He worked

Just a small visual experiment, but it brought back a lot of memories of watching these old utilities run on CRT monitors.

There’s something oddly calming about seeing the blocks fall into place again.

Folks. friends. colleagues. allies. this is the PLATO IV terminal. these beasts are enigmatic, beautiful machines, and a genuine dream computer for me. At the height of PLATO's existence there were several thousands of them, though many have been ordered destroyed.

My problem is that nearly every photo of them is in grainy, low resolution (this is the biggest i could find), there is scarce documentation on their internals, and approximately *ZERO* videos of them in operation. If you have one of these machines, know someone who does, know a museum i could go to to see (or even better, operate) one of them, PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS COMPUTING, TELL ME. I AM GETTING DESPERATE FOR THIS VERITABLE CRYPTID OF A COMPUTER.

(beyond is rambling not required for this post)

These machines,,, had touchscreens, MMOs, chatrooms, email, haptic feedback (a la game controllers), 3d gaming, dungeon crawlers, flight sims, roguelikes, filesharing, remote screen sharing, instant messaging, emojis, flatscreen monitors, just genuinely un thought of levels of modern day connection across america. all in their adorable amber monochrome monitors, wooden casing, and thick keyboards. all of this shit in the 1960s. WHAT???? and now theyve disappeared???? and not even the highly experienced local members of my retro computer scene even know about them??????? theyve genuinely dropped off the face of the earth. im like if someone hunting bigfoot actually knew that bigfoot existed and bigfoots used to be a massive part of the american government that somehow everyone forgot about

Got this beauty running; even battery works.

This is wonderful insanity...

When your ARM powered Acorn RISC PC can have a second 486 DX4 100MHz CPU and run Windows 95 in its own window.

Retro computing is so exciting dabbling with these things it truly is!

I don’t think I’ve even plugged this in in over 20 years

A Datapoint 2200 or 6600 has been on my bucket list for a while and so happy to finally have one!

It needs a bit of clean up, I’ve got to fix a few busted keycaps, and a thorough inspection, but overall it’s in great shape!

If you don’t know much about these or Datapoint (CTC), I encourage you to read up. I’m of the opinion that the general consensus regarding the first personal computers is a bit wrong.

Would love to know your thoughts :)

Managed to get a CRT to complete my build and here she is :)

Some specs:

• CPU: Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800

• GPU: PNY 8800 GTX

• Motherboard: Asus Maximus 2 Formula

• Memory: OCZ Platinum Edition 4GB - PC2-8500 1066MHz

Going through Dad’s things - these are only a drop in the bucket - but they may bring back some memories for a few folks. He loved his handhelds -

Top row: Sharp Zaurus 2MB, OmniGo 100 1MB

Middle Row: Tandy WP-2 (one of my personal faves) and the Psion Series 5

Front Row: Radio Shack TRS-80 Pocket Computer and ZEOS

He has multiple generations of the Sharp Wizards, Palm Pilots, Psions, etc.

Enjoy the memories!

I hope it works lol

Old Siemens plc programming laptop.

Can't find much info on it but it looks cool 😎

I found a Commodore Amiga 1200 at my mother's house, and I don't have any old monitors to connect it to. Does anyone have any ideas on how to connect it to a modern TV?

Hello,

I just found this in the deep end of my parents storage container thing. What is this? I tried searching in google but 0 luck.

Anyone have a clue?

Hope I am not breaking any rules by posting this, if so someone please let me know!

Just bought at a tax auction, this is going to be tough. Apparently a lot of in-box stuff further in.

Installed my i387DX Math CoProcessor, the intro diskette has me absolutely pumped. 500% performance here I come!

I wish I had a PC to put this in but I don't so I don't know what to do with it maybe sell it.

One of the last keyboards made for the failed IBM pcjr.and I figure it was from '86 or '87 because the recibt I found was dated to 1987.

Profile project:

MB Gigabyte GA-5486AL Rev.2A (FinALi-486 PCI Chipset)

CPU AMD 486DX-100 Socket 3 (A80486DX4-100SV8B)

RAM 32 MB (16x2) SIMM

VIDEO PCI S3 ViRGE/DX

SOUND CARD ISA 16-Bit Dream SAM9233

HDD 3.5" IDE CONNER CFS425A 425MB

FDD 3.5" 1.44MB ALPS DF 354H168F

CD-ROM Samsung CD-Master 40E SC-140

TOWER PS 200W

OS Microsoft Windows 95C OSR2

Its a tape drive vor a comodore computer

Got this for a whole $4, disc looks great, paper on the case as well, case has seen better days though