#Microcomputers

[70sscifiart]

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

[stickerskingdom]

Vintage TV sticker

[atomic-chronoscaph]

TSR-80 Microcomputer (1982)

[vinspixels]

MCM/70

A Canadian made Microcomputer from 1974.

[arjorge1987]

Una Apple II plus clon de Brasil.

Si, esta Apple no es una Apple original, es clon hecho en Brasil simulando la marca original.

[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.

📼🕹️🎛️☢️

[retrocgads]

UK 1987

[coupleofdays]

One funny aspect of computer history is that during the 1960s, the term "minicomputer" was introduced for machines that were much smaller than previous computers. Previously, most computers could take up one or several rooms...

But these fancy new "mini" machines were much smaller. Just look at this:

Yep, this was what was considered a "minicomputer", since it was in fact much smaller than "mainframe" computers.

Of course, this seems to have lead to a problem when even smaller computers were introduced during the 70s and 80s, machines that were much closer to our modern desktop computers:

But since the term "minicomputer" was already taken, they decided to call these smaller machines "microcomputers" instead. And apparently some of the even smaller machines we use today (including our modern mobile phones) are sometimes refered to as "nanocomputers".

I honestly think that maybe they should have waited a little longer with using the term "minicomputer", since I think the terminology feels a little "off" considering the scales of the machines that they're currently applied to. But on the other hand, I can understand that people in the 60s might not have been able to imagine having computers that you could carry around in your hand.

Then again...

[hardcore-gaming-101]

Top 47K - Dragon's Lair + Cruelty Squad

Join the HG101 gang as they discuss and rank the classic laserdisc arcade by Disney’s weirdest animator, and an indie throwback FPS.

[art-of-mathematics]

I made a lego case for my Raspberry Pi4 with fan hat and 3.5" LCD touchscreen module (that is attached with a flatwire to the Raspi-fan hat combination).

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Yesterday's version of the Raspi case without the screen part:

(the top lid can be opened)

[mkayyclxwn69]

[histonics]

[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

[vinspixels]

Q1 Microcomputer, 1972

[arjorge1987]

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