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Vintage Computer Wiki
The Higher Intellect Vintage Wiki (https://wiki.preterhuman.net) functions primarily as a reference for vintage computer related hardware and software. Our wiki database contains information on a variety of vintage computing subjects as per the categories below.
Vintage Computer Systems/Components
- Sort by processor type (x86): 8086, 8088, 80186, 80286, 80386, 80486, Pentium, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium Pro, Celeron
- Sort by processor type (68k): 68000, 68010, 68020, 68030, 68040
- Sort by processor type (RISC): PowerPC, MIPS, Alpha, SPARC
- Sort by expansion bus: NuBus Cards, PCI Cards, AGP Cards, VLB Cards
- Sort by expansion type: Video Cards, Sound Cards, Controller Cards, PCMCIA Cards
- Sort by component type: Hard Disks, Optical Drives, Disk Drives, Tape Drives, Modems, Motherboards, Network Cards
- Sort by peripheral: Monitors, Input Devices, Printers, Accessories
Vintage Computer Documentation
- Sort by topic: Programming, How-To, Security, Troubleshooting, Graphics, MIDI, Telephony, Piracy, UNIX
- Sort by medium: Magazines, Books, TV and Radio, News
Vintage Computer Software
- Sort by genre: Games, Operating Systems, Edutainment
General Vintage Topics
- Sort by vendor/manufacturer: Apple, Silicon Graphics, Compaq, IBM, Toshiba, DEC, Sun, NeXT, Packard Bell, Motorola, Microsoft, Cray
- Sort by year (where applicable): 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
- Additional sorting: People, Places and Events
Vintage Internet Documentation
Vintage Company Directory
- Internet Service Providers: @Home Network, AboveNet, America Online, CompuServe, EarthLink, Internet Direct, Internet Gateway Corp, Juno, MindSpring, NetZero, Prodigy, PSINet, Qwest, SpryNet, United Online, UUNET, WorldCom
- Internet search engines/directories: AltaVista, Ask Jeeves, Dogpile, Excite, Google, HotBot, Infoseek, Inktomi, LookSmart, Lycos, Magellan, MetaCrawler, WebCrawler, WhoWhere, Yahoo!
- Personal web hosting: Angelfire, FortuneCity, GeoCities, Tripod, Xoom
- Browse by industry (general):
- Hard disks: Conner Peripherals, Hitachi, Maxtor, Quantum Corporation, Rodime, Seagate Technology, Western Digital
- Sound cards: Ad Lib, Advanced Gravis, Creative Labs, Media Vision