I was there, Gandalf. I was there forty years ago. I was there when magenta ruled the world.

#retrocomputing #CGA #retrogames

Dear women, pioneers of computing, early programmers and all of you, who took us into the digital age, thank you. On this International Women’s Day Computer History Museum Slovenia congratulates you for all your contributions. Introduce yourselves to us, so we can get to know you personally, hear your stories and learn of the history as you remember it happening.

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #digitalheritage #retrocomputing #IWD2024 #InternationalWomensDay

Side note: what is that lovely bitmap font?? 😍

#retrocomputing

And there it is: Rust9x updated to 1.76-beta

https://seri.tools/blog/rust9x-1-76/

#rust #retrocomputing

John Carpenter's "The Thing" (1982) has the best rage-quit ever committed to film

#Movies #Film #Horror #RetroGaming #RetroComputing

I uncovered an extensive trove of lost retro stuff in an old shed today, but this one item is so cool that it deserves a post all to itself: "MUDS: Exploring Virtual Worlds on the Internet" (1995) by Claire Lissette Benedikt and Dave Ciskowski. It was outdated even at the time I bought it - around '99, on heavy discount - but despite that it's no longer the reliable MUD phone book it hoped to be, it's a wonderfully preserved piece of history.

@vga256 - tagging you because how neat is this

UPDATE: I tried to connect to every single entry in the list of 100 MUDs. Almost all are defunct entirely. FurryMUCK and PernMUSH still exist, but their details are entirely wrong. Valhalla and Elender are still found at the server printed in the book, but the port address is wrong. But there is one MUD that, 28 years after the publication of this book, still awaits at the exact address printed: Ancient Anguish (ancient.anguish.org:2222).

#RetroGaming #MUDs #RetroComputing

After a few tries I was able to fully print from Quark XPress to the ImageWriter II over #AppleTalk with the #AirTalk from the #PocketChip! It wasn’t quick but it worked!

#RetroComputing #VintageComputing #VintageApple #VintageMac #MiniVac #ImageWriterII #QuarkXPress

After making some really sketchy repository changes and doing an incantation, I got some X11 sources installed and Mini VMac actually compiled without issue!

And look! It’s speaking AppleTalk (UDP) on my network!! Hahaha this is so weird to me. Should I print something to my AppleTalk ImageWriter II from my handheld? 😅

#RetroComputing #VintageComputing #VintageApple #VintageMac #PocketChip #MiniVMac #AppleTalk #LiveLaughLocalTalk #LocalTalk

How about browsing the ✨ Internet ✨ on the emulated Mac? 😅

Using MacIPGW here for MacIP. Writing up a blog post about all of this later today!

#RetroComputing #VintageComputing #VintageApple #VintageMac #PocketCHIP #LiveLaughLocalTalk #MiniVMac #PocketCHIP

Everyone’s on their Hand386 so I dusted off my PocketChip and look at that, I’m running System 7.5.3 thanks to Mini VMac! It’s delightfully quick!

#RetroComputing #VintageComputing #VintageApple #VintageMac #PocketChip #MiniVMac

Microsoft File v1.04.moof

https://archive.org/details/moofaday_Microsoft_File

#moofaday #macintosh #retrocomputing

TIL that "spool" as used in "print spooler" is an acronym that stands for "Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On Line". Image is an excerpt from Inside AppleTalk, Second Edition, page 14-3.

Although there may be some disagreement: is it a backronym? (Missing verification.) See the Wikipedia page for more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spooling

*Edited to include backronym reference from Wikipedia page.

#RetroComputing #VintageComputing

What have I been up to lately? Just getting #WordPerfect for #DOS to run in DOSBox. It even prints, sort of, by way of PostScript files.

I can’t wait to play around with this even more. I actually used WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS as a kid, and I have fond memories of it.

#RetroComputing