OldHacker

Vintage never dies | A time-capsule of kool

[danismm]

IBM 709 Data Processing System  The First Computer Companies

[bak3lite]

[sinclair-speccy]

[thegikitiki]

Detail from 1977 Advertisement for the Heathkit H8 8080 Personal Computer

[yodaprod]

Tulip System 1 1983

[olivrea1908]

[dinosaurspen]

Waicom 16 installation, 1971. Weismantel Associates, Inc, via University of Minnesota Charles Babbage Institute. (Archive)

More info on the Internet Archive.

[thevaultoftheatomicspaceage]

[painfuldischarge]

PDP-12 @ MIT BCS

#pdp12 #pdp #dec #retrocomputing #unix #retro #computing #history

[dinosaurspen]

Postcard featuring the Oak Ridge Automatic Computer and Logical Engine (ORACLE). From my ephemera collection.

[yodaprod]

1978

[humanoidhistory]

All I want for Christmas is an Altair 8800.

[lookcaitlin]

[krjpalmer]

Microcomputing May 1984

A thousand-dollar "MS-DOS" computer (there was a list inside of what IBM PC software the Sanyo MBC-550 could run, but also a comment it couldn't run many PC games) made the cover of this issue. The article on it led off with some praise for its appearance. While the tagline below the cover logo had changed from "A Wayne Green Publication" to "A CWCII Publication," Wayne Green still provided the editorial, where he dwelt on a Taiwanese firm offering "any Apple or IBM program, complete with a manual and disk, for just $10 FOB Taiwan."

[retrocgads]

USA 1986

[sinclair-speccy]

[oldguydoesstuff]

30-bit Univac 1830 computer from 1965. This unit was part of a prototype P3 Orion aircraft designed to hunt submarines.