How worried should I be that there's a 5¼" disk poking up through the ground at the local cemetery?

#RetroComputing#DeadMedia

I had another part of my #NeXTcube mini printed with #resin by #JLCPCB as a test.

The difference in quality is unbelievable! I should stop doing that. Otherwise I won't even want to print with filament anymore. 🙈

#FDM printing on the right, resin printing on the left.

#3DPrint#3DPrinting#NeXTComputer#VintageComputing#RetroComputing

The Atari ST started shipping in July 1985, 40 years ago

https://www.goto10retro.com/p/atari-st-40th-anniversary

#atarist #retrocomputing

Shop keeper Phyllis used her computer system to automate book keeping, taking the time to prepare from five hours to five minutes.

Having learned the system down to hardware level, Phyllis is now building an electronics kit. Her aim? Build a computer herself; Or as we called it an “electronic gadget”.

What Phyllis doesn’t say is she was a maths graduate from University and “#Cypher Clerk” in “Hut 5” at #BletchleyPark during the war.

The”Official Secrets Act” was in force in 1983 😂🤣☺️

#UK / WW2 / #computing / #bombe / #SigInt / #accounts / #hardware #kits / #Commodore / #PET / #RetroComputing

Posting from masto9 on my AMD K6-2! #oldcomputerchallenge #retrocomputing

AmigoTracker 1.33 includes, among other things, memory usage and resampling optimizations. In other words, it's now possible to load larger mods and everything should sound a bit better. Enjoy!

🎵 Mr. Cox in Mumbai by JazzCat / Ghostown

#playdate #amiga #retrocomputing #trackermusic

For all its faults, copy-and-paste is still a pretty neat feature.

I just copied a funny picture I saw in my Mastodon feed and pasted it into a Gajim chat, and it worked, just like that.

To someone who'd been using a single-tasking computer like an IBM PC or Commodore 64 or something, moving an object from one app to another unrelated app like that must've been mind-blowing when it first appeared.

Who had it first, by the way? #MacOS via MultiFinder? #Amiga? #Windows?

#retrocomputing

ATASCOIID: A 998 Byte "big" #BreakOut for the #Atari800, just published by Frederik Holst for the @abbuc Software Competition:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4ffy4TXI-c

#RetroComputing#RetroGaming

#spreadsheet #retrocomputing #msdos

if you were a kid in the 90s or early 2000s, you very likely goofed around with some of this educational software at school, or if your parents hated you sufficiently, at home.

a few months ago someone generously sent me an educational software catalog that their father - who was a teacher - had kept from the 90s. i finally got around to scanning it in, and now you too can goggle at the insane prices schools had to pay for multi-seat game licenses.

this is the catalog your teachers browsed in the summer, before unsuccessfully trying to convince the principal to lay down $495 for an Incredible Machine 3 lab pack.

(fwiw, does anyone really trust an edutainment company that can't spell brussels sprouts?)

pdf and original (400 dpi) scans here:

https://archive.org/details/software-plus-1996

#softwarePreservation#digiPres#retroComputing#retroGaming #edutainment

Cidco MailStation as a Z80 Development Platform

https://jcs.org/2019/05/03/mailstation

#computers #retrocomputing #z80 #hacking #makers #technology

What Clive Sinclair and Gary Kildall had in common, aside from being red-bearded.

https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-two-red-bearded-visionaries

#retrocomputing#DigitalResearch #sinclair