Enlarge / Throwboy’s new monochrome throw includes a Mac desktop screenshot knit into the blanket itself. reader comments 65 with Vintage tech is part of our shared cultural heritage, but in the commercial world, it often gets overshadowed by pop culture mementos. Go to a retail clothing store and you’ll find 1984 He-Man T-shirts, but ..
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Enlarge / I mostly recognize this early laptop from its resemblance to a similar-looking computer in the film 2010. It’s up for auction along with hundreds of other old Apple computers. Julien’s Auctions reader comments 32 with Share this story If you’ve been thinking your home or workspace is perhaps deficient when it comes to ..
Enlarge / A view of Brian Green’s home computer lab, full of vintage treasures. reader comments 28 with Share this story In a world where millions of people carry a 1990s-grade supercomputer in their pockets, it’s fun to revisit tech from a time when a 1 megahertz machine on a desktop represented a significant leap ..
Enlarge / Benj Edwards’ computer running The Cave BBS in 1994. reader comments 56 with 0 posters participating Share this story Thirty years ago last week—on November 25, 1992—my BBS came online for the first time. I was only 11 years old, working from my dad’s Tandy 1800HD laptop and a 2400 baud modem. The ..
Enlarge / The LGP-30 computer, from 1956, that a Redditor found in a basement. reader comments 35 with 33 posters participating Share this story On Monday, a German Redditor named c-wizz announced that they had found a very rare 66-year-old Librascope LGP-30 computer (and several 1970 DEC PDP-8/e computers) in their grandparents’ basement. The LGP-30, ..
Enlarge / Search through millions of vintage files with Discmaster. Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 65 with 59 posters participating, including story author Share this story Today, tech archivist Jason Scott announced a new website called Discmaster that lets anyone search through 91.7 million vintage computer files pulled from CD-ROM releases and floppy ..
Enlarge / An example of eight papercraft vintage computer models designed and assembled by Rocky Bergen. reader comments 38 with 32 posters participating Share this story Yesterday, a Winnipeg, Canada-based artist named Rocky Bergen released a free collection of miniature papercraft vintage computer models that hobbyists can assemble for fun. They are available on The ..
Enlarge / This electromechanical machine, used in the 1890 U.S. census, was the first automated data processing system. reader comments 44 with 39 posters participating Share this story The US Constitution requires that a population count be conducted at the beginning of every decade. This census has always been charged with political significance, and continues ..
Enlarge / Have you ever seen a more glorious sight? (credit: Chris Wilkinson) Back in September 2014, Ars Technica’s Andrew Cunningham took on a Herculean challenge in modern computing. Egged on by his coworkers, he used a PowerBook G4 running OS 9.2.2 as his “daily driver” for a couple of days, placing a turn of ..