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How It Was Made: The Commodore 64 [22:10]

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$1 thrift store score. Radio Shack EC-242.

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How old school cassette tape drives worked

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Unix at 50: How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure

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IBM model F usb controllers are a thing. Great keyboard, you can pick them up in "for parts or repair" condition and throw one of these in for cheap.

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The Incredible Machine (1968) [14:55]

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The World's first Overclocked computer

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Can an external PCI-Express to PCI adapter work? Sort of...

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Found a Win98SE VHD I used 15 years ago for certain old applications [320x400]

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Rare original 1976 Apple-1 operation manual up for auction

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The many derivatives of the CP/M operating system

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fsv - 3D File System Visualizer. The continued graphical file browser from Jurassic Park.

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LP0 (not) on fire. [4032x3024 - 6.42MB]

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The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy VII... in 1996.

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AT&T Archives: The UNIX Operating System (circa 1982-86 ish)

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2,200 Forgotten Vintage Computers Are Being Liberated From a Barn in Massachusetts

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Restoring/Retrobrighting three Commodore PC-compatibles

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80 Years Later, GCHQ Releases New Images of Code-Breaking Computer

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SCAM: Starving Computer Artists Market (1992). Funny stuff. Making fun of all the cliches of computer graphics common in the eighties. Oh look, another fractal generator.

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Reverse-engineering the clock chip in the first MOS calculator

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iMac G3 October 1999 model (Slot loading, 333mhz PowerPC 750)

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Digital Effects Demo Reel (1985)

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PiDP-11 Retro Computer Build - Computerphile - YouTube

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Apple Lisa: 40 Years Later, Now Open Source

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A bunch of RAMDISK/8088 adapter boards from the Box 'o Chips era - The SWP Co-Power Board.

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