Beauty Shots of Retro Machines

Please, if anyone takes old hardware images, do put them on Wikipedia Commons, where there is a shortage. Recently I donated a bunch of old systems and peripherals to a museum in Australia. Before doing so, I photographed them and uploaded the images to Commons and was shocked to find how few existed! https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:List... (scroll down a page or so)

Extremely relevant book, https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Retro-Evolution-Personal-Comp...

(the refcode is from the authors site, https://www.cameralabs.com/digitalretro/ )

The interior of the book is much more beautiful than the cover, and sadly Amazon's look inside function is mostly the contents and index.

It's high quality photos of ~100 various computers from the Altair 8800 through iirc recent Apple stuff, from all angles, with text explaining that machine's importance & innovations. A great coffee table book. Even covers some Japanese-only stuff.

I also recall a really extensive and beautiful set of photo albums on flickr which I am currently trying to find the link for, it's in my logs somewhere. Will post that here when I find it tonight. Meanwhile, I found this while googling for it, and while it has some great stuff, it's not as uniformly amazing as the other stream I'm looking for: https://www.flickr.com/groups/vintagecomputers/pool/

Could use more ashtrays for authenticity :)

The //c and the MacBook side by side was an interesting 20-year comparison in design languages.

Can someone send this man a proper Atari ST mouse?!?

I asked him about it, and apparently he doesn't have one.

Makes me feel odd seeing the MacBook A1181, just having retired mine early this year. It kept on running with Snow Leopard, but the OS started losing compatibility with some popular build tools.

Somewhat unrelated, but I'd love to be able to get something like a T-Series ThinkPad but with beige plastic. Something about it feels so nostalgic and comfortable.

Needs more Oric-1/Atmos! ;)

Nice, but not a single CoCo or TRS-80 Model I in the bunch.

Tsk!

Nice photos. Most with authentic accessories. Including the the last photo out of a flat window of an eastern bloc soviet style concrete fab building (probably common in 1980s era Poland)

Little nit-picking: The Duke Nukem 3D running on an 300 MHz is a bit out of era, given it was almost 2 years old game when the hardware got release. Quake 2, Hexen 2, Unreal 1, Half Life 1 or Age of Empires 1 would be games of that era (end of 1997/early 1998). (mind that MHz race was in full speed back in late 1990s, a two year old PC was considered "stone age", a two year old game looked "like from stone age")