Does anyone here still use old computers?
Examples: Commodore, Amiga, Atari, Apple, IBM....
Zilog Calls Time on the Venerable Z80, Discontinues the Standalone Z84C00 CPU Family (www.hackster.io)
A Galaxy of Possibilities – Xerox Star & Daybreak (blisscast.wordpress.com)
Let’s have a look at the very first commercial computer with a graphical user interface, called Xerox Star, which was the successor of the Xerox Alto! What did its marvelous GUI look like? Was it ground-breaking and easy to use as we’d expect? Or, perhaps, was it too ahead of its time? Well then, let’s find out!...
In case you missed it: 3D-printed Mac Plus (youtu.be)
Kevin Noki - a german maker - recreates a mac plus with use of 3d printing. Calls it a brewintosh. Very impressive work.
Trying out Microsoft's pre-release OS/2 2.0 (www.theregister.com)
Interview with the creator of Ballerburg II: Eckhard Kruse (German) (lemmy.world)
RETROKOMPOTT’s interview of the week (in German), this time with Eckhard Kruse, programmer and creator of Ballerburg II, which has some fame in Germany. #ballerburg #atari #retrokompott...
The Majestic Birth of Graphical User Interfaces – Xerox Alto and the Alto Trek game (blisscast.wordpress.com)
Can you imagine a time before the Graphical User Interface, when you could only operate a computer with abstract-looking text instead of using simple menus, and it was unheard of to use the oh-so-common mouse? A time when computers were harder to learn, and even harder to master? Well then, join us in our splendid trip where...
Gemini 1.2.1 desktop and Mupfel shell for Atari TOS (lemmy.world)
The source code for the desktop & shell replacement got published by Gereon Steffens: github.com/gereons/gemini/ - the source represents a previously unpublished snapshot from mid 1991....
Affordable Networking For Your Classic Mac (hackaday.com)
BBC Basic Is Back In A Big Way (hackaday.com)
Tektronix’s Ceramic CRT Production And The Building 13 Catacombs (hackaday.com)
Leaky SMD Electrolytics? Try These Brute Force Removal Methods (hackaday.com)
Making Magnetic Tape From Scratch (hackaday.com)
Debugging a 1950s computer sounds like a pain (hackaday.com)
Enthusiast Grafts HDMI Port Onto ISA Graphics Card (www.tomshardware.com)
Gary Kildall - The Man That Should Have Been Bill Gates - Part I (www.youtube.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.capebreton.social/post/557460...
The Commodore is Keeping Up with Linux, as a Clever RISC-V Hack Brings Support to the Commodore 64 (www.hackster.io)
Athlon Slot A 1GHz (lemmy.world)
Is this machine too new for this sub? Recently acquired the holy grail of Slot A: Athlon 1GHz. Very proud of this machine. I have wanted one for years.
TV typewriter remembered (hackaday.com)
Building The Cheapest MIDI Home Studio From 1988 (hackaday.com)
Do You Have An Old Hitachi Computer? You Might Just Have BeOS Without Realizing It (hackaday.com)
39-Year-Old 4.77 MHz DOS Web Server Hits 2,500 Hours of Uptime (www.tomshardware.com)
40 years old Sharp microcomputer still in use to edit Jacquard loom punch card (www.youtube.com)
Just doing Apple-1 things (lemmy.world)
This is my replica Apple-1 with mostly period-correct components. Love this thing
I reverse-engineered all Timex Datalink watches and devices, the Notebook Adapter, and the CRT graphics in Ruby! (lemmy.world)
Heya! I thought I’d mention that I’ve been doing a bunch of development on the optical Timex Datalink watches! I have been carefully sniffing data from the original Timex software with a logic analyzer, and have fully reverse engineered every Datalink protocol, the serial Notebook Adapter, and even the CRT syncing graphics!...
