#oldtechnology

[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

[univac1219]

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?

[fenskethefever]

Latest Project: Time Travel?

Okay, it’s not really time travel. Or is it? It’s more an excursion into resurrecting old technology, to wit, video tape cassettes. Ah, VHS, the technological marvel of the 1980s, then the standard we all lived by in the 1990s. An entire industry grew around this until it dissolved into relative obscurity in the new century, replaced by DVDs and later even Blu-Ray, both of which have now been…

[verse-osmo]

Unbearably Lo-fi. Thanks be to the Floppy 💽

#lofihiphopbeats #lofimusic #califone #califonecardmaster #babydriver #howtomakebeats #makingbeats #scratch #scratchdj #turntable #floppydisk #oldtechnology #lofichill #vinylrecords #magnetictape #reeltoreel #oldcomputer #lowquality

[robryebeach]

LAPTOP. #laptop #oldtechnology #video

[amadita-designs]

Some color variants I'm trying out for one of my newer designs #graphicdesignerfreelance #graphicdesign #graphics #graphicdesigners #graphicdesigner #graphicdesignerforhire #graphics #vaporwave #synthwave #ｖａｐｏｒｗａｖｅ #retroaesthetic #retro #retrogames #retrotv #tvhead #oldtechnology

[oxydenoir]

#ancienttechnology #bnw #bnwphotography #bnwmood #bnw_captures #bnwzone #bnw_zone #bnw_city #oldtech #oldtechnology #ancienttech #newyork #brooklyn #bnwnewyork #noir #noirphotography #noiretblanc #noirstreetlife #noiretblancphotographie #noirlovers #noirphoto #blackandwhite #blacknwhite #blacknwhitephotography #blacknwhitephoto #bw #bwphotography https://www.instagram.com/p/CU3SSBAP9UW/?utm_medium=tumblr

[metzger-guitar-experiments]

New releases today for Bandcamp Friday !! New Noise Only Compilation along with my new Experimental Dark Techno EP and also a new Synthwave single ! https://paracelsianproductions.bandcamp.com #musicproducer #noiseproducer #noiseart #experimental #experimentalmusic #experimentalguitar #droneambient #drone #dronemusic #synthwaveproducer #retrovibes #retrowave #synthwave #synthwave80s #compilation #noiseambient #noisemusic #harshnoise #oldtechnology #oldtech #vacuumtube #bandcampfriday #bandcamp #label #paracelsian #release #newrelease https://www.instagram.com/p/CTWLOIhr-2X/?utm_medium=tumblr

[lambof-gojira]

Inside of a DVD/VHS player. #amaturephotographer #amateurphotography #maryland #marylandphotography #marylandphotographer #oldschool #oldtechnology #technology #tech #insideout #aesthetic #textureart #abstractart #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephoto #blackandwhitephotography #creativity #mechanic #machine #mechanical #techart #industrial #industrialdesign #electronic #electricity #electronics #steampunk #lgbtartist (at Eldersburg, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCaKt7IBfmZ/?igshid=1ni5k3ydod3bg

[govinyl-world-posts]

4 legfontosabb bakelit fajta

Ebben a posztban összegyűjtöm 4 legfontosabb bakelit lemez fajtát amit ma is használunk. De elsőnek is mi a bakelit lemez. A bakelit lemez egy PVC-ből készülő lemez korong, amin általában 3~5 zeneszámnyi adat van. És mivel a bakelit lemez műanyagból van, ezért lehet szinezni és dolgokat bele rakni mint például színes madzagok. A bakelitek a 20 szd. lettek nagyon fontosal mivel ezeken keresztül vitték a zenét a háztartásokba.  Mivel még nem voltak CD-ék és más fajta modern zene szolgáltatók.

Na, de most érjünk vissza az eredeti témához.

12 incses albumok (Lp vagyis hosszú lejátszású)

Ezek a bakelitek vékony fekete lemezek. Sok zene található rajta. Általában az LP-ék 33 1/3 rpm, de van néhány amit 45-ös sebbeséggel is lehet játszani.

12 incses kislemezek 

Ezek a bakelit lemezek sookal strapa bíróak mint 7 incses változatuk. A és Boldaluk van amin található 1-1 szám. Az A oldalon található az a szám amiről el lett nevezve a kislemez. A B oldalon található élő előadások vagy remixek. Ezeket a lemezeket még ma is gyártyják és főleg DJ-ék és gyűjtők veszik meg.

7 incses kislemez

A mérete miatt ezen a lemezen egy dal található egy oldalon. Sokszor mind a kettő oldalon ugyn az a szám található csak más remixelt változatban. Ezeket a lemezeket főleg zenedobozokban szokták használni. 

Ep vagy Nyújtott lejátszás

Ep-ék középút az LP-ék és a kislemezek között. Ezeken a lemezeken 1-nél több szám található. Elégé flexibilis ezek a lemezek, 33 1/3- os és 45-ös sebbeséggel lehet őket lejátszani.

[univac1219]

Does your 1219 have a nickname?

Also, I was wondering if you have any fun stories surrounding it! Strange quirks it has or anything like that.

I'd love to see more photos if you're allowed to post them!

Thanks for the question! These are my favorite part about my blog by far.

Not exactly, the UNIVAC 1219 doesn’t have a nickname. I did realize recently that I should specify the pronunciation (Twelve-Nineteen), but it doesn’t have any nicknames. Apart from ‘the 1219’, it’s also regularly referred to as the CPU or just ‘the computer’.

Fun stories or weird quirks? Boy, I could fill a book with this machine’s weird quirks (or as we say, intermittent issues), but I’ll try to blitz through the most common ones:

Sometimes the computer will stop running and enter a WAIT mode. No reason, it just needs a break. We can’t fix it, it just has to decide to go back into operating mode.

The computer will often start attempting to communicate on IO channel 13. We’re not telling it to talk to anything, it just decides to try to.

One of our teletypes (the Kleinshmidt) stamps ink splotches into the paper rather than characters most of the time. However, this weekend it worked for the first time in 10 months! We didn’t change anything, it just had an extra cup of coffee or something.

The Digital Data Recorder, or the tape drive, has the most gremlins out of any of our units. The top handler works fairly well, but the bottom handler won’t properly read data, write data, move the tape forward, initialize the tape, or any number of other issues.

There’s more but hopefully this satisfies your curiosity.

Fun stories? Well, I can’t name any specific ones, but I can say it’s a very endearing machine. It’s the very last of its kind and being one of three individuals in the world responsible for it makes every issue that more frustrating. There is no real forum for it, the subject matter experts sit next to me and are often just as exasperated as I am.

But the unique nature of this situation make every successful diagnostic test that much sweeter. Every new addition (5.25” floppy drive via serial) that much cooler. I have an IBM PC-XT clone at home, but I thank my lucky stars every day that this big iron is what I get to specialize in.

As for more photos, I have none that are as grandiose as you would probably expect. I do have my working photos though. I took all my photos when I first started working on it and now I am more dedicated to fixes than photo-ops.

This is a photo of our finicky Kleinshmidt teletype. Still has blotches but it actually printed!

This is the back of the bottom handler. Pictured is the vacuum pump in the bottom left (so sudden stops just yank magnetic tape slack rather than ripping tape). The big cylinder in the center is a motor for running the magnetic tape handler itself. The big black ‘hose’ of wires coming out of the steel plate contains all the cables that come right off the handler’s head for reading and writing data!

This is the forward pinch roller of the bottom handler. It was replaced after this photo was taken as you can see the rubber has deteriorated in the 55 years this machine has been operating.

As for being allowed to post photos, that’s not an issue. The last 1219 was decommissioned in 2014 and now you can find all of its documentation online at http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/univac/military/1219/

[techsnostalgia]

Outdated Tech with Nostalgia: A Sentimental Journey

Explore the charm of outdated technology and why nostalgic gadgets still capture our hearts in today's fast-paced digital world.

[soberwino]

#newiphone #iphone3s #oldschool #oldtechnology #takenwithiphone #iphone11 #haha https://www.instagram.com/p/B6_cRFlplha/?igshid=2khmt2jajrqz

[verse-osmo]

SEE 'N SAY 1989 MATTEL INC.

There is a small record inside, 2.56", darn near impossible to scratch 😅💩

#seensay #seeandsay #1989 #mattel #matteltoys #turntablism #scratchdj #scratching #realhiphop #hiphopculture #howtomakebeats #howtodj #vinylrecord #turntable #scratch #90shiphop #lofihiphop #oldtechnology #phonograph #whatsinside #oldtoys #breakingthings #recordplayer

[robryebeach]

PENTAX CAMERA ESPIO 90MC.#camera #oldtechnology

[terrierbyteit]

Evening folks, I've been all over Somerset an alot of Dorset in the last few days looking at rescue dogs as a companion for my mother in law so tonight is a quick Trivia snippet. . In 1956, 5 megabytes (5MB) of data weighed a ton, It was 1956 when IBM launched IBM 305 RAMAC, the first computer with something like a hard drive that we use today. By hard drive, we mean something that used magnetic disks - a moving head was used to access and write that data. At the time, it was considered a massive leap in massstorage technology because it signified a shift: from punch cards and magnetic tape (which stored data sequentially) to randomly accessible hard drives. RAMAC itself stood for Random Access Method of Accounting & Control. The whole cabinet weighed over 1000kg and the 5MP data was spread over 50 huge aluminium disks, coated with magnetic iron oxide. The disks rotated at a speed of 1200rpm and the machines were leased for $3,200 per month back in the day. . Please don't forget pop along to wifeidge.uk an stock up on those beauty & skincare products. Look out for the epic 4D!! Tell Wifeidge I sent yah 😉👍. . Thats All For Today Thanks for reading. . TerrierByteIT, Keeping You Connected!!. . ☎️ telephone:️ 07759 552599 . 📧 e-mail: peterdownton@terrierbyteit.uk . 🕸️ web:️ www.terrierbyteit.uk . 🌝📚 www.facebook.com/TerrierByteIT . . . . #TerrierByteIT #Wifeidge #wifeidge.uk #Younique #computerhistory #computer #technology #history #computerscience #tech #computerhistorymuseum #computers #retro #vintage #retrotech #trivia #oldtechnology #techhistory #technologyhistory #computinghistory #oldcomputer #oldschool #informationtechnology #thisdayinhistory #internethistory #historyoftechnology #retrocomputer #oldtech #museum #vintagecomputer https://www.instagram.com/p/BxlGy1vjdKw/?igshid=vegilhfdtj81