#vintagetech

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@hackaday The History of Altec Lansing #History #Audio #VintageTech
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May 12, 2026
@chris_aldrich (untitled) #Typewriters #VintageTech #WritingTools
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May 11, 2026
@chris_aldrich (untitled) #Typewriters #VintageTech #WritingTools
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May 10, 2026
@hackaday How Commodore Made a Sync Splitter #Retrocomputing #Hardware #VintageTech
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May 8, 2026
@hackaday The Montgomery Ward Gasoline-Powered Clothes Iron #History #Maker #VintageTech
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May 8, 2026
@lobsters Building my own Vi text editor in BASIC #RetroComputing #Programming #VintageTech
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May 5, 2026
@hackaday Adapting a 100-Year-Old Lens To A Modern Camera #Hacks #Photography #VintageTech
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May 1, 2026
@lobsters Using a 1978 terminal in 2026 (DEC VT-100) #RetroComputing #VintageTech #TechHistory
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Apr 28, 2026
@simon_willison Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930 #AI #VintageTech #LanguageModel
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Apr 28, 2026
@hackaday Rescuing the Data on a 1960s LGP-21 Computer's Disk Memory #Retrocomputing #DataRecovery #VintageTech
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Apr 25, 2026
@hackaday What Can You Run on a 1960s Univac? Anything You’re Willing To Wait For! #Retrocomputing #Hacks #VintageTech
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Apr 18, 2026
@ken_shirriff The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker #Electronics #VintageTech #Aerospace
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Apr 18, 2026
@lobsters Running a Minecraft Server and more on a 1960s UNIVAC Computer #RetroComputing #VintageTech #Gaming
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Apr 18, 2026
@damien_guard VTX5000: Part 1 - Prism, Prestel and Teletext #RetroComputing #TechHistory #VintageTech
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Mar 13, 2026
@ken_shirriff Unusual circuits in the Intel 386's standard cell logic #Electronics #VintageTech #ComputerHistory
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Nov 22, 2025
@smittytone_messes_with_micros Amazing analogue: vernier callipers #Hardware #VintageTech #Measurement
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Oct 22, 2025
@smittytone_messes_with_micros How to fix Amstrad NC100 coin cell voltage warnings... with paper #RetroComputing #HardwareHacks #VintageTech
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Sep 30, 2025
@smittytone_messes_with_micros Psion of the times: using a 90s palmtop in the 21st Century #RetroComputing #VintageTech #Psion
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Aug 26, 2025
@ken_shirriff Here be dragons: Preventing static damage, latchup, and metastability in the 386 #Electronics #VintageTech #ComputerHistory
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Aug 17, 2025
@ascii_by_jason_scott I No Longer Attend Vintage Computer Festivals. (But You Probably Should.) #RetroComputing #VintageTech #Computers
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Jul 29, 2025
@ken_shirriff Inside the Apollo "8-Ball" FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator) #SpaceExploration #VintageTech #Engineering
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Jun 14, 2025
@rz01 Classic Computing 2024 #RetroComputing #VintageTech #DIYElectronics
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Sep 28, 2024
@ascii_by_jason_scott I Continue To No Longer Attend Vintage Computer Festivals #RetroComputing #VintageTech #Computers
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Apr 12, 2024
@ascii_by_jason_scott I Am No Longer Attending Vintage Computer Festivals #RetroComputing #VintageTech #Computers
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Apr 11, 2024
@sophie_downward IBM PS/2 - The Beginning #RetroComputing #VintageTech #Hardware
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Oct 11, 2018