Hackaday (unofficial) April 20, 2024 12:00am End-Of-Life for Z80 CPU and Peripherals Announced #news #parts #retrocomputing #z80 #zilogz80 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 End-Of-Life For Z80 CPU And Peripherals Announced In a Product Change Notification (PCN) published on April 15, Zilog (now owned by Littelfuse) announced the End of Life for a range of Z80 products, specifically virtually all of the Z84C00 range. …
Hackaday (unofficial) April 17, 2024 8:00pm VCF East 2024 Was Bigger and Better Than Ever #cons #featured #retrocomputing #vcf #vcf2024 #vcfeast #vintagecomputerfestival #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 VCF East 2024 Was Bigger And Better Than Ever I knew something had changed before I even paid for my ticket to this year’s Vintage Computer Festival East at the InfoAge Science and History Museum in Wall, New Jersey. Over the last couple…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 16, 2024 12:00am Compaq Portable III is More Than Meets the Eye #computerhacks #retrocomputing #compaq #compaqportableiii #portableiii #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Compaq Portable III Is More Than Meets The Eye The Compaq Portable III hails from the 386 era — in the days before the laptop form factor was what we know today. It’s got a bit of an odd design, but a compelling one, and the keyboar…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 14, 2024 9:00pm Porting Modern Windows Applications to Windows 95 #retrocomputing #reverseengineering #softwaredevelopment #net #windows95 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Porting Modern Windows Applications To Windows 95 Windows 95 was an amazing operating system that would forever transform the world of home computing, setting the standard for user interaction on a desktop and quite possibly was the OS which had t…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 14, 2024 3:00pm The BBC Micro, Lovingly Simulated in VR #retrocomputing #virtualreality #bbcmicro #emulator #vr #webxr #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 The BBC Micro, Lovingly Simulated In VR The BBC Micro was many peoples’ first exposure to home computing, and thanks to [Dominic Pajak], you can fire up this beloved hardware in WebXR. Is it an emulator? Yes, but it’s also mu…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 11, 2024 6:00am Exploring the Bendix G-15’s Typewriter #retrocomputing #bendix #electrictypewriter #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Exploring The Bendix G-15’s Typewriter The Bendix Corporation’s Bendix G-15 was introduced in 1956 as an affordable system for industrial and scientific markets. As with any computer system, a range of peripheral devices for input…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 10, 2024 9:00am Wozamp Turns Apple II Into Music Player #retrocomputing #apple #appleii #dac #media #mp3 #music #serialcard #surlserver #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Wozamp Turns Apple II Into Music Player Besides obvious technological advancements, early computers built by Apple differed in a major way from their modern analogs. Rather than relying on planned obsolescence as a business model, comput…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 9, 2024 6:00am PumpkinOS: A Modern Reimplementation of PalmOS for Today’s Platforms #retrocomputing #palm #palmos #pda #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 PumpkinOS: A Modern Reimplementation Of PalmOS For Today’s Platforms In a world where the personal digital assistant (PDA) has become yet another retro computing system, it’s always nice when experiencing the software for such platforms can be done in a way th…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 8, 2024 7:00pm The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics #history #retrocomputing #sgi #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 The Rise And Fall Of Silicon Graphics Maybe best known as the company which brought a splash of color to corporate and scientific computing with its Indigo range of computer systems, Silicon Graphics Inc. (later SGI) burst onto the mar…
Christoph S April 8, 2024 6:39pm Zeitreise nach Paderborn: Retro Computer Festival im Heinz-Nixdorf-Forum | heise online Wer sich für alte Computer interessiert ist hier genau richtig #retrocomputing https://www.heise.de/news/Zeitreise-nach-Paderborn-Retro-Computer-Festival-im-Heinz-Nixdorf-Forum-9678359.html Zeitreise nach Paderborn: Retro Computer Festival im Heinz-Nixdorf-Forum Das dritte Retro Computer Festival im weltgrößten Computermuseum bietet beliebte Schätzchen, aber auch exotische Exemplare. Der Eintritt ist frei.
Emmanuel Florac April 8, 2024 11:15am migueletto/PumpkinOS: PumpkinOS is a re-implementation of PalmOS. #retrocomputing #palmOS https://github.com/migueletto/PumpkinOS GitHub - migueletto/PumpkinOS: PumpkinOS is a re-implementation of PalmOS. PumpkinOS is a re-implementation of PalmOS. Contribute to migueletto/PumpkinOS development by creating an account on GitHub.
Hackaday (unofficial) April 6, 2024 6:00am ColecoVision Cart Rises from Ashes #retrocomputing #colecovision #fire #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 ColecoVision Cart Rises From Ashes We felt bad for [Mark] of Mark Fixes Stuff. Apparently, his house burned down and took virtually everything, including his retrocomputer collection. He did manage to pull out a few things from the …
Emmanuel Florac April 5, 2024 10:19pm The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics #retrocomputing #SGI #SiliconGraphics https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-silicon-graphics The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics or How a Rebellious Youth Briefly Conquered the World
Hackaday (unofficial) April 5, 2024 9:00am 3M’s Floppy Disks: A Story of Success and the Birth of Imation #retrocomputing #3m #floppydiskette #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 3M’s Floppy Disks: A Story Of Success And The Birth Of Imation 3M, or as it was officially called until 2002, the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company is one of those odd-duck companies where if you ask what products they manufacture the answer is pretty…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 3, 2024 6:00am The Apple They Should Have Made, But Didn’t #retrocomputing #1980s #apple #applejohnathan #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 The Apple They Should Have Made, But Didn’t Whenever there is a large manufacturer of a popular product in the tech space, they always attract tales of near-mythical prototypes which would have changed everything on the spot had they just no…
Emmanuel Florac April 2, 2024 9:21pm Reportage • "L'ordinateur et votre avenir" • (1978) #retrocomputing https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=Lu4MmxFiZlo Reportage • "L'ordinateur et votre avenir" • (1978) ► Ce soir je vous propose un vieux reportage sur l'industrie micro dans les années 70.(FR-1978) Bon visionnage :-) ●▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬● ➽ Mon Twitter : - http://bit.ly/1NyVrYB ➽ Mon Blog : -...
Hackaday (unofficial) April 1, 2024 6:00am 3D Printing Computer Space #hardware #retrocomputing #3dprintedenclosure #arcadecabinet #computerspace #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 3D Printing Computer Space The first computer game available as a commercial arcade cabinet is unsurprisingly, a rare sight here in 2024. Nolan Bushnel and Ted Dabney’s 1971 Computer Space was a flowing fiberglass cabi…
Hackaday (unofficial) March 29, 2024 7:00pm Retrotechtacular: The IBM 7070 #retrocomputing #retrotechtacular #ibm #ibm7070 #mainframe #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Retrotechtacular: The IBM 7070 If you think of IBM mainframe computers, you most likely are thinking of the iconic S/360 or the slightly newer S/370. But what about the 7070 from 1958? It had transistors! It didn’t, howeve…