Old technology aesthetic

Dialing into a BBS on my Amiga 1000. The A1000 has a 7.14MHz MC68000 CPU, 2.5MB of RAM, SCSI + 2 hard disks. The modem is a LineLink 144e, a 14.4Kbps modem that I last used on my 486 66MHz PC back in 1994. Connected at the modem's full speed of 14.4Kbps. (Here is my Amiga 2000 (equipped with ethernet) connected to a telnet BBS.)

Remember Microcassettes? They were a dictation medium (but so was the original compact cassette) Invented in 1969 by Olympus as the standard cassette started gaining traction as a popular music medium. For a spell in the early '80s, Sony actually tried to make them as close to a serious audio medium as they could (as they did with the standard cassette.) Including stereo sound and Metal tape formulation microcassettes. The Microcassette Walkman even included a very rare microcassette version…

Sandy Smith started this body of work in January 2005 using a pile of broken and obsolete computer equipment she had salvaged from skips and offices. She set

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Adventures in vintage computers and retrogaming. Includes articles on classic games and obsolete computers.