#vintagepc — Public Fediverse posts

@madcollector I'm running a 2007 permacomputer laptop. Linux gave it a new life like 10 years ago and it's still going. I use it almost every day. It rocks.

#permacomputing #vintagepc #patina #retro #retrotech

I made a YT short to document the impact of changing the resistors on the bottom of a Kingston TurboChip 486 upgrade CPU. Turns out R10 -> R8 makes a difference to the L1 cache speed! #vintagepc #vintagecomputing https://youtube.com/shorts/VB251661X4c?feature=share

OK, last stream about this board, I promise. It's time to try to put the northbridge back on the baby AT Pentium II motherboard... using only hot air. This isn't the right way to do this, but we'll give it a shot. Saturday at noon. #vintagePC https://youtube.com/live/4hPflMYl_cw?feature=share

Gli appassionati di retrocomputing hanno una nuova piattaforma da esplorare. GentleOS punta a riportare in vita vecchi PC con risorse minime e una classica interfaccia grafica. #Linux #RetroComputing #OpenSource #VintagePC #FOSS

https://www.linuxeasy.org/gentleos-sistema-operativo-retro-pc-i386/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

🤔 Oh joy, another riveting deep dive into FPU detection from the OS2 Museum, because nothing says "fun" like vintage PC computing and abundant timelines. 😂 Dive into the rabbit hole of archaic tech musings and embrace the thrill of learning something utterly obsolete—every single day! 🙄
https://www.os2museum.com/wp/learn-something-old-every-day-part-xviii-how-does-fpu-detection-work/ #FPUdetection #vintagePC #techhistory #OS2Museum #deepdive #HackerNews #ngated

Retro Hardware Surprises: Wolfgang’s Amiga 1200, C64G, and CDTV Adventure
#Amiga1200 #C64G #CDTV #RetroComputing #VintagePC #Commodore #HardwareRestoration
https://theoasisbbs.com/retro-hardware-surprises-wolfgangs-amiga-1200-c64g-and-cdtv-adventure/?feed_id=6879&_unique_id=69319b305fcb1

Look what hid in a small computer store in a small town (Lich). Nice one. Notice the logo of the shop - reminds you of a certain former computer company? Extra bonus points if you can even name the font...
#computer #vintagecomputing #vintagepc #retrocomputing #80s

#silicium collection
💾
#Olivetti Prodest PC1 (1988)
Face au #commodore #amiga 500,
le Prodest PC1 fait office de stage d’observation :
eux jouent et créent, lui prend des notes.
🇮🇹🖥️
#RetroComputing #VintagePC
#heritage #Toulouse

FINALEMENT!!! :blobfoxcomputerowo:
GRANDE NOUVELLE!!

https://vcfed.org/vcf-montreal/

VINTAGE COMPUTER FEDERATION MONTREAL 2026!!!!!! :spinny_fox:

JAN 24-25 2026
Royal Military College of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
15 Rue Jacques-Cartier N, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC J3B 8R8

(Bon c'est a l'exterieur de MTL 50km mais quand-même c'est "Montreal"... 1hr par voiture, 3hrs par vélo)

ALLONS-Y!!! :akirbyrun: :blobfoxcomfycomputer:

#montreal #retrocomputing #retroPC #vintagePC #vintageComputing #VintageComputerFederation #quebec

Another old school game for the collection! Super happy I found a decent copy of GTA 1 on eBay.. this seems to be in pretty decent condition and with the maps too.

#retrogaming #retrocomputing #vintagepc #retropcgames #grandtheftauto #gta #gta1

This is great
#retrocomputing, #vintagepc #retail

https://youtu.be/KVQjPCJFjzk

I can't stream Saturday, so let's do a quick early Friday morning (9AM eastern) stream to test out the cleaned-up, previously really nasty Commodore PC 20-III from last weekend's stream. You won't lose your breakfast like you lost your lunch last weekend! #vintagepc #commodore https://youtube.com/live/CEgB9h653AE?feature=share

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njGWWg69B4A
I had a couple of Atari ST computers in the '80s and remember them fondly. They were powered by this Motorola 68000 chip. #pcgaming #vintagepc #atari

Super excited to get to work on this Commordore PC 20-III that I picked up locally this week! How much NiCad damage is there? Let's find out Saturday (19th) at noon eastern. #commodore #vintagePC https://youtube.com/live/cRFRct1TisY?feature=share

Official Commander X16 Cases Now Available for Pre-Order
#CommanderX16 #RetroComputing #VintagePC #8BitGuy #GamingHardware #DIYPC #LAZER3D
https://theoasisbbs.com/official-commander-x16-cases-now-available-for-pre-order/?feed_id=1655&_unique_id=67adfd468577e

From Reddit: The NEC N5200 is a curious little workstation from 1987. It runs proprietary PTOS on an Intel 286. This version comes with a hard drive and boots from it. You can select boot option via a toggle on the case front

https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1inql9q

#retrobattlestations, #vintagepc

The number of times yearly that I regret giving away my 5.25" floppy drive or my QIC tape drive to electronic recycling is NONZERO.

#vintagepc #storage #floppy #tapedrive

Watch the shocking conclusion of Tandy Bear Christmas! Were they naught or nice? Will they all get what was on their Christmas list?
🏷️ #RetroTech #80sComputers #VintageElectronics #TandyComputer #OldSchoolTech #TechNostalgia #ClassicComputers #RetroGadgets #BackToThe80s #ThrowbackTech #VintagePC #NostalgicVibes

Let's kick off the holiday season with the first part of a Tandy Bear Christmas! 🎄 This ran in Radio Shack stores on Tandy computer for the 1987 holiday season.
🏷️ #RetroTech #80sComputers #VintageElectronics #TandyComputer #OldSchoolTech #TechNostalgia #ClassicComputers #RetroGadgets #BackToThe80s #ThrowbackTech #VintagePC #NostalgicVibes

Today, I let 2 USB to floppy drives go to the recycler. I didn't pull them from the e-waste pile. I had restraint to save everything I knew to be good as I just can't store it all or be the transition to get it to a good home.

I can't remember the last time I used a floppy disk, or if I even have any left in this house.

Baby steps.

#Recycling
#vintagepc

Today at noon eastern we're going to [hopefully] upgrade my IBM PC750 with a 3DFX Voodoo 1 and a Pentium MMX Overdrive CPU #vintagePC #3dfx https://youtube.com/live/Nj0rDRoNA7Y?feature=share

I'm really getting much more of a chuckle from the puzzles thrown up by trying to use a #VintagePC on a modern network than I ever expected!

Modern #puTTY binaries won't run on #WindowsNT4; ancient binaries from January 2000 are available and will run, but can't connect to a modern #SSH server. Most effective for file transfer is a combination of #telnet specially installed on my daily driver #Linux machine and python3 -m http.server.

Netscape 4.7 works nicely with the Python HTTP server, and the telnet client that comes with Windows NT4 supports VT100 so on opening a shell on my Linux machine, I find the w3m command line web browser is just about usable - good enough to download ancient binaries and installers onto the Linux machine that can be served via Python's HTTP server.

I've also given #wrp, the Web Rendering Proxy, a spin; it's surprisingly effective. Runs on a Linux machine on the network and serves pages as GIFs with clickable image maps.

https://github.com/tenox7/wrp