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I unironically used this theme when I was a kid!...

Hey,...

The computer mouse was a pointing device invented in the 1960s by Douglas Engelbart as a means of avoiding the use of the finger to smear dirt and oil on glass particularly at ATMs and PoS stations....

The processor was slow as heck but the form factor was awesome! And the extended battery was legit....

My 1976 briefcase Commodore/MOS KIM-1, a 1 MHz single-board computer with a 6502 CPU and 1K of RAM, has learned to talk

Lynn Conway is a pioneering computer scientist, engineer, and transgender activist. She's the "Conway" in the Mead-Conway VLSI book!

In this episode of PC-98 Paradise, I review the very first game based on the anime license "Slayers", which was never translated to English

This board provides VGA output on an S-100 bus computer. The linked article goes into depth about its construction, design, and how to make one of your own.

Are you guys aware about any retrocomputing shows on east coast ? Ideally VA :-) but we can travel ...

If you want a parallel universe experience, try an FM Towns. They are x86 based were introduced in 1989 in Japan and ran through the 1990s. While they do run DOS, they have their own custom windowing system with a focus on MIDI audio/visual production using both a built in FM synth and PCM sampled wave form....

So, Last year I lost my vintage computers (most of them a work in progress) in a house fire. I’ve started rebuilding my collection. I’ve got my TI-83+ still, I consider that to be one. It was with me when the fire happened, and I have an old windows 95 computer I got my hands on, still not sure what to do with him yet. Ideas...

Hi everyone,...

Very cool project using an antique teletype

At one point in time the most common system on the INTERNET was the PDP-10, a 36-bit mainframe computer developed by Digital Equipment Corporation int the 1960s. As the ARPAnet grew so did the number of interconnected PDP-10s. When the ARPAnet moved towards privatization in the 1980s companies such as Systems Concepts and Cisco...

Disks and tapes are fallible, so it's back to assembly code and pencil notes.

Ben Eater has been doing a series where he builds a 6502 breadboard computer from scratch, and it’s at the point where it can run some Apple I software (Wozmon)

Hello /r/retrocomputing moderators. Would you like to be a moderator here? @cognitivegears

The Pacific Commodore Expo NW is June 24th and 25th at Rainier Brewery 3100 Airport Way S. Seattle WA, 98134 from 11am to 5pm Saturday and Sunday....

Wanted to get back into the DOS era of software and games (it’s what I grew up on.) I would have preferred something older, but I ended up with a Slot 1 Pentium III/500. Fortunately it has an ISA slot so all the truly DOS friendly sound cards....

A organized community of computer hackers in the DEEP DEEP South América.