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While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973
Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Eโฆ
We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum
Australians, please raid your Uncle's old PC in his shed, and help me find a copy of this to archive.
#Australia #AFL #DOSGaming #Wolfenstein #RetroGaming #MSDOS #RetroComputing
Anyone interested in a Mac II video card and MPW manual from ~1989?
#retrocomputing #VintageMacintosh
(Please boost)
You can learn more about #Plan9 through regular boot camps sponsored by the #SDF Public Access #Unix System! 9p.sdf.org
We're live! Join us for a stream as we build an Apple I replica! ๐ ๏ธโจ twitch.tv/racunalniskimuzej
#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #electronics #applei #apple #retrocomputing #applenerd #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing #vintagemac #elettronica #woz #vintageapple
Nice, seems that is the chip that had the foof bug.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_โฆ
Looks like it was based upon the date.
A wide ask here so please boost: my grandfather is trying to get rid of an old business computer, and I was wondering whether any vintage computer people might want it. It was purchased for $50k from The Ultimate Corporation in the early 80s. This ran the Pick operating system, and my best guess is the hardware was originally manufactured by GE or Honeywell. It's about the size of a half-rack and currently lives in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. It has sat covered in plastic in a chemical warehouse for the past 35 years. Where do people usually post stuff like this other than here? Thanks!
rust9x 1.76.0 is close! Now with unwinding, backtrace support and thread parking working :V
The development of the next ScummVM version is progressing each and every day!
Please help us providing the most stable version ever by giving the prerelease versions a try!
If you enounter any bugs, please report them to bugs.scummvm.org, our Discord server or right here! โฅ๏ธ
#scummvm #retrograming #retrocomputing
ScummVM
ScummVM is a collection of game engines for playing classic graphical RPGs and point-and-click adventure games on modern hardware.www.scummvm.org
Itโs not #Caturday yet in this country but Marx ๐ฑ is already posing on his favorite 
#RetroComputing devices.
#cats #CatsOfMastodon #Apple #Mac
Here's another new artwork: "An Hour with ELIZA," a dot-matrix print of a conversation between the 1960's "psychotherapist algorithm" ELIZA and ChatGPT 4.
I'm excited to announce the completion of "Forth: The programming language that writes itself: The Web Page (Charles H. Moore and the pursuit of simplicity.)" 
Recommended for fans of: historical computing, programming languages, and space technology.
ratfactor.com/forth/the_prograโฆ
#forth #RetroComputing #history
Forth: The programming language that writes itself: The Web Page
An exploration of the evolution and meaning of the Forth programming language and its context in history.ratfactor.com
I would apologize for posting what at first appears to be another "tech toot"...but since I churned out almost 40 drawings for this talk on the Forth programming language, I don't feel bad about it at all. Here's the slides:
ratfactor.com/forth/forth_talkโฆ
I happen to know some of you enjoy space ships, calculators, and old computers as much as I do.
#MastoArt #RetroComputing #Forth #ConfusedCat
New blog post: Did you know there were typewriters that used ball point pens to draw not just text but also graphics? Iโve collected several of these over the years. #PenPlotter #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #CreativeCoding #MastoArt #GenerativeArt
Super neat way to get hardware protected mode on a Z80!
The Z80's secret feature discovered after 40 years!
For years, it's generally accepted that 8 bit microcomputer CPUs does not have hardware support for protected mode. However, my recent discovery shows otherw...YouTube
There's something else this thing came with though I am particularly fond of - a Banksia 28.8Kbps modem.
Banksia is, near as I can tell, an Australian company that produced modems - and nothing else I ever saw.
This was the brand of modem I had as a kid, dialling BBSs. I had this exact type of 28.8Kbps modem even into the internet dial-up era, never getting a 56k modem at all - i went straight to cable internet from 28.8.
So I'm delighted at getting one of these again! #retrocomputing
And now, the final part of The Haul - the machine that all these games came with.
It's an LC 575. It doesn't power on, unfortunately, or so I'm told. I plan to open it up and do an inspection for blown caps and the like at some point soon, probably when my better-than-me-at-electronics friend is free to give it a look.
I'm hoping I can get this thing working again - I used a Mac Plus during my school days, along with Apple ][ early on.
But this era of Mac is foreign to me.
I had no idea black hole visualizations with this level of fidelity went back so far. Brilliant! #space #RetroComputing
first simulated image of a black hole, calculated with an IBM 7040 computer using 1960 punch cards and hand-plotted by French astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet in 1978.
Anyone want to buy a โnewโ Microbee?
Price is too steep for me. #retrocomputing
microbeetechnology.com.au/storโฆ
256TC-SE #8 Z80 & Coldfire dual processor computer - Microbee - Microbee Technology - The home of the Microbee computer - Online Store
Microbee Technology is the home of the famous Microbee range of computers. We specialise in electronics kits for hobbyists, electronics design services to get your product idea to production ready state, surface mount & through hole assembly serviceโฆmicrobeetechnology.com.au
Itโs amazing that this IBM flowcharting template from 1963 works just find when used with an ipad! #retrocomputing
I bought the Stone Design Suite back in the early days of OS X #RetroComputing
What app stores looked like before the App Store: bit.ly/3rfQL0Y
