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paulrickards<p>The vintage Okimate 10 and 20 thermal color printers can print in black and white on thermal fax roll paper without a ribbon.</p><p>Here's a roll paper stand I created that you can print.</p><p><a href="https://www.printables.com/model/1364930-okimate-1020-printer-roll-paper-holderstand" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">printables.com/model/1364930-o</span><span class="invisible">kimate-1020-printer-roll-paper-holderstand</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/C64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>C64</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Okimate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Okimate</span></a></p>
Paul (Goto 10)<p>NSFW<br><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
Marc Trius<p>So my 11 year old is sitting with the back of an envelope and a pencil, converting decimal numbers to binary. </p><p>They failed math last year in school. But they want to make a Gameboy Color game so they decided to learn Assembly... I just have to help them keep focused and they'll learn it.</p><p>But the most important thing that they need to learn is that grades don't define how smart they are. And for me the important thing to learn is to chill out and just let them wiggle and go on tangents </p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a></p>
Stewart Russell<p>Just had a delightful chat with an elderly friend who reminisced about using the Wolontis interpretive language on an IBM 650 computer in the late 1950s.</p><p>Now that's what I call <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a></p>
Dr. Juande Santander-Vela<p>Bueno, lo conseguí: primera vez que consigo ganarle a la máquina en el justo de futbol de KONAMI… y tuvo que ser en un emulador, en este caso openMSX, que es ideal cuando uno tiene una ROM que ejecutar.</p><p><a href="https://openmsx.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">openmsx.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>ps. <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@runjaj" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>runjaj</span></a></span>, mandaste mi productividad a la porra 😉</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/MSX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MSX</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/openMSX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openMSX</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Konami" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Konami</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/KonamiSoccer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KonamiSoccer</span></a><br><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/%E3%82%B3%E3%83%8A%E3%83%9F" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>コナミ</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%83%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>サッカー</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGaming</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/emulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>emulation</span></a></p>
THE PHINTAGE COLLECTOR<p>I need your help!<br>This floppy was destroyed by the preowner, and I seem unable to locate a disk image for this driver version anywhere.<br>Maybe someone has a good source?<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VintageComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VintageComputing</span></a></p>
Silicon Underground (Dave F)<p>29 years ago today, Caldera sued Microsoft for antitrust violations. Caldera proved Win95 has DOS under it, Microsoft settled for $280 million, but then, in a surprising twist, someone else ended up suing Caldera. <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-caldera-microsoft-lawsuit-of-1996/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dfarq.homeip.net/the-caldera-m</span><span class="invisible">icrosoft-lawsuit-of-1996/</span></a></p>
jared<p>I’ve taken care for the science and mathematics sections at Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Cambridge, MA. Hence recent posts about various books.</p><p>Here’s an item <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> folks might like: Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis by John A Rice — includes an IBM PC floppy disk!</p>
root42<p>Soo… I have gotten another CBM dual drive floppy disk. A model 4040, which uses regular 48tpi single sided drive mechanisms. It was sold to me as defective. The owner bought it used 40 years ago. And after a long time in storage that device was not reading disks anymore. Let us start the process of reviving this beauty, ok?<br><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>commodore</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/commodorePET" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>commodorePET</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/floppydisk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>floppydisk</span></a></p>
Tao of Mac<p>Vintage Macintosh Programming Book Library</p><p>In the vein of some of the stuff I’ve been doing recently, this is a great resource for people interested in vintage Mac programming, including the original Think Pascal and Think (...)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mac</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nostalgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nostalgia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/resources" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>resources</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vintage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vintage</span></a></p><p><a href="https://taoofmac.com/space/links/2025/07/24/2130" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">taoofmac.com/space/links/2025/</span><span class="invisible">07/24/2130</span></a></p>
NewtonTalk<p>Thirty years ago today, Apple announced the completion of a 10 month pilot project at the Johns Hopkins Hospital to assess the utility of the Newton <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/MessagePad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MessagePad</span></a> for health care case managers.</p><p><a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/AppleNewton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AppleNewton</span></a><br><a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19981205050729/http://product.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1995/q4/950724.pr.rel.newton.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/1998120505</span><span class="invisible">0729/http://product.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1995/q4/950724.pr.rel.newton.html</span></a></p>
Wolfgang Stief<p>Bycatch on my recent tour by car throughout Bavaria: a Sun Ultra 1 workstation. It's probably in a non repairable state, but anyway very eye candy just sitting in the shelf. The Ultra 1 was the very first Sun workstation with a 64-bit SPARC processor (sun4u Architecture), market introduction November 1995. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vintagecomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vintagecomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sun</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sparc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sparc</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ultra1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ultra1</span></a></p>
paulrickards<p>I posted this thread last year about the FrameGrabber for Amiga if you’re interested in learning more about it. It’s a pretty cool piece of hardware. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/@paulrickards/111988467352289854" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@paulrickards/</span><span class="invisible">111988467352289854</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CommodoreAmiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommodoreAmiga</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Amiga40" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga40</span></a></p>
Telmo 🦕<p>One more for the collection: a Snow White iBook G3 in incredible condition — the most immaculate one I’ve seen for sale online so far. Couldn’t let it slip away. According to the previous owner, it was only used to read emails! It even came with all the original discs (not that I’ll need them). It feels almost brand new. ✨🍏</p><p><a href="https://masto.pt/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apple</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macintosh</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/retromac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retromac</span></a> <a href="https://masto.pt/tags/vintagemacintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vintagemacintosh</span></a></p>
bbbhltz<p>Any <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> enthusiasts in <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/novascotia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>novascotia</span></a> need a <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/ColecoVision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColecoVision</span></a> or a <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/Coleco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coleco</span></a> ADAM?</p><p>I have the controllers/cables for the ColecoVision somewhere...</p>
64'er Magazin<p>Malen auf dem Bildschirm (Malprogramme) | 64'er Magazin<br><a href="https://www.64er-magazin.de/8508/malen.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">64er-magazin.de/8508/malen.html</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/c64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>c64</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/64er" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>64er</span></a><br>Die verschiedensten Eingabegeräte und die unterschiedlichsten Mal- und Zeichenprogramme kämpfen um die Gunst des Computerkunden. Wir wollen Ihnen mit diesem Vergleichstest die Stärken und Schwächen der einzelnen Malprogramme zeigen.</p>
xenos 🐧🇵🇭<p>This is the cover of the oldest issue of Compute! magazine that I remember owning. </p><p>What I appreciated most about this magazine was that it covered the different systems of the era, enough for me to appreciate the other systems too. Unlike the magazines that specialized in one system, the diversity in scope gave me a wider perspective of what the early home computers were capable of, as well as showcase strengths of each platform.</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/computemagazine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computemagazine</span></a></p>
mytwobits01<p>Neat! Old phones providing a useful service today.</p><p><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/vermont-engineer-revives-pay-phones-free-calls-areas-123953024" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">abcnews.go.com/Business/wireSt</span><span class="invisible">ory/vermont-engineer-revives-pay-phones-free-calls-areas-123953024</span></a></p><p><a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/GoodNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoodNews</span></a> <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a></p>
movq<p>With Wayland on the rise, it feels like we’re already losing knowledge and history about <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/X11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>X11</span></a> and surrounding specs.</p><p>For example, what is “NetWM”?</p><p>Usually, the terms <a href="https://specifications.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/latest/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">EWMH</a> and NetWM appear as “EWMH/NetWM”. But what is/was NetWM? Was it the former name of EWMH? Did EWMH adopt and expand NetWM?</p><p>In particular, I’d like to know at which point <code>_NET_WM_ICON</code> got added.</p><p>No matter how much I’m duckduckgoing, I can’t find anything. 🤔</p><p><a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a></p>
Carlos Rodrigues 🪣<p>Finding AI slop in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retro</span></a> content (blogs, videos) is like finding a hair in your curry, or bacon bits in your tofu.</p><p>You may think it's OK, or that it adds flavor. But please don't do this, it's disgusting.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/randomthoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>randomthoughts</span></a></p>