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Welcome to This Old Micro!

If you're interested in old computing technology and the company of others who share your interests, this is the place for you!

This Old Micro is devoted to fans of antique (or almost antique) computing platforms from micros to mainframes, including hardware, operating systems, programming and programming languages, applications, and games. Users of emulation packages are as welcome as users of the originals.

Registration is free and provides each user with a full inventory of Web 2.0 and social networking tools, including blog, wiki, forum, document management, a photo galleries, live and recorded video, and much more. Those that need it can have access to online project management tools, including issue tracking and planning applications.

Others can read and participate in the projects you are working on, if you allow it. Others can tag, rate and review your content.

Members can also create groups, organizations, and projects to support special interests, clubs and the like. Of course all these get the full toolset as well.

This Old Micro has a very powerful SEO engine, and content is quickly found by the search engines.

So register and join a group or create your own. Feel free to talk about your retro computing interests and find others with similar interests. Plan a hardware or software project and invite others to participate.

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Latest Blogs

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    Huzzah!

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    More PockeTerm Progress

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    PockeTerm Progress

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    PockeTerm

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    More New Projects

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Recent Reviews

  1. Retro Computer Museum photo
    Tom Manos

    Excellent!

    Retro Computer Museum

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    Rudy Stefelli

    CP/M is a favorite of mine!

    CP/M Users

Recent Activity 

August 23

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    Tom Manos @This Old Micro shared the file Microport System V/AT (I haven't tried these)

    1 week ago

August 22

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    Tom Manos shared the file Adafruit Character LCD Tutorial

    1 week ago
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    Tom Manos shared the file The Arduino Notebook

    1 week ago
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    Tom Manos shared the file Arduino One Page Cheat Sheet

    1 week ago

July 20

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    Tom Manos updated Apple

    1 month ago

July 18

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    Tom Manos updated Apple

    1 month ago
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    Tom Manos @Apple added an image

    1 month ago
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    Tom Manos @Apple contributed to the wiki Profile Message

    1 month ago
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    Tom Manos created the profile Apple under Groups

    1 month ago

July 13

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    Tom Manos @Ancient UNIX posted the topic Xenix

    1 month ago

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Message of the Day

Tip: Almost everything on the site is searchable. Use the Search box at the top of every page!

8/31/2010
Another upgrade to Photo Galleries today - see the Photos tab at the top of the screen. Also added the API for our iPhone/Andoid app.

8/20//2010

Major upgrade today. We added integrated photo galleries to most profiles and much more.

Past Messages of the Day

Chatter 

Here's what others are saying...

September 02

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    Tom Manos: We're getting ready for a hurricane down here. Mostly I'm worried about flooding and power outage where I live. When we lose power, we lose water!

    2 days ago

September 01

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    Tom Manos: I'm looking for a new logo for the site (see top left). It has to be 300x100px. Ideas?

    2 days ago

August 20

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    Tom Manos: Major update today. New photo galleries integrated into most profiles. New layouts. More!

    2 weeks ago

May 19

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    Rudy Stefelli: Ok, so how does the video stuff work?

    3 months ago
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    Tom Cox: I like the new layout, and the new Profile page functionality!

    3 months ago

April 13

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    Tom Manos: SunOS 4.1.4 is running on Sparc 20 hardware here at Wyvern.

    4 months ago

April 08

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    Tom Manos: Looking for a SunOS 4.1.3/4 image. Anybody?

    5 months ago
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      Tom Manos @This Old Micro: Found it!

      4 months ago

March 08

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    Tom Manos: I just uploaded a bunch of A/UX manuals in Ancient Unix

    5 months ago

January 30

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    Tom Manos Wow! Lots of snow in Hampton Roads! Big occasion!

    7 months ago

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