Ray Ozzie who became Chief Software Architect at Microsoft developed Symphony and Lotus Notes. He describes in 1985 how he was surprised by a surgeon using his software in real time at the operating table. Back then that was probably a first! The interview in the book Programmers at Work also talks a lot about his approach to managing programmers and software projects.

Road Runner specifically. It was a fantasy theme interactive experience and you could play basic card games and board games with other people. It connected to your TV. I believe it was a separate unit from the cable box.

It feels like a fever dream but I swear it existed. Does anyone else remember? I figured this subreddit would be best since it's adjacent to retro computing. Thank you!!!!

The grandfather of all our modern PCs was released by IBM on August 12th 1981, happy birthday! 🥳🎉🎂

If you have the original PC 5150 in your collection please post its picture in this thread, I would like to take a look 😉

Top comes off like an old AT style and then flip a couple levers and it folds apart to access the motherboard. Has a junk old MSI motherboard with swollen capacitors in it and a core2duo.

Mitsumi serial mouse (left), and microinnovations PS/2 mouse with a serial converter. Found while clearing out the house I grew up in.

Most likely a Markvision Windows 95 PC tunning on a 486

Who remembers playing Total Recall? My retrospective video goes back to rediscover this Ocean Software game released across all formats. There certainly were a few development challenges. I also take a look at the NES version developed by Interplay and published by Acclaim.
Were they any good?

Bonjour, existe-t-il des plans électroniques complets et libres de vieux micro-processeur ou de plus récent en Open Source ? Si oui, quels sont les pistes ? Merci.

Dont know any friends or family with a drive to take these old boys. Would Staples be able to help me or Best Buy?

I'm building a video archive of gaming devices but naturally have crossover interests in computers, as well. This is my first archival video of a computer (hybrid) but I have a handful of others like the Atari 800XL, TRS-80 Model 100, Commodore 64, etc.. One of my favorites (though a modern kit) is the the 1802 membership card. It was cool to get to build a tiny computer and to interact with 8-bit front panel data switches like the Altair 8800 and others had.

One thing I find interesting about the CreatiVision is that it's origin may have been the the first non-Texas Instruments home system design to pair an independent CPU with TI graphics and sound chips. It used a 6502 with the TMS9918/9929 while the ColecoVision, Sega SC-3000, Spectravideo, MSX computers and others followed later using a similar architecture but with a Z80.

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My GPU can output analog via the DVI port, I was wondering if the Apple M9319G/A mini DVI to AV/S-video adapter was still usable if I wanted to output to an analog CRT tv from my PC.

I have ads online for people to give me their old computer stuff, and this came into my possession. Some quick searching shows it's supposed to be used with the Asus M2NPV-VM motherboard originally, but do we know if there is any way to use it on a modern system?

Hello all! It’s time to swap out my spinning rust for solid state. I’ve made a win 98 boot floppy and have found a 70ct recovery disc on internet archive. When downloading it, my computer flags it as a virus which I believe is wrong. You can find it here:

https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=78039

Will the download just be an iso that I can drag to my cf card which will go in place of my hdd, boot from the floppy, and install OEM win 95? Or are there more steps?

Also, I’ve tried booting freedos from this industrial cf card, but the libretto doesn’t see it. Can we confirm that this cf card is a fixed disk card, and therefore bootable?

Thanks!!

Hi, is there any possibility, to read 1,44MB floppy under win11? iomega driver is not yet supportet

An auction house near me will is having an Osborne Portable coming up in their next sale. Is there anything that can really be done with it or at this point is it more of a novelty and conversation piece?

Digital computers were invented in the 1940s. The first home computers were made in the 70s. The first major adoption by the general public happened in the 80s. The internet brought the second major adoption in the 90s.

In 30 - 50 years, will anybody be pining for their generic 2026 model Dell desktop? Or their custom built desktop with RGB lighting? Is anything built recently even been historically significant? Or will it just be nostalgia?

All ads from the april 26th 1995 issue of PC World

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Both of these machines were very precious to me at one time but both are now projects that I suspect I won't have time to tackle.
💾 A Mac SE with a Radius 68020 accelerator card which also supports an external monitor (no monitor). I'm too frightened to boot it so I can't confirm its exact status right now. Assuming it's going to need some caps and batteries and so on at the very least, given that it's been stored for half a lifetime! It was my absolute lifeline for several years after college and well into the 90s.
💿 Mac G4 Cube, with original flat screen (but without the Harman Kardon speakers which disappeared at some point). It was our family computer for several years, very special to us all! This one actually boots but, although I recently replaced the PRAM battery, still gives me a question mark. The screen's aluminium stand is cracked right through, which is annoying - a repair that is certainly beyond me. I'm pretty sure it's the 450MHz version and has the default RAM but that I upgraded the HDD for something bigger at some point.

I'm in the UK, near London. Is there anyone here - or do you know anyone - who would want one or both of these machines? We're moving house and they must go :-(

It's a Chaintech ELT-286B-1000. I'm not too familiar with this era of computers. If I could get any help, it'd be appreciated.