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While repairing my #Atari #BreakOut #Arcade PCB Wolfgang Nake (who sadly died last year) analyzed the structure of the PCB and assigned its parts to the games' functions:

#RetroGaming #HardwarePreservation #TTL

While repairing my #Atari #BreakOut #Arcade PCB Wolfgang Nake (who sadly died last year) analyzed the structure of the PCB and assigned its parts to the games' functions:

#RetroGaming #HardwarePreservation #TTL

Yesterday my media history master courses visited the "#Rechenwerk Halle" museum - a huge collection of #GDR computer hardware and software.

Here you can find a foto documentation of the excursion:

https://blogs.urz.uni-halle.de/gamelabs/2025/01/rechenwerk-halle/

#ComputerMuseum #HardwarePreservation #RetroComputing

Yesterday I arrived in Rijeka (Croatia) and started my archival research at the PEEK&POKE #ComputerMuseum today with an exhaustive visit of the hardware collection. There are a lot of (former) jugoslawian, sovjet, polish and other #HomeComputer systems from around the world. Many of them are in running condition (since the exhibiton is "hands-on").

#RetroComputing #HardwarePreservation

A RAM module (magnetic cores) of a German "Kienzle Fakturier-Maschine" (rb. 60s) from the Collektion of horniger/Berlin:

#HardwarePreservation #Minicomputers

"Schon jetzt gibt es Unmengen von Daten, die schlicht deshalb unlesbar sind, weil sich die Computer, die sie geschrieben haben, nicht mehr zum Laufen bringen lassen. Ohne Gedächtnis und d. h. ohne eine Geschichte, die auch und gerade Maschinen unter #Artenschutz stellt, ist die Erbschaft dieser Zeit also nicht an die kommende weiterzugeben." (Friedrich #Kittler (1999): Von der Implementierung des Wissens. In: https://bit.ly/3IZxHPy

#HardwarePreservation #MediaArchaeology