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There is now a "Retro Tech" playlist on fedi.video, featuring videos about vintage technology including records, cassettes, old TVs etc:
https://fedi.video/w/p/a6T4xa9cXvemn9zLhkwDzW
There are also playlists for Retro Gaming...
https://fedi.video/w/p/ePLWj5pZkBS1JRgYoSGTzg
...and Retro Computing:
Apple //c -- IRL vs LEGO
I've put a gallery of photos I took during the INIT HELLO Apple II conference at the System Source Computer Museum this past weekend online for anyone who might like a look at some of the festivities.
What a wonderful time it was! Can't wait for next year!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/albums/72177720328016203/
Spotted at the System Source Computer Museum: Missile Command 3.0 running on a Xerox Alto.
How many people wrote games for the Alto?! I wonder if this guy went on to bigger things?
Pulled the trigger on a Tenma Universal Test Center - Has a frequency counter, DMM, function generator, and power supply in one benchtop box. Probably gonna regret it, but what the hell.
Die futuRETRO 2025 bringt Menschen zusammen, die historische Computer nicht nur bewahren, sondern kreativ nutzen.
Am 2.–3. August an der Technischen Hochschule Augsburg THA wird programmiert, gespielt, diskutiert und getüftelt – mit echter Hardware, echter Leidenschaft und jeder Menge Retro-Charme.
https://www.tha.de/Informatik/Events/futuRETRO-2025.html
#RetroComputing
#futuRETRO2025 #THAugsburg #DigitalHeritage #VintageTech #Augsburg
More INIT HELLO fun at the System Source Computer Museum today!
#Computers #Computing #Apple #Mac #AppleMac #Apple512K #Vintage #Tech #VintageApple #VintageTech #HardDrive #AppleMacintosh #Collectible #PC
Amazing! A computer without a hard drive. Whatever will they think of next…
(An Apple 512K, and I remember it well.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh-MT7vrraw
Forty years ago today, the Commodore Amiga 1000 was released to the world. With its unprecedented graphics & sound capabilities, powerful 16-bit CPU and custom chipset, and UNIX-like multitasking OS, the Amiga was a truly revolutionary system for its time. And, many are still in use to this day, with the platform seeing new software and hardware development from month to month.
I presently have three, myself. :-)
Happy 40th, Amiga!
Yeah, some people swear by the #BlackBerryClassic like the #BlackBerry7230, cuz it's like a wide boi out of #Nokium.
This is fascinating, the Computer Devices' DOT, the a portable that was the first computer to ship with Sony 3.5-inch disk drives and it had a *widescreen* CRT display (which supported 132x25 textmode!).
And the video ... has some surprises...
Well worth a watch.
This is astonishingly impressive: A2Stream
"A2Stream simultaneously receives an .a2stream file from any HTTP server and plays it through the stock Apple II speaker circuit using pulse-width modulation at 22050Hz sample rate with ~5.17 bit resolution."
Demo video with direct line-in - sounds amazing:
Ich weiß gerade nicht mehr, wie ich auf den youtube-Kanal von "Hainbach" kam, aber ich suchte gerade alle Videos durch!
Wenn Dich elektronische Musik aus alten elektronischen Komponenten interessiert, könnte der Kanal auch was für Dich sein.
Wie zB dieser Synthesizer aus Sowjet-Zeiten (1986) - wie der klingt und wie Hainbach ihn in sein Setup einbaut - faszinierend!
"This Soviet synth is AESTHETIC"
iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=fXU_Q_i3-So
(youtu.be/fXU_Q_i3-So)
#Hainbach #Synthesizer #Music #ElectronicMusic #VintageTech
I'm recording a new disco cassette to better enjoy testing and repairing old players 
We visited my dutch aunty today.
My late uncle collected and repaired old radios. This is part of the collection that he used to have.
She let me pick one for keeps and I'm in tears, both joy and melancholy.
#VintageTech #Vintage #tubeelectronics #OldRadios
A very well done piece:
How Doom didn't kill the Amiga -
A detailed account of the rise and fall of an Amiga zealot