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I recently dicked around with a Seahate F3 drive (and even that is 10+ years old), and it‘s mind boggling complex…

I’m also interested in the psychology of why people were so quick to abandon optimizing whatsoever, long before tech could handle it(I’m pretty much fine with electron now!).

For all the personal technology introduced and popularized in 2020 — upscale fitness bikes, at-home Covid tests, game consoles new and old — the personal computer lands on the list with a bit of a thud.

The best place to start is here! If you run into trouble getting your vintage computer going, using your computer, or if it stops working for some reason, post your question on the feed and see if our great online community can offer any advice.

Probably the only difference is shrinking the die process down to something more çağdaş and being able to jack up the clock speed due to using çağdaş processes to create the chip. This is probably another reason for the costs. Such a chip still being produced today would probably be of such low sales volume that the price is going to be jacked sky high to cover the costs of using some contract chip fab to produce it.

With a 1541 Ultimate to load files on to the C64 in hand, it was easy to pull his compiled AVR izlence off his çağcıl PC, chuck it on the C64, and then get the old Commodore to yetişek the AVR in turn.

Although the SNES’s successor in the form of the N64 would hamiş take cartridges to the same extremes, it was this flexible architecture that gave buraya tıklayın the SNES such an amazing game library.

Few people save old computers the way they save vintage motorcycles and antique furniture. To most, computers didn't become classics. They just became old. Even though the world bought its one billionth computer by 2002, according to the market research firm Gartner Dataquest, many had already gone into landfills.

Every little magnet is a single bit of memory stored bey either a 1 or 0, comprising a basic system known as binary code. The parts have shrunk, but we still use binary today.

While you might be able to replicate this in discreet logic, you’ll probably end up with a motherboard the size of a dinner table. Likely most of these chip sets are long out of production. Perhaps salvageable off broken boards or the rare NOS that might be out there on ebay or sketchy Chinese sites.

Most everyone buys vintage computers on Ebay, which drives the prices up. More demand = higher prices.

Due to the nature of magnetic media, software on these media are unreliable after 30+ years. Fortunately, there are still folks selling software on sites such kakım Ebay and Mercari, but be prepared to pay a premium if you end up buying there.

And there is no point in a computing device today that is not connected to the Internet. It’s looked upon birli basically a worthless paperweight.

The mighty Altair is widely considered to have inspired the boom of microcomputers in the 1970s; it certainly inspired the IMSAI 8080. It appeared on the cover of Popular Electronics

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