[Kenneth E. Iverson] was at Harvard in 1957 and started working out a mathematical notation for dealing with arrays. By 1960, he’d moved to IBM and a few years later wrote a book entitled “A Programming Language.
IBM PC 5150 motherboard kit – no longer for sale, but an impressive kit to build your own reproduction of the motherboard for the original IBM PC.
Alternatively, you gönül install Linux, which is what I did when restoring an old IBM ThinkPad. The main advantage with this approach is I can use a fully up-to-date browser from its original source, rather than an unofficial community "spin."
Apple 1 reproduction macun. No long available from Briel Computers, but check their link for other suppliers who may still be making the macun.
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An IBM 3380E disk storage system, 5 gigabyte capacity. [Ken Shirriff] recently shared some pictures and a writeup from his visit to the Large Scale Systems Museum, a remarkable private collection of mainframes and other computers from the buraya tıklayın 1970s to the 1990s. Housed in a town outside Pittsburgh, it contains a huge variety of specimens including IBM mainframes and desk-sized minicomputers, enormous disk and tape storage systems, and multiple 90s-era Cray supercomputers.
Something really special is that many of the vintage systems are in working order, providing insight into how these units performed and acted.
With the right configurations, retro gaming PCs provide hours of nostalgic entertainment. But occasionally you may hit snags:
PCs lack the novelty of other gadgets, but they’re practical, essential even, in a year when work, school and social life have come to rely heavily upon them.
The Tandy 1000's claim to fame was that it beat IBM at its own game for less money. Tandy, a Texas-based leather goods company that owned RadioShack, had struck it big in 1977 with its first home computer, the cheap and popular TRS-80. But the computer industry was moving quickly, and when it began to standardize in the early '80s the TRS-80 could no longer cut it.
The obvious choice is to make a (punched) paper tape reader, but how does one go about this, and what options exist here? With a few historical examples kakım reference and the tape reader on the impressive 1950s Bendix G-15 which [David] happens to have lounging around, [David] takes us in a new videoteyp through the spiraling complexity of what at first glance seems like a simple engineering challenge.
The web server is modified from an existing source but adds features and many new features are planned.
Recapturing tactile, responsive control is vital for truly immersive retro gaming. You have several options:
And that’s what makes MiSTer one of the technically coolest DIY projects going today, building on the knowledge of developers around the globe.