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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…
The First Virtual Meeting Was in 1916
The amazing feat linked up 5,100 engineers from Atlanta to San FranciscoAllison Marsh (IEEE Spectrum)
🟪🟩 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
#LiveLaughLocalTalk
#GlobalTalk
#RetroComputing
I really, truly can not express how mind-blowing this Windwalker title anthem is. This is a stock Apple ][ running at 1 MHz. No third-party sound card. Just the built-in $C030 speaker that blips.
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!
You can use Mastodon on many retro computer systems:
Apple II - colino.net/wordpress/en/mastod…
Apple Macintosh (pre-OS X) - github.com/smallsco/macstodon
Commodore 64 - github.com/Havoc6502/MOStodon
Commodore Amiga - github.com/BlitterStudio/amido…
MS-DOS - github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon
MVS - github.com/mainframed/BREXXTOD…
Palm OS - github.com/knickish/heffalump
Windows 95 - github.com/meyskens/mastodon-f…
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.
The Commodores were a 70s funk / soul group with hits such as "Easy like PET BASIC", "Once, Twice, Three times I've had to do the tape drive head alignment", and "Keep on loading".
#RetroComputing #RetroGame #RetroGaming #Commodores #LionelRichie #Commodore #C64
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.
"Seattle’s Living Computers Museum logs off for good as Paul Allen estate will auction vintage items"
geekwire.com/2024/seattles-liv… v GeekWire
h/t @CursedSilicon @msbellows
#RetroComputing
Cc: @pluralistic
die #technikfreunde #Saarlouis veranstalten am Samstag 08.06.2024 wieder RETROFUN.
Details auf dem Plakat bzw in der Bildbeschreibung
www.technikfreund.org
#retro #retrogaming #retrocomputing #retroflohmarkt #flohmarkt #saarland #inkscape
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
And there it is: Rust9x updated to 1.76-beta 
John Carpenter's "The Thing" (1982) has the best rage-quit ever committed to film
#Movies #Film #Horror #RetroGaming #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
archive.org/details/moofaday_M…
#moofaday #macintosh #retrocomputing
Microsoft File v1.04 (moof-a-day collection) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Microsoft File is a 1986 productivity program developed and distributed by Microsoft. This is version 1.04. It self-boots and runs on Mac 512Ke, Mac Plus,...Internet Archive
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
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.
Cleaning up the office and stumbled over this. Metrowerks CodeWarrior for Palm Pilot.
#retrocomputing #palmpilot #metrowerks #codewarrior
New post! I documented my weekend efforts to run #Rust on classic Mac OS in case it's useful to others or if anyone has ideas of additional things to try.
wezm.net/v2/posts/2023/rust-on…
Trying to Run Rust on Classic Mac OS
I recently acquired a Power Macintosh 9500/150 and after cleaning it up and building a BlueSCSI to replace the failed hard drive it’s now in a semi-operational state.www.wezm.net
you can see you can see the early "DAS BOOT" disk loading TOS boot screen, printed really big pasted up on the whiteboard for some reason
probably using that Apple Imagewriter
#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST
Atari 260ST Story: TOS Floppy Boot Process, And How Much RAM?
The Atari 260ST. There's a lot of misinformation circulating about this model on the internet, including the "fact" that it was only released with 256K of RA...YouTube
someone pointed out there is an Apple Lisa with Atari asset tags owned by a collector in Germany?
and may still have the TOS development system on its hard drive
homecomputer.de/pages/f_info.h…
could be the same one on the far right in the photo!
#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST #Apple #Lisa
as it is the 40th anniversary of the Apple Lisa i am once again obsessing about this photo of Atari developers Dave Staugas, Jim Eisenstein and Jerome Domurat sitting in front of a few Apple Lisas and Macintoshes in March of 1985
the Apple Lisa was used to prototype the Atari ST's TOS operating system before the hardware was ready
the photo is from this Antic Podcast interview with Jerome:
archive.org/details/JeromeDomu…
#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST #Apple #Lisa
Jerome Domurat Interview : Kevin Savetz : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Jerome Domurat worked at Atari from November 1981 through July 1986 as an artist and interface designer. He started creating art for the home game systems,...Internet Archive
speaking of Apple Lisa source...
source code for the GEMDOS prototype for the Apple Lisa was found among the Digital Research source code that was released under the GPL by Caldera a while back
now that's how you publicly license historical source code
and people have gotten it to run!
with a full GEM desktop!
it even runs well behaving Atari ST apps!
stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopi…
alternative-system.com/en/revi…
compu85.homeip.net/stuff/Lisa/…
#retrocomp #retrocomputing #Atari #AtariST #Apple #Lisa #GEM
This is the best photo of magnetic core memory I've ever taken. IBM, early 60s. Shot with a microscope lens mounted on a 35mm B&W digital camera. No post! (I got into the habit of never doing any post-processing while documenting historic artifacts for the museum. Photoshop not allowed!) #retrocomputing #photography #rcsri
I used this shot for the cover of my book of images from our museum:
amazon.com/Inside-Machines-Dav…
This website provides the full back archive of BYTE magazine, all 23 years of it from 1975 to to 1998. It's a treasure trove of vintage tech and nostalgia, not even Archive.org carries all the issues.
The site actually focuses on old Apple magazines, but has also PC magazines and other resources on the history of microcomputing.
Si tu fais de l'informatique, et que tu comprends pas toujours ce qui se passe dans ta babasse, parceque tu ne programmes qu'en #java, #javascript,#python je t'encourage vivement perdre quelques heures de ta vie pour regarder cette série de vidéo.
“Hello, world” from scratch on a 6502 — invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=LnzuM…
“Hello, world” from scratch on a 6502 — Part 1
Learn how computers work in this series where I build and program a basic computer with the classic 6502 microprocessor. More info: https://www.eater.net/6502 Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl8vPW5hydQ Part 3: https://www.youtube.Ben Eater | Invidious
Now that there are so many people here, maybe there's a chance:
🖥️ In the 1990s, I used a #MicroVAX II with a #DEC #VT320 #terminal like the one shown here, but with an original black plastic case for both the monitor (white monochrome) and keyboard as sold new by the vendor (Evans & Sutherland).
🔎 Has anyone ever come across one of these with the black case? Surely some of these rare models were saved from the landfill.
