Nostalgia Nerd
@nostalgianerd
Retro YouTube nerd, author, streamer, occasionally. 🔗 nerdl.ink
These bad boys are ICL 7181 Visual Display Units. Introduced in the 60s as mainframe terminals, they actually used nickel delay lines as memory. This stored data as acoustic sound waves in a coiled wire 🤯
This majestic DEC VT240 from 1984, impressively ran on a single chip microcontroller version of the PDP-11. A system that took up an entire room the prior decade.
Another ICL Terminal. 7501, used as a mainframe operator console, and featuring a memory mapped display These things could literally run Pac-Man or Space Invaders, and indeed, did.
This little wedge is a DEC VK100 GIGI. Here it's hooked up to a PDP-11, but in 1981 it was intended for education and massively outsold by competitors.
Thank you to everyone who donated during our @su2c.bsky.social @su2c BIG BUILD! Still *quite* a lot do to, but... THE GATES OF MINAS TIRITH ARE ERECT.
This hot piece of ass is an ICL 7700 Terminal from 1979. Commonly used to connect to ICL mainframes, but also with its own built-in computer.
The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last, the great battle of our time.
The Swindon Advertiser showing how not to look at the eclipse in August 1999
Thank you so much to everyone who donated to @specialeffect.org.uk @specialeffect to help with their amazing work! We managed to get across the line before the end of race car swept us up 🏃♀️🏃♂️🚗 @thisismarta.bsky.social @myunie
This weekend @myunie and I are running @thelondon10k raising for the amazing @specialeffectteam If you'd like to sponsor us and help this super cause, link is in my bio. Thank youuuu!
Being a nerd of these things, I had a nice chat to BBC Look East about dying physical media and technology.
Argh, it's really annoying when you spend over a month on a video, and you realise you've made a dumass mistake. But yes, as correctly pointed out, I flash up an image of Alexey Pajitnov instead of Henk Rogers for a couple of seconds 🥴😫 Please forgib.
The Atari Lynx Story premieres at 8pm BST 26th June 2026. Join us youtu.be/RcjbMCRErz4?...
Wild that my child brain didn't get the correlation to the cops being freakish pigs.
The Amstrad Integra all in one, launched 30 years ago, making it Amstrad's final PC.
If we focus less on those who make things worse, and focus more on those who make things better, then things will get better.
Blessed to see so many familiar yet wondrous faces at Debug Games Festival. Sorry if I missed you! Great work by The Debug Team 👏🏻
Yup, that's me, live on the @Warhammer Classics @Steam page. You're probably wondering how I got here. I AM TBH. BUT IT'S OK, BECAUSE I HAVE SOME CLASSIC WARHAMMER TO PLAY.
Spent a week trying to recreate the vibe of my 90s computer setup. It was worth it 👌🏻
Xerox Alto II c.1979. The birthplace of our modern GUI. Without this, there would be no Windows or macOS.
Post Office Telecommunications unit from 1977. When video calling was very cool and very yellow.
The golden BBC Micro, famously excavated from Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter. It was also a prize for The Micro User magazine's second birthday 🎂