Would you like to hear what the radio transmission of the game sounds like? 📻 Here's a recording for those who missed it. 🎙️ PS. You can also record the game from this video. 📹
🔴📺 Sinclair ZX Spectrum has also found its place in our showcase, alongside a cool red retro TV. 😍 The total length of our exhibition showcases is an impressive 50 meters. 💪
🧠📺 The Minitel 1 terminal, which served as the internet for millions of French people before the actual internet, lives on! Behind the cover, it hides serial ports that can be connected to a circuit based on an ESP32 controller, allowing the execution of custom programs and connection to SSH servers.
💡🔢 A brand new addition is this Wang 700B programmable calculator from 1969 with an astonishing 32 Nixie tube displays 😍🤩. More details to come once we get to know it better.
🌟🕹️ Nintendo's Super Game Boy allows you to play Game Boy games on the SNES console. It essentially contains all the internals of the Game Boy along with support for additional color effects. A similar accessory was also released for the later GameCube, enabling you to play Game Boy Advance games as well.
⏭️💿 In the museum, we also have a well-preserved box containing the NeXTSTEP 3.1 operating system and its documentation. 🤩 Originally developed for NeXT workstations, version 3.1 was the first to support the i386 architecture.
📸🕹️ The interactive exhibit that allows visitors to experience retro video terminals has received a new feature this week - sending photos from the Game Boy Camera to email. 😎
Humans are allergic to change,” Grace Hopper once said. “They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise."
Archiving data from the PS/1 Model 2011 (which was still in use in 1998! 😲): The system has a 30 MB hard drive with a "rare" ESDI interface, a predecessor to ATA, which we have nowhere to connect 😖, so decided to use the DOS tool Interlink/Intersvr via an LPT cable. 🖨️
🧡🧡 We've fired up our beautifully preserved Toshiba T3200 laptop from 1987 to show you its wonderful orange plasma screen 😀 Norton Commander looks quite sexy in this color scheme, doesn't it? 😎
This model features a 286 processor capable of addressing 1-4 MB of RAM, and it has a 40 MB hard disk space.
🦕🖥️ The Lear Siegler ADM-3A terminal (1976) looks like it's straight out of The Flintstones 😃 We received it 12 years ago from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, and it dates back to the times before the influential VT100 terminal.
Fall enrollment is still open for programming courses for two age groups: 7-9 and 10-13 years old! Courses start in the first week of October. Learn more at: https://www.racunalniski-muzej.si/tecaji/
🏛🖼 We've rearranged the exhibition space. Feel free to visit the Wall of Giants and the Giants of Information Technology. Which historical figure from this field has inspired you the most? 😍
🔬📺 New project in the lab: the IBM AS/400 system (pictured on the cart in the background) and its OS/400, localized into Slovenian. IBM provided terminal keyboards with special characters (anyone for F24?), and terminal support is also in place.