Search results for tag #retrocomputing
@revspace After a few days of work, implementing 3 missing libc functions, repairing an extra 4MB of RAM, hacking around toolchain issues, we finally got Lynx 2.8.2 compiled and running on the VAX-11/750 (in 4.3 BSD Quasijarus)! That means we got to browse the (non-HTTPS) web using no equipment or parts newer than 1986 this side of the network (besides the AUI 10Base-T phy).
#retrocomputing #theoldweb #hackaday #dec #vax11
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VT100 terminal showing the wikipedia entry for VAX rendered in the Lynx web browser
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VT100 terminal atop a VAX-11/750 showing retro.hackaday.com rendered in the Lynx web browser
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VT100 terminal atop a VAX-11/750 showing the wikipedia entry for VAX rendered in the Lynx web browser
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VT100 terminal atop a VAX-11/750 showing the wikipedia entry for VAX rendered in the Lynx web browser, wide angle shot.
I am finally releasing my reverse-engineered source code for #atarist #MIDIMaze. That was possible, because the AlyconInverse Compiler", which takes the assembly source code and generated C-code. That was possible, because the Alycon C-compiler generated pretty much unoptimized code.
I've also added significant documentation on how everything works and an Xcode project to allow compiling and run it for 64-bit on a Macintosh.
Decided to display the VAX-11/750 at the @revspace open day yesterday. All the hard work seems to have paid off, managed to get 18 hours of uptime out of it before shutting it down at the end of the day! #unix #retrocomputing #dec #vax11 #minicomputer #unixhistory #bsd
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Row of historical computer equipment: Hp7475A plotter, VAX-11/750 with a VT100 terminal atop it, TU80 tape drive with two fujitsu 8" harddrives below it, VT55 terminal resting on a stack of club mate crates.
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Screenshot of a telnet session on the VAX showing a 4.3BSD-Quasijarus shell session, uptime output 17:26 hours, 7 users, as well as a vmstat output and a (truncated) proces list
The July 1987 issue of Computer Language magazine reviewed half a dozen Lisp implementations for MS-DOS and the Macintosh. There are a few I didn't know such as TransLISP by Solution Systems.
Sometimes you tune into a show, and it's just villains monologuing or having a rally. Evil on display and they don't even understand, they think it's *fun*.
In this case, it's Bill Gates with some Windows XP shit.
https://www.twitch.tv/oldtimeycomputershow
#retrocomputing
@dave I feel ya pal. I was there at the “liquidate Steven’s favorite computer company for cash and return it as shareholder value” moment in 1997 and loved their climb and leap at the iPhone moment. I just bought a new mini, but i’m more excited by my #freebsd box (a 12 y/o Dell), @interlisp, #retrocomputing or my memories of the Aqua moment: https://stevengharms.com/posts/2025-01-04-return-of-aqua/
suppose i wanted to get into #retrocomputing , where do i get started? do i need to know a lot about electronics repair? and where do you even find hardware?
Having run out of Atari and TRS-80 retro podcasts, I'm digging back into other computers. Well, obviously not commode-odor. Oh, hey, I listened to Open Apple a few times! Now replaying that from start in… 2011.
This Apple computer company sounds interesting, but I hope they don't lose sight of making fun computers you can pop open and dig around in, and program in BASIC.
#apple #retrocomputing
Reminder: BASIC is the people's language!
https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22People%27s+Computer+Company%22&sort=title
(also I need to figure out if my 10-liner can be made into a game)
#basic #retrocomputing
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Protest mob, multiracial & type, '70s clothes
NO MORE FORTRAN!
P.C.C. Lives!
BASIC is the people's language!
Use computers _for_ people, not against them!
Abenteuer total | 64'er Magazin
https://www.64er-magazin.de/SH8502/editorial.html
#c64 #retrocomputing #64er
Warum haben Abenteuerspiele in der letzten Zeit einen immer größer werdenden Anhängerkreis gefunden? Weil sie logisches Denkvermögen, Fantasie, Ausdauer und Kreativität fördern und fordern. Abenteuerspiele sind wie geschaffen für den Heimcomputer, oder besser, wurden erst durch diesen möglich. Gründe genug, um ein ganzes Sonderheft dieser Kategorie der Freizeitbeschäftigung mit dem
I was playing around with the Sam Coupe core on the Mister, without any documentation, but I still managed to do some graphical stuff.
The machine doesn't seem so bad. Why didn't it catch on? Is there any interesting modern stuff written for it?
5 PDP-8 computers on display celebrating 60 years of the little 12 bit wonder at the Interim Computer Festival #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing
C 16 – großer oder kleiner Bruder des C 64? | 64'er Magazin
https://www.64er-magazin.de/8504/c16.html
#c64 #retrocomputing #64er
Starkes Basic 3.5, aber weniger Speicherplatz als beim C 64 — wo ist der C 16 einzuordnen?
@signaleleven 👆 Refurbished hardware with preinstalled Windows XP billed as "retro" and sold at a premium.
Raspberry Pico MZ-80K and MZ-80A emulators - the story so far:
https://z80.timholyoake.uk/the-pico-mz-80k/
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A game of space invaders in progress on the Pico MZ-80K. An RC2014 backplane and a RP2040 VGA terminal card is in the foreground. The emulator is running from this and can also use the Pimoroni VGA base.
Is there anything cool I could do with an HP Jornada 560 (I forget the exact model no.) in 2025? Is there even hope to replace the very very bad battery?
How many PDP-8 systems will be at Interim Computer Festival? So far we believe 5 to celebrate 60 years of the coolest minicomputer you never heard of.
#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing
![A DECmate ]I[ running OS/278](https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/114/190/252/097/276/779/original/53d0319064d96ff7.jpeg "A DECmate ]I[ running OS/278")
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A DECmate ]I[ running OS/278
M-Net’s Altos 68000 getting cleaned up for the Interim Computer Festival this weekend. Access the current incarnation of M-Net at SDF Vintage Systems https://sdf.org #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #community
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An Altos ACS68000 that served many years as M-Net
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An Altos ACS68000 that served many years as M-Net
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An Altos ACS68000 that served many years as M-Net
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An Altos ACS68000 that served many years as M-Net
Using the mouse-driven graphical user interface of a personal computer to write a document with a WYSIWYG word processor, check new messages with an email client, and create an organization chart with a drawing program. Just an ordinary day at Xerox PARC in 1978. When email spam was apparently already a thing.
The demo features the Alto workstation and the Bravo word processor. You can hear the noise of the hard disk.
https://archive.org/details/Xerox_Palo_Alto_Demo_August_1978
> I Was a 1980s Teenage Programmer: the Alphatronic <
https://blog.startifact.com/posts/teenage-programmer-alphatronic/
Nice old-timey computing story. I'm also amused by his "User Guide" interpretation.
#retrocomputing
Computer Chronicles: Amiga & Atari
https://www.twitch.tv/oldtimeycomputershow
#retrocomputing
STORAGE is a Medley Interlisp tool that shows a bar chart of the amount of storage allocated to each Lisp data type. The black part of a bar represents the number of items or pages currently in use, the gray part the number of free items or pages.
#interlisp #lisp #retrocomputing
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Screenshot of the black and white desktop of a 1980s graphical workstation environment. The desktop has a gray background pattern and some windows with a white background and a title bar with white text on a black background. The main window shows a bar chart laid out horizontaly. Each bar has a black and a gray part and a text label next to it.
The 1988 book "Structured Programming in Assembly Language for the IBM PC" by William Runnion is impressive for its breadth and depth. For example, it also covers recursion and text graphics. It's even more impressive considering how much work went into producing the book.
At 728 pages, this resource was a treasure back then and it still is to this day.
Alex Bochannek publishes:
"A blog about scripting, computing history, and whatever else comes up..."
He covers creating and reading man pages, Emacs, Unix commands, the shell, and more.
Today's kids don't know that, back in the 1990s, the units in apartment buildings usually had only one telephone landline socket near the entrance. Since we used our PC in a bedroom often at the opposite end of the apartment, when we needed dial-up Internet access we had to run a roll-up extension cable through most of the apartment to connect the modem in the PC room to the phone socket. Every single time.
The QBone from decromancer.ca will allow us to get our 11/O3 online with another timesharing option. The beagle bone is embedded. #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #community
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QBone for pdp-11 qbus
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QBone for pdp-11 qbus
Here are the latest news regading my #TMSnake #game for #rc2014 and #TMS9918a #graphics.
The video below shows the current state of affairs, and I've just added some limited #sfx to the game - however the recording below did not capture the beepy beeps for some reason.
There is one last tweak I need to add in terms of gameplay but the final release is "coming soon" ™️ 😏