#RetroComputing

[adafruit]

💾🖥️📖 Inside the Personal Computer: An Illustrated Introduction in 3 Dimensions: A Pop-Up Guide. Text by Sharon Gallagher. Paper engineering and design by Ron van der Meer (1984). Posting this and more as we get our #retrocomputing series ready for next month!

[opendirectories]

[heavenpierceher]

[kommanderkeen2k]

Olivetti Module M4-100S

[digitalfossils]

[microgeneration]

Dorm room with Apple computer, 1994

[byruit]

Sony HitBit HB-101 (1984)

The HB-101 is part of the MSX standard, a unified home computer architecture developed by Microsoft and ASCII Corporation.

- CPU: Zilog Z80, running at 3.58 MHz

- RAM: 64 KB

- Video: Video Display Processor (VDP) with a maximum resolution of 256 x 192 pixels, supporting up to 16 colors

- Sound: Programmable Sound Generator (PSG) for audio

[selfishdissatisfaction]

beige machine

i feel for the beige machine

does the machine feel for me?

does it miss me when I'm gone?

do its cables flow like veins

when its shell rusts does it fear death?

i wish i could hold its plastic hand

my stack overflows

i feel for the beige machine

[warakami-vaporwave]

Twitter84

[computermagazines]

Ad for the Sharp X1 - Japan, mid 1980s

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[opendirectories]

[cravinganescape]

SONY WM-EX7 (2002)

[kommanderkeen2k]

The IBM 5150 is perhaps the most influential computer in history. Launched in 1981 under the name Personal Computer, the PC marked the beginning of an architecture that became the industry standard and brought innovations and features that continue to be present in the computers we use until today.

[digitalfossils]

Oh! PC (1990)

[oldguydoesstuff]

The "Arithmometer", a mechanical digital calculator patented by French inventor Charles Xavier Thomas in 1820 could add, subtract, multiply and divide and is considered to be the first commercially successful office computing device.