Nostalgia Nerd

If you're not a fan of BBC Master/Micro images, I strongly suggest you unfollow.

I found a photo depicting British Halloween on the BBC Domesday Discs. I'm sure that mask was owned by 50% of children. The other 50% had a witches hat and rubber fingers.

New computers are great, but none carry the gravitas of a fully loaded BBC Master Domesday Machine.

Do you need to be into computer science to enjoy @tnmoc? Absolutely not. We are a multi-generational, multi-interest space with something for everyone - tech heads, history buffs, engineers, retro gamers & kids of all ages. https://www.tnmoc.org/plan-your-visit

Listening to a podcast, I just heard the sentence "This isn't like your grandpa's video games; Tetris". I am visibly shaken.

Alien 8 for the BBC Micro has you playing a robot, maintaining a group of cryogenically frozen passengers aboard an isolated, drifting starship. Like David 8 in Alien Covenant. Just without the god complex.

Spy vs. Spy ~ Spent hours playing this with my brother. It's such an entertaining two player experience, yet also so easy to grasp.

An Acorn Archimedies running the Drax Coal Fired Power Station laser disc. A perfect pairing.

Coffee ~ anyone?

I just pulled a muscle by yawning. Is this old age?

Free Palestine doesn't mean you're anti-Semitic. It means you're anti-murder.

Released for the BBC Micro in 1984, Elite was one of the first home computer games to use wire-frame 3D graphics with hidden-line removal.

Been sitting on this for a min but here's some news. I'm writing the official book for the fabulous Rubber-Keyed Wonder ZX Spectrum documentary! It's an honour and privilege and I hope to do it justice. The pre-launch Kickstarter page is live now :) www.kickstarter.com/projects/48k...

~Who's heading to this?

Rescued a lamp from the rubbish tip. Dont @ me

Today we're skipping Granny's Garden and going straight to Bubble Bobble.

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What's your move?

Having a lil look at a prototype Quarter Scale Battlezone. Anyone got any questions about it?

Went to the tip, found a matching school chair for my BBC Micro school desk 😍

Fantastic place to visit ~ absolutely essential computer history. I recommend going if you can get there.

We recommend traveling to see @tnmoc.bsky.social on Bletchley Park, but second-best would be to check out this long-form (30min) super-tour by @nostalgianerd.com — amazing discussion of some of the very first computing devices (and ending with classic home computers of late '70s and early '80s)!

Remember when Google's motto was "Don't be evil" and then they binned it in 2015.

Really fab vid from @nostalgianerd.com on The National Museum of Computing, class bits on Collosus, Enigma, Crytography/cryptanalysis, Ciphers and more. Proper enjoyed this! :) <3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgwq... #computing #history

Gamescom peeps; I'll give you a free packet of crisps if you go up to Christian and whisper "hello chip dipper" into his ear.

Yup ~ that's me.

These bad boys are ICL 7181 Visual Display Units. Introduced in the 60s as mainframe terminals, they actually used nickel delay lines as memory. This stored data as acoustic sound waves in a coiled wire 🤯

This majestic DEC VT240 from 1984, impressively ran on a single chip microcontroller version of the PDP-11. A system that took up an entire room the prior decade.

Another ICL Terminal. 7501, used as a mainframe operator console, and featuring a memory mapped display 🫪 These things could literally run Pac-Man or Space Invaders, and indeed, did.

This little wedge is a DEC VK100 GIGI. Here it's hooked up to a PDP-11, but in 1981 it was intended for education and massively outsold by competitors.

Thank you to everyone who donated during our @su2c.bsky.social @su2c BIG BUILD! Still *quite* a lot do to, but... THE GATES OF MINAS TIRITH ARE ERECT.

This hot piece of ass is an ICL 7700 Terminal from 1979. Commonly used to connect to ICL mainframes, but also with its own built-in computer.

Incredibly excited to see an ICL 2966 Mainframe system from 1982.

The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last, the great battle of our time.

The Swindon Advertiser showing how not to look at the eclipse in August 1999

~ The return of Pocket Pixel Design is a sign the world is healing

Tickets for our Domesday at 40 event are live! Book here - www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/77318/Do... Stay tuned to hear more about the event, a small hint: special guest speakers!

The #StandUpBuildersTeam, a community of #LEGO brick builders and crafters, share who they stand up for and why they fundraise for SU2C! ❤️ Join them for the 6th annual #Up2Us to #StandUpToCancer event this August to help raise vital funds for cancer research at StandUpBuilders.org. #SU2CStreamTeam

Hi! Thank you for an INCREDIBLE Amiga August day! Thank you Shadroch @itsmastodon.bsky.social @retrogradetom.bsky.social @dcbueller.bsky.social @nostalgianerd.com DechartGames hashiraelements @nikoheart.com lintfordpickle @bobbeigh.com @amigabill.bsky.social for the raids! See you tomorrow!

I feel ridiculous doing anything in my life knowing that the world is literally burning. Buying a pizza ✅ Ridiculous Posting about my day ✅ Ridiculous Watching an advert for bottled water ✅ Ridiculous

Thank you so much to everyone who donated to @specialeffect.org.uk @specialeffect to help with their amazing work! We managed to get across the line before the end of race car swept us up 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️🚗 @thisismarta.bsky.social @myunie

Sony 🤝 Bitrot [ensuring your games don't last forever]

Hooooo boy! It feels like ~2018 all over again!