#computerarchaeology — Public Fediverse posts
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(Don't!) Stop the press: Our book " #Commodore64 – Past, Present, and Future of a #HomeComputer" is now in print!
18 chapters, 380 pages, full-color!
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(Don't!) Stop the press: Our book " #Commodore64 – Past, Present, and Future of a #HomeComputer" is now in print!
18 chapters, 380 pages, full-color!
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(Don't!) Stop the press: Our book " #Commodore64 – Past, Present, and Future of a #HomeComputer" is now in print!
18 chapters, 380 pages, full-color!
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(Don't!) Stop the press: Our book " #Commodore64 – Past, Present, and Future of a #HomeComputer" is now in print!
18 chapters, 380 pages, full-color!
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(Don't!) Stop the press: Our book " #Commodore64 – Past, Present, and Future of a #HomeComputer" is now in print!
18 chapters, 380 pages, full-color!
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Just published as book and #OpenAccess PDF:
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7115-5/computerwohnen/
... with a chapter from me about the question "What is a home computer?".
#MediaArchaeology #ComputerArchaeology #ComputerHistory #MediaStudies
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I just booked a trip to #Cambridge (UK) for March next year to visit the archives of the "The Center for Computing History" - hoping to find some interesting stuff about the britisch #BASIC development and programmer communities of the 1970s and 1980s.
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With the help of a friend and his #Applesauce #Floppy extraction tool I was able to reconstruct 4 more damaged version of the #C64 #BASIC #game "Schanze" I am going to examine for its step-by-step creation. I am able now to compare 13 version (incl. 2 fragments from damaged files)!
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On November 7 and 8, the "Working Group on Computer and Computing History" of the Society for Computer Science is organizing the conference "Computers in Germany: Recent Research in Digital History and #ComputerArchaeology." The conference is organized by Martin Schmitt (from @unipotsdam) and myself. The venue is the Heinz #Nixdorf Museums Forum in Paderborn.
The event is public and admission is free. We look forward to many visitors!
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On November 7 and 8, the "Working Group on Computer and Computing History" of the Society for Computer Science is organizing the conference "Computers in Germany: Recent Research in Digital History and #ComputerArchaeology." The conference is organized by Martin Schmitt (from @unipotsdam) and myself. The venue is the Heinz #Nixdorf Museums Forum in Paderborn.
The event is public and admission is free. We look forward to many visitors!
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On November 7 and 8, the "Working Group on Computer and Computing History" of the Society for Computer Science is organizing the conference "Computers in Germany: Recent Research in Digital History and #ComputerArchaeology." The conference is organized by Martin Schmitt (from @unipotsdam) and myself. The venue is the Heinz #Nixdorf Museums Forum in Paderborn.
The event is public and admission is free. We look forward to many visitors!
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On November 7 and 8, the "Working Group on Computer and Computing History" of the Society for Computer Science is organizing the conference "Computers in Germany: Recent Research in Digital History and #ComputerArchaeology." The conference is organized by Martin Schmitt (from @unipotsdam) and myself. The venue is the Heinz #Nixdorf Museums Forum in Paderborn.
The event is public and admission is free. We look forward to many visitors!
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On November 7 and 8, the "Working Group on Computer and Computing History" of the Society for Computer Science is organizing the conference "Computers in Germany: Recent Research in Digital History and #ComputerArchaeology." The conference is organized by Martin Schmitt (from @unipotsdam) and myself. The venue is the Heinz #Nixdorf Museums Forum in Paderborn.
The event is public and admission is free. We look forward to many visitors!
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#Microsoft just released their #MOS6502 #BASIC source code as #opensource
https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09/03/microsoft-open-source-historic-6502-basic/
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The Fritz Thyssen Foundation has fully granted our application for a publication cost subsidy for the volume 'What was Artificial Intelligence? contours of a research field 1975-2000 in Germany', which is based on the conference that took place at HU Berlin in 2022.
The book is edited by Martin Schmitt (Uni Paderborn) and me and will be published in the #ComputerArchaeology series this year.
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Last week I learned Wolfgang Nake had died on July 17th. Wolfgang has dedicated is retirement time to reenact the early #Atari TTL games - especially #Pong. We cooperated in talks, exhibitions, and in papers many times. I am very sad he died only 70 years old! One of my forthcoming essay collections on #ComputerArchaeology will be dedicated to him and his work.
In my weblog I wrote a short obituray on him:
http://www.simulationsraum.de/blog/2025/08/01/wolfgang-nake-1954-2025/
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What do you do when you are sick with the flu on the sofa? Me, I am reading @nickmofo‘s excellent book „Racing the Beam“ about the Atari VCS. This also led me to nanochess‘s blog post about Video Chess.
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Another English translated chapter from my earlier work is uploaded to ResearchGate:
Little Data – Fractal Image Compression: From a Network-Historical Miscellany to a Media-Structural Rupture
#Fractals #ComputerArchaeology #ComputerGraphics #Compression
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Today the 4th issue of the German #GameStudies magazine "Spiel-Formen" has been published. Main topic of this issue is #GameLabs. I contributed a photo galery about the "Signal Laboratory" at HU Berlin:
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Today the 4th issue of the German #GameStudies magazine "Spiel-Formen" has been published. Main topic of this issue is #GameLabs. I contributed a photo galery about the "Signal Laboratory" at HU Berlin:
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Today the 4th issue of the German #GameStudies magazine "Spiel-Formen" has been published. Main topic of this issue is #GameLabs. I contributed a photo galery about the "Signal Laboratory" at HU Berlin:
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Today the 4th issue of the German #GameStudies magazine "Spiel-Formen" has been published. Main topic of this issue is #GameLabs. I contributed a photo galery about the "Signal Laboratory" at HU Berlin:
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Today the 4th issue of the German #GameStudies magazine "Spiel-Formen" has been published. Main topic of this issue is #GameLabs. I contributed a photo galery about the "Signal Laboratory" at HU Berlin:
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Today I've published an english translated version of my paper on the #ComputerArchaeology of (early) #SocialNetworks, describing the "Community Memory" project from Lee Felsenstein and others in the 1960s/70s SF Bay Area:
"All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" – Public memories, democratic information, and restrictive technologies using the example of "Community Memory"
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Today I'm going to #Munich for the @vcfe where I'm exhibiting early #Atari home computers, giving a lecture on the #GOTO controversy and holding an editor-editorial meeting about the next volumes in the #ComputerArchaeology book series. As the icing on the cake, swap (my) #THAT analog computer for a Leyboldt-Haraeus #AnalogComputer.
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Another pre-print from me: "»I Program my Home Computer«. Discourse and Computer Archaeological Localizations of a Technology" - where I try to define "home computer" as a term, a technology, and a media historic event:
#MediaStudies #ComputerArchaeology #HomeComputer #PostStructuralism #Serres
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Another pre-print from me: "»I Program my Home Computer«. Discourse and Computer Archaeological Localizations of a Technology" - where I try to define "home computer" as a term, a technology, and a media historic event:
#MediaStudies #ComputerArchaeology #HomeComputer #PostStructuralism #Serres
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Another pre-print from me: "»I Program my Home Computer«. Discourse and Computer Archaeological Localizations of a Technology" - where I try to define "home computer" as a term, a technology, and a media historic event:
#MediaStudies #ComputerArchaeology #HomeComputer #PostStructuralism #Serres
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Another pre-print from me: "»I Program my Home Computer«. Discourse and Computer Archaeological Localizations of a Technology" - where I try to define "home computer" as a term, a technology, and a media historic event:
#MediaStudies #ComputerArchaeology #HomeComputer #PostStructuralism #Serres
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Another pre-print from me: "»I Program my Home Computer«. Discourse and Computer Archaeological Localizations of a Technology" - where I try to define "home computer" as a term, a technology, and a media historic event:
#MediaStudies #ComputerArchaeology #HomeComputer #PostStructuralism #Serres
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Just published: my (translated) chapter on "Unconventional Computing" as a pre-print on ResearchGate:
#UnconventionalComputing #ToyComputing #Complexity #ComputerArchaeology
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Just published: my (translated) chapter on "Unconventional Computing" as a pre-print on ResearchGate:
#UnconventionalComputing #ToyComputing #Complexity #ComputerArchaeology
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Just published: my (translated) chapter on "Unconventional Computing" as a pre-print on ResearchGate:
#UnconventionalComputing #ToyComputing #Complexity #ComputerArchaeology
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Just published: my (translated) chapter on "Unconventional Computing" as a pre-print on ResearchGate:
#UnconventionalComputing #ToyComputing #Complexity #ComputerArchaeology
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Just published: my (translated) chapter on "Unconventional Computing" as a pre-print on ResearchGate:
#UnconventionalComputing #ToyComputing #Complexity #ComputerArchaeology
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My proposal for this years SHOT conference in Luxembourg was accepted! I contribute to the "Code Histories" session with a talk about my #BASIC research project.
#GameStudies #BreakOut #CriticalCodeStudies #ComputerArchaeology #ComputerPhilology
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Last week I found these cassettes with an audio manual and bit-stream software for the "#Signetics Instructor 50" #SingleBoardComputer from 1978. Today I ripped the audio to an MP3 file. Feel free to download it here:
https://cloud.uni-halle.de/s/6M6iiq8rsF4lXQ1
And take a visit to this marvelous Instructor-50 website: https://ztpe.nl/2650/hardware/signetics-instructor-50/
#Assembly #Signetics2650 #RetroComputing #ComputerArchaeology
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Last week I found these cassettes with an audio manual and bit-stream software for the "#Signetics Instructor 50" #SingleBoardComputer from 1978. Today I ripped the audio to an MP3 file. Feel free to download it here:
https://cloud.uni-halle.de/s/6M6iiq8rsF4lXQ1
And take a visit to this marvelous Instructor-50 website: https://ztpe.nl/2650/hardware/signetics-instructor-50/
#Assembly #Signetics2650 #RetroComputing #ComputerArchaeology
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Last week I found these cassettes with an audio manual and bit-stream software for the "#Signetics Instructor 50" #SingleBoardComputer from 1978. Today I ripped the audio to an MP3 file. Feel free to download it here:
https://cloud.uni-halle.de/s/6M6iiq8rsF4lXQ1
And take a visit to this marvelous Instructor-50 website: https://ztpe.nl/2650/hardware/signetics-instructor-50/
#Assembly #Signetics2650 #RetroComputing #ComputerArchaeology
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Last week I found these cassettes with an audio manual and bit-stream software for the "#Signetics Instructor 50" #SingleBoardComputer from 1978. Today I ripped the audio to an MP3 file. Feel free to download it here:
https://cloud.uni-halle.de/s/6M6iiq8rsF4lXQ1
And take a visit to this marvelous Instructor-50 website: https://ztpe.nl/2650/hardware/signetics-instructor-50/
#Assembly #Signetics2650 #RetroComputing #ComputerArchaeology
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Last week I found these cassettes with an audio manual and bit-stream software for the "#Signetics Instructor 50" #SingleBoardComputer from 1978. Today I ripped the audio to an MP3 file. Feel free to download it here:
https://cloud.uni-halle.de/s/6M6iiq8rsF4lXQ1
And take a visit to this marvelous Instructor-50 website: https://ztpe.nl/2650/hardware/signetics-instructor-50/
#Assembly #Signetics2650 #RetroComputing #ComputerArchaeology
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Today I had an all-day seminar about "Code Critic" at MeWi Uni Bonn. I organized the talks of the students as a symposium. The last talk was about the #GOTO controversy that started in the end of the 1960s with a rant from Edsger W. #Dijkstra and lasts until today. The student's talk ended with a self-made meme.
#BASIC #CCS #CriticalCodeStudies #Paperware #ComputerArchaeology
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Request for information on FPS-100 and related arithmetic processor machines:
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Today I hooked up a USB DVD drive to a MacBook and put in a CDR I burned circa 1997 from a PowerBook 540c. Totally surprised that MacOS read it and displayed files in the Finder from a 27 year old obsolete file system.
At any rate, here's a picture of me with a face hugger I made for fun. The picture was taken with a Quickcam. #oldmacs #computerArchaeology #alien #prop -
Today I start my lecture series "The World of #Game Labs" at the Department for Media and Communication at University Halle.
The first talk will be given by myself about the ten years of "Signal Laboratory" in the Media Science Department at the Humboldt University (2012-2022).
The talk will be in German and starts at 16:00 (4 pm) ct.
You can attend online here: https://mluconf.uni-halle.de/b/ste-zv2-y8r-ecd
#GameLabs #MediaStudies #MediaArchaeology #GameStudies #ComputerArchaeology
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Today I start my lecture series "The World of #Game Labs" at the Department for Media and Communication at University Halle.
The first talk will be given by myself about the ten years of "Signal Laboratory" in the Media Science Department at the Humboldt University (2012-2022).
The talk will be in German and starts at 16:00 (4 pm) ct.
You can attend online here: https://mluconf.uni-halle.de/b/ste-zv2-y8r-ecd
#GameLabs #MediaStudies #MediaArchaeology #GameStudies #ComputerArchaeology
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Today I start my lecture series "The World of #Game Labs" at the Department for Media and Communication at University Halle.
The first talk will be given by myself about the ten years of "Signal Laboratory" in the Media Science Department at the Humboldt University (2012-2022).
The talk will be in German and starts at 16:00 (4 pm) ct.
You can attend online here: https://mluconf.uni-halle.de/b/ste-zv2-y8r-ecd
#GameLabs #MediaStudies #MediaArchaeology #GameStudies #ComputerArchaeology
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Today I start my lecture series "The World of #Game Labs" at the Department for Media and Communication at University Halle.
The first talk will be given by myself about the ten years of "Signal Laboratory" in the Media Science Department at the Humboldt University (2012-2022).
The talk will be in German and starts at 16:00 (4 pm) ct.
You can attend online here: https://mluconf.uni-halle.de/b/ste-zv2-y8r-ecd
#GameLabs #MediaStudies #MediaArchaeology #GameStudies #ComputerArchaeology
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Today I start my lecture series "The World of #Game Labs" at the Department for Media and Communication at University Halle.
The first talk will be given by myself about the ten years of "Signal Laboratory" in the Media Science Department at the Humboldt University (2012-2022).
The talk will be in German and starts at 16:00 (4 pm) ct.
You can attend online here: https://mluconf.uni-halle.de/b/ste-zv2-y8r-ecd
#GameLabs #MediaStudies #MediaArchaeology #GameStudies #ComputerArchaeology
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The #MediaStudies of Uni Halle, where I am invited as a guest professor for the next semester, is about to establish a #GameLab called "Circuit Lab". We will use this for one or two rounds of "Game Circuits".
https://circuitlab.medienkomm.uni-halle.de/
#MediaArchaeology #ComputerArchaeology #GameStudies #RetroGaming