Mastodawn

Ah yes, nothing screams modern relevance like a stroll down memory lane with a 70s tech pipe dream 🚀. Our esteemed author dusts off the UCSD p-System and attempts to summon nostalgic giggles about #bytecode while the rest of us wonder if they lost a bet with their Commodore 64 😂. Cross-platform compatibility: still as elusive as Bigfoot.👾
https://markbessey.blog/2025/04/14/a-blast-from-the-past/ #vintageTech #nostalgia #crossPlatform #humor #HackerNews #ngated

A Blast From The Past

The UCSD p-System, Apple Pascal, and a dream of cross-platform compatibility never quite realized I’ve been thinking about the UCSD P-System a lot lately, and I thought I’d write about …

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Tog Hackerspace 1d ago

A dead 1980s sound mixer, a USB-C mod, and a room full of curious fixers 🎛️🔧

Read how a spontaneous repair at @tog brought the Quickshot Studio 4 back to life 🎶
🧵 https://www.tog.ie/2025/04/from-the-dead-to-the-dancefloor-quickshot-studio-4-revived/

Join our next Repair Café this Sat, April 19th, 2–6pm
🛠️ https://www.tog.ie/2025/03/april-2025-repair-cafe/

#RightToRepair #RepairCafe #Hackerspace #VintageTech #mastodonie

From the Dead to the Dancefloor – Quickshot Studio 4 Revived! – Tog Hackerspace

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Paul 1d ago

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 3d 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.

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SciPunk 4d 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.5d 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 Apr 9

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 Apr 8

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

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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