"When’s the last time your computer made you feel guilty?"

If you need a little more "Mom" for Mother's Day, fire up your Atari ST emulator and try "Mom and Me," the graphical chatbot created by Ya'akov Kirschen in 1985.

You can download a disk image here, and learn some of the history of this curious software:

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2022/11/28/unearthed-kirschens-atari-st-projects/

#retrocomputing #atarist #atari #mothersday #vintagecomputing #retrogaming #gamedev

Thirty one years ago today, Apple announced a rebate program on the #MessagePad 120, making the device more affordable to a wider audience.

#AppleNewton
#RetroComputing

https://web.archive.org/web/19990116235511/http://product.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1995/q3/950510.pr.rel.newton.html

Let’s disassemble an Atari 800.

https://www.goto10retro.com/p/inside-the-atari-800

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #atari8bit

if you scanned a datasheet, turned on whatever god-forsaken option replaced the image with OCR output, looked at this result and said "Good enough,"

... well, still thank you for scanning the data sheet at all I guess but I hope you sneeze sixteen times today.

#retrocomputing

Blast from the past!

Here's a vintage recording from the @2600 Voice BBS (c. 1990s) featuring details on the Manchester meetup at the iconic Cyberia Internet Cafe on Oxford Road.

(Also includes details on Bristol and London meetings).

#2600 #BBS #RetroComputing #Manchester #HackerHistory #Cyberia

No big deal but I think the GlyphBlaster just got sound support

#retrocomputing #glyphblaster