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koreatimes.co.kr /4 weeks ago

As AI grips world, the thrill of collecting vintage computers is growing

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Software engineer Josh Dersch loves old computers. He spends countless hours tinkering in his garage, trying to coax decades-old machines back to life. He e...

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habr.com /2 weeks ago

Назад в машинный зал: как собрать эмулятор PDP-11/70 с телетайпом, блэкджеком и без Rust

Каждый программист «за сорок» рано или поздно проходит через этот кризис среднего возраста. Кто‑то покупает мотоцикл, кто‑то уходит в монастырь функционального программирования… а ...

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stuff.co.nz /4 weeks ago

As AI grips world, the thrill of collecting vintage computers is growing

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Software engineer Josh Dersch loves old computers. He spends countless hours tinkering in his garage, trying to coax decades-old machines back to life....

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theregister.com /1 month ago

Keeping yesterday's computers ticking takes more than nostalgia

Earie Salmon explains why soldering skills are only the start

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mysanantonio.com /4 weeks ago

As AI grips world, the thrill of collecting vintage computers is growing

As Silicon Valley invents the artificial-intelligence future, a growing community of hobbyists is preserving the classic computers that helped launch the digital revolution.

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broadbandbreakfast.com /4 weeks ago

As AI Grips World, The Thrill of Collecting Vintage Computers is Growing

The community's passion was evident at the Vintage Computer Festival held in Silicon Valley in early August.

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theregister.com /1 day ago

Retired man turns spare room into Soviet-era supercomputer

Get out the 75-year-old vacuum tubes for this project

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github.com /1 month ago

ArtfulType: Markdown Writing App for the 68K Macintosh

Sean Malseed — “Action Retro” on YouTube — created a Markdown editor for the original Macintosh. Source code on GitHub; intro video on YouTube. It’s written in C, not Pascal, and u...

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news.bitcoin.com /1 week ago

A Big Tech Company Buried 2,700 Early GUI PCs in 1989 and Shaped Today’s Desktop

In September 1989, a Big Tech company sent 2,700 unsold GUI-era PCs to a landfill in Utah, with guards on site to stop anyone from salvaging them. The machine, introduced in 1983 a...

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boingboing.net /1 month ago

Amiga Freeware Archive

In my acrylic case were maybe a hundred Amiga floppies, the contents of each neatly inscribed on the 3.3mm label edge with a Pilot V5. Now I have the rest of 'em: the Amiga Freewar...

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boingboing.net /1 week ago

LCD replicas of retro CRT monitors questioned

A decade ago, cathode ray-tube TVs moldered in massive warehouses around the country, too toxic to trash and too risky to recycle. Those who instead hung onto their old sets are no...

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boingboing.net /1 week ago

Defrag your computer like it's 1998

Defrag98 is a fully-featured Windows 98 Disk Defrag tool simulator "faithfully reborn in your browser," complete with teal backdrop, bitmap-fonted gray user interface, and even the...

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blog.adafruit.com /2 weeks ago

Running Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip – some thoughts about simpler computers

Colin always had a fascination with simpler and low power computing. This lead to a decision to run Photoshop on a 60 pence computer chip on the Adafruit Fruit Jam. OK; this is har...

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boingboing.net /3 weeks ago

Lost VHS promos from the twilight of the arcade era

Brian Peek scanned and shared his collection of gaming promotional VHS cassettes, including five that Atari Games sent to arcade operators in the 1990s. Peek inherited the t...

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idev.games /1 week ago

Hacker 1995

You play as a young computer enthusiast with a beige 486DX2-66 computer, a 14.4K modem and full Pacman and Wolf3d game play enjoy retro!...

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9gag.com /3 weeks ago

Core memory unlocked

Tags: nostalgia, computerlab203 points, 43 comments.

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engadget.com /1 week ago

How Enterprising Modders Installed Windows NT On Nintendo GameCubes

Modders often find purpose for old tech that's collecting dust, like adding an antiquated version of Windows onto a 25-year-old console with this process.

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smartermsp.com /1 month ago

Tech Time Warp: IBM 650 and the rise of computing

Business computing took a major leap forward 73 years ago this month when IBM announced the IBM 650. IBM calls it the first mass-produced computer, and it also became the company’s...

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boingboing.net /4 weeks ago

TAC-2 is back: the new Commodore reissues an old joystick

The TAC-2 was a famous joystick offered for Commodore's C64, the 8-bit personal computer first sold in 1982, and compatible with the Atari and other systems using the classic 9-pin...

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habr.com /2 days ago

«Я Сетунь 70». Эмулятор троичной ЭВМ на Rust

Здесь вас ждут код эмулятора и краткое описание архитектуры «Сетуни 70».Возможно вы слышали о троичных ЭВМ семейства «Сетунь», читали о них на Хабре или где-нибудь еще. Материал по...

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boingboing.net /1 week ago

Decades before ChatGPT, video games were sold as having AI

A lot of video games from the 1970s and later were touted as having AI. Jason Scott of the Internet Archive has a fun retrospective about these games, with links to playable versio...

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boingboing.net /1 month ago

Decker is Hypercard for the modern web

Hypercard, the point-and-click software development tool designed by Bill Atkinson for classic Macs, helped a generation of non-coders make and share their own apps and games. Deck...

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boingboing.net /6 days ago

Experience the joy of getting online with a dial-up modem

56k.rip simulates the experience of trying to get online 35 years ago, right down to replicating a typical Windows 3.x desktop and requiring you to figure out what to click to even...

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habr.com /2 weeks ago

Amiga 1000: революция, которую Commodore чуть не провалила

23 июля 1985 года Commodore представила машину, которая переписала правила игры для персональных компьютеров. Amiga 1000 позиционировался не просто как новый компьютер, а как револ...

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