On Monday, a German Redditor named c-wizz announced that they had found a very rare 66-year-old Librascope LGP-30 computer (and several 1970 DEC PDP-8/e computers) in their grandparents’ basement. The LGP-30, first released in 1956, is one of only 45 manufactured in Europe and may be best known as the computer used by “Mel” in a famous piece of hacker lore.
This is the vintage computing version of finding a 33 Stradale in a shed in the Italian countryside.
Thinking, my granma’s basement was full of hay for the goats and firewood for the stove.
Some grandparents some people have…
Eh, there’s several of those in museums.
Come back when you have a one-of-a-kind.
Like…. That ATX-64, only 3 people on YouTube have build?
https://www.reddit.com/r/oldcomputers/comments/tzta7r/presenting_the_rca_ms2000_microdisk_development/
That is not an ATX-64…. And I see the serial number of that machine is 200026.
But as you only post a link, then I have no idea what the message was.
One time when I was visiting my folks I noticed one of the couches had a cushion riding higher than the others, with what felt like something hard underneath. That something turned out to be a 68k Mac desktop, one of the smaller and flatter models. To this day I have no idea how it wound up there.
The Story of Mel is a nice story to read, but what this Mel guy did was create a completely non-portable piece of software that is tied to not only a particular architecture but also a particular model of computer, complete with a obscure bug that is dependent on the memory-access timings of that particular model. And for what? For marginal performance benefits at best. Please don’t do that. It was bad practice even in Mel’s time.
kurkosdr,
Sounds like it could be the story of the atari demo scene 🙂