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🎉 Oh joy, another promise of a "revolutionary" microcomputer! 💻🚀 Because what the world really needs is a retro toy that trades functionality for #nostalgia and calls it innovation. 🙄 Can't wait to see this relic compete with modern tech in the year 2025... or maybe just in someone's basement collection. 🤦‍♂️
https://www.endbasic.dev/2025/06/unveiling-the-endbox.html #microcomputer #techinnovation #retrotoys #basementcollection #HackerNews #ngated

Unveiling the EndBOX – A microcomputer prototype for EndBASIC

https://www.endbasic.dev/2025/06/unveiling-the-endbox.html

#HackerNews #EndBOX #Microcomputer #EndBASIC #Prototype #TechInnovation #HackerNews

World's first mass-market #laptop was the #T1100 computer by #Toshiba. Introduced with a 4.77MHz #CPU, 512KB of #RAM, #monochrome #LCD display, and battery capacity up to 7 hours, it changed the world of #IBM compatible portable computers. It even worked with #MS #Windows1 in 640x200px #CGA #graphics, but only within a narrow view angle https://youtu.be/qk04sDF5SrM

Even without a hard disk this machine was very important, since the plus model was re-engineered in #USSR as Электроника #МС1504. Unlike #US, users in #Russia didn't pay royalties, or used the internal 3.5" floppy drive to boot #MS-DOS 2.11 https://youtu.be/_u5LwiP5Q4g

Our #graphic #illustration is a tribute to this #IT #milestone, celebrating the 40th #anniversary of this historic #microcomputer achievement in 1985. See it in comparison of #ComputerChronicles to #Tandy or #Dynamac #laptops two years later https://youtu.be/tPEMilDYpgY

The #screenshot of this #retrocomputer #cgi #art shows #SVG #vector #outlines around the cursor in #xRay view-mode. Made with #Inkscape and #FreeSoftware

Screenshot of Toshiba T1100 laptop computer illustration created in SVG with Inkscape

Oh, I love this one:

"Comparing #FORTH to #BASIC is like comparing a Gothic cathedral to a mud hut." - Steve Vickers

( Vickers is one of the fathers of the legendary #JupiterAce #microcomputer )

Source: https://www.theregister.com/2012/09/21/jupiter_cantab_jupiter_ace_is_30_years_old/?page=3

I got curious how much power my MicroPython Sensornode was using and it sips power. Just under 100 mA peak.

So from left to right: SPS30 PM sensor, SCD40 CO2/temperature/humidity sensor, AHT20 + BMP280 sensor (both do humidity/temperature), Waveshare ESP32-C6-Pico and a KEWEISI KWS-1902C Type-C USB Tester UPM.

#MicroComputer #ESP32 #Sensor #CO2 #Nerd #Python

A breadboard with various sensors and a microcomputer. A USB-C power measurement tool is also visible.

Don't talk to me or my microcomputer or my microcomputer or my microcomputer....

#MicroComputer #Silly #ESP32 #ESP8226

Four bread boards with Microcomputers, two ESP8266 and two ESP32-C6 modules.

Hi #Fediverse, ich suche Menschen die sich mit dem P8000 auskennen, ein alter Computer aus der DDR.
Wikipedia: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P8000

:BoostOK:
#fedipower
#p8000
#microcomputer
#8bit
#16bit
#u880
#u8001
#retro
#ddr
#ostrechner

this is the future I'm here for "This programmable fibre, which incorporates a 32-bit floating-point microcontroller, independently performs edge computing tasks even when braided, woven, knitted or seam-sewn into garments. " https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08568-6 #wearables #microcomputer more detailed less paywall https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23628-5 and my long term favorite on the subject: https://www.kobakant.at/DIY/

Impact was guaranteed when the decision to enter the market of #microcomputers was made by #IBM. In retrospect it wasn't their capacity of unique hardware design and outstanding software development skills that made their #PC so successful.

Of course the #BigBlue #corporation with #Sstem360 #mainframe #computers ignored niche markets like #homecomputers for most of the 1970s. As #marketleaders they did #LOL hard about #hobbyists, especially since #DEC challenged them hard with better #minicomputers.

Simultaneously, IBM built a team of young talented engineers in Boca Raton, Florida, to develop a #microcomputer in secrecy, and fast! Somehow, directors #WilliamLowe & #PhilipDonEstridge made a decision under pressure that turned out to be great for the entire market, not their employer exclusively.

Considering the time (and #$hits) given, it's only logical that they relied heavily on free available components instead of own #chipdesigns. But somehow, the lack of #IP passed their lawyers and IP team before #InternationalBusinessMachines went public.

1981, August 12th, the IBM #PC5150 changed the world of #PersonalComputers, by accident (for the better of humanity).

IBM PC5150 vector illustration with DOS & Windows and CP/M & GEM Desktop

Nice initiative : discovered thanks to Fairphone and founded in 2021, the small Belgian company #Citronics offers "microcomputers" (in fact nanocomputers) designed from smartphone motherboards … and there is stock ! 😅

› https://citronics.eu

#CircularEconomy #EWaste #WEEE #EOL #NanoComputer #MicroComputer #Belgium #Europe #Fairphone #Upcycling

Au hasard du web, je tombe sur Citronics, une boîte belge qui fait de l'électronique en économie circulaire, en recyclant des composants de smartphones usagés en micro-ordinateurs pour l'électronique embarquée.
https://citronics.eu/
#CircularEconomy #Electronic #MicroComputer #Belgium

This is a great project: the history of microcomputers told with 300 print advertisements, each scanned and commented.

https://nosher.net/archives/computers

#retrocomputing #microcomputer #ads

#Tech #Computer #RetroTech #Retro #RetroTechnology #RetroComputers #VintageComputer #RetroComputing #Magazine #ITT3030 #Microcomputer #VintageAd #GermanTech #German #Germany

#economy #diy #microcomputer

A brilliant idea: a Belgian company is recycling #phones into #computers

https://citronics.eu/#products

#recycling #reuse

The Rise and Fall of the MSX
The MSX standard was something devised by Microsoft, a specification for a Z80-powered 8-bit microcomputer for the home market. In the style of CP/M machines, and later PC compatibles, any company could make their own MSX machine, and in Japan over 20 different companies did, along with succ
https://setsideb.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-msx/
#retro #8bit #fediverse #history #japan #konami #microcomputer #microsoft #msx #peertube #reenthused #retro #video #z80

Good afternoon, Fediverse! And today I bring you... Visions of the (Micro)Computer Revolution circa 1983-1984.

A friend kindly sent an unearthed-from-the-loft box of vintage early 80s computer mags a few weeks back. They're a treasure trove of microcomputers are here excitement and cool of-the-time imagery, least of all their covers.

#retrocomputing #tech #technology #80s #retrotech #microcomputer

A photo of four of the issues with various edited photographs as covers of someone looking like a spy photographing something on a computer, a security guard standing next to a Commodore PET, a chessboard and pieces in focus in front of a monitor and upright microcomputer, and a telescope behind a small microcomputer and boxy CRT.

TRS-80 Color Computer from our collection. 🖥️ With its vibrant graphics 🎨, Motorola 6809E processor 🧠, and distinctive chiclet keyboard ⌨️, the CoCo played a pivotal role in the early days of personal computing, leaving an enduring legacy in the history of technology.📚

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #TRS80CoCo #museo #retrocomputing #RadioShack #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #informatica #Tandy #TRS80 #tecnica #microcomputer

50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution. In 1974, Gary Kildall got the first version working and changed the world of operating systems.

#cpm #microcomputer #os

https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/02/cpm_50th_anniversary/?utm_medium=erik.in&utm_source=mastodon