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AT&T 3B2/310 (upgraded 300), with 4425 terminal as console, and a 5620 "Blit" terminal running 'layers' on another tty.
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).
Reading a collection of ROMs for the 6800 based Altair 8800 computer with my PROMdate tool. trmm.net/PROMdate
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.
My home made Covox Speech Thing Digital-to-Analog LPT (parallel port) stereo sound card. Fairly easy to build. The sound is not perfect but it plays stereo, 44kHz!
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.
This was, surprisingly, seems to be a II Plus rather than a Europlus. Previous I'd only seen the Europlus over here, so naturally I grabbed it.