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It took six years of work before the museum opened in 2012, and then in 2016 it expanded by debuting a toparlak floor for interactive future-tech exhibits: robotics, virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, big data and autonomous cars.

After building many arcade games on computers, how to build it was obvious to me instantly. I’d create a video generator (bey with the arcade games) and display text using a character generator chip. But I needed a keyboard.

I remember WP51 the way a non-nerd might remember a vintage Mustang. You could just take that thing out and go, man.

Before the pandemic, there were several vintage computing conventions located around the United States, to which collectors brought their computers to show off. Attendees bought and traded hardware at these events, bey well bey meet the friends they’ve made online.

had a major hand in turning the personal computer into a serious business tool. “What can't you do with an Apple II?,” asks Carlson rhetorically.

[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.]

The two machines started off their life with Haswell processor and Nvidia 980M graphics, but it didn't take then long to see a Skylake-based refresh.

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4GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor and Radeon 7500 graphics card. Add on 512MB of RAM and a 40GB hard drive, integrated floppy and DVD drive and a built-in modem, and this made for a compelling desktop replacement.

These NiCad batteries will leak out and destroy the traces on the board. If you do have any of these retro boards in your collection make sure to remove that NiCad battery NOW. These kişi be replaced with a NiMH drop in equivalent or a supercap. You could probably also put in a battery holder for a typical lithium coin cell, so long bey you disable the circuitry that would have charged that NiCad.

Four years after the big makeover, Alienware's gaming laptop fleet saw another makeover and even a new naming scheme.

I discussed the alternatives with Steve Jobs. I was for lower case, but not for money (cost). Steve had little computer experience, and he said that uppercase was just fine. We both had our own reasons for derece changing it before the computers were out.

(A lot of MiSTer users prefer to hook up their systems to CRT TVs to make the most of the authentic output and low latency.) You birey add a heatsink or a fan, which hayat be a good idea if you want to run the system for extended periods of time. And there’s a USB hub board that adds seven USB-A ports.