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What Is Real Today, and What Is Still a Concept?

A project log for RetroBridge: Five Computers, One Time Machine

A Raspberry Pi 5 time machine recreating five landmark personal computers from 1976–1982 in one 3.5-inch touchscreen appliance.

john-chirilloJohn Chirillo • 5 hours ago•0 Comments

I want to be very clear about one part of RetroBridge because the enclosure concept images are polished enough to look like finished hardware.

The core RetroBridge appliance is real and working.

The custom beige retro enclosure is still a design concept.

Validated today

The current RetroBridge V1.1 appliance has been physically built and tested with:

The real project photographs in this page show that working appliance.

Still a concept

The period-inspired beige enclosure is the direction I want the physical design to take next.

The concept includes:

But I have not yet published STL or STEP files.

I do not want to call an enclosure printable until the following have been physically validated:

So the current status is simple:

The RetroBridge appliance is real.

The custom retro enclosure is the next mechanical-design phase.

Once the enclosure has been modeled, printed, assembled, and tested on the actual hardware, I plan to publish those files as a separate validated part of the project.

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