#RetroComputing

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💾🖥️📖 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!

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Dorm room with Apple computer, 1994

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Olivetti Module M4-100S

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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

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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

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[carnagewizard]

Commodore 2001 series The Commodore PET is a line of personal computers produced starting in 1977 by Commodore International. A single all-in-one case combines a MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor, Commodore BASIC in read-only memory, keyboard, monochrome monitor, and, in early models, a cassette deck. 

Source: Wikipedia

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🎄💾🗓️ Day 1: Retrocomputing Advent Calendar - Apple II 🎄💾🗓️

We kick things off with the legendary Apple II! Released in 1977, it was one of the first highly successful personal computers, known for its revolutionary design, colorful graphics, and expandability. Created by Steve Wozniak, the Apple II sparked the personal computing revolution.

This was Ladyada's first computer, used at school to learn touch-typing, write essays, LOGO, and make calendars with print shop

The games are now memes - Number Munchers, Oregon Trail, and Odell Lake. Almost 40 years later, we can still hear the teacher telling us to "Kill the Corvus"

and carefully placing our 5.25" diskette in the hard case after class to take it home.

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Oh! PC (1990)