⌨⬛ This is the NeXT computer. Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau used it at CERN to set up the first web server, id Software developed games like Doom and Quake on it, and at Slovenian daily newspaper Delo they used it to digitize the entire newspaper production process.
First #HandheldMuseum post! I used to share my collection on #Instagram but gave #Meta the boot long ago. Enjoy, let me know what you think, share/repost, and, if you have experience with a device I post, consider sharing your story so I can add human context them. First up…
💼💻 Many people would have loved to own an HP 200LX in 1994. It's powered by a 186 processor running MS-DOS 5.0, with 2 MB of available RAM, and offers plenty of I/O ports and expansion possibilities.
⚾🧱 Arkanoid for DOS was developed by the Japanese company Taito in 1988. It successfully continued the brick-breaking genre that Atari had pioneered with the arcade game Breakout in 1976. Arkanoid was a hit, with versions available for nearly 20 different systems in addition to DOS. What's your favorite "breakout"?
🔢🕹️ The Schmid TVG 2000 is a German clone of the second-generation Emerson Arcadia 2001 console from 1982. It is powered by an 8-bit Signetics 2650A processor running at 3.58 MHz, which addresses 1 KB of memory. The screen has a resolution of 128x104/208 and supports 8 colors.
💿📚 The Iomega Jaz is a series of portable data storage media and drives introduced in 1995, succeeding the successful Zip drive with larger capacities (2 GB in 1998).
🦕🖥️ The Lear Siegler ADM-3A terminal (1976) looks like it's straight out of The Flintstones 😃 We received it 12 years ago from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, and it dates back to the times before the influential VT100 terminal.
🌴✋ Palm. Just like BlackBerry, once synonymous with the personal digital assistant. First acquired by U.S. Robotics, then by 3Com, and later by HP, which ultimately retired the brand name in 2011.
The Robotron A5120 is a historic East German computer produced in the 1980s by VEB Robotron. 🚀 You might recall spotting it in the thrilling #deutschland83 TV series. ✨
SCO UNIX 🐧 emerged as the heir to Santa Cruz Operation's adaptation of Microsoft Xenix, 🚀 blending UNIX System V Release 3.2 with Xenix's device drivers and utilities. 🛠️ Released in 1989, SCO UNIX System V/386 Release 3.2.0 marked the commercial evolution from SCO Xenix.
The Tandy Portable Computer 100, was a pioneering portable computer released in 1983 by RadioShack, part of Tandy Corporation. It featured an integrated keyboard, a built-in LCD screen, and ran on four AA batteries, making it highly portable for its time. 📠💻
🧼💾 An unused cleaning kit for 5.25'' and 3.5'' disk drives. The liquid, we fear, may have evaporated by now. There's also the question of whether the material in the cleaning disks is still in a condition that we'd dare bring it into contact with the drive head 😅