when @radiofreelunch extremely generously offered to send me a "couple" old Newtons, i balked. i had an old MP2100 years ago, and it was tough to get software loaded on them, even with all the correct hardware
driving home an hour later, i thought: what the hell is wrong with me, i'm turning down a free newton?! 😅
a week later, this amazingly heavy bundle of Newtons and Newton peripherals arrived. thank you good sir :D
Pictured:
Newton MessagePad (+box/software)
Newton MessagePad
Newton Message Pad 110
Newton MessagePad 120
Newton Fax Modem (battery-powered!)
there is extensive battery leak/corrosion from the AA batteries on each of them, so they'll spend the next few months getting some TLC. hopefully most survive!
Thank you so much to those who have signed up to support the SDF Computer Museum with a BOOTSTRAP membership. We still have gift items available to those who join and if you've not gotten yours it is going out in tomorrow mail. Looking forward to our announcement and events in late June and July!
In April 2018 I was having fun with the Okimate 20 thermal printer with my Commodore 64. It’s a fun printer that can use thermal fax paper so you don’t need a ribbon so you can print black as long as you have paper.
This is a PETSCII houndstooth pattern I came up with. BASIC source in the photos. I really like the built-in serif text font.
Where the #ICQ „Uh-Oh“ sound really came from: Not Worms or Lemmings, as some are telling you. Instead Windows 3.0 MultiMedia Edition from 1991 contains the exact same sample as „ohoh.wav“. #retrocomputing#windows#1990s
The Lucasfilm's Habitat beta footage has been released finally. Check out the post on my site for links to YouTube, as well as the raw transfers over at the Internet Archive.
v0.3 of Heffalump (a Mastodon client for PalmOS) is out now! This release (finally) adds the ability to view your own past toots, as well as replies (to both your own and others' toots).
@Forbearance@knickish oh. I had not appreciated the significance of the "conduit" (my palm has been in a box for years and I knew some of the later models did have WiFi so just assumed!)
i'm happy to report that someone had already digitized the Fantasy Gamer's package a few years ago! you can play it online here and generate your own little dungeons. the room generator is pretty cute:
what was missing, however, was the 40+ pages of print documentation that came in the mail-order ziplock, and a pic of the cassette tape. i've scanned them all here, along with a new recording of the cassette:
At a certain point in time your stuff is geeky high-tech, the next moment you walk into the „early telecommunications“ exhibition in a museum and there‘s your old mobile phone. 😆
(Museo nazionale della scienza e della tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milano) #tech#history#retrocomputing