Inspired by @mac84tv 's recent adventures with the classic 1999 Compaq (in all its original be-stickered glory), I decided to answer the question literally no one asked: What if t-shirts advertised themselves like late-90s PCs? 🤔
What’s your take on files of others you find on vintage computers? Is it like an archeological finding, letters in a box in the attic, interesting pieces of the past? Or a privacy thing we shouldn’t really read or keep, and delete/format instead? #RetroComputing#vintagecomputers
If you're going to write a description of something for sale, why not go all in... (seriously, take a look at the description. The 800 is fine, nothing particularly remarkable about it, but omg the description.
Let's talk about an Atari 800.. I bought this Atari 800 together with two 810 floppy drives as in good condition and working for a not insubstantial amount of money. These are quite rare in Germany, but awesome overengineered early examples of homecomputers. Let's see what we got 🧵#retrocomputing#atari#vintagecomputers#repair
Disk image archive and info resource for the Sanyo MBC-550 PC "compatible" from 1982. It's an interesting clone that features better-than-CGA 640x200 resolution 8-color graphics, ending up with a few unique titles, as such.
As people are asking, here's the drill I went through to configure my Mac to allow my Apple IIe (and other vintage systems around the room) to "dial in" to it via WiFi232 or other WiFi modem devices.
Many people have forgotten about PCMCIA, but in its time, it was the widely accepted way to add functionality to laptops and other mobile devices. In this video we use a Toshiba Libretto notebook computer to recover data from an old PCMCIA SD Card.
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The Vintage Computer Federation and the System Source Computer Museum are hosting a vintage computer repair workshop on Saturday July 22nd (7am-7pm) and Sunday July 23rd (8-5) 2023 at:
System Source Computer Museum 338 Clubhouse Road, Hunt Valley, MD 21031
I've setup my MS-DOS machine...but now I need to install retro games and programs to it. What's your preferred method of getting games/files to your machine? I'm open to any and all techniques. :ms_dos:
If you’re a computer enjoyer you need to go to the Bloop Museum / System Source in Maryland.
We got to play Missile Command on a Xerox Alto, use an Apple Lisa, do a little computer touching on a PDP-8, replica Altair 8800, and replica Apple I.
There are Curta Calculators and a million other things. I could spend days and days there.
Saying “those are the highlights” does an injustice to all of the other things we saw. It is concentrated ADHD joy.
@inversephase was an incredibly gracious and welcoming tour guide. It’s a museum experience that is so neurodivergence friendly. Flip the toggle switches if you want. :blob3c: