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You asked, you got: Welcome sparcy a Sun SS20 running Solaris 2.6 / SunOS 5.6 is now available in the icm.museum Vintage Systems UNiX Cluster. Thanks to RabbitHole Computing for providing the ZuluSCSI #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

Patina for the interim

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New in the box model 28 typing unit from 1971. We’re going to install it in our 28ASR base and copy RTTY at the icm.museum

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Only one person here knows what this is.

Does your PDP-10 have this mod?

Choose Your Own Aesthetic

Visit twenex.org to create TOPS-20 account

We might be the only TOPS-20 site that has continued to operate since the 1990s. We currently run TOPS-20 24/7 on 5 decsystem-20 clones of which 3 allow for remote login. Interested to see TOPS-20 EXEC which influenced the Symbolics LISP Machine?

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Things are winding down a little at VCF Montreal (I’m hearing the weather isn’t looking to the south of here) but the show so far has beaten everyone’s expectations!

We have some APC hard drives we can share with you

So not only does the Apple LiSA consider you a DOLT but so does the symbolics lisp machine, but with serifs #vintagecomputing #apple #lisp #retrocomputing

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Air Canada now offers AppleTalk .. spectre anyone?

Erroneously assembled 1974 Altair 8800 computer gets fixed and enjoys first run in 2026 — Intel 8080 powered machine ran its first program 52 years later See it get programmed and play 'Kill The Bit'

Now this was a truly productive use of geek time. Very cool.

Erroneously assembled 1974 Altair 8800 computer gets fixed and enjoys first run in 2026 — Intel 8080 powered machine ran its first program 52 years later

Yesterday Josh Dersch and Jason Perkins stopped by to do some fan maintenance on MissPiggy and power up the Nova-3. Thank you for your volunteer hours! icm.museum

Is it possible?

Jeff pursues FOCAL, do you?

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make our lights blink

Today was the DG Aviion’s turn to get ZuluSCSI’ed thank you Alex Perez!

Don’t forgot most of our exhibits are remotely accessible online too! connect.sdf.org and login as “menu”. Guest access on all machines is available

Bruce, Charles and Jeff are hacking the DEC PDP-7a

We’re open Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays 10-4. Non-members welcome for just $9, book a time at icm.museum

Yay! You, too, can support the @sdforg.bsky.social Computer Museum! icm.museum

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This MITS Altair 8800 kit was partial assembled with some errors but never completed. It sat for decades but now it has finally been corrected and completed with a new power supply. Here it is running its first game program.

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Thanks! Just found the cleaned up version with borders at retro.hansotten.nl/uploads/file... this will do

Is the poster available? We’d like to have one for our KIM-1 display at ICM

icm.museum is where they are

A poster for VCF PNW candle lit by an Apple ][e

Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest 2020 returns May 2nd and 3rd 2026! Exhibitor registration is now OPEN!

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That will definitely make you regular !

DTSS emulation as a Windows program emulated under WINE on MacOS X

Several years ago DTSS principals recovered and emulated the historic 1960s GE-235 @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social Time Sharing System. If there were a non-gui, non-web text only version icm.museum would like to host it for others to experience. Would anyone like to help?

I cannot believe just how massive VCF MidWest has gotten.
Room block registration opened almost two days ago and occupies something close to 75% of the hotel. At last look the block reservation was 90% full.
I really wish the best for everyone who is going this year because it's gonna be big!

PRGE 2026 launches October 9-11, 2026 in Portland! Join a weekend full of amazing guests, a huge arcade, a massive vendor floor, and much, much more! Come celebrate games of the past and the present and see you at the show!
#prge #prge2026 #retrogaming