#RetroComputing

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Home Office Life (2001)

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💾🖥️📖 Inside the Personal Computer: An Illustrated Introduction in 3 Dimensions: A Pop-Up Guide. Text by Sharon Gallagher. Paper engineering and design by Ron van der Meer (1984). Posting this and more as we get our #retrocomputing series ready for next month!

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Dorm room with Apple computer, 1994

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Olivetti Module M4-100S

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ULTRA from Imagineering (1988)

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beige machine

i feel for the beige machine

does the machine feel for me?

does it miss me when I'm gone?

do its cables flow like veins

when its shell rusts does it fear death?

i wish i could hold its plastic hand

my stack overflows

i feel for the beige machine

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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.

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I know that's a Dell, but it looks like maybe the user is doing something in a 3270 emulator? Cool.

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PolType/Cyfronex

Polish PolType is a family of microcomputer systems developed by Polish engineers in close cooperation with the Polish representative of the British MonoType company (PolType was acquired by the Cyfronex company in 1986, but the original developers remained with the company).

PolType devices were able to control LaserComp and MonoType Imagesetter machines (Imagesetter produces the printing film from which the printing plate is made – nowadays the plate is made directly, and the film is not needed).

The first generation of Poltype (1988) required its own eight-bit computer, the next, Poltype 03 and 04, used a PC XT class computer.

The 510-key POLSET 04 keyboard (for PolType 04) shown in the first two pictures was also Cyronex's own development. This was also excellent for typing complex mathematical formulas, but through it, the functions of the SW were also available (the mouse and WYSIWYG were still in a very experimental stage at that time)

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• Tumbler // sailing the cylindrical sea

• Mikro Klan 1988/1

• Bajtek 1988/5

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home.work (2000)