Retro Computers

Let’s continue our marvelous trip into GUI Wonderland, where we’ll learn 80s computing alongside our trusty Apple Lisa, the first personal computer with a GUI!

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Examples: Commodore, Amiga, Atari, Apple, IBM.

Maybe Atari? I see someone’s using Macintosh.

Let’s have a look at the very first commercial computer with a graphical user interface, called Xerox Star, which was the successor of the Xerox Alto! What did its marvelous GUI look like? Was it ground-breaking and easy to use as we’d expect? Or, perhaps, was it too ahead of its time? Well then, let’s find out!

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Kevin Noki - a german maker - recreates a mac plus with use of 3d printing. Calls it a brewintosh. Very impressive work.

RETROKOMPOTT’s interview of the week (in German), this time with Eckhard Kruse, programmer and creator of Ballerburg II, which has some fame in Germany. #ballerburg #atari #retrokompott

https://youtu.be/55vWqoeOPUE?t=11002

Can you imagine a time before the Graphical User Interface, when you could only operate a computer with abstract-looking text instead of using simple menus, and it was unheard of to use the oh-so-common mouse? A time when computers were harder to learn, and even harder to master? Well then, join us in our splendid trip where we’ll discover one of the very first GUIs in a personal computer, found on the Xerox Alto!

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The source code for the desktop & shell replacement got published by Gereon Steffens: https://github.com/gereons/gemini/ - the source represents a previously unpublished snapshot from mid 1991.

First forks appeared that got it compiled, e.g. from Thorsten Otto: https://github.com/th-otto/gemini

Gemini & Mupfel run on Atari TOS/MagiC/Geneva

In the Netflix series "The Golden Hour" I spotted these benches that look a bit like recycled Cray-1 benches.

(Not sure if this is the right place to post this, or if anyone finds it interesting, but anyway, we'll see).

Is this machine too new for this sub? Recently acquired the holy grail of Slot A: Athlon 1GHz. Very proud of this machine. I have wanted one for years.