Not showing my age or anything, but as a kid a Kodak Carousel 600 was what we meant by 'multimedia' tech ... am I alone? Except the word multimedia didn't exist 'back in the day' of course, so this was the equivalent of VR goggles
It was designed to be brought out for Xmas and holidays, and to torture the neighbours with holiday snaps
Monty Python "Four Yorkshiremen" mode /on/
MP: But you try and tell the young people today that, and they won't believe ya'.
ALL: Nope, nope /off/
Bit worried it's (now) listed in "The Internet Antique Shop - TIAS" ... like what does that make me then? 😂
Well an over-estronated & renovated trans witch I guess ... 🤣
When I was a young Commodore-era game developer, C (without the ++ or # back then) was for wimps, and hardcore coders used Assembly, ditching the OS to have maximum available hardware resources. 👴
My iPod has had its battery at this one sliver since last night before bed. I’m having it play music constantly to drain the battery completely so I can recalibrate it. This is day 3 🤣 #sync#retrotech#apple
67 years ago on October 15, 1956, The programming language FORTRAN, short for "Formula Translation," was introduced to the public.
It was the first general-purpose, compiled imperative programming language, originally developed by IBM in the 1950s for scientific and engineering applications. FORTRAN gained popularity and became a vital tool in scientific and engineering applications
(Not my set up btw. Stole the picture from a friend)
Edit: This is from an eBay listing and it seems that has already finished but it is all in German so if you are curious about what all the stuff is, check it out here: https://www.ebay.de/itm/145149706202
Thinking about getting a Mac desktop tower that’s an older one but any recommendations? I’m looking for something that I can have Mac OS 9 and OSX on at least, but could be Hackintoshed to Mac OS 9, an old Mac OS X version and something like El Capitan?
I know OpenCore is a thing but I guess I could use Rosetta under Panther or something
"It is well-known that some Boeing 747s, for example, use floppy disks to load critical software updates into their navigation and avionics computers.
In San Francisco, the Muni Metro light railway, which launched in 1980, won't start up each morning without a floppy disk that controls the railway's Automatic Train Control System."
29 years ago on October 13, 1994, Mosaic Netscape 0.9 was released, introducing the concept of cookies to the Internet and delivering a significant improvement over previous web browsers.
Mosaic Netscape 0.9 played a major role in the popularisation of the World Wide Web. It made the web more accessible to a wider audience
Todays #RetroTech Old Tat
Nearly killed me, managed unload
The BEAST
Ampex Data Products CP 100
It’s history seems a mystery
1” Tape
14 Tracks
Not Video, not Helical Drum
Audio would have been 16 Tracks
Gent was told “used for Data originally”
Bloody heavy & HUGE