"More Fun Making It" creates fun videos about repairing and restoring classic computers and other tech, especially the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amiga etc. You can follow at:
There are already over a hundred videos uploaded. If these haven't federated to your server yet, you can browse them all at https://makertube.net/a/morefunmakingit/videos
Linux User Space makes videos about the history of Linux distributions and Linux-related software. You can follow at:
There are already 26 videos uploaded, if they haven've federated to your server yet you can browse them all at https://tilvids.com/a/linuxuserspace/videos
You can also follow their general social media account at @linuxuserspace@mastodon.social
Johnny Blanchard / Re-Enthused makes videos about retro computers and consoles, including both famous and obscure systems. You can follow at:
There are already 570 videos uploaded. If these haven't federated to your server yet, you can browse them all at https://makertube.net/a/johnny_blanchard/videos
You can also follow Blanchard's general social media account at @jonn_blanchard
@gisiger@nerdculture.de“Developed by John Frankovich and Frank Helwig, Director worked by reading a special Director tape, which contained predefined instructions that automated job execution. This innovation introduced batch processing, a concept that later became a standard feature in operating systems.“
TechRadar: Happy birthday, Director! The first operating system in the world turns 70 today
20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 3)
Read chapter 3 of the book I’m currently writing about the history of Linux on the desktop.
https://ploum.net/2025-03-08-linux_desktop3.html
Still looking for an agent or a publisher to make a dead-tree version of it…
Ctrl Alt Rees (aka Rees) posts in-depth videos about retro computing and retro gaming, especially old PCs and Atari game consoles. You can follow their video account at:
There are already over 300 videos uploaded. If they haven't federated to your server yet, you can browse them all at https://makertube.net/a/rees/videos
You can also follow Rees's general social media account at @ctrlaltrees
Veronica Explains is an excellent account which makes fun videos about all kinds of computing topics, including Linux, free open source software and retro computing. You can follow at:
There are already over 40 videos uploaded. If these haven't federated to your server yet, you can browse them all at https://tinkerbetter.tube/a/vkc/videos
Root42 makes retro computing videos, often about repairing Commodore computer hardware or programming for MS-DOS. You can follow at:
There are already over 30 videos published. If they haven't federated to your server yet, you can browse them all at https://makertube.net/a/root_42/videos
You can also follow their non-video account at @root42
Way back in the 1970s/1980s, before the Fediverse, before the web, there was an even older open network: "bulletin board systems" or BBSes.
You can watch a multi-part documentary about the history of the BBS network at:
https://fedi.video/w/p/h6CMyFnbdPZXpaRpMCBKdk
The episodes are themed rather than chronological, so you can watch any episodes you want in any order.
@reiver@mastodon.social"Internet may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it." (December 5th, 2000)
Z'Züri ist am nächsten Wochenende Vintage Computer Festival. Und weil ich dazu hier nichts gefunden habe, übernehme ich mal darauf hinzuweisen.
Allerhand Vorträge und Ausstellungen sind geplant. Mehr auf:
https://vintagecomputerfestival.ch
Ich denke, wir fahren Samstag oder Sonntag. 
A #ComputingHistory question that came up today: what is the origin of | (the vertical stroke) as bitwise OR in PL/I, and thence to the C family of languages?
I haven't been able to trace it further back, and interestingly in logic it was the "Sheffer Stroke", NAND (although Wikipedia claims that Sheffer actually used it for NOR instead?) There does not seem to be a logic or typesetting convention that birthed |.
I don't know enough about early IBM keyboards to know what other characters might be available.
The choice of & for AND instead of ^ -- it's right there! -- is similarly unclear.
It was 40 years ago this week that the Atari ST was announced at the January 1985 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.
Not long after, in the fall of 1986, I got my own Atari 520ST system and count it as one my favorites among the many systems I haveowned over the years. Here, at the ST's 40th Anniversary, I share one of my earliest and most memorable experiences with my beloved 520ST, which took place on a Halloween night long, long ago.
https://bytecellar.com/2016/11/10/the-year-that-starglider-and-the-atari-st-saved-halloween/
Today, I have a nearly identical 520ST setup here in the Byte Cellar and I still count it among the most beloved of my vintage systems. I hope you enjoy the memory.
I told you [1] COBOL is not dead yet!
Here's a Minecraft server in COBOL: https://github.com/meyfa/CobolCraft
The Apple Jonathan: A Very 1980s Concept Computer That Never Shipped
— 512 Pixels
"Customers would be able to add a series of book-sized modules (for software and hardware options) that clicked into a slender docking station sitting under the monitor, that itself looked like a bookshelf ... There were no cables"
https://512pixels.net/2024/03/apple-jonathan-modular-concept/
Here are some #RetroComputing & #ComputingHistory video accounts to follow:
RETRO COMPUTING & COMPUTING HISTORY
@rees
@jan_beta
@johnny_blanchard
@morefunmakingit
@noel_llopis
@root_42
@linuxuserspace
@topazrabbit
@lee_smiths_workshop
@wesker
@soldergirl
@laf0rge
@walkero
@richie_g
@elb
@wotsisname
All of these are on PeerTube, but can be followed and interacted with from Mastodon etc as they are all part of the Fediverse.
"The Rubber Keyed Wonder"
New film to celebrate iconic ZX Spectrum computer made in Dundee
https://news.stv.tv/north/new-film-to-celebrate-iconic-zx-spectrum-computer-made-in-dundee
An epic episode from @retrobytes on the Looong History of Intel and AMD
The Secret Father of Modern Computing: How Ed Roberts created the personal computer industry—and then walked away
https://every.to/the-crazy-ones/the-secret-father-of-modern-computing
#Altair #computinghistory #computers #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #vintagecomputers #S100 #CPM #8080 #IMSAI #EdRoberts #ACM
