For young children in the 1970s and 80s, (compact) cassette tapes with narrated stories (basically children audio books on tapes) were a popular pasttime, not least because it did not require paren…| Rare & Old Computers
The device I want to talk today about is not a computer in the sense that you can run your programs on (although it probably has all the technical means to do so), but a humbleebook reader. It̵…| Rare & Old Computers
I recently learned about Google’s Notebook LLM, a Large Language Model that allows you to create prompts on documents you upload to the system. It can do many things, but one thing it can do quite excellently is to create a 2-person podcast episode on the uploaded documents completely automatically. As you can also use […]| Rare & Old Computers
If you ask people what the first Atari ST-family clones were, most will answer with names like Hades (1996, 68040) and Milan (1998, 68040). Very few will mention the Medusa T40 (1994, 68040, althou…| Rare & Old Computers
In the late 80s, early 90s, mobile computing still meant traditional text-and-keyboard devices although the computers used for that purpose were already quite small. You could get portable versions…| Rare & Old Computers
I recently brought the tv-computersystem to a vintage computer meeting in Stuttgart, Germany (click here if you are interested) and learned a little bit more about this machine. The computer works …| Rare & Old Computers
In this blog I try to talk only about computers with the understanding that computers are devices a user can execute programs on that haven’t been contained on this computer before (I am awar…| Rare & Old Computers
Fujitsu Micro 8 At the VCFB 2021 in Berlin I presented a recent purchase of mine, a Fujitsu Micro 8 computer complete with its Bubble Memory drive option. If you do not want to the read following p…| Rare & Old Computers
Recently, I had the rare joy to open the still sealed box of a PDA computer. Normally, one would think twice about opening a still sealed box, but this is a model that is so rare that there is almo…| Rare & Old Computers
Recently, there was a computer on ebay.de which I never heard about before which turned out to be the quirkiest, most interesting and innovative model I learned about in a long time. No one else bi…| Rare & Old Computers