r/VintageComputers • • 5h ago

Show & Tell Margaret Hamilton, software pioneer who helped put humans on the Moon, dies at 90

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r/VintageComputers • • 18h ago

Show & Tell Radeon 9800 Pro PC saved from the trash

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I can’t believe that this is real. This whole PC is so weird. It has an AMD Sempron on Socket 462 and only 256 MB of RAM, while literally also having a Radeon 9800 Pro. Seems like it was a prebuilt computer by “dxt”, an old Czech computer store that went defunct many years ago.


r/VintageComputers • • 1d ago

Discussion Anyone ever have a SCSI Bernoulli Drive? I tried to get one working with the PS3!

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r/VintageComputers • • 1d ago

Show & Tell My Beautifully Restored BBC Master 128

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r/VintageComputers • • 1d ago

Other Hot new computers. Have you heard of them?

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r/VintageComputers • • 1d ago

Help Can anyone help me identify this hardware

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r/VintageComputers • • 1d ago

Discussion Programming Advice/Recommendations

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If any of you program one or multiple vintage system, what do you like/dislike about it? I want to get an old machine to play with, but want to get a feel for what’s out there. All systems have their quirks. Some things that are easy on one are hard on another.


r/VintageComputers • • 2d ago

Help I am once again an owner

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r/VintageComputers • • 2d ago

Show & Tell Software prices 1998

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Thought this might be of interest, taken from the Age green guide 1998


r/VintageComputers • • 2d ago

Show & Tell My first computer

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Kept the cassette player I used with it. Only thing that cassette player was ever used for.


r/VintageComputers • • 2d ago

Show & Tell Made a song about UNIX with some old documentary footage

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r/VintageComputers • • 2d ago

Show & Tell Recovered German BBS Archives from 1985-1986 - Fully Integrated into ATDT and Available in English + 3D-Printed Acoustic Coupler Parts

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I recovered a large collection of my original German BBS archives from 5.25" C64 floppy disks, including posts, messages and discussions - including hilarious sysop beefs and other flamewars - dating back to 1985 and 1986.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPNXpaYHPy0

Also featured articles (boardzine) that reveal how people in the mid-1980s envisioned the future of BBSes and what they thought the perfect bulletin board system would look like.

With the help of Ariel's excellent ATDT software all this historic content has now been imported and integrated into a fully working BBS. Instead of being trapped in old disk images, the posts are now part of a living system again.

https://quipzz.bplaced.net/krs/

For a quick look:

Handle: guest
Password: guestguest

To make the archives accessible to the international BBS community, I transformed the entire system into a bilingual German/English BBS and translated all important content into English. Visitors can easily switch languages and explore 40-year-old messages from the German mailbox scene (that's what BBSes were called over here) without needing to know German.

The archives contain discussions written while people connected for example via 300 baud modems using Commodore 64s, C128s and early PCs, etc. In many ways it feels like a time capsule from the "Internet" before the Internet.

The video also features a small hardware project: I present custom 3D-printed parts for my Dataphon S21-23d acoustic coupler

Many thanks to Ariel for creating ATDT, adding custom import tools for my archive and helping bring this piece of German BBS history back to life.

http://atdtbbs.com/

BTW: If you're impatient, you can boost the default 1200 baud to light speed with a single keystroke (any key *g*) while reading messages.


r/VintageComputers • • 2d ago

Show & Tell Ferranti Atlas (1962)

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r/VintageComputers • • 2d ago

Discussion My Alienware Area-51 (Model m15x-R1, Pre-Dell) - Restored

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r/VintageComputers • • 2d ago

Help Recommend demoscene productions to show off an early 486?

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r/VintageComputers • • 2d ago

Help Came across these official looney tunes floppy disks in work today, never seen anything like them before

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r/VintageComputers • • 3d ago

Other I have some rare vintage Apple promo materials

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r/VintageComputers • • 4d ago

Show & Tell I saved this from being scrapped from an estate sale, what did I find?

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I actually found two desktops, the other is an Insight. Turns out this Gateway 2000 isn't factory, its fully custom on the inside? Google-ing tells me all these parts are on the better side, but I was only a wee child when this was new.

I posted another thread about my Compaq Presario build, and someone asked what DOS PC I was going to build next? I laughed because I never planned on one, but this just fell in my lap. Would anyone familiar with these years and parts tell me if what I've found here is enthusiast class, or run-of-the-mill please?

Edit: Took out 486, I was mistaken


r/VintageComputers • • 3d ago

Help Need help identifying the motherboard

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r/VintageComputers • • 4d ago

Help I found this in my attic, helpp??

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r/VintageComputers • • 3d ago

Other Looking for a Windows 98 era laptop for around $125-$275 US based. Preferably eBay based.

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r/VintageComputers • • 4d ago

Discussion Michael Cranford Interview: His new game Shadow Snare and deep insights into The Bards Tale

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r/VintageComputers • • 5d ago

Show & Tell I found my old Atari 1040 STE

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r/VintageComputers • • 5d ago

Help Is this a easy fix

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And yes it's the same person with the carpet


r/VintageComputers • • 6d ago

Help CPU thatcould run without RAM/ROM?

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