RetroComputing Articles

Shredz64 at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo {09-13-2010}

Just a heads up, if you’re around the Portland, OR area this weekend (September 18-19), stop by the Portland Retro Gaming Expo. Not only does it promise to have TONS of retro games, hardware, and general awesomeness to play and buy, but the Commodore Computer Club and Users Group of Vancouver, WA will be at [...]

10 Reasons the Commodore 64 Will Never Die {09-10-2010}

As some of you might have guessed by now, I’m pretty heavily into retro computers. I love them all in different ways, but the C64 holds a very special place in my heart in particular. It was my very first computer (and my only machine for 8 years) – and it introduced me into a [...]

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, [...]