Questions tagged [identify-this-peripheral]
Requests to identify a peripheral device (printer, monitor, input device, etc.) based on a photograph or some specific criteria.
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What's the name of this "Burroughs" computer?
I was watching "You Only Live Twice" (1967), and I saw this "Burroughs" computer:What's the name of this "Burroughs" computer?
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A joystick seen in the film “Ghosthouse” (1988)
Anyone recognize this joystick? Is for a specific pc? I try to recognize the pc, scene is from movie "Ghosthouse" 1988
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to find out a driver and identify model of the old printer
help to find out a driver and identify model of the old printer.any label is absencelook like Legend 1080A dot matrix printer
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What is this US(?) Terminal or Screen?
Watching a WSJ-Segment about Airline-Loyalty-Programs I stumbled over this picture of what seems to be a room full of desks (*1) with two rather large terminals or screens upfront:Does anyone know ...
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Physical server with LED display on case, possibly programmable
Sometime in the 2000s I was in the server room of a customer site. This was still in the days of largely on-premise, not necessarily rack-mounted server boxes. A guy from their hardware vendor was ...
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What terminal did David connect to his IMSAI 8080?
Since it seems that we are now accepting questions to identify-this-peripheral from a movie, we might as well address the quintessential Retrocomputing movie...What terminal is David using at home in ...
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High-capacity floppy drives from the early 2000s, what were they?
I remember in the early 2000s right before the flash drive became a thing there was a type of new floppy drive. It had bigger disk space than the conventional 1.4 megabyte floppy. It was only around ...
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Late 80s/early 90s matrix printer with a solid, curved front cover
I am trying to remember the exact year but I am drawing a blank. We had this matrix printer sometime between 1989 and 1994 in Hungary. What I distinctly remember is the front cover: it was solid, not ...
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What is this large device labelled 'Telefunken Datenspeicher' and how does it work?
We found this device in our school. Does anyone know what this can do exactly, and how it could work?We managed to input values into the bit storage on the top, but nothing more. Can we calculate ...
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Origin of what seems to be a Front-Panel
Reorganizing my desk - more exact the piles below - I once again came across this mystery front-panel. I can't remember what it was from nor who owns the ||/ logo present on chips and board(*1)....
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Denys Fisher, of Spirograph fame, using a computer late 1976, early 1977
Denys Fisher, the creator of Spirograph, sold his company, bought an estate in Scotland and started working on his next creations, or at least so is narrated in a BBC's documentary, broadcast as part ...
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In this movie I see a strange cable for terminal connection, what kind of connection is this?
In the movie Fantozzi va in pensione (1988) I see a strange cable for terminal connection, what kind of connection is this?seems a scsi cable, but I know the terminal is Ampex 220 and as I know ...
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1980's Stand Alone Serial (RS232) Spool File [closed]
It wasa device the size of a Hayes Smart Modem.it had two RS232 ports, one In, one Outand 256K of memory (I think, might have been less).It was a cunning little tool - plugged between a PC and a ...
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What PC VGA connector used 2 rows of pins?
I remember that 20 years ago (around the year 2000) I came across a few computers with a weird monitor connector. They weren't old computers, but rather budget mainstream computers of the time period. ...
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Did home computers have mechanical interfaces to typewriters?
In the April 1985 issue of Ahoy!, a reader asks whether it is possible to hook a conventional typewriter up to his Commodore 64. Surprisingly to me, columnist David Barron answers that such ...
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