"You know that famous "dark web" that journalists crave to write about? (at my request, one journalist once told me what "dark web" meant to him and it was "websites not easily accessible through a Google search".) Well, sometimes I feel like I’m part of that "dark web". Not to buy drugs or hire hitmen. No! It’s only to have a place where I can have discussions without being spied and interrupted by ads."
--Splitting the Web, by Ploum
https://ploum.net/2023-08-01-splitting-the-web.html
#vintagepc, #retrocomputing

Woah https://infinitemac.org/ is an amazing, browser-based classic Mac emulator. I love time capsules like these.

#mac #vintagepc #retro #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #infinitemac #macos8 #macos9

Random Controller of the Day

🎮 Gravis Gamepad
🗓️ 1991
➡️ Versions for PC (Gameport), Mac (ADB) and Atari DE9 compatibles (Amiga, C64 etc)

The Gamepad was a joypad made by Gravis, which featured a D-pad (with screw-in joystick option) and four action buttons.

A button on the controller turned the controls upsidedown so lefties could flip it to use it comfortably.

https://joystick.directory/wiki/Gravis_GamePad

#GameControllers #gamepad #retrogaming #atari #amiga #joypad #vintagepc #gravis #macintosh #msdos

It's large, it's senseless... It's thriftstore treasure. US subsystems external harddrive 61gb of certified hi-speed USB goodness. It just works. Active cooled power supply and all.

#retrocomputer #vintagepc #ewaste #thriftstorefinds

To many keyboards, not enough sata cables
Do something useful or rumage around in the one thriftstore that's open on Sunday on the tiny change they got one?

#retrocomputer #vintagepc #adhd

Return to the gigabyte x58 project:
Yessss!!! It boots and runs of a usb stick.
I used the included i7 950. So It wasn't damged during shipping, even if it was rattling loose in the shipping box damaging the lga pins. And I got it right with bending all the bend pins back.

#retrocomputer #ewaste #Recycling #x58 #vintagepc

Found this gem. This seems to be extremely rare. It's a VIA made wearable PC from the turn of the millenium. One of those products that never really took off. I was only able to find info via wayback machine on its now dead website. I'm going to have to get a proper power brick to see if it works but thankfully i have the tft display and it uses a basic barrel plug. Just need one that supports its voltage and amperage. #vintagepc #vintagecomputer

Quest for Glory 1 / Hero's Quest in EGA beaten, moving on to QFG2 with mt-32 sound, can't make the 199x patch that lets both Sound Blaster and MT-32 work for some reason.
#dos #DOSgames #sierra #vintagepc

What's up, people of Mastodon!
Before this year is finally over tell me about you favorite DOS gaming or just vintage IBM PC-related experiences of 2022!
#IBMPCGaming #DOSGaming #PCGaming #VintagePC #AfternoonDOSTalk #RetroVideogames

Don't know much about #VintagePC, any cpu stand out here? Found em in a random box of stuff. They could all be bad too for all I know.

Snowed under with annuals!
Be a "Zzap! - happy - chappy" with this one from
FUSION RETRO BOOKS

#classicgaming #retrovideogames #videogamecollection #retrogaminglife #retrogamingcommunity #gamecollector #retrocommunity #retrocollective #classicgames #retrogamecollection #retrocollection #retrocomputer #retrogaming #retrogames #retrogamer #gamescollecting #vintagepc #gamescollection

Gnihihi ... Mastodon on a 3.5″ floppy disk .. https://youtu.be/zV8Q0WOYoag

#mastodon #dos #floppy #Vintage #vintagepc #pc #80s

This poor thing, just got a Thinkpad 600x from my dad ( @yestergearpc ) and this thing is trying so hard to do what it needs to, but it hasn't been turned on in 20 years so it's struggling very hard #VintageTech #ibm #ibmpc #vintagepc

My daily driver at work for the last 10 years, a late model (1995) IBM #ModelM. They say the older ones are better still, but this came NOS in the original box. Switched some keycaps to airline ones for a bit of #colour and character. Have a few mech keyboards, but I grew up on these, still my fav. Clack, clack.

[ #MechanicalKeyboard #MechanicalKeyboards #IBM #VintagePC ]

Managed to recover most of the data off a 5.25" quantum bigfoot hdd this morning (bottom). Last booted in 2007. Has some heft! [ #quantumbigfoot #oldhardware #vintagepc ]

I love this ribbon cable. Found in an old Cisco switch. #vintagepc #vintagecomputers #retrotech #Retrocompting

I bought a big bin of PC parts from a scrapper guy I met at Goodwill - Lots of Pentium era IBM boards and ISA sound/video cards. The vast majority of what I’m testing works just fine. 😙 #vintagepc #vintagecomputers #retrotech #Retrocompting

Labtec CS-600 😙 #vintagepc #vintagetech