#Retro Computer

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Panasonic Toughbook CF-41 (1995)

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old computers print....i wanted to stick to the most famous and/or iconic ones for the most part but i wanted to include sooo many of my lesser known favourites

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Apple Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh (TAM) 1997

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Disk & drives — via Boston Public Library [1][2]

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my computersona and edgar being friends! Σ:3

if someone is inspired i would like to see your computersona! :D

read under for more information about him!

he is a japanese computer NEC PC-100, named NEC-0 (pronounced as neko)! he's passionate about all forms of art. his ears and tail are holographic. this computer was invented in 1983 and kaomojis were invented in 1980s, so it fits the year of the film :) also fun fact: his and edgar's colors are inverted

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is your computer running?

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Commodore 8296 ...

Der Commodore 8296 ist der Höhepunkt der Büro-Computer-Serie. Sie beginnt mit dem PET 2001. Der 6501-MOS-Prozessor bringt 128 KByte Arbeitsspeicher mit. Das angeschlossene Diskettenlaufwerk steuert zweimal 1 MByte bei. Der Bildschirm stellt 25 Zeilen zu 80 Buchstaben bei. (Computermuseum Kiel, Deutschland)

Post #318: Der Büro-Computer "Commodore 8296", Commodore International Ltd., West Chester, U.SA., 1984.

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The 84 Series

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ACT Apricot Xen (1985)

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a couple of sick computers from the computer themed artbook i'm working on

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HP 620LX palmtop computer running Windows CE 1998 (x)

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1962 Mainframe with Bluetooth

This old computer is comprised of four big boxes, three of which are ever actually used.

The UNIVAC 1219. This is the brains of the system. It controls the operations of every other device. This is what I'm referring to when I'm not gesturing to the UNIVAC 1219 as a whole.

The UNIVAC 1540. This is the DDR, or Digital Data Recorder. It holds, writes, and reads the magnetic tape operators load into the machine.

The Digital to Analog Converter. The UNIVAC 1219 was the first digital computer on most U.S. Navy ships, most of which had analog weapons systems. This hulking mass of steel translated the digital signals from the computer to the analog signals of the weapon systems and vice versa in regards to the radar.

The UNIVAC 1532. The I/O console managed the...you guessed it, input and output of the UNIVAC 1219. You can load and punch paper tape for programs more bite-sized than would be used for magnetic tape.

In addition, we have two teletype machines. You can think of them like typewriters that don't receive human input (except the one that can if we want), but instead output what the computer tells it to.  We have a Teletype Corporation teletype that is optimized for character compatability and a Kleinschmidt teletype that is optimized for speed. Both rely on the I/O console to send and receive data.

The real ingenuity begins with the floppy drive. Duane, who's career revolved around this system, developed a way for a floppy drive to imitate the I/O console. The computer thinks it is reading and writing to a paper tape, when it is in fact reading and writing to a 5.25in floppy inside an ancient CNC machine floppy drive.

And this, dear reader, is where the magic happens. This framework was originally built for interfacing with the 1219 via BIN files over Serial port and was easily changed to support BIN files over floppy. Duane has been working on an off adapting our purple converter box with a raspi to let the 1219 read and write BIN files over Bluetooth.

Make no mistake, you cannot simply SSH into this machine as tons of setup and channel changes must be performed to ready it to receive and send data. That being said, I don't see any other UNIVAC mainframes with Bluetooth [or any other running UNIVAC 1219s at all :(], so I will take what I can get.

Can someone tell me how to Tumblr properly?

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