A view across the keyboard of the Duo 230 to the keyboard of the Powerbook G4.

Home-made computer Top Trump-style cards from... oooh guess the year... this is pre-ZX Spectrum and the Apple /// should be a clue.

The only one of these I ever used was the PET, though I think my brother-in-law had a Nascom and I have vague recollections of someone having a UK101. I remember I really wanted an Acorn System 1 for some mad reason.

Old Machine interfaces found at The Black Hole, an amazing industrial surplus store.

Optimus-branded Pentium-class PC, 300 MHz, 128 MB RAM, Soundblaster sound card, DOS 6.22, Duke Nukem 3D + Philips monitor, PS/2 keyboard and mouse

Old Machine interfaces found at The Black Hole, an amazing industrial surplus store.

Fetch was one of the first outright awesome FTP clients for any platform, and Noah still had version 2.0 installed on the machine. Again, this was a good thing, since it was the way that I was able to get his files off of the machine, and able to get a secure deletion utility *onto* the machine to get rid of any trace of his files.

Goodbye, Netscape.

Macintosh IIsi (M0360) with Macintosh Color Display (M1212), AppleDesign Keyboard (M2980) and MacAlly mouse.

Old Machine interfaces found at The Black Hole, an amazing industrial surplus store.

Why document all this?

Because it's about to change. Everything. Stay tuned for updates, I'm comin' into the 21st century with my editing rig!

Old Machine interfaces found at The Black Hole, an amazing industrial surplus store.

My brother's Kim-1, the first computer I ever used.

retro.hansotten.nl/6502-sbc/kim-1-manuals-and-software/th...

Sign on C-Dek reads, "They laughed when I sat down at the computer"; Sign beside Machine reads, "Automated charging station. Summer school students having new student [text on additional white paper indiscernible] punched cards at manual station. Other borrowers without new library cards charge all books at manual charging station."

This is a digital rendition of a 35mm transparency scanned with an Epson Perfection 4490 Photo scanner. Some colour restoration has been applied.

Micro-ordinateur SINCLAIR ZX81 construit par un amateur, avec extension 16Ko.

I really should have written down what some of these things are called.

Ms dos, omg why?!?!

This was right before Christmas as there's the Christmas tree to the right in the picture. Char had about 6 more weeks to go before she delivered her son, Jordan.

La informática en el año 1981...

Más información en es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_ZX81

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Micro-ordinateur SINCLAIR ZX81(RAM : 1 Ko ROM : 8 Ko) avec interrupteur Marche/Arrêt et connecteur pour circuit imprimé (Buzzer).