The weirdest voice-activated computer that I have ever seen on TV. Look at the microphone! This is from Wonder Woman Season 2, Episode 1 (1977). #retrocomputing #scifi

Working in an Acorn RISC PC600 which Had battery damage.
Looking lime this without VRAM module ... so the error must be around the onboard VRAM or it's logic.
Any hints?

My new PC featuring dual floppy disk drives and a classic Model M keyboard: https://susam.net/pc.txt

magic to me, last seen in 1992 at my mom's university computing science department

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banyan_VINES

The default drag-and-drop behavior of KDE 1 is to just ask what you want to do. Left mouse button, no modifier keys needed. I like that.

(Windows 98 does the same when dragging with the right mouse button. I don’t remember if 95 already supported this?)

Translating infrared signals into concentrated heat near thermal paper is advanced heat-bending.

https://www.keesvandersanden.nl/calculators/hp82240.php

Since I’m currently fiddling with SuSE 6.4 which I have running in a VM (and soon on hardware again, I hope), here are some screenshots from #GIMP 1.1 on SuSE Linux 6.4. Around 25 years old.

Chaotic Commodore 16 Repair

https://makertube.net/videos/watch/fe9a5e36-2f37-4f81-9dc4-ec45e2ff43ff

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.

https://sdf.org/icf

New video! Trying to fix a really badly broken Commodore 16, taking numerous wrong turns along the way.

YouTube: https://youtu.be/k_PFjvFz9v0
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/xrumFds6iLf5FXVvr9Txdk

March Madness in ANSI!

I've updated my bracket browser on Guardian of Forever BBS so it'll be fetching live game data over the next few weeks.

To check it out, just telnet to guardian.synchro.net.

I made this living #vintagecomputing exhibit at Develer near Florence

New video for Patrons:

Let's Code Commodore PET 0x02: Snakes on a PET

For all tiers, even free one, so join up!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/lets-code-pet-on-124642896?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
#letscode #commodore #commodorePET #retrocomputing

"More Fun Making It" creates fun videos about repairing and restoring classic computers and other tech, especially the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amiga etc. You can follow at:

@morefunmakingit

There are already over a hundred videos uploaded. If these haven't federated to your server yet, you can browse them all at https://makertube.net/a/morefunmakingit/videos

Was getting too quiet so powered up the old PC in my office, just for the #retrocomputing ambiance. Who needs youtube?

Just finished, and thoroughly enjoyed, Bill Gates' autobiography, "Source Code". A lot of interesting material on the unique conditions that enabled early exposure & mastery of development. Excerpt, on doing business in the early 1970s:

Saturday July 24:
2:45 Try Steve Jobs. Give his mom message.

Tuesday July 27:
10:55 Try Steve Jobs. Busy.
11:15 Steve Jobs calls. Was very rude
11:30 Try Peddle again. Must talk to him.

And then sometimes back in the 1950s, Grace Hopper invented the compiler: https://spectrum.ieee.org/from-punch-cards-to-python #vintagecomputring #retrocomputing #techhistory