I vividly remember 12-year-old me and my nerdy friends being so excited for the release of Triumph of the Nerds on PBS in 1996, and I've watched it over a dozen of times in the years since. It is one of my all-time favorite documentaries. It's actually the key biggest inspiration for the project I am currently doing of interviews.

His column in InfoWorld was a go-to for many people in Silicon Valley for many years.

I read that he lost two of his sons before his passing, one as an infant in 2002 who passed away in his arms, and another just earlier this year at age 21. It's hard to imagine that grief.

I never had the privilege of meeting Mark personally, but he left a big impact on me and countless others through his work.

RIP

My 486 DX4 setup with a VLB graphics card and three ISA sound cards.

Top to bottom:

• Hercules PowerDynamite 2MB VLB (Tseng ET4000/W32p)
• Gravis Ultrasound 3.74 1MB ISA
• Roland RAP-10 ISA
• Creative Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 ISA

The three sound cards provide Gravis Ultrasound, Sound Blaster, and General MIDI compatibility for DOS games.

I spent hundreds of hours typing in basic programs from books just like these when I was about 14. Big wave of nostalgia seeing this.

It does say "Laser" on it, but I have never found any documentation for it. Would like to know the DIP switch settings.

I recently got this 30 pound brick from an estate sale. There are no identifying markings on the outside for a company, except for a useless serial number that comes up with nothing when searching it, and "LCD Portable Computer".

• The motherboard has no name on it, only the model number: ECS-386/32.

• Some of the cards in it have names, the hard drive/floppy controller is by Western Digital, the video card is some Hercules clone I think, and the bottom one is just a serial/parallel port card.

• The hard drive is 43mb from Seagate and sadly does not work.

• The floppy drive is from Mitsubishi and does work.

• The screen is terrible and i can barely see a thing even when messing with the contrast knob.

If anyone knows anything about this please let me know, i was able to find some variants of it by reverse image searching it, but no real documentation about it anywhere.

Which industry commonly used this. Anyone?

Quality isn’t the best on these screenshots but hopefully someone will be familiar with the model of these computers from Terminator 2 (1991).

So, my brother found this for an incredible price delivered, so I knew I had to get it. It does not currently work (as far as I know) but I'm hoping to get it working in the near future. The screen should be an absolute treat as it is green monochrome monitor, and I believe I have the correct key coming to replace the missing one (well, 2 but still) key. :D

These machines were often found in UK schools in the early 1980s. This 380z does power on into a COS (Cassette Operating System) prompt though I've not tested it further as yet.

Nervous about switching it on as i haven't checked yet if the original tantalum capacitors have been replaced and dont want to risk blowing them. Also got to think about how to restore the disk drives, though Ive got a gotek and might use that instead.

The battery was soldered to the motherboard, so I ordered an external battery holder that I will solder onto the motherboard terminals. It posted for a while, but now it does not. (Probably the battery). It didn't come with an HDD, but I will eventually buy a maxtor 7540av off of eBay or something similar. The original owner also upgraded the CPU to a 75mhz Intel overdrive. It also still has its stock 8mb ram. The CD (and probably floppy) drives were both dead, so I will replace them.

Any of y’all use an Acorn? I used one in 1984 or so for typing class. I remember it had a text to voice feature.

I bought this server in a hurry back in 2014 because I wanted a physical machine to prepare for my Solaris 11 certification.

Then I discovered that the V100 wasn’t supported. Excellent planning on my part 😂

So I did a fresh Solaris 10 installation instead. Eventually the project stalled, the server went into the cellar, and there it stayed for over a decade. I rediscovered it while moving recently.

Sun hardware was already familiar territory for me. My background is in infrastructure and Unix administration, and I’d previously worked with Netra X1s, including installing NetBSD on them. Very similar-looking little boxes, although the X1 didn’t have the CD drive. Finding this V100 again brought back quite a few memories.

I opened it up and took these photos. Two Seagate IDE drives, four populated memory slots, and that enormous Sun logo on the lid. I still love the way these machines look.

One thing that concerns me is the group of capacitors next to the CPU heatsink. Some look slightly domed to me, although the lighting makes it hard to tell. For anyone familiar with these boards: do they look suspicious? Would you check or replace them before attempting to bring it back into service?

And what would you actually do with a V100 today?

Keep the Solaris 10 installation and rebuild a little period-correct Unix lab? Try a current BSD? Give it some small, completely unnecessary job just for the pleasure of seeing it work?

Or has it earned a place in a museum?

Anyone here still running one—or remembering when these were machines you looked after at work?

A typical cheap 90s Baby AT case: beige, LED display, turbo button, and those wonderfully bright 90s color. Built a DX4-100 VLB system inside, complete with a Sony CDU-55E 2x IDE CD-ROM from late 1994.

Tengo varios procesadores Intel sin usar y viejos también memorias ram y placas dañadas, alguien tiene idea de que puedo hacer con ellos? No los quiero desechar por tema de contaminación y pregunto si tienen alguna idea de como realizar algún proyecto de electrónica es bienvenido.

I got a computer labeled Mercury 3000 and a computer labeled DSi 286 and two printers both of which function compact disc reader and 8 is what looks like a modem and two keyboards, neither of the computers seem to function properly, as in I have only gotten both of them to turn on once, and then give up on life. Even the printer covered in dirt that was sitting in a wet box for around 30-40 years still works, but the two computers don't. With the Mercury 3000 computer, I know what the main issue is, however, the DSI 286 looks pristine inside, yet I've sadly only been able to turn on once and yell at me.

Bought at flea market. It says "Артон ИМ-01". And inside it has Reed elements .

I decided to make a start on its restoration so I got my boxed VIC-20 on the bench this week. Before turned it on I checked the power supply, the plug and the fuse and measured the output 4.7V DC. It came out fine. The cursor froze once, but after a restart all the keys, sound worked and the original joystick worked too, which I didn’t expect.

About 20 minutes in it just switched itself off. Power LED has gone off and black screen. I turned it off and on again, it came back and a couple of minutes later it went off again. So I unplugged it and started the strip-down.

The board (250403 Rev D) is cleaner than I expected. No burn marks, no water marks, nothing obviously resoldered. The one odd thing is this black wire running across it, from one of the outputs over to the power side. I’m not sure it was fitted at the factory.

Has anyone seen this wire on their VIC-20? And does the switching off sound like the power supply to you or something on the board? I’ll post updates as I go.

Hi all! My name is Giorgio and I'm writing from Italy. I'm searching for the Programmer's Manual of Olivetti LIMO, that was in the '70s used to develop applications for Olivetti TC800 (it was a sort of assembler, the toolchain was DKASM, LINK...). I would like, just for fun, to write a LIMO emulator (probabily using a script language, so that it will be run on different platforms). To do that, I need a manual or better an old listing to understand the structure of the program. No need for instruction set: I own a copy of 'giallone', that was a foldable A4 reporting the syntax of all assembler instructions. Thank you all!

Acorn released BBC Micro with 2MHz 6502(while Apple II and C64 was only 1Mhz), Econet networking and built-in sound processor in 1981. Then in 1987, Acorn released the first RISC based PC Archimedes with the ARM processor. We really benefit today from the ARM processors. What an amazing company it was with so many innovations

Had this one set up a few years ago with an MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum, miss that card.

Ok. The drives work perfectly. Now to diagnose the motherboard. I'm thinking it's one of the logic chips. They might be holding the line low that would probably explain the problem it not reading and the light staying on even if the cable is on the correct way. We will see. If anyone could give some insight on these computers and what could be the problem I'm all ears. My scope went kaput over the weekend so I'm waiting on a replacement

A few years ago, I got my hands on a Soviet mainframe control panel identical to the one once used at the infamous Russian Woodpecker site in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. The machine installed there was an ES-1060, an IBM System/370 architectural clone, initially installed in late 1985 to handle improved algorithms. However, it was never put into operation because of the Chernobyl disaster.

The panel I have is from an ES-4001 block/byte multiplexer channel controller (which, as far as I understand, has no direct IBM equivalent as a standalone device).

I started this project a few years ago but haven't made much progress, as I want to keep the restoration as authentic as possible. So I've spent a lot of time hunting down surviving documentation and acquiring the correct parts and components.

It's a bit of a long shot, as many things are still unclear. Maybe it'll end up being just a beautiful set of blinkenlights, maybe something more, but... here's Part 1!