Cores! (lemmy.ca)
The first computer I ever worked on had 8KB of core memory. It was an old Digital Equipment Corporation pdp-8/e. I loved that machine and its open face tale drives and teletype with paper tape punch and reader and card reader.
2,200 Forgotten Vintage Computers Are Being Liberated From a Barn in Massachusetts (www.vice.com)
The BASIC programming language turns 60 (arstechnica.com)
I was definitely a Commodore kid, and BASIC was my first language. Maybe it’s nostalgia, but I still like BASIC for hobby stuff.
IT'S ALIVEEEEEEE!!! (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
After taking that pic, I got done cleaning the CBM. The entire Body, Board and keys all look a lot better now and im glad to say that after all of that, it turned on no problem as well! (Before and after)...
Two of world's first desktop computers found during house clearance (www.leicestermercury.co.uk)
Two of the world’s first desktop computers have been discovered during a house clearance. The Q1, which was launched in 1972, changed the way we use computers today....
A proper smartwatch (lemmy.sdf.org)
Apple MIDI interface Demo - 1987 (youtu.be)
Linux Running on an NES? (www.youtube.com)
I greatly enjoyed "So now that we're done moving the goalposts, we can start porting Unix to the Famicom Disc System" and "the kernel is running trust me".
Remembering multi-tasking in MS-DOS: DESQView (blog.raduzaharia.com)
Re-enacting the dial-up connection using MS-DOS (blog.raduzaharia.com)
Actually had to use this old friend at work the other day (sopuli.xyz)
They keep this 20+ year old laptop around because it has a serial port and every now and then that comes in handy....
I stumbled across this the other day - Old DOS Never dies... (ia801209.us.archive.org)
This should boot up on your run of the mill S-100 based system with an 8086. Maybe an 8080 too? Also, it reportedly runs under #simH as a virtual machine. According to some, this is the earliest known version of #86-DOS, not long after replacing #QDOS as its successor....
40 years of Turbo Pascal (www.theregister.com)
OC Here is some code to generate UUIDs/GUIDs in QuickBasic
I couldn't sleep. Also I don't know how to deal with formatting this because of the apostrophes and I don't care that much...
Two men exonerated after 30 years in prison by retrocomputing enthusiasts and the Bloop Museum, by extracting data from a damaged floppy disc. (www.patreon.com)
via rusty.cat/
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!...
Breaking the limits: Installing Windows 2000 in DOSBox-X (fabulous.systems)
Computer Shopper was one of my favorite magazines back in the day, and they provided some awesome deals as well /s.
https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/5929960b-95bb-4e01-b996-1b7962e31e34.png
Netscape - when web browsing was fun. (www.versionmuseum.com)
GLaBIOS - a modern BIOS for XT clones (glabios.org)
I've been using it recently on a machine that formerly used a tweaked version of the "Anonymous Super Turbo XT BIOS" and it offers subtle, modest improvements....
Keeping family history alive! (i.imgur.com)
Hi, first time posting on lemmy, I hope yall will enjoy my late grandfather's happy lil Mac Plus! Maxed out at 4MB of RAM and modded with power through SCSI and a low rpm fan. That's a fully working ImageWriter on the left. :)
AmigaGPT (github.com)
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/818040...
QNX 1.44MB challenge (img.mousetrap.net)
Dunno if this is on-topic for the community or not....
A neighbour gifted me this Atari Portfolio! (feddit.de)
Portfolio to USB adapter stack:...
Windows XP can run on an Intel CPU from 1989 thanks to dedicated modder (www.techspot.com)
