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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.

Always keep your toothbrush nearby!

Yay! ELF successfully linked to a (slightly) younger HP

presentazione dell'Osborne 4 (a sinistra) e dell'Osborne 1 (a destra) - Foto di Vittorio Giordano - www.cameraconvista.org

NCR Tower 32-650 system - Freaknet Museum - museum.dyne.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.

 

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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.

 

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Vintage Computer Festival East, May 19 2018, Wall, New Jersey

Apple II Convention, Bribie Island Queensland

LCD watch soldering project

NASA Computers at work during the 1950s.

The UNIX Hater's Club: Symbolics Machines - Ian, Tom, and Josh's VCF PNW booth

Vintage Computer Festival East, May 19 2018, Wall, New Jersey

My computer is bipolar and its diodes hurt. www.spielepower.de

This advert for Martech Games was printed in Personal Computer News Issue 30 in 1983. Headline game is Harrier Attack on the Oric-1 and ZX Spectrum. Also listed are Starfighter (Oric-1), Blastermind (ZX Spectrum) and The Quest of Merravid (VIC-20 and CBM-64). Some of these games, such as Harrier Attack, were actually written (and published) by Durell Software. I assume there was some sort of publishing agreement between the two.

living history

Olivetti Programma 101 and P203

Action Replay MK III - Amiga 500, 1991

Вектор-06ц: 256 цветов

A Friden Flexowriter I recently picked up for $50. I indent to restore it.

That's, where /dev/tty comes from.

Macintosh IIsi (M0360) with Macintosh Color Display (M1212), AppleDesign Keyboard (M2980) and MacAlly mouse. Installed System 7.1.

Cover of Personal Computer News, Volume 1, Issue 30, September 29th - October 5th 1983.

Rear of the Schneider Euro PC showing the ports.

Cleaning and wheeling out the interdata

I love the power bus on this thing. The keyboard also connects through this bus. You might mistakenly assume that it is electronic, but in fact there is only one circuit board in the entire thing, made up of discreet components. It is mostly mechanical.

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!

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKb1F-ApK3s

There is a sheet of glass glued to the front of the CRT; this glue has deteriorated over time causing the bubbled, mould-like 'screen rot' effect seen here. The only solution is to painstakingly remove the glue (and thereby the glass sheet, leaving the CRT face bare).

This device is able to not only work with numbers, but also with units. It's based on RPN: rechentechnik.foerderverein-tsd.de/qpc10/index.html (German only).

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