Hello com! @SDF Franklin PC 8000 with Amdek monitor #retrocomputing

What’s the oldest piece of computer hardware you have? #retrocomputing

Finally was able to find a SGI Indy :) - one missing link in my Unix-Pizza Collection :).
Anyone got an official grey SGI mouse to let?

Did I just do a #Markdown conversion of Mark Russinovich’s seminal 1998 article on #WindowsNT (and by extension, all modern versions of #MicrosoftWindows)’ debt to #DEC’s #VMS #OperatingSystem? Just so I could have a decent copy apart from the dusty carried-over archived version at https://www.ITProToday.com/server-virtualization/windows-nt-and-vms-the-rest-of-the-story ?

Why yes, yes I did. Why not?

Using the mouse-driven graphical user interface of a personal computer to write a document with a WYSIWYG word processor, check new messages with an email client, and create an organization chart with a drawing program. Just an ordinary day at Xerox PARC in 1978. When email spam was apparently already a thing.

The demo features the Alto workstation and the Bravo word processor. You can hear the noise of the hard disk.

https://archive.org/details/Xerox_Palo_Alto_Demo_August_1978

Created a brand-new 86Box system, custom made for MS-DOS 3.31 and Windows/386 2.11.

This is using a 386 CPU with 4 megs of RAM, Trident TVGA 8900D graphics and a 120MB WDAC2120 harddisk. Everything seems to be pretty compatible and works without issues, running in 386 enhanced mode. Including the latest and greatest MS Word 1.1a and Excel 2.1d.

Error messages used to be more direct

Found something neat for #retrocomputing people running #Windows 3 on modern hardware: a graphics driver that uses #VBE. Using this, you can run Windows 3.1 in full 24-bit color and 1920×1080 resolution. Fun!

https://github.com/PluMGMK/vbesvga.drv

The Amiga No One Wanted - The Amiga has a lot of fans, and rightly so. The machine broke a lot of ground. Ho... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/16/the-amiga-no-one-wanted/ #retrocomputing #amiga #doom

The gibberish on screen is not actually garbage -- it's the data loaded from a file, transferred into the REU, then transferred back to screen memory. This proves that it will work to use the REU this way.

“Apple’s long-lost hidden recovery partition from 1994 has been found”
This is a fascinating deep-dive into a classic recovery partition that existed nearly twenty years before Apple stopped shipping physical install media. Originally seen on r/VintageApple #VintageApple #VintageMac #RetroMac #RetroComputing #MARCHintosh https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/03/apples-long-lost-hidden-recovery-partition-from-1994-has-been-found/

@fozztexx has been hacking on the #IBMPC #MSDOS version of #FujiNet.

FNSHARE acts as a redirector for the Network device to any FujiNet firmware supported network protocol, seen here accessing files from a Windows file share to the #RS232 based FujiNet.

https://youtu.be/xqv0veAQX8A

#20Games that underpinned key moments in your life. Screenshot or box art, no review, no explanation, just games. 9/20
#retrogaming #retrocomputing #videogames

Home computers that used cartridges were all the rage in the '80s. I'm surprised there was no third party company that sold a replacement lid for the #AppleII that had a hole cut over slot 7, and made self-booting cartridges the user would plug in through the hole.

<insert mockup photo of Apple II with cartridge poking out of the lid>

SPARCstation SLC - the 1990 iMac

https://apfelklassik.de/blogartikel.html?ID=32