Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) have opened up their own Vintage Computer museum
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It’s all about the vintage stuff!
Addition – Prinztronic Tournament Colour Programmable 5000
Another addition to my collection – the Prinztronic Colour Programmable 5000.
Acorn System 1 arrives at The Centre for Computing History
The System 1 was the first commercially available computer produced by CPU Ltd under the trading name of Acorn Computers Ltd. It was designed by Roger Wilson and marketed as the Acorn Microcomputer in 1979.
Super Mario Bros. Celebrates 25th Birthday
On September 13, 1985, a mustachioed plumber embarked on an epic adventure through the Mushroom Kingdom in search of Princess Toadstool, an adventure that would forever change the face of the videogame industry.
Addition – Oric-1
This is one of my recent eBay purchases. It’s in very good condition and it works. It may new a new power socket or plug on
My visit to the Museum of Computing in Swindon
On the way back from my holiday in Devon, I took the opportunity to pop into the Museum of Computing in Swindon. The museum is
Poll: Have you ever restored a vintage computer?
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.
Cassette 50: the interview
I found this interesting interview with one of the developers who had one of his games included in the Cassette 50 games tape. I’m pretty
The Centre for Computing History gets a BCL Susie
Last week, The Centre for Computing History added a BCL Susie to the museums collection BCL Susie (Stock Updating Sales Invoicing Electronically) used a magnetic
RISC OS on the Bush IBX200 Internet.tv box
Thanks to the Peter(fibble) over at the stairwaytohell.com BBC Micro forums, he gave The Centre for Computing History a Bush IBX200. The internet service hosted by Bush and Virgin.net is no longer available – so the box is quite useless…. or is it?