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Vintage graphics I made in 1997 for a version of the 'El Diablero' Adventure Game.
Screen Text:
'I AM IN A CANYON, WITH SHEER CLIFFS ON THREE SIDES. THERE IS A STRANGE INSCRIPTION HERE.
I SEE:
NOTHING
OBVIOUS EXITS ARE:
WEST.
WHAT DO I DO NOW?'
The Original game was based on the Castenada books and was written for the Dragon 32 by Ken Kallsh and is available online to play using a Dragon32/64 emulator.
Vintage graphics I made in 1997 for a version of the 'El Diablero' Adventure Game.
Screen Text:
'I AM IN THE DESERT. THERE IS A LARGE SLAB OF ROCK NEARBY.
I SEE:
NOTHING.
OBVIOUS EXITS ARE:
WEST, NORTH,EAST SOUTH.
WHAT DO I DO NOW? GO ROCK
I AM ON A LARGE, FLAT ROCK. IT SOMEHOW SEEMS PLEASANT HERE. THIS PLACE SEEMS FAMILIAR.
I SEE:
NOTHING.
OBVIOUS EXITS ARE:
WEST, NORTH, EAST.
WHAT DO I DO NOW? GAZE ROCK
IT HAS A BLUISH GLOW!'
The Original game was based on the Castenada books and was written for the Dragon 32 by Ken Kallsh and is available online to play using a Dragon32/64 emulator.
Most of these racks interfacing the old instruments and the old control computer can go too. Most of them are still powered on but doing absolutely nothing because of aiieeeee! The tentacles!
The Dura 1041 is a Selectric typewriter with paper tape reader and punch. The table it sits on contains spools for the input and output tapes. As I clean it up I'll update 45baud.net/Dura_1041
A mid-90s PC with Pentium 200, 32MB RAM, Windows 95, Highscreen keyboard, Genius mouse, Philips monitor, and no-name IBM-compatible joystick.
The MessagePad was the first series of personal digital assistant devices developed by Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) for the Newton platform in 1993. Some electronic engineering and the manufacture of Apple's MessagePad devices was done in Japan by the Sharp Corporation. The devices were based on the ARM 610 RISC processor and all featured handwriting recognition software and were developed and marketed by Apple. The devices ran the Newton OS.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MessagePad
Retrocomputing (a portmanteau of retro and computing) is the use of early computer hardware and software today. Retrocomputing is usually classed as a hobby and recreation rather than a practical application of technology; enthusiasts often collect rare and valuable hardware and software for sentimental reasons. However some do make use of it.[1] Retrocomputing often gets its start when a computer user realizes that expensive fantasy systems like IBM Mainframes, DEC Superminis, SGI workstations and Cray Supercomputers have become affordable on the used computer market, usually in a relatively short time after the computers' era of use.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrocomputing
Con il termine retrocomputing si indica una attività di "archeologia informatica" che consiste nel reperire, specialmente a costi minimi, computer di vecchie generazioni, che hanno rappresentato fasi importanti dell'evoluzione tecnologica, ripararli se sono danneggiati, metterli nuovamente in funzione e preservarli.
The CP-200S was the second-generation Sinclair ZX-81-compatible computer made by Brazilian company Prológica
The internals of my Atari Stacy, the first portable computer from Atari. Made in 1989.
The hard disk was broken, the bearings seems to have broke because there was some kind of sticky fluid leaking out of the hard drive. I bought a unused IBM-drive from Ebay, unfortunately it was half height and thus didn't quite fit inside the Stacy so I had to remove the floppy, and the Stacy wouldn't detect it (it worked with my TT). So I ended up mounting the old one again, but without the power connected and replaced the floppy drive, which was broken.
This is an open sourced replia of the Schickard calcuating machine from ca. 1621. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Schickard and github.com/jnweiger/Schickard for details.
Typewriter as I/O interface, the TTL based computer is in the box on the left. www.horniger.de/computer/ta/index.html
The Nixdorf 820 family had a unique core memory, which acted as ROM and was quite simple to produce. The picture shows a device for threading those memorys. Only the lit green cores needs to get wired. The system was controlled by a punch tape. There is only a German entry in Wikipedia to the system: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixdorf_System_820
Each cube representing one pixel in one of four different colors. The cubes and can turn around in both directions (left turn, right turn). Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin is currently working on bringing a 4x as big wall up and running and plan to integrate this wall in their permanent exhibition (sdtb.de/).
16bit personal computer, based on a K1810WM86 CPU, which was the Russian clone of an Intel 8086: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_7100 (German only).