🎮🐱 The Atari Lynx (Lynx II in the photo) is the first portable console with a color screen from 1989. Like many others, it unsuccessfully attempted to compete with the Game Boy, even though it has several advantages over it:
🌈 Backlit 4096-color LCD with a resolution of 160×102.
💥 A special chip for hardware-accelerated graphical effects.
👈 Left-handed mode.
Dear women, pioneers of computing, early programmers and all of you, who took us into the digital age, thank you. On this International Women’s Day Computer History Museum Slovenia congratulates you for all your contributions. Introduce yourselves to us, so we can get to know you personally, hear your stories and learn of the history as you remember it happening.
🟥⬛ Within our collection, we proudly house three rare household computers, the Oric Nova 64, specifically adapted for the Yugoslavian market from the Oric Atmos (Tangerine Computer Systems, 1984). One of these units is particularly fascinating due to its inclusion of engraved Yugoslav (YU) characters. 😍
🦕🖥️ 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.
🇫🇷🕸️ Impeccably preserved Minitel 1 terminal, the device that allowed people in France to 'surf the web' since 1982, even before it was officially invented. It's a kind of two-way Teletext - users could not only receive data (at 1200 bit/s) using the built-in modem but also send it - albeit at a modest 75 bit/s. France Télécom only shut down the service in 2012, while Teletext continues to thrive in Slovenia! 😎
📸 Upon your request, here are additional photographs showcasing this exquisite piece! 🇸🇮 The Slovenian Iskra Delta "Triglav" computer is a testament to Slovenia's remarkable contributions to computing, adding significantly to the prestigious Iskra Delta series that debuted in the 1980s. 💻🌟
The most renowned Slovenian computer is a server known as Stenar. 💻 Acquired in the independence year of 1991, Stenar was instrumental in connecting Slovenia with the world, facilitating the free flow of information. 🌍🔗 At our museum, Stenar proudly stands as a permanent exhibit, open for public viewing.
💼💻 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.
📓✒️ If you had purchased Corel Ventura 5 for desktop publishing in 1995, you would have received a booklet to help you browse through the 17,000 included cliparts. 😁 Did you use clipart for your documents and presentations? What about WordArt? 😆
The ID80 standalone computer.
The Iskradata 80, a distributed computer system developed and manufactured in 1979 and 1980 in Slovenia, featured a Z80 processor, two 256-kB floppy disk drives, and a printer. Distributed processing allowed database access on the network. Computers could work independently or in a network of up to 16, connecting via RS-232 and using sync/asyn protocols for transfers.
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. ✨
40 years later, a game for the ZX Spectrum will be once again broadcast over FM radio! 📻 Anyone who still has a working Spectrum ZX will then be able to test the game. 🎮 Those who do not have one can do so at the museum or online. 💻
💻🧒 One Laptop per Child (pictured model XO) was a project aimed at providing educational laptops to children in developing countries. They are durable and equipped with features and programs tailored for users encountering high technology for the first time. When needed, they can activate an anti-theft system to prevent resale and ensure they reach the intended children.
Yesterday I arrived in Rijeka (Croatia) and started my archival research at the PEEK&POKE #ComputerMuseum today with an exhaustive visit of the hardware collection. There are a lot of (former) jugoslawian, sovjet, polish and other #HomeComputer systems from around the world. Many of them are in running condition (since the exhibiton is "hands-on").
🎮🕹️ We have a rich collection of video games for many classic systems: 405 for NES, 92 for SNES, 115 for Game Boy, 47 for Nintendo 64, 232 for Atari, 121 for Sega, and 500 more. 😀😀
🧙♂️💿 ZuluSCSI™, equipped with the RP2040 chip, is a magic wand to enable systems that only support SCSI drives. It can emulate multiple hard drives and CD drives simultaneously. We are thrilled!
📚🔑 This is one of the first USB flash drives - the IBM DiskOnKey - with a capacity of 8 MB, equivalent to over 5 floppy disks 💾 And yes, it still works, we tested it 😍
🧠💻 This isn't just a personal organizer - this little HP 200LX (1994) means business, boasting a 7.91 MHz 80186 processor and running the MS-DOS operating system 🤩