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Microchip Makes @microchip-makes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

2007 vs. 2026: Same project, different way of building it. JMN Electronics recreated a 20-year-old infrared receiver using a PIC32CM PL10 Curiosity Nano along with today's development tools and an AI-assisted workflow. #ThrowbackThursday

hackster.io

2007 vs 2026: A PIC IR Receiver, Built with AI

Same PIC IR receiver project 18 years apart. In 2007 it took weeks; in 2026 an AI rebuilt it in one afternoon. By Jorge.

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robertpicardo.bsky.social @robertpicardo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#ThrowbackThursday with The Complainer.

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Vintage Computer @vintage.computer · 24/09/2026

Before SD cards, some digital cameras saved photos to the humble 3.5" floppy. 📸💾 Sony’s Digital Mavica made transferring pictures wonderfully simple: eject the disk, stick it in your PC, and your photos were ready to go. #ThrowbackThursday

“Throwback Thursday — The Beige Box Era.” Image of a Sony Digital Mavica MVC-FD81 digital camera with an integrated 3.5-inch floppy disk drive. Text: “Before flash memory cards were commonplace, some of the first digital cameras stored their images on standard 3.5" floppy disks.” Tan desert-themed background with vintage.computer branding at the bottom.

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8bitboyzretro.bsky.social @8bitboyzretro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I like to have fun with things and it does not stop with the RSPOS Manual. Though it is still in draft mode here is a preview of just a page. RSPOS - A Radio Shack POS inspired inventory program #TBT #ThrowBackThursday #RadioShack #RSPOS

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Vintage Computer @vintage.computer · 17/09/2026

Need more RAM? Once, that could mean installing an entire expansion card. Before memory modules moved close to the CPU, cards packed with RAM could sit right on the system bus alongside your graphics, disk, and sound hardware. 🖥️ #ThrowbackThursday

“Throwback Thursday — RAM Expansion Cards.” Photo of a vintage Kingston ATAborad! memory expansion card populated with multiple RAM modules. Text: “In the early days of computing when everything in the computer ran as fast as the CPU, including the RAM, you could add a memory expansion card to the system bus, alongside disk controllers, graphic adapters, and sound cards.” Tan desert-themed background with vintage.computer branding at the bottom.

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The Centre for Computing History @computinghistory.org.uk · 10/09/2026

It’s #ThrowbackThursday and a #LatestDonation! 🌞 We’re exploring our recently donated Sun SPARCstation Coyager, introduced in 1994. Here’s a look at the Voyager from the inside, as our volunteers inspect this fascinating “nomadic” UNIX workstation. 🔧🖥️

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Microchip Makes @microchip-makes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#ThrowbackThursday: Geoffrey Swales' Crab Apple is a minimal 65C02 single-board computer, with 32KB of RAM, 8KB of EEPROM, and a PIC18F15Q41 for the serial console. Even better? It can run original Apple I to bring that early-computing experience back to life! github.com/gcswales/650...

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agumonger.bsky.social @agumonger.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

#ThrowbackThursday #art #Digimon Zeed etc etc

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Noah Isenberg @noahisenberg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

That #ThrowbackThursday #TonyCurtis #MarilynMonroe #BillyWilder #SomeLikeItHot #HotelDelCoronado

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Microchip Makes @microchip-makes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

#ThrowbackThursday: Just4Fun's 68k-MBC is a homebrew single-board computer with a 68008 CPU running CP/M-68K. The SBC uses readily available through-hole components and features a PIC18F47Q10 that acts as EEPROM and an I/O emulator.

hackaday.io

68k-MBC: a 3 ICs 68008 homebrew computer

The 68k-MBC is an easy to build 68008 CPU SBC (Single Board Computer), using only easy to find TH parts. It follows the same "concept" of the previous Z80-MBC2 (https://hackaday.io/project/159973) and...

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Vintage Computer @vintage.computer · 27/08/2026

Before laser and inkjet printers took over, daisy wheel printers delivered crisp, typewriter-quality text. A spinning wheel positioned each character before a hammer struck it through an ink ribbon, no pixels, no dots, just impact. 🖨️ #ThrowbackThursday #VintageComputer

Throwback Thursday Daisy Wheel Printers: Image showing a close-up of the character arms on a daisy wheel. Before ink jet, laser, and other types of printers, daisy wheel printers were common and fast. They used wheels of (typically) 96 ‘glyphs’ that resembled daisies to print high quality text quickly on paper, similar to how typewriters worked but much faster. Image credit: Paul Downey, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. vintage.computer

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Vintage Computer @vintage.computer · 20/08/2026

Before SD cards and USB flash drives, there was CompactFlash. Introduced in 1994, these sturdy flash-memory cards became a familiar sight in early digital cameras, PDAs, industrial computers, and plenty of network hardware. 💾 #ThrowbackThursday #VintageComputer

Throwback Thursday CompactFlash cards: Image of a Cisco Systems 32MB CompactFlash card against a desert background. First released in 1994, well before USB and SD Cards, the CompactFlash card was a flash memory storage card that was based on a version of the 16-bit PCMCIA interface, making it portable between many different computers and an ideal choice for the first digital cameras. Image credit: Mister rf, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. vintage.computer

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The Centre for Computing History @computinghistory.org.uk · 13/08/2026

The ‘70s called… they want their phone back! 📞 This week’s #throwbackthursday takes us back to our 1970s Office, where making a phone call meant a rotary dial, a little patience, and no speed dial or caller ID! Have you visited our ‘70s office? 👀

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robertpicardo.bsky.social @robertpicardo.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

#ThrowbackThursday - - Birth of an AI consciousness. [back when it was still sci-fi !

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