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Vintage Computing Resources
From Higher Intellect Vintage Wiki
This page will feature some helpful links to vintage/retro computing resources such as discussion forums, software archives, documentation and other sites following a retrocomputing theme. These links are operational as of September 2018.
Forums[edit]
- https://68kmla.org/forums/ - Mostly 68K based Macintosh discussion
- http://www.vcfed.org/forum/forum.php - Discussion on many types of early computers
- https://www.vogons.org/index.php - Focus on DOS and early Windows gaming
- http://forums.irixnet.org/index.php - For Silicon Graphics and IRIX discussion
- https://www.thinkclassic.org/ - Forum for vintage Macintosh systems
- http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/ - Forum for NeXT hardware/software
Documents[edit]
- http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ - Bitsavers PDF archive, covers almost everything
- https://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/computing/ - Higher Intellect computing texts
Facebook Groups[edit]
- Silicon Graphics (SGI) Computer Enthusiasts
- Vintage Unix Machine Enthusiasts (AT&T, SUN, SGI, DEC, HP, Etc..)
- Vintage PC Enthusiasts
- Vintage Apple Macintosh Enthusiasts
- Vintage & Retro Computer Swap Meet!
Public FTP[edit]
- ftp://ftp.atlas.altexxa.net - Public archive of some DOS/Win/SGI/Amiga/Apple/Mac files (part of ALTEXXANET)
- ftp://ftp.irixnet.org - Software for Silicon Graphics systems
Software Archives[edit]
- https://preterhuman.net/software/ - The Higher Intellect Software Archive
- http://macintoshgarden.org/ - Big collection of Mac software, seems mostly for 68K
- https://www.macintoshrepository.org/ - Large categorized Mac software archive (68K/PPC)
- http://themacarchive.net/ - 68K Mac software archive, also run by preterhuman.net
- http://www.vintageapple.org/macdrivers/ - old Mac drivers
- https://preterhuman.net/drivers/ - old Mac and PC drivers
- http://myoldmac.net/software/ - 68K Mac freeware and shareware
- https://winworldpc.com - Large collection of operating systems and general software
- http://www.retroarchive.org/ - DOS era software, also with misc information
- http://www.bitsavers.org/bits/ - Bitsavers software archive (covers almost everything)
General Sites[edit]
- http://altexxanet.org - Retro website which should work in browsers as old as Netscape 2.x
- http://www.oocities.org - A partial mirror of GeoCities
- https://gifcities.org/ - Mirror of animated GIFs from GeoCities
- https://wiki.retrocomp.net/index.php/RetroNet - RetroNet aims to provide the 90s ISP experience
- https://retrosearch.net - Search engine specifically for retro computing (see RetroSearch)
- http://theoldnet.com - Proxy to view websites on vintage computers
Mailing Lists[edit]
- http://www.classiccmp.org/lists.html - ClassicCmp mailing lists for vintage computing enthusiasts
- http://mailman.chivanet.org/listinfo/retronet - RetroNet mailing list for the RetroNet project
Vintage Computing Museums[edit]
- http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/index.html - Dave's Old Computers
- http://www.ricks-graphics.co.uk/area99/index.htm - Area99 (TI99 stuff)
- https://museum.preterhuman.net/ - Higher Intellect Technology Museum
- http://www.thebattles.net/jimsjunk.html - Jim's Junk, mostly Wang stuff
- http://www.sinasohn.com/clascomp/ - Uncle Roger's Classic Computers
- http://oldcomputers.net/ - Steve's Computer Collection
- http://www.vintage-computer.com/ - Erik S. Klein's Vintage Computer Collection
Video Channels[edit]
- LGR on YouTube
- Nostalgia Nerd on YouTube
- RetroManCave on YouTube
- Paul's Old Crap on YouTube (also see Pauls Old Crap)
- The 8-Bit Guy on YouTube
- Mac84 on YouTube
- SiliconClassics on YouTube
- Tech Tangents on YouTube
- Jan Beta on YouTube
- Jason's Macintosh Museum on YouTube
- PA8600 on YouTube
- VWestlife on YouTube
- Dodoid on YouTube
- Irinikus on YouTube
- Action Retro on YouTube
- Adrian's Digital Basement on YouTube
- DaveJustDave on YouTube
- root42 on Youtube