IT'S ALIVEEEEEEE!!! ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
After taking that pic, I got done cleaning the CBM. The entire Body, Board and keys all look a lot better now and im glad to say that after all of that, it turned on no problem as well!...
Two men exonerated after 30 years in prison by retrocomputing enthusiasts and the Bloop Museum, by extracting data from a damaged floppy disc. ( www.patreon.com )
via rusty.cat/@xarph/110997638739322089
Got a new windows 98 gaming PC, and boi she's huge!! ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
I've gotten really interested in old Computers since I got my Commodore PET 2 months ago, so to play some good ol MS Train Simulator and Stronghold 2, I got this massive beauty. Here is a little size comparison between it and my main PC...
Let's talk about the curious and ingenious DriveSpace, an MS-DOS program promising to double the available disk space. ( raduzaharia.medium.com )
Historic Personal Computers in Japan [1982-1998] (Stephen Maurice Graham) ( i.imgur.com )
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/6768387...
Two of world's first desktop computers found during house clearance ( www.leicestermercury.co.uk )
Two of the world's first desktop computers have been discovered during a house clearance. The Q1, which was launched in 1972, changed the way we use computers today....
The Superior Lemmy Experience ( files.catbox.moe )
Recently picket up this old Thinkpad T30 for 2 bucks at a local flea market. Its a bit scratched up and the battery is more or less dead but everything else is working fine. Its Pentium 4M, 1gb of ram and 40gb hdd might be a bit overkill for win2k but its really amazing. Running Firefox 13 and a webone proxy to deal with ssl...
The BASIC programming language turns 60 ( arstechnica.com )
I was definitely a Commodore kid, and BASIC was my first language. Maybe it's nostalgia, but I still like BASIC for hobby stuff.
A quick look back at BeOS, the PC operating system that tried to challenge Windows and Mac ( www.neowin.net )
Keeping family history alive! ( i.imgur.com )
Hi, first time posting on lemmy, I hope yall will enjoy my late grandfather's happy lil Mac Plus! Maxed out at 4MB of RAM and modded with power through SCSI and a low rpm fan. That's a fully working ImageWriter on the left. :)
Microsoft releases MS-DOS 4 source code on GitHub — 45 year old code now open-source ( www.tomshardware.com )
The 6502 CPU Powered a Whole Generation! | The 8bit Guy ( www.youtube.com )
Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0 and ME can grab online updates again ( arstechnica.com )
1990s Windows Update is back!...
Actually had to use this old friend at work the other day ( sopuli.xyz )
They keep this 20+ year old laptop around because it has a serial port and every now and then that comes in handy....
I reverse-engineered all Timex Datalink watches and devices, the Notebook Adapter, and the CRT graphics in Ruby! ( lemmy.world )
Heya! I thought I’d mention that I’ve been doing a bunch of development on the optical Timex Datalink watches! I have been carefully sniffing data from the original Timex software with a logic analyzer, and have fully reverse engineered every Datalink protocol, the serial Notebook Adapter, and even the CRT syncing graphics!...
Finally getting the Commodore CBM 3016 Home! ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
Follow up to this Post: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/8651436...
Want to live dangerously? Try running Windows XP in 2023 ( www.theregister.com )
The history of Vim ( pikuma.com )
Amazing article from Gustavo Pezzi about the history of the vi editor up to vim. Did you know that vim was first developed for the Amiga? That and lots of other interesting tidbits.
Master of Puppets on FLOPPOTRON 3.0 ( youtu.be )
I think this video needs far more views.
The INCREDIBLY Dusty insides of my newly acquired CBM 3016! ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
Follow up to this Post: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/8771226...
AKAT-1 Analogue Computer - reference photo for 3D model by Bethany Fox - (?) Muzeum Techniki, Warsaw, Poland ( cdna.artstation.com )
Source: AKAT-1 Analogue Computer (by Bethany Fox - ArtStation):...
A proper smartwatch ( lemmy.sdf.org )
I ported THOUSANDS of apps to Windows 95 ( youtu.be )
After 5 years of non use, what precautions should I take before turning on a Commodore CBM 3016? ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
I've finally taken the jump into retrocomputing with something I've always wanted to own, a proper Commodore PET, or CBM 3016 to be exact!...
Idle Windows XP and 2000 machines get infected with viruses within minutes of being exposed online — legacy OSes compromised by just connecting to the Internet ( www.tomshardware.com )
