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ITs History!
World's first mass-market #laptop was the #T1100 computer by #Toshiba. Introduced with a 4.77MHz #CPU, 512KB of #RAM, #monochrome #LCD display, and battery capacity up to 7 hours, it changed the world of #IBM compatible portable computers. It even worked with #MS #Windows1 in 640x200px #CGA #graphics, but only within a narrow view angle https://youtu.be/qk04sDF5SrM

Even without a hard disk this machine was very important, since the plus model was re-engineered in #USSR as Электроника #МС1504. Unlike #US, users in #Russia didn't pay royalties, or used the internal 3.5" floppy drive to boot #MS-DOS 2.11 https://youtu.be/_u5LwiP5Q4g

Our #graphic #illustration is a tribute to this #IT #milestone, celebrating the 40th #anniversary of this historic #microcomputer achievement in 1985. See it in comparison of #ComputerChronicles to #Tandy or #Dynamac #laptops two years later https://youtu.be/tPEMilDYpgY

The #screenshot of this #retrocomputer #cgi #art shows #SVG #vector #outlines around the cursor in #xRay view-mode. Made with #Inkscape and #FreeSoftware
Screenshot of Toshiba T1100 laptop computer illustration created in SVG with Inkscape
#freesoftware
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DansLeRuSH ᴱᶰ

Nice initiative : discovered thanks to Fairphone and founded in 2021, the small Belgian company #Citronics offers "microcomputers" (in fact nanocomputers) designed from smartphone motherboards … and there is stock ! 😅

› citronics.eu

CitronicsCitronics, meet the world’s first Circular MicrocomputersCitronics is the only company in the world able to transform retired smartphones into circular microcomputers, at industrial scale.
#CircularEconomy#EWaste#WEEE
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Julien Deswaef

Au hasard du web, je tombe sur Citronics, une boîte belge qui fait de l'électronique en économie circulaire, en recyclant des composants de smartphones usagés en micro-ordinateurs pour l'électronique embarquée.
citronics.eu/
#CircularEconomy #Electronic #MicroComputer #Belgium

CitronicsCitronics, meet the world’s first Circular MicrocomputersCitronics is the only company in the world able to transform retired smartphones into circular microcomputers, at industrial scale.
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Paolo Amoroso

This is a great project: the history of microcomputers told with 300 print advertisements, each scanned and commented.

nosher.net/archives/computers

nosher.netA history of the microcomputer industry in 300 adverts In a private room at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago in January 1977, Commodore showed the world's first complete "personal computer" - the PET 2001 - an "appliance" micro that for the first time could be taken out of the box, plugged in and used by regular people without a soldering iron. Soon, Tandy and Apple joined in and the market grew steadily, but then Commodore and Sinclair launched cheap home computers in the early 80s that changed everything. The market exploded from tens of thousands of machines a year to millions, as famous 1970s names like Cromemco, IMSAI, Nascom and MITS were swept away. Micro companies were suddenly worth $1 billion dollars and their employees were millionaires. Hundreds of companies launched hundreds of incompatible machines. Price wars were started, old scores were settled and companies were destroyed. Eight bits made way for 16 and 32 in the space of a few years. For a while Britain led the world in manufacture and adoption, with 80% of all computers sold in Europe being sold in the UK. The fate of many microcomputer companies. From a Business Operating Software advert in Personal Computer World, June 1986. Then the 8-bit market reached saturation and more companies imploded - Sinclair was sold for its name and assets only, Acorn almost didn't make it and a raft of also-rans fell by the wayside - Camputers, Dragon Data, Elan, Oric and Jupiter Cantab to name but a few. Even big names like Timex and Texas Instruments were burned. Meanwhile, the sleeping giant that was IBM launched its 5150 at the end of 1981 and watched as it slowly but inevitably over the next few years became the standard. Other companies cloned it, copied and improved it and soon the only game in town was the IBM PC. From the latter half of the 1980s, every micro company and its dog was building generic beige boxes, and people wanted the same beige boxes at home and work. The home computer as a concept was dead, and the "wonder years" were over. This collection of over 300 adverts attempts to tell something of that story...
#retrocomputing#microcomputer#ads
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Saustrup

As previously mentioned, I managed to get my hands on another #Enterprise64 from the mid 80s. I disassembled it yesterday and made sure it was in working order. Nothing noteworthy, apart from cleaning it up and snipping a couple of mm's of the super thin wire tape for the keyboard, which is notorious for breaking. Also, a 1MB memory expansion was added, which is is insane for a system that was born with 64K. It's now technically an #Enterprise1088 :-)

Developed in the UK, it comes with IS-BASIC, a word processor, has 256 colors, stereo sound, runs CP/M and reads FAT floppy disks. Pretty cool for a 40 year old system, eh?

This is my third Enterprise machine. Currently two are working - my original (S/N 000828) which was gifted to me back when my dad started importing them, and this latest one (S/N 030490). The third one is unfortunately dead at the moment.

Photo of an Enterprise 64 microcomputer, hooked up to a modern flat panel monitor. Startup screen with color cycling "ENTERPRISE" text visible. Joystick attached. After market SD card reader visible in expansion port.
Enterprise 64 running Nodes of Yesod by Odin Computer Graphics Ltd.
#Enterprise#Z80#Zilog
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Saustrup

So, now that #Zilog is throwing in the towel on the #DIP40 version of the #Z80 CPU, what are we going to do when our #microcomputer processor fries itself? Is there a compatible plug-in alternative, or perhaps something as simple as an adapter for another form factor?

Asking for a friend who has accumulated way too many Z80 based machines. Ahemn.. ;-)

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Mark Mercer

I'd never heard of the Q1 microcomputer. Even though I'm a techie old enough to remember when we called such things 'microcomputer' rather than 'personal computer'. Very cool that these were found. 8008 microprocessor (yes 8008, not a typo for 8080 or 8088).

#computerhistory #microcomputer

Priceless barn find: World's first microcomputers discovered by cleaners

newatlas.com/computers/first-m

> Two of the first-ever desktop computers have been found in storage boxes at Kingston University in London. A milestone in human achievement, the Q1 microprocessor computer was released more than half a century ago, and only one other is known to exist.

New Atlas · Priceless barn find: World's first microcomputers discovered by cleanersTwo of the first-ever desktop computers have been found in storage boxes at Kingston University in London. A milestone in human achievement, the Q1 microprocessor computer was released more than half a century ago, and only one other is known to exist.
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Coffeehound RetroSharka 🏳️‍⚧️

Good evening, Fedinauts!

It's been a day of #Amiga tinkering here after the 8GB CF HDD and IDE adapter with pre-installed WB Classic and Whdload (and a bunch of games and apps in multiple partitions) we ordered for our Amiga 600 arrived today.

Our lil' miggy has 2MB chip and 2MB fast RAM, just enough for Whdload to function well, so it's been the first upgrade we had in mind for it. Plus installing games from floppy images in the gotek will be pretty nice too as my 600 back in the day never had a hard drive.

Was neat having a peek around (and cleaning!) the insides of our miggy and seeing the '91 manufacturing date. And then getting to grips with everything on the CF, which has worked very well and we've been able to run everything we've thrown at it - even 11-floppy whdloads like Fate of Atlantis.

#Commodore#Retrocomputing#CommdoreAmiga
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