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🎮✨ Vintage Computer Meeting ✨🎮

Am 12. April ab 15 Uhr treffen wir uns im Hackerspace #Bielefeld zu Kaffee, Kuchen und nostalgischem Vintage Computing! 🍰☕

Highlights: GoogleMaps auf dem C64 und C64-Verbindung zu Mailboxen über das Internet.

Gäste mit und ohne Hardware sind willkommen.

Eintritt frei! Freut euch auf ein gemütliches Zusammensein und Erfahrungsaustausch. 🤖💻

hackerspace-bielefeld.de/2025/

#VintageComputing #RetroGaming #Hackerspace #Nostalgie #Commodore #Atari #Nintendo

(nju)

40 years ago today, on April 8, 1985, the Atari ST was introduced. It quickly sold 50,000 units because it gave a Mac-like experience at a much lower price. But ultimately it was more successful in Europe than in the USA. #RetroComputing #Atari dfarq.homeip.net/atari-st-intr

The Silicon Underground · Atari ST introduced April 8, 1985It wasn't perfect, but it felt like the future and it was a lot of fun while it lasted
The #Atari 1200XL was a 8bit #homecomputer running a #MOS 6502 #CPU at 1.79 MHz. When this beautiful machine was launched in 1983 with 64Kb RAM the price was under thousand dollars, but... https://youtu.be/JyA5tA5mmYY

$omehow, in the #8bitwar the #C64 was much more popular even when specs been almost the same. The difference in #BASIC language was less significant for the success. Most likely that competition was won by #Commodore because Jack Tramiel took the advice of his grandfather so serious.
https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/22449/Atari-1200XL/

#retrocomputer #vector #graphics #vintage #Atari1200XL #8bit #computer #vectorgraphics #svgART #svg #cgi #art #illustration made by #gfkDSGN with #GPL #Inkscape and #FreeSoftware instead of #Adobe #Illustrator #Ai #SaaS #BS