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> I Was a 1980s Teenage Programmer: the Alphatronic <
https://blog.startifact.com/posts/teenage-programmer-alphatronic/
Nice old-timey computing story. I'm also amused by his "User Guide" interpretation.
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Secret WeblogI Was a 1980s Teenage Programmer: the AlphatronicI have been programming computers for a long time; I started as a
teenager at some point in the 1980s. I thought I might reminiscence a
bit about it. That's fun for me, but it also may also be fun for others
to see a small snapshot of what programming could be like back then. For
some, of my generation or older, there may be recognition, but for
others who got into programming later this might be an unknown world.
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Finally, it's done. Shoveled some games, demos, and tools onto it to showcase the PicoGUS in its various modes. Wavetable is working great, too. 
Windows 95 runs particularly well on the system, despite "only" being a DX4-100. I guess 32 MB RAM, a rather fast hard disk supporting block mode, and a graphics chip with a blitter help quite a bit.
Glider for Apple II's first beta release is available at https://www.colino.net/wordpress/glider-for-apple-ii/
I hope you'll enjoy it, and be sure to report issues if you find some!
colin@colino.netGlider for Apple II
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Original #xbox and a pile of games, $100
#forsale #retrocomputing (retro enough I reckon). SE Melbourne
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Gauntlet (1989)
Macintosh
I have a Macintosh Portable carry-case which does NOT contain a Macintosh Portable and because of that, I suddenly has a sad.
Also, it's clearly meant to open this way up, so why did they place the Macintosh Portable label upside-down?
@NanoRaptor Heck, the VAXstation was a very cute, little, and *real* #VAX
23 years later and it still works
Kind of a sad phonebook lol
I forgot about getting scolded 
So, here's my actually-planned-for-this-year #MARCHintosh project. Attached is a photo of four very dusty containers full of floppy disks. These are the actual disks from my childhood IIfx!
Most of these disks aren't original. The originals lived at Dad's workplace. He would periodically bring home software from work, make a copy of the disks, and return the originals to work. These were, I'm told, the "off-site backups", in case there was a fire at the workplace or something like that. But we also had all this software installed on the family IIfx so Dad could read any files that he brought home from work with him.
Of course, we also bought our own software for the home, and those are mixed in with these disks as well. And that stack of CD-ROMs in the top left are my MacAddict cover disks - those are already archived.
Anyway, because these are just consumer-grade diskettes, they degrade quicker than the professionally-manufactured original ones. I've already lost a few, so I want to get these archived! And of course, anything that doesn't already exist on the Garden will be uploaded there and shared on #GlobalTalk as well.
(expect this to be a long-ass foone-style thread with lots of updates over several days)
M-NET the oldest running Public Access UNIX has arrived! The original Altos ACS68000 will be on display next weekend at the Interim Computer Festival. M-NET is now under SDF.org Vintage Systems care. Thanks jfk, cross and tod! #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #community #bbs
Tried out InterPrint on my IIfx today and I've got to say, it works beautifully!
https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/interprint-112
This Chooser extension allows you to print to LPR queues over TCP/IP. But unlike the IP printing support in LaserWriter 8 (which "requires" Mac OS 8, though I think you can manually install it on as low as System 7.5.3), InterPrint works all the way down to System 6.0.5! It fully supports PostScript, too.
What this means for me is that after #MARCHintosh is over, I can repurpose my Raspberry Pi, which currently acts as an AppleTalk print server for my local network (and #GlobalTalk, by extension).
I recommend using Tribosys for lubricating keyswitches as well as the key stems. With the keyboard apart, I was able to easily apply the lubricant using a thin brush. #retrobrite #retrocomputing #appleextendedkeyboard #vintageapple #MARCHintosh