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Nerd-snipping of the day - a sharp programmer on a Chinese forum noticed an extremely obscure fact about K&R - its Courier font is unusual and doesn't seem to match any of the modern or common versions of Courier we know today. So now I find myself hunting for technical references of that Autologic APS-5 machine used by K&R. #retrocomputing #unix
#unix #retrocomputing

For all you retro text to speech nerds out there, here's a recording of Superior Software's "Speech" for the Amstrad CPC computer (1986). This was a small piece of Z80 machine code that played phonemes through the computer's AY-3-8912 sound chip

It sounds pretty harsh, and there are a number of hard clicks in the output I couldn't easily fix.

I've included what I think is the spoken script as alt text

#RetroComputing #TTS #Spech #SuperiorSoftware #AmstradCPC


#retrocomputing #tts #spech #superiorsoftware #amstradcpc

Remember the pretty-looking Windows 3.1 "high resolution" mode possible with Viaduct now? Well, as it turns out, the boot logo is displayed by a different piece of code, so despite the new driver it was still in 640x200, and thus, very ugly. 🤮

This isn't part of the DDK at all, so I had to disassemble the CGA and Hercules editions of the logo display code from Windows 3.1 binaries, then bodge one together, that can display the EGA monochrome logo in 640x400. 🤪 👍

#msdos #retrocomputing #amiga

Windows 3.1 booting in an Amiga Workbench window with the old logo display code. It shows the "before" state of affairs - a not very pleasant looking boot logo in 640x200 monochrome CGA resolution.
Windows 3.1 booting in an Amiga Workbench window with the old logo display code. It shows the "after" state of affairs - a much better looking boot logo in 640x400 monochrome "high" resolution.
#retrocomputing #Amiga #msdos

#retrocomputing #Amiga #blastfromthepast #Commodore #blastfrompast

@troed Writing demos teaches some skills that are hard to acquire otherwise... while also creating some bad habits.

Oh, and I'm writing that literally as I'm starting work on a new ST demo, I just did the first git commit of a trivial program that'll grow into some demo over the next few weeks.

--Djaybee from the MegaBuSTers

#AtariST #DemoScene #RetroComputing

#retrocomputing #atarist #demoscene @Troed Sångberg

#retrocomputing #retrogaming #vintagemac #MacPortable

#retrocomputing

#retrocomputing #vintagemac #VintageApple

#retrocomputing #Windows98 #defrag

Sorting through storage boxes now.
A magneto-optical drive.
230MB and 128MB disks.
#RetroComputing
A magneto-optical drive with a disk in a case and the end of the cable it’s attached to.
The disk inside the casing looks like a small CD.
The steel underside with fan grill, four rubber feet, and a faded paper label.
The rear of the drive showing the power socket, power switch, and connection ports.
#retrocomputing

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#retrocomputing

The first virtual meeting occurred in…1916?

"The telephone connections involved traversed about 6,500 kilometers (about 4,000 miles) across 20 states, held up by more than 150,000 poles running through 5,000 switches. … more than 5,100 members attended."

They even had break-out sessions and a musical interlude.

spectrum.ieee.org/virtual-meet…

#Retrocomputing #Zoom #IEEE


The First Virtual Meeting Was in 1916

The amazing feat linked up 5,100 engineers from Atlanta to San Francisco
Allison Marsh (IEEE Spectrum)
#retrocomputing #zoom #ieee

🟪🟩 Silicon Graphics - SGI once reigned supreme in the realm of the most powerful graphics workstations and servers.

💸 In the museum, we preserve many of these systems, which when new could cost more than $10,000 and even $100,000, along with some of their high-end monitors and peripherals:

5x Indigo2
2x Iris Indigo
2x Indy
1x Personal Iris
1x Octane2
1x Octane
3x 19" + 1x 17" CRT

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #sgi #retrocomputing #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing

SGI workstations
#retrocomputing #vintagecomputer #computerhistory #slovenia #vintagecomputing #computermuseum #ljubljana #sgi

#retrocomputing #livelaughlocaltalk #globaltalk #fieldtalk

#retrocomputing #livelaughlocaltalk #globaltalk

#retrocomputing #livelaughlocaltalk #globaltalk

#retrocomputing #AppleII

I finally got around to implementing the MacPaint file format, so now you can not only convert all your old MacPaint files to PNG, but also the reverse.

If you rescue any old MacPaint files please send them to me for archiving on macpaint.org!

github.com/thejoelpatrol/macpa…

#retrocomputing #vintagemac

#retrocomputing #vintagemac

Name any other 33yr old computer that has a graphical (of sorts) mastodon client that actually works today - Only Amiga makes it possible #retrocomputing - posted with Amidon.
#retrocomputing

#FediTips #retrocomputing #1980s #1990s

A trick question for the #retrocomputing experts here:

What computers backside we are looking at?

It has a 13w3 monitor plug, but also USB, Firewire and SCSI. 🤔

Don't google the sticker, that's cheating.

#retrocomputing

#retrocomputing #retrogaming #c64 #Commodore #retrogame #commodores #lionelrichie

Dixons' Commodore VIC-20 advertisement along with the Dragon 32 and TI-994A. #RetroComputing
#retrocomputing

It is time once again for me to ask all #unix #retrocomputing enthusiasts to dust off their old iron and run a test program. This one's about corner cases of mmap().

paste.sr.ht/~zackw/69f6fe80133…

I want to know about OSes that fail one or more of the tests, no matter how old they are.

I have already tested current versions of Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, AIX, and Solaris. Further testing with these is only useful if you can identify an exact version number where something changes (e.g. "FreeBSD prior to version x.y fails tests A, B, C"; "AIX prior to version w.z does not recognize XPG_SUS_ENV=ON"; that sort of thing). I don't expect any CPU dependence for this test, but if you discover some, that is also worth knowing about.

Please report results by following up to <lists.gnu.org/archive/html/aut…>. (You can write to this mailing list without subscribing.) Please do not reply to this post with results, or email me directly.

(I'm happy to talk about the test itself on here, say if you want help understanding what's being tested or you're having trouble getting it to compile or like that. But I really need all the results in one place.)

Please spread this call for testers widely.

Re: AC_FUNC_MMAP test fails on AIX for MAP_FIXED: who's at fault?

lists.gnu.org
#unix #retrocomputing

#retrocomputing #globaltalk

#retrocomputing @Cory Doctorow @M.S. Bellows, Jr. @Cursed Silicon

#inkscape #retrocomputing #retro #retrogaming #technikfreunde #saarlouis #retroflohmarkt #flohmarkt #saarland

#retrocomputing #retrogames #cga

#rust #retrocomputing

#retrocomputing #vintagemac #VintageApple #vintagecomputing #pocketchip #appletalk #airtalk #minivac #imagewriterii #quarkxpress

#retrocomputing #vintagemac #VintageApple #vintagecomputing #pocketchip #minivmac #appletalk #livelaughlocaltalk #localtalk

#retrocomputing #vintagemac #VintageApple #vintagecomputing #pocketchip #minivmac #livelaughlocaltalk

#retrocomputing #vintagemac #VintageApple #vintagecomputing #pocketchip #minivmac

#retrocomputing #moofaday #macintosh

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. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spooling

*Edited to include backronym reference from Wikipedia page.

#RetroComputing #VintageComputing

THE WORD SPOOL is an acronym for Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On Line, and a print spooler is a hardware application or a software application (or both) that is used to store data on a disk temporarily until the printer is ready to process it. Since the print spooler handles the interaction required with the printer in order to accomplish the printing process, use of a spooler frees the originating computer, such as an Apple Macintosh computer, to perform other activities during the printing process. This chapter describes AppleTalk print spooling in general and compares printing with a spooler to printing without a spooler. In addition, since print spooling can be accomplished either by a spooler/server or as a background process on the originating computer, this chapter also compares these two options.

intermediate store of data

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#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

A screenshot of a DOSBox running WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS in a window. A “cheat sheet” document I authored is open, which is supposed to prove that I know my way around the program.
#retrocomputing #dos #wordperfect

#retrocomputing #palmpilot #metrowerks #codewarrior

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