RetroComputing Articles

Network Any Vintage Computer! (Kind Of) {07-03-2009}

The idea of computers communicating with each other has fascinated me from the very beginning. When I was little, the world of networking was a “mysterious” one, as I didn’t own a modem until I was 12 and had only experienced the idea of computers talking to each other from TV and movies (read: War [...]

Great Retro Computing Podcast {12-31-2008}

As is painfully apparent by my projects/blog posts/hobbies, I’m a huge retro computing fan. As such, I find it interesting to hear about others’ experiences with retro hardware – what they have in their collection, forgotten tidbits about these computers, things currently going on in the community, etc. A fantastic podcast I’ve been listening to [...]

Setting Up an IRIX Cluster {10-19-2008}

In my quest to collect a massive number of vintage and non-x86 machines, I recently picked up two Silicon Graphics workstations. I was pretty excited about this – as a teenager I had always been in awe of SGI and the amazing 3D their machines pumped out. As the originators of OpenGL and creators of [...]

Transferring files to the Osborne 1 {10-16-2008}

As any of my friends could tell you, I’m pretty big into collecting vintage computers. It costs me $70/month in storage fees, but I am just completely drawn to some of the awesome technical creativity that went into early machines before standardization took hold of the market. Mixed with the nostalgia, closeness to the hardware, [...]