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About retro-computing.com
Welcome to the retro-computing.com web site! This site is part of the inverary.net family of online retro-computing resources, which includes this site (of course!), inverary.net itself, the "Quadras, Cubes and G5s" vintage Mac blog (at happymacs.wordpress.com) and the Happy Macs Gopher space (at happymacs.ddns.net), serving multiple vintage Mac software archives via Gopher (Gopher preceded the web). Unlike its inverary.net peers, retro-computing.com has a purposely wide remit, addressing everything from the Apple II to the Pentium 4, from Apple DOS to Windows ME, and everything in between. That said, this is a very large space, and coverage of it will be patchy to non-existent in some areas and very complete in others. However, this broad remit does allow me to blog about, and provide software repositories for, any part of the space that I may be investigating or working with at the moment. I first encountered computers in the late 1970s and was instantly fascinated. That fascination has never waned, continuing unabated to this very day. My career focused on the application of computer technology to telecommunications, and in that field I was able to work with a large variety of CPUs, systems and software. As a result, over the years I have worked with everything from Intel's 8085 to today's latest and fastest Apple M1 chips. In the midst of this I acquired my first personal computer in the early 1980s (a NABU 1600 8086-based small business computer) and have never looked back. I have been working with and collecting PCs, Macs, Linux systems and even the Apple IIGS (a current focus) ever since. Over the course of that time, I accumulated moderately large collections of what is now referred to as abandonware, and have also authored a modest number of retro software titles myself. A key rationale for this site therefore is to share all of this software in easily downloadable form with the retro-computing enthusiast community. In addition to gathering and authoring software, I have also learned more than a few things along the way, and continue to do so as I work almost daily with the the ever-growing set of retro computers in my home "computer lab". So, another key rationale for this site is to pass along, in the form of a site-based blog, existing and new learnings I have acquired that may be of interest to my peer retro enthusiasts. To sum up, I have created this site in the hope that it may be a useful resource for others who like me have a deep and abiding fascination with vintage computers. If you have comments or suggestions, don't hesitate to drop me an email at support@inverary.net. I will make every effort to get back to you in a timely manner. |
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