🏠💿 Early CD drives (the SCSI model from IBM PS/2 Server 95 in the picture) often accepted the disc only in a special box called a caddy (which you might be more familiar with from MiniDiscs). We partially opened the drive in the picture because it decided it no longer wants to eject the caddy with the CD 😅
🧙♂️💿 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!
⌨️📺 The DEC VT100 is a historically significant computer terminal. It was available in Slovenia under the name KOPA d.d. 1000. We obtained our specimen in 2006, and it is in working condition, but it lacked a keyboard. Now we've tracked one down and hope to try it out soon! 💪
Discover insights from FOSDEM and Chaos Communication Congress, and engage in a dialogue about the inception of Slovenia's first cooperative dedicated to supporting FOSS. Join us at the next #Cyberpipe meeting at the museum on the 12th of February!
🐘 Recently, we welcomed the 🄳🄸🄶🄸🅃🄰🄻 AlphaServer 8400 5/440 into our collection. According to online information, it was considered a supercomputer in 1996 💪💪
🟩🖥️ When we look at the motherboard for the IBM PC AT from 1984, we notice several interesting differences compared to modern ones:
🐘 Basic RAM is already included on it.
🧠 The 386 processor doesn't require any additional cooling.
🎓 For higher performance, a math coprocessor 80287 was needed.
⌨️ The only built-in peripheral connection is for the keyboard.
⌨⬛ 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.
🔴📺 Sinclair ZX Spectrum has also found its place in our showcase, alongside a cool red retro TV. 😍 The total length of our exhibition showcases is an impressive 50 meters. 💪
🧑⚕️🐁 The SNES mouse at the vet (museum lab). We cleaned the rollers and found out that it can't hear on the right ear (right button doesn't work) due to a malfunction in the microswitch. Fortunately, creating in Mario Paint doesn't necessarily require it. 🖌️🖼️🎨
🚪🔒 The last game remaining on our list available on our DOS retrogaming machines is Zork: The Great Underground Empire - Part I. Good games are not defined by graphics - text-based adventures from the early days of accessible computing are a testament to that.
🩸🏗️ We are slowly approaching the end of the list of games on our "no-LAN" machines - there are still a few 3D shooters left (which we absolutely must present) - this one uses the same engine as Duke Nukem 3D (Build), but it was released a year later. What's its name again? 🤔
🦈🏎️ Wacky Wheels (1994, Apogee Software) is the animal racing game equivalent of Mario Kart for DOS. The developer accidentally sent the source code to another publisher along with a demo version 😱, but the resulting competitor, Skunny Kart, wasn't equally successful.
💾💨Habemus papam 😢 For the first time, we wanted to use the Commodore 1541 disk drive for the Commodore 64, and it turned out not to be so trivial - a perfectly working C64 apparently has a faulty serial port, one of the drives smoked horribly in between, only then did we manage to succeed!
🚄🌆 The title screen in Transport Tycoon Deluxe (MicroProse, 1994) is the epitome of "infinite possibilities." Simulating the complexity of the real world at your fingertips. A video game crafted intricately by the talented Chris Sawyer, who coded it in assembly language for speed.
😍 Super Mario Bros 64 😲 Unofficial port of Nintendo's classic on Commodore 64. After several attempts, we loaded it with the help of Arduino Nano and 5 wires thanks to the uno2iec project 💪