🎨 In our Mario Paint studio, there's always a masterpiece in the making - this time, a cute drawing (created with the original Nintendo SNES mouse with a ball) and a musical masterpiece inspired by the latest pop hit.
At our retro-gaming Valentine's event in the museum, you'll also find a ℙ𝕣𝕖𝕙𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕚𝕜 waiting for you! 😍🎟️ Get your tickets in advance: https://fienta.com/valentinovo-v-muzeju
🧱🍄 Tetris, Super Mario Land, Dr. Mario, Golf, and Alleyway are some of the first games for the Nintendo Game Boy. Golf required the largest ROM chip with a whopping 128 KB, Mario's adventure 64 KB, while the rest only needed 32 KB. Mario is indeed present in all of these games.
🐉 Yes, these magnificent creatures adorn the bridge at the heart of Ljubljana city center! 🌉 Explore the numerous reasons to visit Slovenia and its capital, where our museum is located. Read more about it here 🏰: https://www.visit-slovenia.eu/cities/ljubljana
🔎📚 The Conner CP3541 540MB IDE disk refuses to provide its disk image 😠 The system detects it and it spins, but not a single byte can be read - failed command: READ SECTOR(S). We suspect that the head is stuck.
🏠💿 Early CD drives (the SCSI model from IBM PS/2 Server 95 in the picture) often accepted the disc only in a special box called a caddy (which you might be more familiar with from MiniDiscs). We partially opened the drive in the picture because it decided it no longer wants to eject the caddy with the CD 😅
🧙♂️💿 ZuluSCSI™, equipped with the RP2040 chip, is a magic wand to enable systems that only support SCSI drives. It can emulate multiple hard drives and CD drives simultaneously. We are thrilled!
⌨️📺 The DEC VT100 is a historically significant computer terminal. It was available in Slovenia under the name KOPA d.d. 1000. We obtained our specimen in 2006, and it is in working condition, but it lacked a keyboard. Now we've tracked one down and hope to try it out soon! 💪
Discover insights from FOSDEM and Chaos Communication Congress, and engage in a dialogue about the inception of Slovenia's first cooperative dedicated to supporting FOSS. Join us at the next #Cyberpipe meeting at the museum on the 12th of February!
🐘 Recently, we welcomed the 🄳🄸🄶🄸🅃🄰🄻 AlphaServer 8400 5/440 into our collection. According to online information, it was considered a supercomputer in 1996 💪💪
🟩🖥️ When we look at the motherboard for the IBM PC AT from 1984, we notice several interesting differences compared to modern ones:
🐘 Basic RAM is already included on it.
🧠 The 386 processor doesn't require any additional cooling.
🎓 For higher performance, a math coprocessor 80287 was needed.
⌨️ The only built-in peripheral connection is for the keyboard.
⌨⬛ This is the NeXT computer. Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau used it at CERN to set up the first web server, id Software developed games like Doom and Quake on it, and at Slovenian daily newspaper Delo they used it to digitize the entire newspaper production process.
🔴📺 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. 💪
... somehow, I managed to install the wrong version of NeXTStep, and it also somehow works? How NeXTStep runs on a Pentium 2 Dixon and 440BX chipset is beyond me!