Built by engineer Tommy Flowers in 1943, the Colossus computer was the first digital, programmable, and electronic computing device. The machine was used by British code breakers during World War II to help decipher messages encrypted with the German Lorenz SZ40/42 machine.
Category: Hardware
Posts about old hardware
Addition – Research Machines 380Z
I have been donated a fantastic ‘little’ machine today. I’ts a Research Machines 380Z. This machine is based on the Z80 CPU running at 4mhz.
Retro computer of the day – Toshiba HX-10 MSX
Old-Computers.com says the following about this machine. The HX-10 was a classic MSX 1 computer with no special feature… But it was one of the
Vintage Computing Items for the IT Crowd
The Centre for Computing History has again been asked to supply retro computer items for the set of the forth series of The IT Crowd.
BBC TWO to repeat Electric Dreams this week.
BBC TWO is repeating the very popular series – Electric Dreams. The three part documentray was shown last year on BBC Four and gives viewers a unique insight into how developments in technology have shaped our lives over the past forty years and chars the rise of today’s globally-linked, instantly-gratified digital culture.
Retrophile’s homebrew laptop
Retrophile made his own retro homebrew laptop back in 1981-2. From the outside, it looks like a plain old briefcase but inside its a completely different story!
New additions – Sinclair ZX81 & Tandy WP-2
Picked up two new machines yesterday. They are… Sinclair ZX81 Tandy WP-2 The following quotes are taken from oldcomputers.com The tandy is still sought after
Addition – Philips Videopac G7000
This the the latest addition to the collection – the Philips Videopac G7000. This machine is known as the Magnavox Odyssey2 in the States. The
Another MMBEEB built
Updated : 10/03/2019 I’ve built another MMBEEB (MMBEEB is a SD Card interface for the Acorn BBC computers that allows you to load disk images
Ultimate 486 PC Update
The ultimate 486 PC now consists of the following hardware… MS-DOS, SCSI drivers and Windows 3.11 installed without any issues. Having the Windows source files