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In case it wasn’t obvious my comments about “why can’t we call *this* (several goofy examples) “double density” were mostly tongue in...

We don’t live in the 80’s anymore. Most school computers didn’t even have hard disks, and if the kids were ever typing their homework in...

I might be interested in #2, I think I have almost everything I need to populate this other than the chipset lying around. (I guess I...

It's not a Raspberry Pi, but if you want a disposable Linux laptop fast enough to emulate some classic games get yourself an "expired"...

Confirmed. Supporting diagram at [here]. IBM changed things in the move to the IBM 5160 (IBM XT). In the IBM 5160, the two RAM related...

I'm also of the opinion that labeling is just "wrong" and they're normal AT-format disks. I put "wrong" in quotes there because I feel...

Something a bit like this? (Looking at it I'm actually badly torn myself whether it's a dumb toy or potentially super useful. It has an...

I'm going to ignore the MDA part of this, because MDA/Hercules is potentially a huge rabbit hole. Long and short of it is Hercules was...

It’s not quite that simple. Typically the actual RAM chips on a motherboard (and/or slave memory card, those are usually direct...

I would swear that 90% of Dolch's lunchbox output from the 1990's went towards building dedicated "network analyzers". (Which of course...

Here's a thread on the forums asking about what appears to be the Sperry branded version of this machine; there a photo (stored on...

Yeah, I remember them mostly as "sewing machines", or "luggables". "Briefcase" computers was one of the more common terms for the first...

They were also called "sewing machine" portables, because the size, weight, and appearance is similar to a portable sewing machine in...

There are definitely gotchyas in play if the machine has a proprietary memory slot. The "Model M" seems to be an OEM machine that was...

ISA's a brain-damaged 8-bit subset of it, but I suppose that's neither here nor there. If you dig around AliExpress and the other usual...