Lost Computer Tales @computertales
Forgotten tales about old computers Joined April 2017-
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Remembering UCSD p-System, the Pascal Virtual Machine hackaday.com/2025/04/21/rem…
Me playing it 25 years ago
Me playing it 25 years ago https://t.co/iFDcwzQkkM
Walkmac, prototype (1986) This is one of the few preserved and operating prototypes of a Mac portable computer in the world, built by Colby Systems. They had a modular structure, a removable floppy disk drive and an HDD, which were all placed in special metal cassettes.
Apple Network Server 500.
Save it! Reasons: 1. One of the first ARM devices for the general public; 2. The last British (European) computer with true historical significance; 3. One of the most elegant home computers in existence; 4. The last British (European) home computer that is not a PC clone.
Save it! Reasons: 1. One of the first ARM devices for the general public; 2. The last British (European) computer with true historical significance; 3. One of the most elegant home computers in existence; 4. The last British (European) home computer that is not a PC clone.
Oscar Peterson using a Synclavier II digital synthesizer with a DEC VT100 terminal and a VT640 Retro-Graphics expansion. youtu.be/FI-4HNQg1JI?t=… #retrocomputing #rchvid
Feeling pretty smug walking past all those luddites on the streets, rocking the absolute latest in portable computer technology.
Contender to the title of the most elegant computer ever made
Where Did the Japanese Computers Go? hackaday.com/2024/09/22/whe…
There’s No Lower Spec Linux Machine Than This One hackaday.com/2024/09/21/the…
The GUI was invented by Xerox PARC in the 1970s, right? Or was there a GUI earlier than that...? Al Williams makes the case for Volscan as an early example of a graphical user interface. hackaday.com/2023/03/09/the…
#Volunteering at #TNMOC isn't all about hands-on #Engineering 🔧 #Volunteer Jerry has been studying a #Soviet #Computer called the "KIEV" and writing an emulator (IMG 1)! This runs a program (IMG 2) which squares numbers and derives the square roots of the results.
The First Mass Produced DRAM of the Soviet Union hackaday.com/2024/08/21/the…
@computertales We recently released a 20-minute #documentary about the life of Lee Felsenstein, available on YouTube. We called it "the Daydreamer" youtu.be/IU7BfeXaeuE?si…
Most people just don’t care about preservation, and I occasionally run across people that are actually hostile to it, but I have always been aligned with the Internet Archive’s motto: Save Everything.
Most people just don’t care about preservation, and I occasionally run across people that are actually hostile to it, but I have always been aligned with the Internet Archive’s motto: Save Everything.
Intel's Pentium processor (1993) was a big jump in processor performance, starting a brand that lasted until 2023. But what's inside the Pentium chip? How did Intel organize its 3.3 million transistors? Let's take a look inside and see the chip's "standard cells". 1/21

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Computing History @computermuseum
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