#MicroComputer

[70sscifiart]

For Sci-Fi Dolphin Saturday, here's an uncredited cover to MicroComputer magazine, 1983

[prokhorvlg]

A Datanet advertisement for a specialty microcomputer from the early 2020s

With the cybernetic revolution raging across the world, other digital technologies evolved to support it rather than forming an identity of their own. Given that cybernetics was expected to eventually replace all human-computer interaction, investment into other methods was rare.

By the 2020s, the Datanet existed but primarily for the machine and its programmer. Gigastreams flowed from node to node, carrying terabytes of data between mainframes, robots, and microcomputers. The signals they carried formed the unconscious backbone of society, underground and mostly out of sight.

Between the gigastreams, there existed a space for the human users. The vast majority would be using specialized applications to access electronic conferences, entertainment downloads, interactive encyclopedias, and similar use cases.

The few that ventured further into the machine-facing cyberspace were specialists: cyberneticists, programmers, tinkerers, digital archeologists. It wouldn't be until the first teleindexer — the PAL, from Maple Cybernetic — that the Datanet would be placed into the human palm, fundamentally changing daily life one more time.

[computermagazines]

North Star HORIZON computer advertisement, featuring a Z80 possessor and 16 whole kilobytes of ram! - Byte magazine July 1978

[inc-b]

Selections from The Personal Computer Handbook by Peter Rodwell (1983)

Some of my thoughts while reading:

- I forgot how old ASCII is

- MOS 6502 my beloved (with 8086 jumpscare)

- That one page I misread as "Computer Erotica"

- Program listings printed on dot matrix and scanned as images for publication, because that was the best option - normal in magazines, a suprise in a hardcover book

- CP/M being a more noteworthy OS than something called MS-DOS

[digitalwitchmayura]

Mayura on a Altair 8800 (mayura.jp archives)

[boredtechnologist]

Soviet Era Punchcards

[basic-retro-programming]

Was ist eigentlich aus VOBIS geworden?

https://www.techbook.de/pc-mac/vobis-pc-unternehmen

Post #290: TechBook, Was ist eigentlich aus dem PC-Großhändler Vobis geworden?, 2024.

[geologyedinburgh]

Cassette Futurism: The future is saved 200KB at a time.

Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto.

Retrofuturism: This Restless Future | Sleepcore

Tokyo Futures: How Anime Predicted the Future | Retrofuturism and Animation

The underrated aesthetics of cassette Futurism | Jackerman 056

Retro Futurism in film and gaming. A vision of the future, from the past. | Kernatron

The future is saved 200KB at a time.

A place to share and discuss Cassette Futurism: media where the technology closely matches the computers and technology of the late 70s and early 80s.

Whether it's bright colors and geometric shapes, the tendency towards stark plainness, or the the lack of powerful computers and cell phones, Cassette Futurism includes: Cassettes, ROM chips, CRT displays, computers reminiscent of microcomputers like the Commodore 64, freestanding hi-fi systems, small LCD displays, and other analog technologies.

📼🕹️🎛️☢️

[science70]

MOS KIM-1 advertisement, 1976.

[speculatrix]

Zolatron 64 6502-based homebrew computer: mission accomplished

Zolatron 64 #6502-based #homebrew computer: mission accomplished

Okay, so I’m going to call it. This project is finished. Well, not finished exactly. No project is ever finished. You can always do more. And so it is with the Zolatron – I have ideas and plans that will keep me happily tinkering away for years. But I’ve met my main objective ��� which is to better understand how computers work. I’ve gained insights into subjects like hardware addressing and…

[arjorge1987]

Mi resumen en fotos de la VCF East 2024!!!

[blech]

A diagram of Holborn terminals, including one which inspired the design of the Holborn 9120.

Riccardo Bianchini, Inexhibit.com:

the system comprised a single-piece keyboard-monitor console and a massive external unit that contained two floppy drives (an optional 30MB hard disk was also available). There are few doubts that the distinctive hallmark of the Holborn 9100 was its periscope-like 12” built-in monitor protruding from the console.

Image: Technisch Museum

[prokhorvlg]

An export version of a Soviet microcomputer from the 2060s, when Coalition and Union relations began to warm after a decade-long standoff. Devices like this filled a niche that allowed Western users to access the Union's AGREGAT network, locked behind the KONTROL chip.

This system was one of the first steps on a long journey to bridge the Ternary Divide, which eventually allowed the free flow of information between the two primary dataspheres of the world.

[computermagazines]

Ad for... a lot of stuff sold by Jameco Electronics - Computers & Electronics Magazine - January 1985

[ruhacker]

💾 В чём заключаются плюсы и минусы (поляризация) миникомпьютеров/микрокомпьютеров{Pi}❓

❌ Бешеная скорость обратной реакции, моментальный отклик утилит

❌ Сопоставим со стационарным персональным компьютером [отсутствует батарея]

❌ Оптимизированность и компактность платы

➖ Из-за мобильного чипа, достаточно быстро перегревается на многозадачности [требует охлаждения]

➖ Требует наличия всех устройств ввода и вывода [подбирать под гнездо]

➖ Необходимость заниматься с sd-картами, по причине отсутствия внутренней памяти

➖ Ориентирование на мобильную архитектуру, что при подавляющем большинстве десктопных для устройства портируемых систем, сужает варианты в среднем до семейства Linux, и при этом не такой уж широкой выборки их дистрибутивов [получается эмулятор Ubuntu, грубо говоря]

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