Computers -- Vintage

Pikes Peak Makerspace (PPM) is fortunate to have a small collection of (donated) vintage computer stuff.

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Vintage Computers at PPM

Picture	Item	Manufacturer	Model Number	Owner
	computer system and floppy disks	Atari Inc.	ATARI800	PPM
	computer display	AMDEK	VIDEO-300A	PPM
	computer mouse (condition unknown)	Sun microsystems	Crossbow	PPM
	FONE FLASHER 2 (condition unknown)	Radio Shack	43-178	PPM
	Mac OS X Snow Leopard install disc	Apple		PPM

Hand-Curated Links

Links to member-recommended external sites:

The Mother of All Demos

A landmark (1968) demonstration of windows, hypertext, graphics, efficient navigation and command input, video conferencing, the computer mouse, word processing, dynamic file linking, revision control, and a collaborative real-time editor.

Demo by computer pioneer Doug Engelbart.

Links to YouTube:

The Story of the Tandy 100

TRS-80 Model 100 | Walt Mossberg's gadget museum

CuriousMarc — restorations of space hardware

Links to other external sites:

Wayback Machine — the Internet Archive

The "Buxton Collection" — interesting, useful, or important input devices

centre for computing history — Computers

Hidden Figures and Human Computers — National Air and Space Museum

Picture Gallery

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  Radio Shack
  TRS-80
  computer system

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  BYTE magazine cover
  SEPTEMBER 1980
  (63) Influential People
  in Personal Computing

Additional Help

Links to related PPM Wiki pages:

  Computers — Windows  

  Computers — Mac and Apple  

  Computers — Ubuntu  

Use the PPM Slack channel #computing

List of all PPM Slack channels

Note that we have a Slack channel (#job-board) for members to post, discuss, or accept job opportunities either within PPM or from the community.

Search the PPM Wiki — include Content pages as well as Multimedia.

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