#RetroTech

[sinclair-speccy]

[art-wave]

𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝑒𝓇𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝒸𝓇𝒶𝓈𝒽𝑒𝒹 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝒾’𝓂 𝓈𝓉𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝑜𝓃𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑒 🌐💀🔄

𝔣𝔬𝔩𝔩𝔬𝔴 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔪𝔬𝔯𝔢 𝔞𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔱𝔦𝔠 𝔤𝔦𝔣𝔰 ~ ~ <3 @𝔞𝔯𝔱-𝔴𝔞𝔳𝔢

[digitalfossils]

home.work (2000)

[twistingcells]

Sony CF-5950 tape recorder/receiver (1976)

[hisinvisiblefriend]

A collection of fun old technology on display at the Spring 2025 DFW Retrocomputing Meetup in Grand Prairie, TX.

Presented by the Vintage Computing Collective of North Texas. Sponsored by Mouser Electronics.

[neondreams83]

[aldi80s]

TOSHIBA

1987 radio cassette & portable CD catalog cover.

Portrait: Minako Honda

[ghw-archive]

Mary Cumming, 21, secretary in the office of designer Raymond Loewy, New York, 1956

[adafruit]

🎄💾🗓️ Day 4: Retrocomputing Advent Calendar - The DEC PDP-11! 🎄💾🗓️

Released by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1970, the PDP-11 was a 16-bit minicomputer known for its orthogonal instruction set, allowing flexible and efficient programming. It introduced a Unibus architecture, which streamlined data communication and helped revolutionize computer design, making hardware design more modular and scalable. The PDP-11 was important in developing operating systems, including the early versions of UNIX. The PDP-11 was the hardware foundation for developing the C programming language and early UNIX systems. It supported multiple operating systems like RT-11, RSX-11, and UNIX, which directly shaped modern OS design principles. With over 600,000 units sold, the PDP-11 is celebrated as one of its era's most versatile and influential "minicomputers".

Check out the wikipedia page for some great history, photos (pictured here), and more -

And here's a story from Adafruit team member, Bill!

The DEC PDP-11 was the one of the first computers I ever programmed. That program was 'written' with a soldering iron.

I was an art student at the time, but spending most of my time in the engineering labs. There was a PDP-11-34 in the automation lab connected to an X-ray spectroscopy machine. Starting up the machine required toggling in a bootstrap loader via the front panel. This was a tedious process. So we ordered a diode-array boot ROM which had enough space to program 32 sixteen bit instructions.

Each instruction in the boot sequence needed to be broken down into binary (very straightforward with the PDP-11 instruction set). For each binary '1', a diode needed to be soldered into the array. The space was left empty for each '0'. 32 sixteen bit instructions was more than sufficient to load a secondary bootstrap from the floppy disk to launch the RT-11 operating system. So now it was possible to boot the system with just the push of a button.

I worked with a number DEC PDP-11/LSI-11 systems over the years. I still keep an LSI-11-23 system around for sentimental reasons.

Have first computer memories? Post’em up in the comments, or post yours on socialz’ and tag them #firstcomputer #retrocomputing – See you back here tomorrow!

[dinosaurspen]

Digital Equipment Corporation VT52 terminal

[mushroomyhouse]

NFTs? AI? What the hell is a Crypto???????? I miss simpler times 😢

Go back to the days of dial up and CD-ROMs 🥹 Old computer washi tape!

💾mush.house/margotfink💽

[sinclair-speccy]

[art-wave]

[digitalfossils]

[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

[kitfox86]

retro tech from the e-waste place

How many different models of computer do you recognize?