Mastodawn

5/ I use brass polish to clean a lot of faceplates, mostly because I once lived in an apartment with all brass door hardware, still have the polish, and one day decided to give it a go.
I’m sure there’s a better thing to use, and someone may tell me why using it is a terrible terrible thing, but it’s doing a heck of a job getting decades of cigarette smoke off the face of this thing, even on translucent plastic.
#tektronix #electronics #vintageTech #retroTech

Hacker News 1d ago

Compute's Gazette Magazine Returns After 35 Yrs, Will Focus on Retro Computing

https://www.computesgazette.com/

#HackerNews #ComputeGazette #RetroComputing #TechHistory #MagazineReturn #VintageTech

Home - Compute!'s Gazette Magazine

Explore the golden age of home computing with Compute!'s Gazette. Dive into archives of classic articles, game listings, and programming tutorials from the legendary magazine. Relive the 8-bit era and discover the roots of modern technology.

Compute!'s Gazette Magazine -

SciPunk 3d ago

Three Days of the Condor (1975)

#threedaysofthecondor #70s #movies #vaporwave #1970s #aesthetic #synthwave #userinterface #electronics #userinteraction #analog #uxdesign #oldcomputers #computerterminal #commandline #vintagetech

Darkbit Inc.3d ago

Today in Tech History — April 11, 1976:
Steve Wozniak & Steve Jobs release the Apple I, Apple's first product. Sold as a fully assembled motherboard (no case, keyboard, or monitor), it ran on a MOS 6502 @ 1 MHz with 4 KB RAM. Price? $666.66. Just 200 were made. It sparked the home computer revolution and launched one of the most iconic tech companies ever.

#AppleHistory #RetroComputing #OnThisDay #VintageTech

Blake Patterson 5d ago

Did anyone have a CD audio player back in the day that featured CD+G video output?

I got my first CD player in 1985, a Pioneer PD-5010 which had CD+G output, but I never had the cable and didn't have the tech sense to search for it beyond just the local Circuit City.

I never saw the visuals. 😠

https://bytecellar.com/2015/09/15/recalling-my-first-cd-player-stereo-system/

#Audio #CD #CompactDisc #nostalgia #hifi #graphics #vintagetech #vintage #retro #Pioneer #digitalaudio

N-gated Hacker News 6d ago

Oh wow, a riveting YouTube tutorial on tethering your ancient IBM 3151 terminal to a mainframe—because apparently, it’s 1985 and we all still wear shoulder pads and leg warmers. 🤦‍♂️ Just what the world needs in 2025: a video more outdated than your grandma's dial-up. 📼💾
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V14ac9cRi9Q #YouTubeTutorial #VintageTech #IBM3151 #Mainframe #Nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated

Connecting an IBM 3151 ASCII terminal to an IBM mainframe computer

YouTube

Hacker News Apr 7

PiDP-1, or the rebirth of an old machine

https://hackaday.io/project/202541-replica-of-the-pdp-1-pidp-1/log/239666-finished-the-first-test-batch-of-5-machines

#HackerNews #PiDP-1 #PDP-1 #RetroComputing #VintageTech #Rebirth

Finished the first test batch of 5 machines | Details | Hackaday.io

In other words, we increased the number of PDP-1s ever produced by 10% in two days :-)<figure><img data-src="https://cdn.hackaday.io/images/6350471743876089180.jpeg" class="lazy"></figure>Lots of polishing up still two do. We're hiding from the world for two weeks to get it all done. Probably almost all done. Mostly done.

i686-powered lia Apr 5

🇬🇧
Look what arrived!

An original, sealed box release of #SuSE #Linux 8.1 Professional, from the year 2002!

I grabbed it off of eBay for a small price and it arrived quickly.

My plan is to take my 2001 laptop, the Fujitsu #Lifebook E6550, and without using the internet and just by consulting the manual and disks in the box, set up an authentic contemporary Linux system.

... as an #LGR-style video for #PeerTube!

#vintagetech #retrotech #vintage #retro #gnu #vintagecomputing #vintagecomputers

Blake Patterson Apr 4

My ST busily awaiting the arrival of its monochrome SM124 CRT arriving today. I hope it was well packed...

#Atari #AtariST #Atari520ST #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrogaming #busybee #fujilogo #photo #vintagetech #ByteCellar

The Oasis BBS Apr 4

The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 – A Machine That Refused to Quit
#Commodore64 #C64 #RetroComputing #TheMADE #VintageTech #SIDChip
https://theoasisbbs.com/the-five-lives-of-the-commodore-64-a-machine-that-refused-to-quit/?feed_id=2619&_unique_id=67efda228a141

The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 – A Machine That Refused to Quit - The Oasis BBS

See how the Commodore 64 stayed relevant across five eras of personal computing. Watch the MADE Forum video to learn why this 8-bit legend still matters.

The Oasis BBS