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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!
One of the first touchscreen smartphones. Released in the 2000 the Visorphone springboard module turned the Handspring Visorphone Deluxe PDA into a triband GSM smartphone. I used this for several years in the early 2000s.
I love these late 70´s early 80´s computer manuals
Look so good today!
Exploring Logo - Without Computer
Beyond Turtle graphics - Furter Explorations of Logo.
Here's the left half of the keyboard. Notice that some of the keys are starting to crack, probably from age. They are all intact and functional, however.
It also needs a really good cleaning.
One of the first touchscreen smartphones. Released in the 2000 the Visorphone springboard module turned the Handspring Visorphone Deluxe PDA into a triband GSM smartphone. I used this for several years in the early 2000s.
Screenshots from Wizball, running on a real Commodore 64 and a real TV. Written by Sensible Software and originally published by Ocean in 1987. It featured a notable soundtrack from Martin Galway. These shots are from The Hit Squad version of the game, Ocean's budget re-release label.
The venerable BBC Master Series computer fitted with a GoMMC unit. This stores massive amounts of software on an MMC card and then makes it available to the Beeb as a filing system.
presentazione dell'Osborne 4 (a sinistra) e dell'Osborne 1 (a destra) - Foto di Vittorio Giordano - www.cameraconvista.org
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.