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New video! In the second part of the series, I'm trying to resurrect the Apple Macintosh Performa 630 Power Supply I found to have lots of leaky capacitors in the previous episode.

YouTube: https://youtu.be/95m79bzZ69A
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/7KstbRzmvGwEa8UfeuoMMA

#Apple #Macintosh #Performa #Performa630 #DOSCompatible #Restoration #PowerSupply #Recapping #RetroComputing #VintageComputing

Apple Mac Performa 630 DOS Compatible Restoration Part 2

I'm replacing the leaky capacitors in the Macintosh Performa 630 power supply. // Kindly sponsored by my favorite PCB manufacturer PCBWay! https://www.pcbway.com/ Part 1 - Recapping the main board:...
MakerTube
#apple #retrocomputing #restoration #macintosh #vintagecomputing #Performa #performa630 #doscompatible #powersupply #recapping

nooo! y2k has taken me down! ;) #retrocomputing #amstrad #pcw
#retrocomputing #amstrad #pcw

Salome, helping me photograph some workstations last night. #Caturday #SGI #RetroComputing
#caturday #retrocomputing #sgi

I'm gonna tell you a straight up truth.

While it's not perfect, and it has its share of absolute fucking wankers and degens, there's no tech subculture you'll find that's got better people than retrocomputing. Not gamers, not devs, no group you'll find in tech has better people in it.

How do I know? I've been in tech since I was a very young child trading copied floppies in the cafeteria at school, and I've been in it ever since -- not to mention that the retro community has essentially willed one of my crazy assed projects into physical existence for no better reason than it sounded fun to them. Try that shit on Stack Overflow.

#retrocomputing #tech

#tech #retrocomputing

Come celebrate the 60th birthday of BASIC with me! I've got games to play and history blog posts: https://troypress.com/basic-in-your-browser-its-history-and-games/ #BASIC #retrocomputing

BASIC in Your Browser, Its History, and Games

The most popular pages on the site last year were two different ways of running BASIC in your browser: Palo Alto Tiny BASIC in Your Browser but running in an assembly language emulator. Two out of …
Troy Press
#retrocomputing #basic

Around this month in 1974, the microcomputer industry took off. Can you imagine that 50 years has passed? It all started with the Popular Electronics cover photo and accompanying article of the Altair 8800 in January 1975. That led to the homebrew computer club and the computers with the early Intel 8080 microprocessors and S100 bus. The club led to the first orders of the Altair 8800 , followed by the Imsai 8080 competitor, which is recognizable in the movie Wargames. The homebrew club led to the Apple computer, and the rest is history. (The copy of the rare magazine in the photo is my own). Members of the classic computing community seem to agree that April 1974 marks the launch of the Altair with the first commercial release. Hence, before this month is over, I would like to share a toast with all the computer enthusiasts out there that we ought to thank the month of April 1974 for all the computing machinery that we use every day. #tech #computinghistory #retrocomputing
#tech #retrocomputing #computinghistory

Donkyo Kongu!

Handmade Ukiyo-e woodblock art by Jed Henry:
https://www.ukiyoeheroes.com

#art #artwork #RetroGaming #VintageComputing #RetroComputing #retro #vintage #japan #japanese #nintendo #mario #game #games #gaming #gamer

Ukiyo-e Heroes | Home

Discover handmade woodblock prints of classic video games. Caringly designed by Jed Henry and beautifully printed in David Bull's Tokyo workshop.
www.ukiyoeheroes.com
#art #gamer #games #retro #gaming #nintendo #artwork #japanese #japan #game #retrocomputing #retrogaming #vintage #mario #vintagecomputing

Looks like #Microsoft, in collaboration with #IBM has open-sourced #MSDOS4 under a #MIT license. I wonder how this will benefit the #FreeDOS project, unless some of that has already been integrated into FreeDOS. This could also be a boon for #RetroComputing enthusiasts. :flan_hacker:​:crt_w_prompt:​ #DOS #MSDOS #IBM

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/open-sourcing-dos-4


Open Sourcing DOS 4

See the canonical version of this blog post at the Microsoft Open Source Blog! ...
www.hanselman.com
#microsoft #retrocomputing #IBM #dos #mit #msdos #msdos4 #freedos

:perfect: The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics

γ€Œ Early in his time at Stanford, Clark worked on a project with Xerox PARC with support from ARPA to develop three dimensional graphics. This led to the creation of the Geometry Engine. In β€œThe Geometry Engine: A VLSI Geometry System for Graphics,” Clark also makes specific reference to Marc Hannah and Lynn Conway as being valuable contributors to the effort 」

https://web.archive.org/web/20240406001321/https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-silicon-graphics

#SGI #ComputingHistory #Retrocomputing


The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics

or How a Rebellious Youth Briefly Conquered the World
Bradford Morgan White (Abort Retry Fail)
#retrocomputing #computinghistory #sgi

Hey babe (actually, @jmechner), wake up -- new port of #PrinceOfPerisa just dropped: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_osxFXC_ZAY #vic20 #retrogaming #retrocomputing

Commodore VIC-20: Prince of Persia Longplay

Released in 2024, a conversion of the game for the fully expanded VIC-20 (+35k, PAL only) inspired by the ZX Spectrum version, albeit with some differences.S...
YouTube
#retrocomputing #retrogaming #princeofperisa #vic20 @Jordan Mechner

The ACM Digital Library now gives free access to the full text of the classic "Anatomy of LISP" by John Allen (McGraw-Hill, 1978). A great historical and practical resource.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.5555/542865

#lisp #retrocomputing #books

#books #retrocomputing #lisp

A couple of test prints for the shell of my EXL 100 keyboard #RetroComputing
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