PostScript came to the desktop in 1985 with the Apple LaserWriter, and within a year or two several other companies had joined Adobe’s licensee list. HP was late — its own Adobe PostScript cartridge for the LaserJet II/III family didn’t ship until 1991. read more
This is a collection of 111 Commodore 64/128 disk images from a box of CMD FD-2000 high-density floppy disks. The disks came from the estate of Klaus Finke (1945–2016), a GEOS community organizer from Suhl, Thuringia. read more
The 6502’s “illegal” opcodes were of intense interest to home computer enthusiasts, and analyses were published in various magazines. But one would have never expected a company like Siemens to document illegal opcodes in a programming manual from 1980. read more
The Siemens PC 100 was a version of the 6502-based “AIM-65” SBC in a case and with slightly modified ROMs. Siemens offered a set of German-language manuals, which included translated Assembler (MOS Resident Assembler) and BASIC (Microsoft BASIC) manuals, but also a general manual (“Bedienungsanleitung”). read more
In Folge 017 des C64-Podcasts Brotkastenfreunde bin ich diesmal Gast.
Zum 40jährigen Jubiläum des 64’er Magazins präsentieren wir das Kunstprojekt www.64er-magazin.de: eine Website, die so tut, als wäre 1984. Exakt 40 Jahre nach der ursprünglichen Veröffentlichung erscheint hier jeden Monat eine neue Ausgabe: read more
This post is about an upcoming talk in German. read more
The Deutsches Museum in Munich (Germany) has a new art installation as part of the reopened Electronics exhibition: The “Schrott-Tornado”, a tornado-shaped sculpture made from scrap electronics. There is (at least) one item in it that is most definitely not trash. read more
I have created darmok.com, a website that lets you share common memes in the Tamarian language. read more
We have recently dissected and dumped the Level 2 “Plus” version of HP’s PostScript cartridge series. This time, we will look at the earlier Level 1 “PostScript Cartridge”. read more
The German company “Scanntronik” offered a lot of high-quality hardware and software for the Commodore 64 series computers, most in the space of graphics and desktop publishing. They are well-known for their Pagefox and Printfox software as well as their Handyscanner 64 hardware. This page offers most of the German-language manuals from across their product range as searchable PDFs. read more
The Commodore 1650, also known as the “AUTOMODEM”, is Commodore’s first full modem directly connected to the phone line. It supports pulse dialing in software and 300 baud duplex connections. read more