cs, (edited ) to retrocomputing When was the last time you typed ATDT? #Retrocomputing #HayesStandard
bobbytoni, to retrocomputing Finally got my #macintosh performa 6200 to run. Reason was a faulty Cache/ROM-DIMM that I replaced with another faulty DIMM. The third one is working 😀 #retro #retrocomputing #retromacintosh #performa6200
hankg, to retrocomputing It’s not every day I get to play with a Xerox Alto thanks to the people at The Computer Museum in Maryland! I suck at Missile Command BTW. Great exhibit space and worth a visit! #RetroComputing #XeroxAlto
Computeforloot, @hankg WOW!!!!!!!!!!!
Windows 95 Guide w/ Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry (www.youtube.com)
thomasfuchs, to retrocomputing Looking for the CD-ROM for the Veo Photo Traveler for Pocket PC, couldn’t find it online (but found a photo of the CD!)
These are drivers for a digital camera that’s attached to a Pocket PC CF card from 2002.
Anyone have this CD and can make an ISO or knows where to find it online?
(Please RT)
bnut, @thomasfuchs I'm not sure if this helps, but I found similar, maybe it's compatible. It’s not an ISO, just a 7z archive of the CD contents:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Palm/comments/8ekh9x/looking_for_software_for_veo_photo_traveler/dxwviw2/It includes the manual “Veo Photo Traveler for Palm Handhelds” but not the manual that seems to correspond to yours (linked here):
https://archive.org/details/generalmanual_000011599/mode/2up
thomasfuchs, @bnut I’m looking for the pocket pc version, not palm
santiago, to retrocomputing
I don’t really understand what your job is about …
Oh it’s a bit of everything. I code in the blue window, then take notes in the white one, watch the presentation on the small screen, then open the terminal to very serious server admin.
#retrocomputing #C64 #Amiga #MacOS #CoolRetroTerm #procrastination
mr_daemon, @santiago #4 on the todo list is The Way
santiago, French @mr_daemon si c’était que le samedi 😅
elleybird, to retrocomputing The first ever non Valve game on Steam is still available today for $0.99.
hankg, to retrocomputing It's astounding how modern computer idioms we take for granted could be done with NeXTSTEP in 1991. The live video and on-the-fly editing are even more impressive, albeit requiring the $15K model computer. That was impressive performance for that price at the time too though.
#ComputerHistory #RetroComputing #SteveJobs #NeXTComputer
Steve Jobs NeXT Cube with Dimension Board Demo 1991 rerecorded Rob Blessin Black Hole Inc 2024 #1
Wen, (edited ) @hankg Interestingly (maybe) I bought it, and a number of others because we really liked Mathematica - which came with the machine. They paid for themselves just for that and its utility.
phf, @hankg NeXT was some cool shit. I also remember when we made fun of a Microsoft demo at our university when they showed off gasp OLE gasp in like 1993. NeXT and Amiga (via datatypes) had this shit way before. Heck, Oberon had embedding of stuff. It was in the air and lots of people grabbed it.
amoroso, to retrocomputing This short history of web development is a useful overview for me as I haven't kept close tabs on the field. The post seems to cover all the main frameworks but a notable omission is Tailwind CSS.
jdevoo, @amoroso also useful in the context of nascent LLM orchestration frameworks which started putting flow control in the wrong hands - as with Web frameworks, I feel there'll be a need to let functional teams control prompts and flow as with HTML/CSS and control patterns
amoroso, @jdevoo Haven't heard of those LLM frameworks, thankfully.
fenarinarsa, to retrocomputing New release of the HxC firmware for Gotek adds direct support for Apple II disk formats:
.dsk, .do and .po.woz still needs conversion to .hfe using the HxC tool
https://hxc2001.com/download/floppy_drive_emulator/HXCFEUSB_Gotek_HxC_firmware.zip
Release notes:
https://hxc2001.com/download/floppy_drive_emulator/USB_HFE_hxc_floppy_emulator_firmware_release_notes.txt
christian, to retrocomputing German Wer braucht noch fabrikneue #Z80-CPUs? Bis zum 14. Juni 2024 könnt ihr die letzten ihrer Art bei #Zilog bestellen.
Ich bin berührt davon, dass der #Mikroprozessor, auf dem ich 1986 in der DDR zu programmieren anfing, immer noch hergestellt wird.
Der Vater eines Schulfreunds arbeitete im VEB Mikroelektronik »Wilhelm Pieck« Mühlhausen, wo der KC 85/2 hergestellt wurde. In dem steckten der Z80-Klon #U880 aus dem Funkwerk Erfurt und ein BASIC-Modul.
https://www.golem.de/news/8-bit-prozessor-der-legendaere-zilog-z80-wird-eingestellt-2404-184383.html
santiago, to retrocomputing Me: I have too many computers
Also me: Come on a 12” sony vaio from 2004 for the equivalent of 44$ ? This thing could run 32 bit #HaikuOS . 1.5GHz and 1GB RAM should be enough for everybody.
clicks
#retrocomputing #addiction #gerontophiliaForComputers
The exact model PCG-V505ECP
Specs for model of this brand. This one is 1.5 GHz and has 1 GB RAM
santiago, Seems AliExpress sells SSD than run IDE connectors ? At 33$ it’s nearly as expensive as the computer was. Wonder how this performs. I don’t even remember the limitations of PATA IDE but it was probably not very high throughput. Access times should be a world of difference though.
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mKdFxhM
#retrocomputing
tealeg, @santiago actually almost exactly the same experience. It failed multiple times and had to keep going in for repair - which involved shipping it from the UK to Switzerland. It took months each time until eventually ran out of warranty whilst they had it and then they refused to do anything with it unless I paid them to do so. I said I'd rather bin it, but could they send it back and then they sent me a bill for sending it back.
Windows 2000 professional (lemmy.world)
lukaszjokiel, to retrocomputing Polish Atari 1040STF upgrade to 4MB - works! It's quite smooth, and easy if you got the mobo with 8 chips for 1MB (or 4 for 520STF).
I've seen that Mega ST1 to ST4 has similarities to this particular motherboard, and decided to try.
- Get a PS/2 FPM 70ns RAM module with 8 chips, SOJ26 to DIP adaptera (8 pcs), 33ohm resistor
- Desolder the chips from PS/2 module and desolder old RAM from ST, then solder new RAM in adapters (add sockets)
- Connect all the legs - number 5 from the left, top (signal A9) with each other then connect them to MMU pin 64 (its not connected to anythin) via 33 Ohm resistor. The A9 singls on RAM are also not connected.
The upgrade is reversible just by swapping memory chips.That is it. I'll prepare a blog entry with details.
lukaszjokiel, Polish @mmu_man @hkz Yeah, sorter pins would work if you want to use old PSU!
mmu_man, Polish @lukaszjokiel @hkz was it these?
https://aliexpress.com/item/1005004707554342.html
rootcompute, to retrocomputing This set of icons never fails to put a smile on my face
buru5,
rootcompute, @buru5 The original video game jumpscare
peter, (edited ) to retrocomputing The Amstrad Notepad Computer NC100 from 1992, sporting a Z80, 64K of ram, parallel printer port & RS232 serial port.
Runs off 4 AA batteries & one CR2032 for backup.
This one needs some work as it keeps saying the lithium battery is low when a new one is inserted & the stop key sticks, but otherwise works well.
scruss, @peter yup, mine does the battery thing sometimes. Nice little machine. Better keyboard than the Z88.
The Atari spares guy in California may still have some of the very last PCMCIA SRAM cards that work with them. They were meant for the Apple Newton, too.
peter, @scruss Yes, I've seen some with the 1MB newton cards, not seen any on their own though
uliwitness, to retrocomputing Hmm… when I open an Apple II disk image in Disk Jockey, it shows the folders and system files, but not any of the HyperCard stacks or the HyperCard IIGS application.
There goes my attempt at examining a IIGS stack using Hex Fiend to see if it's the same as a Mac stack.
f_dion, to retrocomputing help!
Looking for Toshiba L50utils.exe - laptop pcmcia drivers for Windows 95. It is long gone from the Toshiba website. Anybody with a floppy with this on or know where to find a copy?
#win95 #Toshiba #pcmcia #drivers #retro #retrocomputing #retrogaming #DOS #floppy #laptop
felsqualle, to retrocomputing If you ever saw a pixel-perfect screenshot from a virtual machine running MS-DOS in the default VGA text mode, you probably noticed that it looks slightly off.
The characters are too wide, and the whole image seems stretched.
But did you know that what you’re seeing is a perfect representation of the actual image, while your monitor from 1995 was deceiving you? Let’s have a closer look.
https://fabulous.systems/posts/2024/05/adding-aspect-ratio-correction-to-dos-screenshots/
santiago, to retrocomputing Maybe these should come back,
except instead of
“this page best viewed in”
it should say
“this page still fucking works with”
santiago, One could imagine even a fork of NetSurf with this only intent. Just rename it as SmolWeb browser + add an option to show just all the crap that was ignored. With a percentage of data used for actual content. “Site is 76% crap”.
Then you can imagine an opt-in search engine where owner enables indexation by having some smallweb tag in the code and submitting link to a form so the crawler can get a look and eventually refuse / abort at the first JavaScript tag.
santiago, Obviously I should tag this thread with the usual #IneverDoAnything :-)
juanfr, to zxspectrum Spanish #micromania magazine cover, may 1989
trankten, to retrocomputing Spanish ¡Recuerdo desbloqueado!
He encontrado en una caja mis archivadores con diskettes antiguos, cuando aún el CD-ROM no era algo al alcance de todos y para conseguir software o juegos los teniamos que copiar de unos a otros en discos de 1.44Mb...
Era una época en mi vida de ir a la escuela, jugar y coleccionar tazos, suspender conocimiento del medio, hacer el gamberro y a usar el comando DISKCOPY...
Maravillosos años 90.
omgubuntu, to retrocomputing IBM’s Iconic Model-M Keyboard Gets Modern Remake from 8BitDo - https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/05/8bitdo-keyboard-m-ibm-model-m-inspired #RetroComputing
nosville22, @omgubuntu
>Model M remake
>MX style switches
>completely different chasis
>not even curved
>no mention of
So it's a regular-ass mechanical keyboard. Why the fuck would anyone care? Unicomp has actual clones approaching 1:1 copy status.
Alltough from what I'm seeing it's less of a Model M remake and more of a Model M skin for an existing product.
omgubuntu, @nosville22 Eeeh, yeah, 'remake' probably wasn't the best choice of word for the share lede on my part (I did share like ~2AM my time so I was running on fumes a little). I should've said 'reimagined' or 'homage' (which is what the article uses).
The keys do have a slight curve like the OG, despite the lack of buckling spring. No inset curve in the chassis is a missed opportunity but they're re-using/sharing parts between all their 'retro inspired'' keyboards so perhaps understandable.
juanfr, to zxspectrum Spanish
craiggrannell, @juanfr I hated the C64 version. I never did understand why it got so much praise.