Hi #retrocomputing experts! One of my colleagues at the French national archives wonders what these tapes are!
Bonus point if you have any clue about how to retrieve data from them...
retrocomputing
Veronica Explains creates fun and interesting videos about technology including FOSS, Linux, retro computing, retro gaming, self-hosting and assorted other stuff. You can follow at:
➡️ @vkc
There are already 60 videos uploaded. If these haven't federated to your server yet, you can browse them all at https://tinkerbetter.tube/a/vkc/videos
#FeaturedPeerTube #Linux #FOSS #RetroComputing #RetroGaming #SelfHosting #PeerTube
New video! I'm checking out a really cool new open source RAM Tester, updating the firmware and testing some chips.
YouTube: https://youtu.be/iQYF2-FwuoI
PeerTube: https://makertube.net/w/4H7H2ZshCt2H9UveMf6TJC
#DRAMduino #RAMTester #DRAM #SRAM #DRAMTester #Arduino #AduinoUNO #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #ZXSpectrum #C64 #Amiga #Atari
Danuar posts longplay videos of retro games from classic computers, consoles and arcades, plus writes a text review of each game in the comments. You can follow at:
➡️ @danuar
(Don't worry if it looks blank to you, that just means no one from your server follows it yet. Follow the account and its videos will start gradually showing up on your server too.)
💾#RecoveryWhiskers 0.7.0 is out!
New in 0.7.0: A third flux parsing algorithm, It displays flux graphs in color and shows you sync marks and sector numbers it found. And a lot of smaller fixes.
Source: https://codeberg.org/JennyFluff/RecoveryWhiskers
On Crates.io install via cargo:
https://crates.io/crates/recovery-whiskers
Hello (again), after a brief posting hiatus and a search for somewhere to migrate to, I am back on Mastodon! I've been on the fediverse since 2023 but grew tired of the mastodon.social experience and felt like it was time to spread my wings.
A bit about me: I'm a 30-something fellow living in midwestern USA who works two jobs and takes care of two pets at home. I love #retrocomputing #retrogaming #writing #webdesign #electronicmusic #nature and many more things I can't think to list at the moment.
I manage a community for PC gaming on 4:3 displays that has gained a significant following in recent times, you can check us out on #neocities here: https://doesit4by3.neocities.org/
Sometimes when I have free time and feel motivated (lol) I will write a few thousand words on tech and tech-adjacent subjects. You can read my work here: https://read-only.net/
All other relevant things I've shared on the web can be found on various parts of my website: https://rootcompute.neocities.org/
Glad to have found somewhere to land on my feet and I hope I'll be able to call c.im home on the fediverse for many years to come!
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#ZXSpectrum accounts to follow:
@juanfr - Spectrum enthusiast sharing news, photos, screenshots, history etc
@Sloanysoft - Making new games for 8-bits including Spectrum
@noisetank - Retro fan on ZX Spectrum, SAM Coupé, 8-bits
@morefunmakingit - In-depth videos of repairing ZX Spectrums & other classic computers
@AYMusicBot - Bot posting ZX Spectrum music
@helpcomputer0 - Pixel artist creating art with Spectrum
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Reading BYTE
The Small Systems Journal. June 1986 Issue (Vol.11 N°6).
Computers and Music.
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1986-06
Cover art by Robert Tinney
@electronicmusic
@ExperimentalMusic
#music #fedimusic #magazine #journal #reading #readers #read #mustread #computers #synthesis #DAW #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #retro #vintage #byte #press #tech #computing
The November 2026 issue of "Computer Chronicles Revisited" is now available. This month, I look at a December 1989 episode on software for kids. In the world of edutainment software, there was no bigger player than Davidson & Associates. Jan Davidson started her company by borrowing $6,000 from her kids' college fund. The man she ultimately sold the company to is currently liable for a $3.275 billion fine related to that acquisition.
Dear lazyweb,
Where does one find the official distribution release of ZSDOS 2.0, the banked-memory version of ZSDOS? It is a greatly improved CP/M BDOS replacement. The original version is found easily enough, but does not have the banked memory support.
All my searches for ZSDOS 2.0 instead hit disk 2 of the original non-banked ZSDOS.
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Socketwench makes videos about electronics, 3D printing, retro computing and related topics. You can follow at:
➡️ @socketwench
(Don't worry if the account looks blank to you, that just means no one from your server follows it yet. Follow and the videos will start gradually showing up on your server too.)
You can also follow her non-video account at @socketwench@masto.hackers.town
#FeaturedPeerTube #Electronics #RetroComputing #3DPrinting #PeerTube
#lispyGopherclimate 8am UTC Sunday-morning-in-Europe #peertube #live coming up in T-1 hour and counting,
https://toobnix.org/w/bYyCxTHWgQBRAi22gpTQ3L
@jhlagado demoing #Z80 #adventure #gamedev running in-browser and #retrocomputing or to turn the #interlisp phrase, dare I say #retrofuturism ?
The reason I tagged interlisp is that I think Z80s were popular around the same time as the d machines "A lisp machine for only 30,000 dollars?"
#lisp #demo #livestream #interview
Livechat in #lambdaMOO please IYKYK
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#lispyGopherClimate since 2022 Sunday-morning-in-Europe #lisp #live every 800UTC Sundays.
@dirtycommo I am here but I only *just* finished reading Borenstein's book and my brain has a lot of postprocessing to do. Slak and yduJ are in the MOO.
https://toobnix.org/w/ihF2z7TgiV5eBiquK2194Z
*Hopefully* vidak is about to give us all a demo of some technological-collapse-survivable what I call "magazine #basic" computing architecture.
#retrocomputing #lambdaMOO #VR #climate I feel like "collapse" would be too edgy
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Please #SpreadTheWord.
As a little teaser, I'm reposting our video from last year. Mark your calendars for October 3rd, 2026, from 10am to 6pm, and drop by!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW2pdL1r5qg&t=3s
Computermuseum Visselhövede
Celler Str. 1
27374 Visselhövede
#RetroComputing #Apple #Amiga #Sinclair #IBM #Cray #TRS80 #Photography #Typewriters
The October 2026 issue of "Computer Chronicles Revisited" is now available. This month, I cover a November 1989 episode on portable computers, including new machines from IBM & Apple, the battle of Poqet vs. Portfolio, and no fewer than three Dynabooks!
https://www.computerchronicles.blog/computer-chronicles-revisited-139/
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I just acquired a Teletype Model 37 reperforator-transmitter! I've been trying to track down a Model 37 for two years now, hitting many dead ends.
Well, this is the paper tape reader/punch that would connect with a regular Model 37 KSR, so it's not the same thing. But I've been wanting to be able to work with paper tape, so it's still quite exciting. I had never seen such a reperforator before, until I was asked for details on it.
I'll be hauling it from North Carolina next month and would love to visit vintage computing people. I'm planning on stopping in Chicago and central Nebraska.
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My VIC-20 BBS is back up and running after being down for 3 weeks. It's written in C (you can get the source from my Github) and it runs on a real VIC! This is a resurrection of sorts of my original VIC-20 BBS that I ran back in the 1980's.
bbs.deepskies.com:6400
#Commodore #VIC20 #BBS #CBM #BulletinBoardSystem #Sysop #VintageComputing #RetroProgramming #RetroComputing #GenX #Nostalgia
