for control-G.
Great work. Awesome idea with the Smooth-On. You can get the stuff here in case anyone is wondering. <a href="https://www.smooth-on.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.smooth-on.com</a>
Keep up the good work dude! Always looking forward to your stuff on Mondays.