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The first microcomputer: The transfluxor-powered Arma Micro Computer from 1962

https://www.righto.com/2024/02/the-first-microcomputer-transfluxor.html

#HackerNews #microcomputer #transfluxor #Arma1962 #techhistory #retrocomputing #innovation

The first microcomputer: The transfluxor-powered Arma Micro Computer from 1962

What would you say is the first microcomputer? 1 The Apple I from 1976? The Altair 8800 from 1974? Perhaps the lesser-known Micral N (1973...

George Macgregor Apr 21

Astonishing to think that Nigel Alderton was a mere 15 years old when he designed and programmed Chuckie Egg. What an iconic and thoroughly addictive 8-bit #microcomputer game of the early 80s!

‘People still remember it 40 years later’: the making of Chuckie Egg
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/apr/21/in-my-mind-it-was-just-tall-birds-wandering-around-on-platforms-the-making-of-chuckie-egg #computing #gaming #tech #techhistory

‘People still remember it 40 years later’: the making of Chuckie Egg

The iconic game that came to define 8-bit programming still conjures flutters of nostalgia 40 years on – all thanks to a 15-year-old tea boy who worked a Saturday shift in a computer shop in Greater Manchester

The Guardian

Electrotopia⚡️Apr 11

April 11th, 1976 - The #Apple 1 is released🍎

1MHz 6502, 4kB of DRAM (expandable to 8kB!), and a 40 by 24 character display.

#Woz was able to fit a simple hex editor in the limited 256 bytes of ROM in the machine, which allowed the user to enter, read, and run programs/data in RAM.

The schematic was interesting too. Woz had made his own TV typewriter terminal, similar to Don Lancaster's, and the Apple 1 was just a simple #microcomputer bolted onto the front of it.

Happy 50th to the Apple 1🎉

Saustrup Mar 5

#retrogaming and #vintagecomputing #archive #Myrient is shutting down due to rising costs in hosting and hardware. This is indeed a very sad development in the preservation of vintage software.

If you're into this sort of thing, hurry up and mirror the things you need before it shuts down on March 31 2026.

I'll be sure to grab anything related to the #Enterprise #microcomputer, as well as some old #NES stuff.

https://myrient.erista.me/

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Hacker News Mar 3

I built a pint-sized Macintosh

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/pint-sized-macintosh-pico-micro-mac/

#HackerNews #pint-sized-macintosh #microcomputer #retrocomputing #DIYprojects #techinnovation

I built a pint-sized Macintosh

To kick off MARCHintosh, I built this tiny pint-sized Macintosh with a Raspberry Pi Pico: This is not my own doing—I just assembled the parts to run Matt Evans' Pico Micro Mac firmware on a Raspberry Pi Pico (with an RP2040). The version I built outputs to a 640x480 VGA display at 60 Hz, and allows you to plug in a USB keyboard and mouse. Since the original Pico's RAM is fairly constrained, you get a maximum of 208 KB of RAM with this setup—which is 63% more RAM than you got on the original '128K' Macintosh!

Jeff Geerling

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Ethan Black Jan 23

@theoasisbbs This might sound silly, but I'm really hopeful that #Commodore might eventually make a new #microcomputer platform focusing on being intentionally simple. Perhaps a novel 16-bit architecture implemented in FPGA (or maybe something "truer" like ASIC!), designed to be relatively simple to program in a #lowlevel language. Sounds like a dream to me.

Games Japan Jan 21

https://www.wacoca.com/games/1305722/ 「AtomMan G7 Pro」 GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop 搭載、高性能ゲーミングミニPC 登場！ #「AtomManG7Pro」GeForceRTX5070Laptop搭載、高性能ゲーミングミニPC登場！ ##GAMING #DreamNews #Game #GameNews #games #GamingNews #MICROCOMPUTER（HK）TECHLIMITED #ゲーミング #ゲーム #ゲーム攻略 #ゲーム最新情報 #ドリームニュース #ニュースリリース #プレスリリース #代行 #配信

N-gated Hacker News Jan 15

Oh wow, a kit for a #microcomputer from the *1980s* 🚀—because nothing screams cutting-edge #tech like reviving ancient #relics while pretending to be pioneers of the #digital stone-age. 🔧🌪️ Truly revolutionary stuff, folks; next, they’ll tell us how the wheel was a #retro hipster invention too. 🛞💾
https://sunrise-ev.com/z80.htm #1980s #innovation #nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated