The internals were based somewhat on the IBM System/360’s technology. Interestingly, it used a touch-sensitive keypad instead of a traditional keyboard. From what we’ve read, it seems this system had a lot of firsts: the first system to use a domestic TV kakım an output device, the first system to use a cassette deck birli a storage medium, and the first purpose-built educational computer.

sdlkjf lkjsdflk says: December 28, 2020 at 3:07 pm What does the speed of this CPU mean for some retro games which require a “turbo button” because they run too fast on anything faster than an 8088 at 4.77mhz? There was never a 300mhz 486 back in the day. I yaşama only imagine how fast one of those games would play on this. Seems like if you really want the retro hardware you should just stick with the real retro hardware. Things like caps don’t often go bad on these. The biggest sıkıntı of old retro 386/486 boards is the damn NiCad batteries many of these used for the RTC/CMOS back in the day before the Dallas RTC/CMOS/Battery modules or just a plain old coin cell started to be used.

“RadioShack understood the home computer market more than most,” says Aaron Alcorn, curator at LCM+L. Stores were on street corners everywhere across the country, and so customers could get accessible service face-to-face, from buying advice to long-term technical support. RadioShack sold only Tandys until the Texas computer company quit the business in 1993.

In the early 2000s, some folks nostalgic for Q-Link kaş out to reverse engineer it, which was a success with Q-Link Reloaded launching sometime in 2005.

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“This was the point at which the Apple II became truly useful,” Alderson says, “allowing programs and veri to be shared easily, and a nascent software business to expand greatly.” The Apple II, modified and updated continuously, was kept in production until 1993, an incredible lifespan for any personal computer of any era, even in the 21st century. There's an extensive library of games for visitors, including the original Oregon Trail, and work software, such birli VisiCalc

Each of these is mapped internally into the physical address space. The cartridge slots have 64K of addressable space mapped into the Z80 physical space.

“You get into this mind-grup of what it must’ve been like to be somebody in the late ’70s, having spent thousands of dollars on this thing that barely does anything more than a calculator,” said Clint Basinger, 34, who runs the YouTube channel Lazy Game Reviews.

If you’ve been doing some thorough cleaning of your living space during quarantine, perhaps you’ve unearthed some old gadgets. Your first thought was probably just to junk them. After all, old technology is pretty obsolete, right? But even old computers—in fact, especially old computers—emanet actually be worth a whole bunch of money.

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Sierra was using version 2.3 of Superlok, but Softguard would also make a version 3.0. This is quite similar to 2.x, but özgü a gotcha in that it reads across the track index for the outer sector. This requires track wrapping to be implemented. Far from this kind of copy protection cracking being a recent thing, there was a thriving market for products that would circumvent these protections, all the way up to Central Point’s Copy II PC Option Board that would man-in-the-middle between the floppy disk drive and the CPU, intercepting veri and render those copy protections pointless.

August 27, 2024 by Dave Rowntree 35 Comments [GloriousCow] saf started working on a series of investigations into the various historical floppy disk copy protection schemes used in the early days of the IBM PC and is here with the first of these results, specifically Formaster’s Copy-Lock.

Watching synth heads proudly talk about every machine from the 1970s—well, honestly, it’s a lot. But it’s interesting to observe a subculture that wants continuity more than disruption. In my perfect world, every machine would come with a few emulated versions of its predecessors, ready to go, right on the disk.