#Vintagecomputing

2025-07-03

Anybody here who has a #Chat64 cart and can quickly go online to confirm the server is working? I can't get access ("Server Setup" screen just beeps on me with the standard address) for some reason, I think it's either my home network or the chat64 server itself. #RetroComputing #VintageComputing EDIT: Got it. It was my network! Now online in the chat. ;)

James against the machinej@j-w.au
2025-07-03
A working vintage Macintosh SE/30 next to a less-working SE/30 (he dead)The screen of a working Macintosh SE/30 displaying an application called AppleCAT, which is running diagnostics on another (dead) SE/30 via a printer cable
2025-07-03

Looking forward to INIT HELLO, a new Apple II gathering at the end of this month in Baltimore.

#INITHELLO #AppleII #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #shirts #tshirt #selfie #photo #Apple #usergroup #conference #Baltimore #Apple2Forever

Man in an Init Hello t-shirt

are you a fan?

replacing the hodgepodge mismatch of twenty 5” muffin fans in the DEC KI10 CPU for better cooling and cool drone tone.

icm.museum

#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #fans

20 old 5” muffin fansThe CPU of a DEC KI1020 new 5” muffin fans

Nintendo Virtual Boy and Bandai コンピュータビジョン光速船 Vectrex in the ゲーセン at:

icm.museum

This combo is historically guaranteed to stimulate vision and audio receptors 🤣

#retrogaming #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing

A Nintendo virtual boy and a Bandai vectrexVirtual boy screenThe Bandai vectrex controller
andabataandabata
2025-07-02

It might be alive. It made even noises, and did gfx tricks.

2025-07-02

Treated myself with a Oceanic OC168 floppy drive. Compatible not only with the 1541-II psu, but also fully licensed and thus pretty much a perfect replacement for Commodore's drive. Or so they say. Will need to find that out, but the quick, quiet JVC mechanic inside already has me convinced that this is nice. So yes, I'll keep using tapes. But it's also time to use and write some new disks 😎
#commodore #commodore64 #c64 #gaming #retrogaming #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

mirrorless gameraruben@friendship.quest
2025-07-01

this frankenstein of a setup did it!

DiskWarrior fixed the “invalid sibling link” where Disk First Aid failed.

Downloaded on macOS 15 (Apple silicon) -> Extracted on System 7 (68k) -> ran Mac OS 9 (PPC)

#vintagemac #vintagecomputing

Desk with a mac mini hooked up to a tiny utility monitor, using an ADB moue via a wombat. A Mac SE/30 with an ArtPad II copying DiskWarrior onto an AFP share (a raspberry pi). Assorted clutter.
2025-07-01

Does anyone out there have a #sharp E500s calculator with 256k internal memory?
I‘m just looking for a picture(!) of mainboard to help repairing a broken trace on mine. #followerpower #vintagecomputing #sharp_calculator #retrocomputing
#calculators

2025-07-01

Did you know that the 'NT' in Windows NT stood for "Nine Ten"?

The intended core platform for the OS was the then-expected Intel i910 RISC processor, which was to be the rebranded moniker for the i860 that can be found in the wild. *

It never came to be due to the i860s terrible handling of context switching -- a capability that a CPU for a multitasking, multiuser workstation OS must be able to do _very_efficiently_. The i860 wasn't.

youtube.com/watch?v=WTkFGZqVCM

*** EDIT: Several have pointed to sources indicating differently that NT stood for N10, which was the codename for the i860, so -- N10, N-Ten > NT.

#TIL #WindowsNT #Windows #Intel #i860 #i910 #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #OS #techhistory #RISC #x86 #processors #computers #computinghistory #Microsoft

2025-07-01

Putting the cable back in the keyboard, and powering on with R pressed, we have a fully function Acorn Archimedes A310!

Amazing, just now gotta do some clean up work with replacing various PSU capacitors, need a new ball for the mouse, and also sort out the power button on the monitor (I'm having to hold it in to keep it on), and now time to also plan what interesting things to do with an Archimedes.

#VintageComputing #acorn #archimedes #arm #vintage #VintageTechnology #RISC_OS

A picture of the Acorn Archimedes monitor sitting on my bench, showing a stable picture of the RISC OS 2 desktop UI with the Tasks monitor window open.
2025-07-01

Thread: I bought an Acorn Archimedes A310

This is the first consumer device with a RISC based processor (a few high end workstations preceded it) and the first wide public release of the ARM processor (the CPU inside of it is literally referred to as the ARM)

Managed to get it with the original cords, manuals, box for the monitor, mouse mat, and the purchase receipt :blobfoxlaughsweat: just had to get it back to Nottingham from Llandudno on the train...

#VintageComputing #acorn #archimedes #arm #vintage #VintageTechnology #RISC_OS

A picture of the Acorn Archimedes A310, monitor, keyboard, mouse, documentation, and cables laid out on a carpeted floor.A picture of a sales receipt for the Acorn Archimedes A310 and the packaged mouse pad from 1990 laid out on my desk.A picture of a rucksack containing the Archimedes, and a box for the monitor sitting on a bench at Llandudno train station.
2025-06-30

@Seg you might appreciate this paper I delivered at iPres 2024 #digipres #vintagecomputing ipres2024.pubpub.org/pub/1qbrz

Update to my progress on AMail. Version 0.0.4.

Short video on where I am and what my current challenge is.

youtube.com/watch?v=UC5JG0T_y7

#Amiga #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #Commodore

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