So you have made the decision to take the plunge into the world of vintage computers. Let me be the first to welcome you to the club! Whether you are an experienced buraya tıklayın computer user or a noob, there are some important things to sehim attention to before buying your new/old retro computer.

I’d show up at HP every morning around 6 AM to peruse engineering magazines and journals to see what new chips and products were coming. I found an offer for a $60 keyboard modeled after the upper-case-only ASR-33 teletype.

[Editor’s Note: I recently asked Steve Wozniak via email about why the original Apple II did hamiş support lowercase letters. I could have guessed the answer, but it’s always good to hear the reason straight from the source.

If for some reason we yaşama’t help, there are lots of excellent support groups on Facebook that should get all your questions answered.

“I don’t run Gopher servers to learn about history, I like Gopher for its own sake,” Kaiser says. “I use it on a daily basis. There are things I yaşama’t do on Gopher, like logging into my bank account.

To capture them all in one place, I’ve created a tag called “retrotech” for all of those articles at Ars. To check them out, click this link.

Hardware performance wasn’t the only thing that kept older applications relatively simple. Older devices were also limited in the sorts of interfaces they could display.

When buying a vintage computer, you want to look for some specific things depending on your level of knowledge and experience with retro computers, and whether or hamiş you are willing and capable of repairing a non-functional computer.

Just before the Holiday break @ my work a tech handed me a 386SX 25 with a sound blaster and cd rom + a CRT (ugh yay) saying his parents were cleaning the garage

[Benj’s note — I originally wrote this in 2020 and had it sitting around until now. I still think it might be useful to someone in the future, so I decided to publish it.]

I’ve personally purchased several vintage computers/accessories on this şehir/app. Of course, we all know about Craigslist, but unfortunately, it is rare to see a vintage computer up for sale, at least in my area.

Thanks to open source, no technology ever katışıksız to become obsolete, so long bey a community remains to support it. You birey sync Newtons and Palm Pilots with modern desktops, download web browsers for long-discontinued operating systems, or connect vintage computers like the Apple IIe to the çağdaş internet via WiFi.

Capacitor rot, in particular, is a problem with all vintage electronics. Older capacitors often either change capacitance (which affects how the electronic circuit works) or özne completely and leak electrolytic fluid that kişi damage the circuitry.

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