ICM
@icm@mastodon.sdf.org  ·  activity timestamp last week

We're in the process or lighting up our Thinking Machines CM-2 which uses a Symbolics 3670 LISP Machine as its programming front end. The CM-1 was introduced 40 years ago in 1985 and the CM-2 in 1987. While this CM-2 is a single quadrant, we plan to simulate a full CM-2 and have its iconic "deep thought" lights running. Here you can see our lamp panels displaying a clock. This work was done by Jeff Kaylin.

https://icm.museum

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Metin Seven 🎨
@metin@graphics.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Gotta love good ol' 1-bit pixel dithering (ordered, Floyd-Steinberg, etc.) 💚

𝙈𝙖𝙘𝙋𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙩 𝘼𝙧𝙩 𝙁𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙞𝙙-80𝙨 𝙎𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙇𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙨 𝙂𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙏𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙮

https://blog.decryption.net.au/posts/macpaint.html

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ICM
@icm@mastodon.sdf.org  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

We're just 5 people away from reaching 300 supporting members. Would you help us reach our March 2025 goal?

https://icm.museum/?join

Members can request personal logins on our 26 Remote Systems, but guest access is open to all.

Thank you for supporting our efforts!

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Andrew Helwer
@ahelwer@discuss.systems  ·  activity timestamp last year

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!

#RetroComputing

Front photograph of the two compute module trays with their protective metal grille removed. Each are identical; on the left is a large encapsulated hard drive. On the right appears to be a power supply. In the middle is a metal drum of unknown purpose. Both are topped by a large circuit board.
Front photograph of the two compute module trays with their protective metal grille removed. Each are identical; on the left is a large encapsulated hard drive. On the right appears to be a power supply. In the middle is a metal drum of unknown purpose. Both are topped by a large circuit board.
Front photograph of the two compute module trays with their protective metal grille removed. Each are identical; on the left is a large encapsulated hard drive. On the right appears to be a power supply. In the middle is a metal drum of unknown purpose. Both are topped by a large circuit board.
Andrew Helwer
@ahelwer@discuss.systems  ·  activity timestamp 12 months ago

Happy to share that we found a collector nearby in Winkler, Manitoba to take the computer off our hands! He has some contacts in the vintage computer federation and hopes to restore it. Just picked it up today.

#RetroComputing#VintageComputing