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Save the Machine

@savethemachine.org

Save the Machine's goal is to preserve computer history by preventing, or rescuing, vintage computer hardware before it's sent to landfills or scrap yards.

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Save the Machine @savethemachine.org · 13/05/2025

We recently picked up this nice looking Beehive terminal. Apparently it included a mouse at some point. Who knew?!

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Save the Machine @savethemachine.org · 09/03/2025

Cleaning under the hood of our PET 2001

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Save the Machine @savethemachine.org · 08/03/2025

Rebooting out online presence - stay tuned!

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Update on Save the Machine

Short update for our community and followers

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Save the Machine @savethemachine.org · 25/01/2025

First vlog format video; looking at an HP 9816 with a memory error.

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HP 9816 Memory Error [vlog 1.24.25]

YouTube video by derelictronics

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Save the Machine @savethemachine.org · 20/01/2025

"Tech monopolies must be held to account, the outsized influence of some tech billionaires must be held in check, and competition must be allowed to thrive." Another great piece by @benjedwards.com

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The PC is Dead: It’s Time to Make Computing Personal Again

How surveillance capitalism and DRM turned home tech from friend to foe. For a while—in the '80s, '90s, and early 2000s—it felt like nerds were [...]

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Unofficial Hackaday Feed @hackaday-feed.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Thirty Years Later, The Windows 3.1 Video Driver You Needed

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Thirty Years Later, The Windows 3.1 Video Driver You Needed

Over the course of the 1990s we saw huge developments in the world of PC graphics cards, going from little more than the original IBM VGA standard through super VGA …read more

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Save the Machine @savethemachine.org · 06/01/2025

Spent Friday and Saturday getting an Avaya Partner PBX configured and set up mgetty on a Linux workstation to accept incoming calls. Now I have my own dial-up server!