Decided to display the VAX-11/750 at the @revspace open day yesterday. All the hard work repairing it seems to have paid off, managed to get 14 hours of uptime out of it before shutting it down at the end of the day! #unix #retrocomputing #dec #vax11 #minicomputer #unixhistory #bsd
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DataSaab: Sweden’s Lesser-Known History in Computing https://hackaday.com/2025/02/22/datasaab-swedens-lesser-known-history-in-computing/ #Retrocomputing #homecomputer #minicomputer #datasaab #History #sweden #univac #Viggen #Saab
I used the University of Leeds' Prime 750 computer (then very new) in 1980 to write a programme in, if I remember correctly, Fortran 77. The editor I used did not automatically number lines and the default to move from one line to another was to type, eg, -7, if you wanted to move 7 lines up.
Does anybody recognise this editor. Could it have been "ed"?
If you know people with an interest in 1980s minicomputers would you mind boosting? Thanks.
Pilet: An Opensource, Modular, Portable Mini-Computer Powered by Raspberry Pi #Pilet #Minicomputer #Opensource #RaspberryPi #Linux #Releases
https://ostechnix.com/pilet-modular-portable-mini-computer-powered-by-raspberry-pi/
I've had minicomputers on my mind lately, particularly the old PDP-11. I just came across a special issue of the Bell System Technical Journal about a minicomputer Bell Labs built to shoot down nuclear warheads
I got tired of not finding antennas for this thing so I did what I do best and built some out of LEGO 
(I encased the laptop antennas)
#Ireland-based #RetroComputing and #VintageComputing folks might be interested in a stash of #IBM, #DEC, #Wyse and other #mainframe and #minicomputer #GreenScreen #terminals, most dating from the 1980s and 1990s (without keyboards, unfortunately), as well as copious sealed #Windows95 CDs ("with USB support"), sealed 3½ inch #FloppyDisks, sealed and unsealed memory modules in the tens of megabytes range, sealed IBM branded PS/2 ball mice, vintage toner cartridges and ink ribbons. There's a single #Amstrad monitor for use with the #CPC454, an intriguing #Apricot-branded machine and some VGA-era monitors. Many of them will need work. There's a functioning #Windows98 machine.
The stash is located in a shed in the village of Rathdowney. You can contact the seller via adverts to arrange to see it: https://touch.adverts.ie/monitors/vintage-monitors-mobile-phones-etc/33899224
The seller is prepared to power on devices for you. I left with only a few handfuls of floppies as I already have more DEC terminals than I need.
[edit: 3¼ to 3½]
Hi, wenn ich einen #Minicomputer betreiben möchte, der
- #Python ausführen kann
- #WLAN hat
- Programmausführungen plannen kann (#cron oder Aufgabenplanung)
- leicht zu erlernen ist
- quasi keinen #Stromverbrauch hat
- 7 x 24 laufen kann
- mit Sensoren wie Temperatur, Luftfeuchtigkeit etc. arbeiten kann (evtl. direkt anschließen?)
was würdet ihr mir empfehlen?
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Watch "rabbit quarterly update" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/RDTXzrEMEQQ?si=wfuSa3k0A2yc0Zcn
#Rabbit #AI #MiniComputer #QuarterlyUpdate
Does anyone recognize this mystery 1970s keyboard? Or know which computer, mini or mainframe it was once used with?
It has distinctive CR LF REPT RUBOUT keys, but has no enter/return keys. Uses the General Instrument AY-5-2376 chip.
#vintagecomputers #minicomputer #mainframe
[23/04/2021]
The World Smallest Device with a liquid cooling system – TECNO MEGA MINI Gaming G1
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#Innovations #Gaming #MiniComputer #TECNO #Transsion
Raspberry Pi Does its Best Retro PC Impression - The Raspberry Pi is a popular choice if you’re looking to put together a simple em... - https://hackaday.com/2023/12/28/raspberry-pi-does-its-best-retro-pc-impression/ #miniaturecomputer #minicomputer #raspberrypi #emulation #games
Today I learned that #Commodore #microcomputers handled #filesystems in a very different way to what would be seen as normal (even at the time, in the #minicomputer realms, for example).
The OS (#BASIC) has no knowledge of the filesystem, just operations open, close, read and write that it would send to devices. The filesystem logic is contained in the disk drive's firmware.
@jaruzel @StefanoGaivota interesting! To me, #retrocomputing covers early #eightbit (and #sixteenbit) personal computers, and #vintagecomputing covers #mainframe, #minicomputer and #workstation machines (the latter category being composed of #LispMachines, graphical #unix workstations and of course the #XeroxParc machines).
An insigthful analysis on why there are no minicomputers anymore. More specifically it discusses why the minicomputer form factor, architecture, and vendors disappeared.
https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/why-are-there-no-minicomputers-any
𝗗𝗲 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗷é 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗹𝘂𝘅𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘀: 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝗴𝗼𝗲𝗱 𝗴𝗲𝗹𝘂𝗶𝗱 𝗲𝗻 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶-𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 éé𝗻
Met de hearables van BREGGZ heb je altijd een persoonlijke mini-computer bij je en kun je genieten van professioneel geluid. Xander de Buisonjé is de oprichter van BREGGZ en vertelt er graag meer over.
