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behind the scenes with computer enhance at https://icm.museum
#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #photography #computers
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The back of a pdp10
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The back of a PDP-10 cpu
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Two PDP-11s and a PDP-8/e
The PDP-12 is running etch-a-sketch
#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing
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A PDP-12 running etch-a-sketch
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The PDP-12 is running etch-a-sketch
#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing
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But of course it can.
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Picture of two unnamed FreeBSD developers playing Doom. One on real period-correct hardware, the other running #GZDoom on a MacBook.
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Video showing a Roland SoundCanvas SC55mkII and an MT32 playing the Doom game music. Sound effects are from the Gravis Ultrasound.
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This is the proper use of an old low-end printer that uses thermal fax paper on a roll.
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A scene from The Blues Brothers printed on an IBM 5181 thermal printer.
We’re open today and tomorrow 10-4pm. The Centurion is going to get cleaned up and possibly powered up today. If we do that find us on
https://twitch.tv/interimcomputermuseum
#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrogaming
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An assortment of micros and a terminal with games
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A chess playing pdp-8/e
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A centurion versus a decsystem10
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Now THIS is how I like it. 86Box 5.0 has quickly taken over my existing virtual machines without any issues. Everything seems to be working fine and its new VM manager is looking really nice!
P. S.: First impression: PS/2 mouse support feels so much smoother than before!
86Box 5.0: https://github.com/86Box/86Box/releases/tag/v5.0
ROM repository: https://github.com/86Box/roms
#86Box #Emulation #PCGaming #DOSGaming #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #Windows #Microsoft #MSDOS #DOS #VirtualMachine
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86Box upgraded to version 5.0. Looking good!
I spent a portion of my day yesterday at the Interim Computer Museum (https://icm.museum/) and I was just blown away by it. Not just at the artifacts that Stephen is preserving, but at the dedication and personal resources he is putting into it. It's not just a passion project; he is preserving computing history here.
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Today I started integrating @benhencke|s MicroModSynth into #DOjS.
So far you can dynamically create synthesizers with a given number of voices and nodes and it plays the example from the GitHub repo fine on DOSBox.
Next step: come up with a nice #JavaScript interface to create voices and nodes and play some notes...
We’re adding more remote systems accessible from anywhere via ssh / browser at https://icm.museum
Come experience historic operating systems, programming languages and ASCII games 24/7
#retrocomputing #gaming #retrogaming #ascii #ansi #vintagecomputing
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A row of vintage systems accessible remotely
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A row of vintage systems accessible remotely
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A row of vintage systems accessible remotely
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@dec_hl Good list! I'll add a few of my favorites:
BCC - a "barely ANSI" C compiler, but generates small binaries (64+64 com). Great if I'm making something small, like a retro implementation of something.
Edlin - great no frills editor that I use without irony to edit files like batch files and makefiles. I've sometimes written entire readme files in it.
OpenWatcom FORTRAN 77 - I sometimes write a little FORTRAN, and this goes a long way.
Es hat mich tatsächlich über ein Jahr beschäftigt, aber ab sofort ist das IBM Betriebssystem PC DOS 2000 mit vollständigem, deutschem Handbuch komplett im Internet Archive abrufbar. Das sind insgesamt 686 Seiten in 300dpi, sauber gescannt und digital restauriert.
Bei PC DOS 2000 handelte es sich um die letzte offizielle Vollversion von DOS aus dem Jahre 1998, bereits mit sämtlichen Y2K Updates. Voll kompatibel zu Windows 3.x und Spielen für MS-DOS!
Schachtel: https://archive.org/details/pcdos_2000_de_box
Disketten: https://archive.org/details/pcdos_2000_de
CD-ROM: https://archive.org/details/pcdos_2000_de_cdrom
Handbuch: https://archive.org/details/pcdos_2000_de_handbuch
Viel SpaĂź!
#RetroComputing #DOSGaming #DOSGames #RetroGaming #MSDOS #PCDOS #IBM #Manual #Handbuch #Microsoft #Disketten #KryoFlux
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Die deutsche Schachtel von PC DOS 2000, jetzt verfĂĽgbar im Internet Archive.
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Das deutsche Handbuch von PC DOS 2000, jetzt verfĂĽgbar im Internet Archive.
Day /// of #worldcon in #seattle is today. Yesterday we had a talented chess player predict and beat CHEKMO-II in a very fun game
#retrogaming #chess #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing
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Chess playing pdp-8/e
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Chess playing pdp-8/e
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Chess playing pdp-8/e
Today at #worldcon we had 2 successful humans that beat the PDP-8/e at chess.
Shall we play a game?
Come see us at booth 708 during the World Science Fiction Convention 2025 in Seattle
#retrocomputing #retrogaming #vintagegaming
#worldcon opens in 20 minutes and we’re along the East wall of the 2nd floor.
Come beat the PDP-8/e at chess or adventure and learn about 1960s #ai under the MIT AI labs Incompatible Timesharing System
#retrocomputing #retrogaming #vintagecomputing #seattle
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PDP-8
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Our table at world con
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PiDP-10
My newest piece of networking gear - It has a collision light and a load meter!
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CentreCOM MR820TR Ethernet hub
Real computers use coaxial cable!
No seriously, I finally decided to try ThinNet out. I've used computers with it before but I never had to wire it myself. It was refreshingly simple.
The computer is a PS/2 Model 25 with a 3Com Ethernet card. The other end of the wire goes to a CentreCOM Ethernet hub which also has a ThinNet connector in addition to the twisted pair connectors.
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3Com ISA network card on a PS/2 Model 25 connected to 10Base2 Ethernet (ThinNet/CheaperNet)
We’re running our PDP-7 today, did you catch the twitch stream?
#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing
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A DEC PDP-7
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The IO panel on a PDP-7
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Console lights on the PDP-7
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Keying the console on the PDP-7
Do you remember using WordStar on the Televideo Tele-PC? Of course you don’t!
But now you can. Don’t you want to frob that keyboard?
#retrocomputing #dos #pc #wordstar #wordprocessor
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A televideo Tele-PC
Are you ready to receive your #severance ?
Come visit icm.museum this weekend for your next onboarding
#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrogaming #dasher
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A DG dasher terminal and a Seattle Computer products S1000
Ever want to try Ken Thompson’s Space Travel? Check out https://icm.museum/?st to play it in the browser
#space #retrocomputing #retrogaming
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A type 340 display which was used for space travel
"Squirrel confusion face" - that look on your face when you discover a stash of things you previously purchased after forgetting about them, purchasing another one, and then trying to file it away.
I’m n 1971 the first coin-op video game “Galaxy Game” by Bill Pitts sought to commercialize Steve Russell’s PDP-1 game Spacewar! Has moved into our new large systems gallery.
#retrogaming #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #stanford #mit #game #gaming
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Galaxy game in a warehouse
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Galaxy game console
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Four player galaxy game
Greetings professor Falken, can you explain this funny IMSAI?
It’s a HICKOK K6800 Joshua, which features a card buss and uses the Motorola 6800 microprocessor
#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing
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A M6800 MPU board
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The Hickok K6800
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Classic CDE (Common Desktop Environment) coming to OpenBSD https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250730080301 #openbsd #cde #commondesktopenvironment #x #xwindows #desktop #retrocomputing #freesoftware #libresoftware #ports #packages
@vga256 I dug out the source code and put a small HTML wrapper around it to explain it.
This version of the code is the last version, dating back to October 1988. It includes buffering blocks in RAM to avoid the performance problem with writing each 128 byte block to disk, and two different ways to cheat and abort a perfectly good transfer to avoid getting charged.
38 years later I'm proud of the cleverness, but not proud of the cheating. ;-)
Don't get me wrong - I really like OS/2. But IBM never really made pretty things, did they?
And the alt text needs to be forced upon y'all in this one:
Short video clip showing a vector drawing of a green field with a road leading past some purple mountains in the background. There's a small blob of water next to the road. There are gradients everywhere: background, mountains, road, water..
The sun is orange (also gradient) with a drop shadow like only late 80s vector drawing software could. Corel Draw maybe? It reads "OS/2 Warp" in the top right corner.
There is an absurdly large metal pole with an even larger white sign full of names printed in a horribly-rendered font (probably System Proportional). The background of the sign is white and, thankfully, not gradient. I suspect this is due to technical limitation, not artistic ones.