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digitaltrends.com /1 month ago

Ever wonder what vintage computers were like? This virtual museum lets you try hundreds

The Virtual OS Museum is a huge retro-computing archive with more than 1,700 ready-to-run installations, covering everything from 1948’s Manchester Baby to classic Mac OS, early Wi...

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blog.adafruit.com /2 weeks ago

A homebrew Apple II clone, the SB mini II

The original Apple II and II Plus computers were built with all off-the-shelf components. It wasn’t until the later models like the IIe that Apple was getting custom chips made whi...

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boingboing.net /3 weeks ago

HP 16c programmer's calculator returns in collectible form

The HP 16c Collector's Edition [HP via Adafruit] revives a mundane but well-loved tool. In 1982, the original 16c was designed specifically for programmers and engineers; after thr...

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theregister.com /5 days ago

LisaFPGA brings Apple's magnificent misfire back in programmable logic

Open source recreation costs a fraction of the original and may even work with Twiggy drives

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habr.com /3 weeks ago

От перфокарт до мейнфреймов: как в Германии обнаружили забытый «музей» вычислительной техники

В июле 2006 года сотрудники Музея истории компьютеров в Калифорнии получили необычное сообщение из Германии. Автор письма утверждал, что в одном из складских зданий города Кастроп-...

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higgypop.com /3 weeks ago

Inside A Faulty Amiga 500 Plus & A Forgotten Commodore 64

A closer look at two Commodore classics from a recent haul, including a faulty Amiga 500 Plus and a Commodore 64 that turned out to have a few surprises left.

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gizmodo.com /1 month ago

The Virtual OS Museum Lets You Emulate 1700+ Operating Systems From as Far Back as 1948

The history of computing at your fingertips.

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boingboing.net /1 month ago

A virtual museum runs 570 operating systems in your browser

Andrew Warkentin has spent over twenty years collecting old operating systems and getting them to run. The result is the Virtual OS Museum, a launcher and Linux VM that boots 570-o...

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theregister.com /1 month ago

The Virtual OS Museum opens its doors

A massive compilation of historic OSes and the emulators to run them

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cultofmac.com /1 month ago

Best vintage and retro Apple setups: Old gear, new love

Our roundup of the best vintage and retro Apple setups shows aging hardware is often the most beautiful gear in the room. (via Cult of Mac - Your source for the latest Apple news,...

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denofgeek.com /3 weeks ago

15 Vintage Photos of Gaming in the ’70s & ’80s

Video games have been around for quite a while, and it's always a good time remembering the roots of it all. Mostly because, for most of us, the golden era of gaming is behind us....

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blog.adafruit.com /1 month ago

ATAboy lets your computer read ancient types of IDE hard drives

ATAboy is designed for retro computing enthusiasts, data recovery experts, and archivists. Read and write the oldest of IDE hard drives, without the need for an “in-between” vintag...

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higgypop.com /1 month ago

Amiga 500 Vs 600 Upgrades In 2026

Are Amiga 500s really harder to upgrade than the Amiga 600? A real-world look at ACA500plus, PiStorm, CF storage, RAM upgrades and modern Amiga setups in 2026.

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smartermsp.com /3 weeks ago

Tech Time Warp: The Manchester “Baby” and the birth of the stored program computer

At 17 feet long and nearly 7 ½ feet tall — and weighing in at almost a ton — it might seem silly today that the “Small-Scale Experimental Machine” built in 1948 at the UK’s Univers...

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cnx-software.com /1 week ago

Macintosh emulator works on ESP32-P4 display devkits from M5Stack and Waveshare

ESP32 chips have been used for retro gaming and computing for years, but Austin McChord (Amcchord) adds to that with a Macintosh emulator ported to a couple of ESP32-P4 display dev...

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boingboing.net /2 weeks ago

Reviving old PCs with Linux now that new ones cost an arm and a leg

Apple sharply raising the prices of laptops and other gear brought home that the

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theregister.com /1 month ago

Blockbuster new Raspberry Pi project turns any screen into old-school VCR

Who needs fancy menus and high definition? 240-MP will play your media files like it's 1999

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digitaltrends.com /1 month ago

I miss when tech looked cheap, plastic, and honest

Old plastic gadgets were chunky, strange, and sometimes ugly, but they had a tactile clarity modern tech keeps sanding away.

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higgypop.com /4 weeks ago

I Got A Free Amiga & Commodore 64 From Facebook

A local Facebook giveaway led to an unexpected haul of retro computing gear, including an Amiga 500 Plus, Commodore 64, boxed games, accessories and plenty of surprises.

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habr.com /1 week ago

АВК-6: Персональный Аналоговый Компьютер

Итак, перед нами персональный аналоговый компьютер АВК-6. Аналоговые вычислительные машины в 60-70-е годы были способны в реальном времени решать системы дифференциальных уравнений...

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theregister.com /4 weeks ago

Linux kernel 7.1 sends Intel 486 support to silicon heaven

More than 140,000 lines of code bite the dust as ancient CPUs, bus mice, and other legacy leftovers face the chop

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habr.com /1 month ago

[Перевод] Как компьютер Spacelab считал без микропроцессора: реверс-инжиниринг платы из 1980-х

Сегодня процессор легко воспринимать как чёрный ящик: дал команду — получил результат. Но у компьютеров до эпохи микропроцессоров эта логика была буквально разложена по платам, мик...

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blog.adafruit.com /1 month ago

A hackable retro computer built on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (RP2350)

Japi Base — Jan’s Pico Projects Base is a well-documented, hackable retro computer built on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (RP2350). Japi Base provides all the basic I/O of a small computer...

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habr.com /1 week ago

ЭВМ в народном хозяйстве: лампы, кибернетика, «Урал-1»

Что рисует ваше воображение, если вы слышите слова «ЭВМ» и «СССР» в одной фразе? Научные лаборатории, огромные машзалы, лампы, транзисторы и перфокарты? Все эти образы недалеки от...

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