N-gated Hacker News6d ago
🚨BREAKING: Tech nostalgia reaches new heights as we now 3D print *endangered* colors! Because clearly, your life was missing vintage Mac hues 🖍️. Meanwhile, actual endangered species continue to not care 🦏.
https://arstechnica.com/apple/2025/06/new-filament-lets-you-3d-print-parts-in-authentic-1980s-apple-computer-color/ #TechNostalgia #3DPrinting #EndangeredColors #VintageMac #ConservationAwareness #HackerNews #ngated
Endangered classic Mac plastic color returns as 3D-printer filament

Mac fan paid $900 to color-match iconic Apple beige-gray “Platinum” plastic for everyone.

Ars Technica
Hacker NewsJun 4

When memory was measured in kilobytes: The art of efficient vision

https://www.softwareheritage.org/2025/06/04/history_computer_vision/

#HackerNews #memoryhistory #efficientcoding #computervision #technostalgia #kilobytes

When memory was measured in kilobytes: The art of efficient vision - Software Heritage

Back when RAM was precious, clever code reigned. Take a peek into early computer vision's elegant solutions.

Software Heritage
Alan Wright 🇬🇧 🇮🇲Jun 3

make: *** [all] Error 1
fatal error: frobnicator.h: No such file or directory

If those lines don’t trigger a flashback, you weren’t there.

I dual-booted NT 3.1 and Red Hat when headers were missing, modems screamed, and time slipped.
You didn’t *use* Linux back then — you summoned it.

This MacBook? Now running Linux Mint Xfce.
Just to give Apple the middle finger... and those days a nod.

#Linux #MakefileHell #Unix #OldGuard #RPMtrauma #SnorkersLives #TechNostalgia

Alan Wright 🇬🇧 🇮🇲Jun 3

make: *** [all] Error 1
fatal error: frobnicator.h: No such file or directory

If those lines don’t trigger a flashback, you weren’t there.

I dual-booted NT 3.1 and Red Hat when headers were missing, modems screamed, and time slipped.
You didn’t *use* Linux back then — you summoned it.

This MacBook? Now running Linux Mint Xfce.
Just to give Apple the middle finger... and those days a nod.

#Linux #MakefileHell #Unix #OldGuard #RPMtrauma #SnorkersLives #TechNostalgia

Retro TechieMay 29

The Slacker G2 Personal Radio Player, released in 2008, integrated Slacker Radio's free music service with built-in Wi-Fi for playback on-the-go.

#RetroTech #TechNostalgia #InternetRadio #SlackerRadio

AppleX4May 27
📱¿Gente con móviles en cuadros del siglo XVII?
Spoiler: no viajaron en el tiempo...
¡Eran libros de oraciones! Pero claro, nuestro cerebro del siglo XXI ve un iPhone en todas partes 😂
#Curiosidades #Viral #Arte #TechNostalgia
N-gated Hacker NewsMay 25
🎉 Behold the "next-gen" mainboard that's 30 years late to the party, designed for the ghost towns of #AmigaOS4 and MorphOS! 🎈 It's like resurrecting a dinosaur and assuring everyone it's the future of transportation. 🦖💾
https://mirari.vitasys.nl/ #nextgenmainboard #MorphOS #technostalgia #retrocomputing #resurrection #HackerNews #ngated
Mirari Boards – A low cost AmigaOne. Finally…

Hacker NewsMay 24

Using the Apple ][+ with the RetroTink-5X

https://nicole.express/2025/apple-ii-more-like-apple-5x.html

#HackerNews #AppleII #RetroGaming #RetroTink5X #VintageComputing #TechNostalgia

Using the Apple ][+ with the RetroTink-5X

About four years ago (?!) I wrote a blog post called The Great Composite Comparison, where I compared a number of methods for upscaling composite video. At t...

Alan Wright 🇬🇧 🇮🇲May 23

THE BAREKNUCKLE SSD INSTALLATION OATH
By Alan, Retired Jumper-Setting Legend

I, Alan, do solemnly swear upon this ungrounded carpet,
That I shall install this SSD with no wrist strap,
No anti-static mat,
And absolutely no regard for the gods of ESD.

I shall:

Grip this NVMe drive with the same bare hands that once re-seated a 486 CPU while smoking a rollie

Open this enclosure tool-free, not because it’s designed that way, but because I fear no screw

Insert this drive at a 30-degree angle, the way nature intended—and maybe swear if it doesn’t click first try

Connect my superfuckoff USB-C cable like a knight unsheathing Excalibur

Format the drive in exFAT, not because it’s cross-platform—but because I don’t remember what FAT32 stands for anymore

And should this drive:

Boot,

Mount,

And store 600GB of Takeout files without exploding...

Then I shall sit back, arms folded, and proclaim:

“I told you—never used a bloody earthing strap.”

Signed under no duress, no RMA,
and no bloody jumper caps.

🖖
#TechNostalgia
#RetroComputing
#SSDUpgrade
#NoStrapNoFear
#OldSchoolGeek
#BuiltDifferent
#PCBuilding
#DigitalWarfare
#ModernRetro
#GroundedInChaos
#MastodonTech
#DIYOrDie
#BareknuckleBuilder

AwesomeCastMay 20
🖥️ Got our first family computer in 1993.
Tore it apart. Put it back together.
Then showed the teacher how to use one.
90s tech kids = trial by fire.
#90sTech #TechNostalgia #FirstComputer #AwesomeCast