⌨⬛ 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.
🦖🌪️ Silicon Graphics graphic workstations were once synonymous with high performance - they even appeared in movies like Jurassic Park, Twister, and Congo. In the museum, we have a lot of interesting peripherals for them, including several SGI IndyCam cameras.
City of #Ljubljana in #Slovenia, population 280,000, kicked cars out in 2007.
Since then, car use has dropped by 32%, black carbon emissions are down 70%, noise pollution is down by 6 decibels.
Unfortunately, going car-free has made the center a living hell, as this video shows:
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✏️📺 In our museum collection, we have a unique gaming console called the Vectrex, which comes with its own built-in TV screen. Its distinctive feature, as evident from its name, is vector graphics (made up of lines) instead of raster graphics (like pixels on the screen) - giving its games a unique look and very smooth animations.
💼💻 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.
💡🖨️ For terminal access, you don't even need a monitor. Ancestor of this dot matrix printer with a keyboard, the DECwriter III, had its roots in teleprinters, which evolved from telegraphy. This model dates back to 1977 and supports only the more modern RS-232 standard with a maximum speed of 9600 bit/s.
💿📚 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).
Visited the Computer History Museum in Ljubljana (@muzej). I was close by, how could I not? 🇸🇮
The museum is small(ish) but nice. It has a number of systems that you can interact with, including a Pentium PC packed with nostalgia-inducing games. 🕹️
It also has a few other systems that peaked my curiosity, like the PDP-11 (an important machine in UNIX history) or an IBM S/390 mainframe tucked under a Bubble Bobble emulation arcade.
🔢🕹️ 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.
⚾🧱 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 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.
📻 We are broadcasting a ZX Spectrum game over the air in collaboration with Radio Student! This week marks Radio Student's 55th anniversary, and they were among the European stations broadcasting computer programs over the radio in the 1980s, a tradition we are reviving. The game being aired is Kontrabant 2, originally released by Radio Student in 1984. 🎮