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Connecting a C64 to a BBS at 300 Baud – A Surprise from Canada
#Commodore64 #RetroComputing #BBS #PETSCII #C64Online #VintageComputers
theoasisbbs.com/connecting-a-c…

Connecting a C64 to a BBS at 300 Baud – A Surprise from Canada - The Oasis BBS

Watch as a Commodore 64 gets cleaned up, connected to a BBS, and tested at 300 baud. Featuring an unexpected chat with a Canadian visitor and a special PETSCII mode activation.
][avok (The Oasis BBS)
#retrocomputing #bbs #commodore64 #vintagecomputers #petscii #c64online

#Free to a good home: A single Iomega Jaz disk. It's labeled NT 2000 JAZ, for what that's worth. :apple_inc:
#Macintosh #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #Iomega #Jaz
An Iomega Jaz disk lying on a wooden floor. The label reads MAC1GB with a handwritten NT 2000 JAZ in blue ballpoint pen.
#free #macintosh #retrocomputing #jaz #vintagecomputers #iomega

#Free to a good home: A Newton Interconnect to mini-DIN serial adaptor. :apple_inc:
#Newton #Macintosh #RetroComputing #VintageComputers
A small black adaptor, lying on a wooden floor. A wide, flat metal connector is visible protruding from one side.
#free #macintosh #retrocomputing #newton #vintagecomputers

EDIT: It has found a home.
#Free to a good home: A 3.5" internal SCSI Zip drive. :apple_inc:
#Macintosh #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #ZipDrive #Iomega #SCSI
A 3.5" internal Zip drive lying on a wood floor. zip100 is molded into the plastic on the front and there's a translucent round eject button at the lower right. A white label is visible on the top, but out of focus.
A closeup of the label on top of an internal Zip drive, showing Iomega and Apple logos, plus SCSI ID settings. Model: Z100Si ZIP.
#free #macintosh #retrocomputing #SCSI #vintagecomputers #iomega #ZipDrive

EDIT: It has found a home.
#Free to a good home: An Apple PowerBook Duo AC adaptor, model no AA19200, Apple model no M2693 with battery charger that clips to the side, model no M1812 with matching grounded power cord. There is a small crack in the case next to where the lower cord hook folds out. :apple_inc:
#Macintosh #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #PowerBook
A dark grey AC adaptor with cord coiled around two hooks that fold out of the left side, next to the six-color Apple logo. Clipped to the right side if a battery charger with a button to unlatch it from the AC adaptor and two battery sockets. Five gold contacts are visible in each socket and an LED at the base. Next to it on the floor is a coiled power cable of the same color with a grounded North American plug on one end and an IEC plug on the other.
#free #macintosh #retrocomputing #powerbook #vintagecomputers

#Free to a good home: A PowerBook Duo 2300. There's an issue with a strip of the screen, which went away a few minutes after booting. I don't remember it having that issue back when I stopped using it. 🤔 Includes an AC adaptor and PowerBook grey grounded power cable. The modem cover has snapped off and a piece of duct tape has been applied to keep the dust out. :apple_inc:
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#Macintosh #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #PowerBook
A grey Apple PowerBook Duo 2300 on a wood floor, showing the Welcome to Macintosh dialog. There is a vertical strip of the display which is too dark, running the width of "to Macintos." It has an ANSI keyboard and PowerPC is printed next to the power button. There is a gap to the left of the trackpad button where the battery would be.
A PowerBook Duo 2300 on a wood floor showing a blue desktop pattern and Yuri HD with an icon of a Duo 2300. A rectangular part of the display to the right of the Special menu is darker than it should be.
A closed PowerBook Duo on a wood floor without the battery, leaving a gap between the corner of the case and the trackpad button. A small rectangle of dust adhered to old adhesive is visible in the corner to the right of the Apple logo.
The back of a PowerBook Duo on a wood floor, showing the closed docking port cover, barrel jack, power button, a piece of grey duct tape over the modem (the cover/leg is broken off), and the mini-DIN serial port with its leg/cover folded down to angle the laptop away from the floor.
#free #macintosh #retrocomputing #powerbook #vintagecomputers

#Free to a good home: A bunch of Digital Ocean Grouper wireless LocalTalk networking units. Three 100LT units with four batteries and AC adaptors. Includes manuals, warranty cards, and software on floppies. :apple_inc: 💾 📶
#Macintosh #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #LocalTalk #AppleTalk #Wireless
Some computer hardware and manuals splayed out on a linoleum floor. There are three dark grey rectangular units with small rectangular displays on them, some white wrapped batteries with pigtails, three beige units to clip to the sides of the gray ones, two black AC adaptors and two white boxes the same size as the AC apators. Two coiled cables with mini-DIN connectors are the same gray as the largest units. Below that are some spiral bound manuals with blue covers, four floppies with blue labels, and some black on white quick start cards with diagrams.
A closeup of four batteries with pigtails (they appear to be 4 AA cells wrapped in white), the left side of three of the dark grey units, showing mounts on the sides and the tiny blank displays. There are also some U-shaped mini-DIN connectors and thumb screws in a ziploc bag.
Some spiral bound manuals and a US letter-sized (stapled with rusty staples) manual. With a blue and green cover: Grouper By Digital Ocean The Owner's Manual 100LT. Light blue on white: Wire-Free Networking with Grouper. In blue: Grouper Administrator's Manual. Printed in black on white paper and stapled: Wire-Free Networking With Grouper. And a stained Quick Start Card for the Grouper 100LT. The edges of two floppies and a gray cable can be seen in the corners.
A spiral bound blue-covered Grouper Administrator's Manual next to warranty cards from DIGITAL OCEAN INC in Lenexa Kansas, a stained Quick Start Card with a diagram of the components of the 100LT, four gray floppies with blue labels. Three are Grouper User Suite V2.0.1 and one is Grouper Admin App V1.3.
#free #macintosh #retrocomputing #wireless #vintagecomputers #localtalk #appletalk

#Free to a good home: A PowerComputing PowerTower Pro 225 with 128 MB of RAM, an SIIG ATA card, SCSI Zip drive, CD reader, and Mac video card. :apple_inc:
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#Macintosh #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #MacintoshClone #PowerComputing #MacClone
A tall desktop computer tower with four 5 1/4" drive bays at the top, the bottom of which has a plain CD reader in it and the top of which has a small clear spot for an activity LED. There are two 3 1/2" bays, the upper of which has an Iomega Zip drive in it. To the right of those are power and reset buttons. Below the 3 1/2" bays is 3 1/2" floppy drive with paperclip hole. Below that is a speaker grill and then the PowerComputing logo and PowerComputing PowerTower Pro 225
A metal computer case with the side removed to show the PSU at the upper left, front drive bays along the top right, loose power cables, an internal drive bay over the processor, a card in the bottommost PCI slot, and a ribbon cable leading to the top PCI slot, which is hidden by the internal drive bay.
The back of an ATX tower computer case, showing the PSU at the top with switchable input and IEC inlet. Five of the six slots are blanked out and the bottom one has a Mac video connector. From top to bottom, the ports are mic, speaker, ethernet, AAUI, two mini-DIN serial, SCSI, and ADB.
A closeup photo of a RAM DIMM, showing a sticker that reads M11M1664-60CASFL:&Z 16*64 MAC FPM 4K REF SEC 128 MB WARRANTY VOID IF REMOVED 30515732. Four empt sockets are visible in front of it and there is a gray ribbon cable directly behind it.
#free #macintosh #retrocomputing #vintagecomputers #macintoshclone #powercomputing #macclone

This is probably my most favourite PC in the collection. Blood, sweat and tears went into building this from scratch. I've yet to compile a full specification list of all the components, but it's basically a 486 DX2 66MHz MSDOS/Win 3.11FWG.

#RetroComputing #VintageComputers #HardwarePorn #MSDOS #Windows #OldPC

#windows #retrocomputing #msdos #vintagecomputers #HardwarePorn #OldPC

#retrogaming #hardware #demoscene #retrocomputing #commodore #demo #amiga #commodoreamiga #vintagecomputing #demos #retrocomputers #vintagecomputers #oldcomputers #scenedemo #a2000 #A2500 #mc68000 #mc68020 #MC68030 #vintaghardware #a2620 #a2630 #davehaynie #zorroii #terriblefire

#Free to a good home: A sheet of four six-color Apple logo stickers with the serif logotype. :apple_inc:
#Macintosh #RetroComputing #VintageComputers
A sheet of four six-color Apple logo stickers with a white backing. Two are large and two are small. They each have Apple Computer printed in black serif type below them and a small blue ®.
#free #macintosh #retrocomputing #vintagecomputers

EDIT: It has found a home.
#Free to a good home: An original Apple user manual for HyperCard. Is it spiral bound. :apple_inc: 📖
#Macintosh #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #HyperCard #UserManual
A spiral bound book lying on a wood floor. In the upper left corner is a six-color Apple logo and HyperCard User's Guide printed in a serif font. The lower half of the cover has a screenshot showing a menu bar at the top and the Home Card filling the screen.
A closeup of the open spiral bound book showing explanations and diagrams of "The different File menus."
#free #macintosh #retrocomputing #HyperCard #vintagecomputers #usermanual

A History of the Microcomputer Industry in 300 Adverts

nosher.net/archives/computers/

#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #vintagecomputers #vintageads #vintagetech #tech #magazines #computinghistory


A history of the microcomputer industry in 300 adverts

In a private room at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago in January 1977, Commodore showed the world's first complete "personal computer" - the PET 2001 - an "appliance" micro that for the first time could be taken out of the box, plugged…
nosher.net
#tech #retrocomputing #computinghistory #vintagecomputing #magazines #vintagetech #vintageads #vintagecomputers

EDIT: It has found a new home.
#Free to a good home: A Marathon iRackDV without a hard drive. :apple_inc:

#Macintosh #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #server #RackMount

A 1U rackmount computer lying on a wood floor. The front and handles are painted black and the top of the case is bare metal. The Marathon Computer logotype is on the left, then a round green button, CD slot, USB A and FireWire 400 ports, and a grill on the right.
A 1U computer with the top removed, lying on a wood floor. A motherboard with RAM, PSU, and CD reader are visible. Power and ribbon cables lie loose in the open space next to the CD reader.
A 1U computer with the top removed, lying on a wood floor, viewed from the back. Inside is visible a motherboard, PSU, and CD reader. Loose power and ribbon cables are in the open space next to the CD reader. The port on the back from left to right: USB B and FireWire 400 (labeled for jumpers to front panel) VGA, ethernet, two USB A, modem, two FireWire 400, speaker and mic, and an IEV power inlet and power rocker switch.
#free #macintosh #server #retrocomputing #vintagecomputers #rackmount

EDIT: 15 remaining.

#Free to a good home: Twenty Farallon PhoneNET Plus transceivers. I'm giving these away in fives, shipped via USPS flat rate. :apple_inc:

#Macintosh #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #Network #LocalTalk #Farallon #PhoneNET #RJ11

Four groups of five Farallon PhoneNET Plus transceivers (small gray boxes with rounded corners, two phone jacks on one side, and a short cable ending in a male mini-DIN connector) on a wood floor. Some are yellowed and the Farallon logotype can be made out through the glare on the shiny plastic.
A closeup of five PhoneNET Plus connectors with a few more in the unfocused background. The phone jacks are visible in the foreground and one transceiver is heavily yellowed. Each one has PhoneNET PLUS Farallon Berkeley, CA Patent pending molded into the plastic.
#free #network #macintosh #retrocomputing #vintagecomputers #rj11 #phonenet #farallon #localtalk

This is great. A reddit user found a box of 3.5-inch floppy disks at a thrift store and brought it home mainly due to the nice letter from 1993 found inside the box -- a glimpse back at a simpler time.

"... I also sent along a neat little shareware game called Wolfenstein 3D. It's purely arcade, but can get the adrenaline going. To load that one, just type INSTALL (it's in a compressed format), then WOLF3D to run."

i.redd.it/lqcu7iukhrce1.jpeg

#reddit #gaming #retrogaming #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #vintagecomputers #nineties #nostalgia #thriftfinds #floppydisk #Wolf3D

#reddit #gaming #nostalgia #retrogaming #retrocomputing #floppydisk #vintagecomputing #nineties #wolf3d #vintagecomputers #thriftfinds

EDIT: It has found a home.
EDIT: I was thinking the screws weren't stock, but am told they are.
#Free to a good home: The bezel from an IBM PC XT.

#RetroComputing #VintageComputers #IBM #PCXT

The front bezel of an IBM PC XT, lying on a dull carpet. The right two thirds are an opening for drives and there are vertical cooling slots on the left below the shiny IBM Personal Computer XT badge.
A closeup of the interior of the bezel, showing the cooling slots and three brass colored screw heads at the mounting points in the corners.
#free #ibm #retrocomputing #vintagecomputers #pcxt

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#Free to a good home: An AGP G4 tower with a SCSI card and a second PCI video card. Includes keyboard, install CDs, documentation, and power in and out cables. Two RAM DIMMs. No mouse or hard drive, but the drive mounting sled is included. :apple_inc:

#Macintosh #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #Apple #Macintosh

A closeup of the side of an Apple computer tower with a large gray Apple logo in the center below the latch. There are some scuffs on the white plastic and a finger is steadying one of the clear handles at the top. The background is a dull colored carpet and wood floor.
A closeup of the front of a gray and clear plastic Apple computer tower. There is a white Apple logo near the top above the CD door. Below the CD reader is a Zip drive. Below that is the speaker grill. Below that the power button and reset buttons.
The back of a gray and clear plastic Apple computer tower with nothing plugged into any of the ports. it has two FireWire 400 ports, an ethernet port, two USB A ports, audio in and audio out, and IEC power in and out. The modem port is blanked off. There are four visible card slots. The top one has a VGA connector, the second a SCSI port, the third a VGA connector, and the fourth a plain cover.
A gray and clear plastic Apple tower computer with the side folded open to show the motherboard and internals. In the case is a PSU, optical drive and Zip drive. An empty drive sled is mounted in the bottom. The motherboard has two of the four RAM sockets filled. An ATI video card is visible in the AGP slot with two more cards behind it.
#free #apple #macintosh #retrocomputing #vintagecomputers

50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution..

"In 1974, Gary Kildall got the first version working and changed the world of operating systems..".

theregister.com/2024/08/02/cpm…

The first operating system I used. :0) #Nostalgia

#GaryKildall #DigitalResearch #Computer #MicroComputer #History #System #OS #CPM #MSDOS #Coding #Coders #devs #vintagecomputers #vintagecomputing #oldcomputers #oldcomputing #oldschool

50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution

Liam Proven (The Register)
#history #oldschool #nostalgia #coding #computer #system #msdos #vintagecomputing #cpm #os #devs #coders #vintagecomputers #oldcomputers #garykildall #microcomputer #oldcomputing #digitalresearch

My friend wasn't happy with #Rythmbox for music, so I installed #Audacious.

He's under Linux Mint with #XFCE on an old Medion Laptop. But the things is the machine goes to login screen after a while during playing music (and stop playing music!!). How to fix that? Where?

I looked a little yesterday, haven't much time & I wasn't able to find where to fix the problem.

#Linux #LinuxMint #Mint #OS #OpenSource #Medion #Computers #VintageComputers #VintageComputing #OldComputers #RetroComputing

#opensource #linux #retrocomputing #mint #vintagecomputing #os #computers #linuxmint #XFCE #vintagecomputers #oldcomputers #rythmbox #audacious #medion

For a friend, I installed the latest version of Linux Debian (12.8) on a machine that is starting to be old: a Compaq 6005 with an AMD Athlon II. The machine is operational and appears to be fast even on the web. As it is 32-bit and Firefox will stop supporting 32-bit in January 2025. Chromium was a good alternative.

#Linux #Debian #Lubuntu #OS #32bits #Compaq #Computers #Firefox #Chromium #VintageComputers #VintageComputing #OldComputers #RetroComputing

#linux #firefox #debian #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #os #computers #chromium #vintagecomputers #Lubuntu #32bits #compaq #oldcomputers

"Bright graphics, a touchscreen, a speech synthesizer, messaging apps, games, and educational software—no, it's not your kid's iPad. This is the mid-1970s, and you're using PLATO."

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/0…

#tech #technology #VintageComputers #PLATO


PLATO: How an educational computer system from the ’60s shaped the future

Forums, instant messaging, and multiplayer video games all started here.
Ars Staff (Ars Technica)
#tech #technology #plato #vintagecomputers

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