Hello,

A few months back, Bill Talanian handed over his Lobo Max 80 computer to me, knowing that I was a bit of a vintage computer fan. I had never heard of the company that sold these computers from their Fairview Ave office in the early 80s and when I tried to turn the computer on, I didn’t get much more than a rolling screen.

I sent the computer up to Adrian Black in Portland, OR who runs a YouTube channel called Adrian’s Digital Basement with more than 250,000 subscribers. Adrian has diagnosed and fixed hundreds of vintage machines over the years but he hadn’t seen a Lobo Max 80 either.

Well it turns out that this hometown microcomputer is quite capable and not only did Adrian get it working but we also managed to write some modern software for it as well as an emulator to play around with it on a modern machine!

Here is part one of Adrian’s video on Bill’s Lobo Max 80. There is sure to be at least one more upcoming episode to finish the story!

https://youtu.be/mzohxCT8kEo?si=ldSIWfs7vIK9NBYq