7 stories tagged vintage-computing, newest first.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: VCF Southwest 2026, but Edited on Silicon Graphics for '90s TV [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/10/25/ab42a469-f261-4738-8ac8-96631bffbce2.jpg)
62 points by zdw | 14 comments
YouTube video by Wave Design showing footage from Vintage Computer Festival Southwest 2026 edited into a '90s-style TV reel using SGI workstations and period video hardware.
17 points by classichasclass | 1 comments
Old VCR blog post on refurbishing an Alpha Micro Eagle 300, a 68EC030-based multiuser AMOS system, and related Alpha Micro machines.
15 points by goshtasb | 0 comments
Step-by-step guide from John Wolff's Web Museum to disassembling, cleaning, and reassembling an Original-Odhner Model 127 pinwheel mechanical calculator.
95 points by kmstout | 24 comments
Homepage of SDF Public Access UNIX System, a community since 1987 offering free shell accounts, a Mastodon instance, and access to vintage systems.
428 points by surprisetalk | 248 comments
Reddit r/MacOS thread about a 27-year-old Apple iBook connecting to Wi-Fi and downloading official macOS updates; the page shown is a Reddit network-policy block.
461 points by goldenskye | 226 comments
A blog post on Old Vintage Computing Research recounting an April Fools prank the author played at his first university database programming job.
646 points by mariuz | 296 comments
Benj Edwards essay on Vintage Computing and Gaming arguing that surveillance capitalism and DRM turned home tech against users and computing should be personal again.