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

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A box of Atari Computers at the Findlay Hamfest

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Restoring/Retrobrighting three Commodore PC-compatibles

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Core Memory Explained and Demonstrated

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

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Reverse-engineering the clock chip in the first MOS calculator

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The Eternal Mainframe.

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$1 mobo/cpu/ram combo. Pentium 133 with 16megs. Yard sales are the best.

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AMD first entered the CPU market with reverse-engineered Intel 8080 clone 50 years ago — the Am9080 cost 50 cents apiece to make, but sold for $700 | Tom's Hardware

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A massive (actual mass) processor from the past: 8-way IBM Power5 chip

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The Computer Chronicles - Operating Systems (1984)

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I replaced mine every few weeks. [460x391 - 190KB]

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M-Systems disk on chip units. [4032x3024 - 2.04MB]

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How Old School Floppy Drives Worked

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Digital Effects Demo Reel (1985)

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386 Build: 3 Floppy Drives, SD card, Networking

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Unix v4 tape dumped and booted (only known copy)

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Here's What Happens When an 18 Year Old Buys a Mainframe. Fun story, gay hair.

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

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Apple, Atari, and Commodore, oh my! Explore a deluxe home vintage computer den

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Technician keeps computer made in 1959 still humming along

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The Computer Chronicles - UNIX (1985)

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Amiga Now Includes HDMI By Way Of A Raspberry Pi Daughterboard

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A Japanese factory that designs clothes on a 40-year-old computer [video] (youtube.com)

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