We invite you to take part in a brief, anonymous survey about #Vintage Computer Festival Montreal. Click here https://bit.ly/vcfm2026pre-en

Nous vous invitons à participer à un bref sondage anonyme sur VCF Montréal. Cliquez ici https://bit.ly/vcfm2026pre-fr

"As I had been unable to find a comprehensive list of #Apple II peripheral cards and given the evident interest in these cards (frequent Apple II family card sales on eBay and a growing Facebook Apple II Cards group), I wrote a program, called Card Cat, in Apple II Pascal and 6502 assembly language that scans peripheral card slots, determines if a slot contains a firmware equipped card and analyzes the card’s firmware."

Les passionnés d’informatique vintage le savent bien, chaque machine a ses secrets et ses mystères, particulièrement quand on parle des Macs des années 90.

Et justement, ça tombe bien, puisqu’une découverte plutôt insolite vient d’être faite concernant le Macintosh LC III d’Apple. La bestiole contient un condensateur monté à l’envers en usine ! Cette erreur de conception, longtemps suspectée par certains collectionneurs, vient enfin d’être formellement documentée.

Construct the computer from your childhood or build an entire computer museum at home with these paper models, free to download and share. Print, Cut, Score, Fold and Glue.

The BackBit Pro cartridge that can read/write to MicroSD allows you to get the best use out of your vintage hardware. Individual adapters expand functionality to multiple devices. One adapter is included, and more adapters are available to purchase separately.

The Vintage Computer Federation is a 501(c)3 non-profit. Our mission is to preserve computing history through education, outreach, conservation, and restoration. We strive to accomplish this through family friendly hands-on activities at our museum, at regional and global events, and by fostering and nurturing the expansion of our on-line and in-person communities.

In this video, we'll see how to use a Wombat ADB to USB and vice versae converter. We'll see also how to configure and how to upgrade the firmware. I discovered this device from BMOW (Big Mess O' Wires) website. Of course I'm not affiliated and I'm just a customer who provide feedback on it.

A collection of past and current Apple II FTP sites. ftp.apple.asimov.net is synced daily.

Use your old Apple or NeXT ADB keyboard on a USB system. Mini-DIN 4 to micro-USB.

BitSavers is an extensive personal archive of retrocomputing related PDFs, magazines, software, and books - more than 143000 files including over 7 million text pages in various digital formats. The archive is curated by Al Kossow of the CHM - Computer History Museum in MountainView, California.

#Applesauce is a USB floppy disk controller for modern Mac systems targeting retro computing enthusiasts and digital archivists. It combines the most capable and full featured disk analysis software available along with powerful hardware, and packages it up into a product that it easy to use for even non-technical folks.

#FloppyEmu is a floppy and hard disk emulator for classic #Apple II, #Macintosh, and #Lisa computers. It uses an SD memory card and custom hardware to mimic an Apple floppy disk and drive, or an Apple hard drive. The Emu behaves exactly like a real disk drive, requiring no special software or drivers.

A perpetual collection of retro computer videogame design and programming books.

From ideas to actual pages of never-ending code to punch into vintage computers, you can make your own truly retro games!

As more are collected, more will be added with updates placed below this post.

Current file size (uncompressed): 3.2 GB
Format: pdf and .cbr
Files in this collection: 138

Toot is a #Mastodon client for #iOS - a godd first step to transition out of #Apple's closed gardens

he IntelliSkin™ is a protective sleeve for the Apple iPad Mini featuring GDS® Technology. The IntelliSkin™ will bring drop protection to your device and features an integrated connector which is molded directly into the skin.

Apple systems have always used different key combinations to perform different tasks, just like all computer makers. However, finding those key combinations has always been an arduous task – they don’t come right out and tell you in the manual how to do some of these.

The most comprehensive guide on iMac 3 disassembly - useful to replace the hard disk and install another operating system like GNU/Linux :)

Les chers brevets, toujours là pour encourager l'innovation :)