#microcomputers — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #microcomputers, aggregated by home.social.
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🎉 Wow, who knew the history of #microcomputers was just a parade of unpronounceable names and numbers? 😴 Let's not pretend anyone's life changed with a 20-pound "micro" computer, probably better at launching a spaceship than solving a math problem. 🚀 #Calculators everywhere are shaking in their pocket protectors. 📟
https://www.righto.com/2024/02/the-first-microcomputer-transfluxor.html #techhistory #nostalgia #spacecomputing #HackerNews #ngated -
Very nice:
“The Home Computer War”, Christopher Felix McDonald (https://technicshistory.com/2026/03/06/the-home-computer-war/).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47269914
#RetroComputing #OldSkool #Nostalgia #HomeComputers #MicroComputers #ComputerHistory #8Bits
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Microcomputers – The First Wave: Responding to Altair
https://technicshistory.com/2025/04/06/microcomputers-the-first-wave-responding-to-altair/
#HackerNews #Microcomputers #Altair #History #Technology #Innovation
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OS History: @hgesser dives into CP/M, the Control Program for Microcomputers, which laid the groundwork for modern operating systems. https://www.makerspace-online.com/in-the-beginning/
#DOS #microcomputers #OperatingSystem #OS #FloppyDisk #BIOS #BDOS #CCP #Shell #scripts #emulation -
#SepTandy! 👾🖥️ https://zbirka.muzej.si/#item=215
#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #nostalgia #nostalgie #nostalgi #TRS80CoCo #TRS80ColorComputer #RadioShack #Tandy #TRS80 #Microcomputers #Microcomputer #colorcomputer #keyboard #tandycorp #TandyColorComputer #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing
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OK, promise kept! I've been on vacation the last week so sorry about the delay in posting this. Here's my latest video, where I take a look at the complete game of the C64 port of Contra aka Gryzor!
I brought along a friend that's never played or even seen this version before.
Check it out here: https://youtu.be/jTXZwrPIanU
#retrogaming #videogames #c64 #commodore64 #konami #contra #gryzor #badgames #8bit #classic #classiccomputer #classiccomputers #microcomputer #microcomputers #arcade