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- Thanks to Scopely for sponsoring this video - Download Star Trek Fleet Command on iOS & Android and battle in the Star Trek universe here: pixly.go2cloud.org/SH3go ~ You might remember I visited the Home Computer Museum in The Netherlands a few years back. WELL, I went back, and I had a look at some of the finest exhibits this land has ever seen, including that MASSIVE Aesthedes computer!
00:00-01:59 Intro
01:59-03:00 Fleet Command
03:00-06:11 Tektronix 4051
06:11-14:54 Aesthedes
14:54-20:14 Dial up internet in 2023
20:14-21:31 Credits
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games like fleet command need to come with a warning
Wow this took me back a few years. Fantastic vid, thanks.
RMC has some way to go!
Where's the mainframe that takes up a whole room and uses tape drives?!
No thanks. Games like that should be avoided at all cost. They are microtransaction hell. I'd never let them sponsor me if got offered. But if the money is good I doubt blame people from taking it if needed.
Having your own MSN server for a museum is peak nostalgia gratification in my book.
I also noticed that they have a support account, which is a nice touch on a museum where things might misbehave or suddenly not work
Kinda sad.. Poor old server Was never to be
It was great fun to have you in the museum again!
AMAZING place, mate! wow I hope I can visit there one day👍💪
Dat is het zeker! Fijn dat we mee kunnen genieten met deze video. 👌🏻
The pen for the tablet on the Aesthedes looks a lot like the pens I've used on GTCO tablets. They are still around and apparently have merged with Calcomp.
You did such a great job with the museum, amazing
Ik heb jaren met dat soort oude meuk gewerkt (Personal computers maar ook mainframes, mini's en allerlij rare PDP11 achtige systemen) Toch eens komen kijken, vind het heerlijk om de ouwe spullen werkend te krijgen.
I'm glad to see the CD-i prototype still has a nice home among the rest of the amazing collection in the museum. I found and donated that prototype 2 years ago now. I'm also very happy to see that Aesthedes working again. Definitely one of the most impressive computers I've ever seen.
The amount of CD-I stuff they have is awesome, it really made me feel like a 14 year old kid again believing that FMV games where the future
My school got official kit, i was the only person of the Philips test program to understand it, even testing the old Music CD games.
great times !
Red Book, we knew what it was, i was close with Philips too, my school NOT !
as a kid, Philips was my future...
That Aesthedes was giving me some complex and conflicting feelings... When I was getting set to leave school in 1992, I was determined to become a graphic designer - I had put all my eggs in one basket, and basically disregarded every subject which didn't revolve around getting into art college to work towards an eventual degree and a career in front of a draughtman's board. I went to see the careers' officer and the first question they asked was, _"Do you know anything about computers?"_ At the time, the only real experience I had was playing games on our old ZX81 and latterly Dad's Amiga, and typing up my homework on Mum's Amstrad PCW9512 - I could run a game in BASIC but that was about as far as my computing knowledge went. So I said, _"No,"_ and the careers' officer basically told me that there was no point in going to art college because by the time I had gotten a degree in paper-and-pen Graphic Design it would already be obsolete, and it would all be done on computers.
So the Aesthedes was basically the enemy, and the reason I've never had a real career.
Thing is, though, I later got into computers - in an attempt to make a new career for myself, my younger brother (who was part of the years below me at school who got the upgraded computer lab, and therefore was completely at home with computers - what a difference four years and a focus change in the National Curriculum makes!) suggested that I should try a Cisco CCNA course since it seemed to be up my alley. While taking the course I ended up learning a whole lot about the history of computing in general as well as networking in particular, and started to gain an appreciation for old technology... which of course eventually led me to channels like this.
So while part of me was seething at the very existence of the Aesthedes, there was also part of me that was really interested to see it working, and was following along with what Bart was explaining about the inputs and how the displays worked. I really enjoyed seeing it in action, but I also hated myself a bit for enjoying it...!
Very deep and complicated feelings evoked by a CZcams curiosity video...
OMG. Careers' Officers - nobody but the clueless should take their advice. One told me because I am colour blind (very mild red-green that affects a LOT of males) I couldn't possibly work in Electronics, despite it being my hobby since a 7 year old. Apparently I can't see wire colours. I did work in Electronics as a service engineer but eventually switched to IT as that was more lucrative and interesting and I could see the writing on the wall for third party repair.
@@Drew-Dastardly I'm also red-green colourblind, and yet I was fine at graphic design... although admittedly, I did have some problems with wiring cat-5 cables on the Cisco course, but I had my teacher stand behind me telling me which colour was which (without giving away whether it was the correct wire or not, obviously!). But in fairness, who makes patch cables from scratch these days anyway?
Weirdly, since I didn't come from an electronics background, I picked up the fibre-optics signalling module a lot quicker than everyone else in the class, but was really slow to understand the copper-wire signalling... maybe it's because I was more used to thinking about the behaviour of light than that of electricity?
I was for a while the sole UK tech repsonsible for Aesthedes repairs and upgrades. The purchase price was vast and annual maintence costs also huge. It was obvious at the time that Corel Draw was going to kill it. It was though lovely to use. If only they had ported the software to a PC based platform, keeping the georgous user interface panel it might have stood a chance. So glad one them lives. Thanks to all concerned foe showing / exhibiting it.
Fascinating machine. What processor architecture was it based on?
My family had a graphics business back then, and it might give the Mac II we had a run for it’s money… (we had that Mac configured with a couple of 19” Trinitron monitors and a big digitizing tablet; and ran Freehand, Illustrator, PageMaker, and Photoshop on it. Eventually it got a Radius Rocket 68040 accelerator; and it became practical to run 3D software like Infini-D, Swivel3D, and RayDream as well)
@@darkwinter6028 The Wikipedia page says that it had 10 x Motorola 68000.
Wasn’t there CorelDraw software for Windows95. I vaguely remember it was free software on disc with my computer….
@@gareth1971 The original one did. This has 2x68020 and 4xEF9635 to drive the displays.
Could it be that there are some forgotten spare parts you know of, left somewhere in a corner and a maintenance manual, complete and unabridged. I am not asking it for myself but that machine is of such an outstanding beauty it has to be restored completely some sunny day.
Props to Delta, that they still got the PSU documentation after ll those years!
Delta Elektronika (not to be confused with the Taiwanese manufacturer of the same name!) is well known for its superb customer support.
I feel stupid for being a Dutch vintage computer nerd never having visited the museum yet. Its a 2 hour drive. 😅 I should go soon!
I have to fly 10 hours to get there but I've been there twice. :)
Zullen we samen gaan Willem ik ben ook nog nooit geweest en wil heel graag.
Raar heh als je dicht bij woont is het altijd lastiger.
Voor mij een kwartiertje.
@@randomsam83 dat is om de hoek. Dan ga je iedere keer dat je een retro urge krijgt? 😉
@@CallousCoder Ik rommel het liefst met defecte vintage apparaten (thuis).
Bloody amazing collection. I could easily spend months in there. You gotta love geeks. Across all languages, nations and ideologies, we unite for the love of tech. ❤✌️
Proxying like in 1996!!!! I used to deal with all that stuff. Gotta love Linux and its networking core, to help and save the world, since the beginning of the time. Congratulations for sharing.
as a graphic designer that Aesthedes machine is really fascinating. i'd love to fiddle around with it and see if i could make it do, well, anything
The Tektronix terminal made me think of Adama dictating his commander's log on the original Battlestar Galactica, and seeing "Computer terminals provided by Tektronix" in the show's end credits.
I can spend an entire year there and not be bored. Good job on the repairs !!!!!
I love that you did a follow up on the crazy computer thing. I'm a Dutch guy and never heard of it, before you did that first video on it. Thumbs up.
Once theyve got that huge CAD graphic machine working fully, it would be great to see what that original user they got in contact with can do on it.
As I understand it, the original designer is no longer alive. His daughter still lives, but she doesn't have a lot of info about the machine.
CAD, nope, this is Realtime PAL editing gear
I'll visit this museum in a near future and what I like at first look in the video, is that it reminds me a computer shop from the 80s-90s with mixed computers and boxes everywhere.
so cool to see they figured more out about that computer! we were there one time and they were debugging some stuff on it. one of my favorite museums.
open source and crowd source everything haha.
Seeing the little Star Wars droid light up part for part was great, as was that you could not help but reference Battlestar Galactica in the beginning. And indeed, the scanning done in that show, with the different star crafts appearing and disappearing on screen in the very same fashion, was burnt into my memory. It is such an iconic way of displaying scifi stuff to me personally. There are some videos on YT that just show graphics being "rendered" on Tectronix with some nice ambient 80s computer music, and this is just so very relaxing and fascinating. Great little video, hope to visit the museum myself this year. Cheers!
I have been to the Home computer museum with a few 'retro lovers' a couple of weeks ago. I really loved it. Bart is such a good sport and really knows his stuff! Anyone who loves Retro computers, and you are in the neighborhood of Helmond, you have to go to the Home computer museum.
@0:57 I mean, 95% working is more than enough to produce a few hundred corrupted Princess Sylvia clones.
I live in a small canadian town. Retro computers and games are my passion, and there is literally nothing to see or obtain within 500km. If not for this, I would never know. Thank you.
I remember the old 300 bps modems. You could pick up the phone and scream into it and never lose connection.
I'm not sure if I ever knew what this Crazy Computer was
in that case you missed a great video!
I am from The Netherlands and I have to plan a visit to this warm bath… 😎
This is amazing. Wild to see an early spiritual ancestor of Adobe Illustrator.
That Dutch computer looks like it came from Moonbase Alpha in "Space 1999".
My thoughts exactly.
I loved every second of this video. 1996 was the year I first discovered the internet, at college. I had an Amiga at home, and I was famed for taking a box of floppies into college every day, filling them with stuff from Aminet, taking them home, and using CrossDOS to copy everything from the disks to my Amiga's (240Mb) hard drive. I must have been one of the first users of Hotmail, though my original account has long since expired. Back then, they gave you a generous 2Mb of space. I imaged my Amiga drive several years ago, and still have saved emails dated from late 1996. Naturally, these must have came from those floppies. Good lord, I'm getting all nostalgic for stuff that happened more thanb half of my life ago.
I know someone who still has a Hotmail address today. Maybe worth checking yours to see if it still works?
It's so awesome to see the guys at the museum are trying to keep the actual architecture of the network similar to how it was back then. Impressive!
Also the end credit music... "Up to date news for out of date tech!"
I'm from the netherlands and 52 years old. Very nostalgic seeing all these things from the past. I worked with and used NT 4, dial up modems and msn messenger back in the day. Thank you @Nostalgianerd i've been a fan of you and the content of your channel for a couple of years now. Keep up the good stuff. Greetings from the Netherlands, very close to the Johan Cruyff Arena stadium home of the Amsterdam Ajax team.
Bro, this is really good. So interesting, was glued to the screen the whole time! That guy from the Home Computer Museum is great at explaining. Excellent collaboration, thanks!
Really cool with the dial up connection. And that screen that burns the image on the screen, never heard about that before :) Very interesting to see.
Can't wait for LGR to see this!
As a Dutch person can I just say "Cheers for the invite"?
Probably should visit it myself some time - it's only a two and half hour from t'North.
When he demoed the Tektronics machine drawing the R2D2 image, there was a striking resemblance to the 'warbook' displays shown in the original 1978 Battlestar Galactica series. I wonder if this machine was used to create those images? The time period fits.
Yes, those were Tectronix 4051 as well ;)
It is so nice that the PSU manufacturer provided the scemathics. Props for them.
Some amazing computers there
Nice to see a Luxor ABC 1600 in the museum as well! They are the last machine produced by Luxor in the ABC range. And are quite rare, with around 400 produced. At one point I happened to own 8 of those. I will never ever again own 2% of the machines of a computer model. :)
Didn't know that it was that rare.
@@HomeComputerMuseum It was the last real effort from Luxor and it raised the bar a lot from their previous 8-bit series. But it was expensive and late in a time when PC started to take over.
The Luxor 8 bit lines are interesting and were relatively widely sold here in Sweden back in the late 70:s and early 80:s. The ABC 80, the first model, was designed and produced by 3 companies in cooperation: Scandia Metric, Dataindustrier AB (DIAB) and Luxor. The first company, Scandia Metric, were early with computer educations and saw a need for a new schooling computer. They talked with DIAB and realized that they together had the competence to design the computer and peripherals, but lacked production capability for electronics and monitors. Luxor was an old manufacturer of radios, TV:s, etc, and had manufacturing experience and capability.
The three started talks and the process was remarkably short. A first meeting was held 2 February 1978. At the end of July several prototypes were ready and the finished computer was shown 24 August the same year. One reason why they managed to produce the computer this fast was because they relied a lot on designs from DIAB. They already produced a bus computer targeted for industrial use. It used what DIAB named the 4680 bus with CPU cards, memory cards, I/O cards and whatever industrial controller cards connected to a bus with 16 bit address bus and 8 bit data bus. The ABC 80 computer had its own keyboard, a Z80 CPU, RAM and ROM but was bus wise comparable with the CPU 4680 cards. To the large bus connector at the back a breakout box could be connected, which allowed a very wide range of cards to be added. To for example add diskdrives, the disk drive controller card was added to that box. Since the bus allowed ROM modules on bus cards to be mapped into system memory the various controllers could add the necessary drivers. A lot of different cards and system enhancements were added this way. There is still a small community of ABC 80 enthusiasts in Sweden and last year I bought a new bus card with an FPGA that added SD card based HD emulation, Wifi support, separate programmable graphics output though HDMI, etc. A total of 33300 ABC 80:s were produced.
After the relatively big success with the ABC 80 they released the ABC 800 series in 1981. It was more targeted for office use. It still used the Z80 processor but the system had several enhancements. Apart from double RAM capacity and a more advanced ROM it could take one expansion card directly, without breakout box. There were three models. The ABC 800 was an all-in-keyboard variant just as the ABC80. The ABC 802 was a compact variant with the computer inside a small screen and a separate keyboard, with diskdrives hanged on the side. The 806 was the largest variant with a separate CPU unit and separate keyboard and a screen which normally allowed color graphics. A total of 29300 ABC 800:s were made (all variants included).
The 800 series sold, but the PC started to eat the market. One try on this is the ABC 1600, which is a completely different machine than the previous ones. It has a 68008 CPU and runs a UNIX dialect called ABCenix. As I mentioned in my previous post only 400 was made and they were relatively expensive. A system costed 47000 SEK back in 1985, which corresponds to 121693 SEK or around €10779 today. They would have needed to sell around 5000 to make the project profitable.
After some hard years Luxor was sold to Nokia in 1985. They killed the Luxor Computers company in 1986, but tried to release a PC variant under the name ABC 1200, which is a very rare machine nowadays. DIAB also sold a more advanced UNIX machine under the name ABC 9000 for some while.
@@Pugopugo I had an 806 with the card expansion cabinet thing, plus a bunch of extra cards including a few for experimentation in a control software thing, got it from my school a few years after they stopped using it in favor of PLC for automation. I also had an ABC1600, with the tiltable screen, and mouse+keyboard, and a DIAB DS90 rack server hehehe. The DIAB and ABC1600 are in a friends basement, or his moms basement now, the 806 etc I'm not sure where it went, at the time I left Sweden for good, so I found homes for all that stuff. Probably 1998 or 1999 at the latest. Haven't been back except for a short visit once many years ago. The last DIAB thing was made but as I recall less than 20 in total, most went to the Swedish navy if I recall correctly, I found some of the original guys from DIAB through chasing info and hardware through ads in magazines, and indeed ABCenix and the DIAB SysV AT&T port as well as the hardware are cross compatible, the DIAB I used to own was used to build the binaries for ABCenix GUI by Luxor at the time, or rather the sub company made for that which I forget the name of now - it was tied to DIAB. I think the whole DIAB unix reference manual still survives, which is 80% of ABCenix, in my friends moms basement in Göteborg hehe.
@@noth606 Interesting to hear! There are quite some info to dig up and document about DIAB as well as Scandia Metric. Luxor and the ABC:s are quite good documented, but computers like Scandia Metric's Metric 85 TD is very little documented.
I became kind of happy some years ago when I saw a roof box on a car that looked like it came from the 80:s and had "DIAB Data AB" printed on it. The company was renamed to that in 1986, after some turbulent years owner wise. That name is a bit funny as DIAB is already an achronym for Dataindustrier (computer industries) AB (aktiebolag = limited). That means that the new name contained Data two times and AB two times. :)
I still remember the dial up sound sequence... it is etched in my brain forever. What a wonderful world of internet before the curse of social media came... ugh...
social media did nothing but make the scourge that is humanity the forefront instead of buried in 4chan
Yep, social media came along and ruined it. Now isn't that the truth.
totally! Love that sound lol! I remember can somebody answer the phon;, they sampled the dial up sound for the song. Good days ahhhh
I could tell, laying in bed listening to someone connect to my c64 bbs, their connect rate by sound, and what they were doing on the bbs by the sound of the drives loading, how long, clicks, etc. Such a different time.
I can smell that bit of the video. The new plastic smell and the ozone from the CRTs.
Growing up in Norwich; Zoom and the metal scene.... (Circa 1997)
It always warms my cockles seeing your uploads.
(Anyone else here in their mid 40's from Norwich? Second Hand Land boi) ❤❤❤
I donated my fair share of stuff to the museum. Glad to see it looking so well
In 1973, you could buy an Aesthedes computer graphics system for just $20,000 that could draw polygons and squiggly lines on a TV screen.
In 2023, you can train an AI chat bot for just $20,000,000 that can tell knock knock jokes nearly as well as human child.
That is the ULTIMATE sleeper pc cabinet!
Love the video, love the machine, keep up the creativity :)
such an exciting video!!!! Always love new content from you buddy! great work
ps omg msn messenger. My first girlfriend dumped me on that
This is amazing - seeing NT4 Server as a DC brought me waaaaay back.
The fact these guys are piping everything via proxy to internet archive for the authentic experience is a level of genius. With genuine hardware from the period - absolute chefs kiss.
I couldn't help but notice a little Vetrex in one of the shots - but that's incidental.
Should I find myself in the Netherlands I would love to visit this place. Very VERY cool.
16:43 Bonzi Buddy, ask that darned parrot to tell you a joke
Man that parrot was funny back in the day. 🤣
Awesome to see that they got it to work! I and I didn't know about the Archive/old-web proxy! That's just amazing. Great video!
3:25 the Tek 4051 was used to generate the scanner screens for Battlestar Galactica 1978.
Went to the museum and love all the computers they have there its fun seeing what my parents or even grandparents used as a computer back in the 19xxS and i love older computers compared to todays rgb flashy shit that cant even survive being dropped by one meter computers these where built realy well! Even tough i did not grow up in the 19xx but 2008 i love retro computers and its fun that its in my own country the netherlands so i dont have to drive hours to get there
Whow, that 3 monitor beast is so very cool!
Oh girls just wanna have fun... (sorry, I couldn't resist 😁).
Lovely tour, thanks!
Realy enjoyed this video. really takes you back.
Bart is explaining it absolutely briljantly! Going there is a blast. Love going there!
I am in Nigeria, in my 50s. I spent my 20s doing Windows 95, NT 4 Server, Redhat 6.2, spent a lot of time on them in the days. Was like playing with toys from another world. Thanks for showing them.
This place is pure magic! I hope I can visit someday!
I totally can hang out and share some drinks with the museum guy :) He is so proud and aware about what is showing to you its a joy to watch :)
Suuuper fun behind the scenes indepth look at crazy interesting technology. Great video, mate!
Thank you for sharing the internet way of things in the '90. Nostalgia indeed!
Fantastic museum, definitely will visit when I'm in the Netherlands.
I live just down the street from Tektronix museum - it's very much worth a visit.
Looking at the key-pads on that awesome Aesthedes! reminds me of the show from the 80s *The Adventure Game*
really interesting! it was great to see they actually had a bunch of stuff working and set up.
Amazing video!!!, thank you so very much
Great to see you have the other early Dutch computer too. The Aster-CT80. 0:34 (showing the Tandy section) you can see it at the top of the second rack of the right. It is the beige computer with two floppies (the black section). It above the TRS-80 model 2. But electronically the Aster CT-80 is more like a TRS-80 model 3 than the TRS-80 model 1 (AKA the "trash 80") it is a clone of as it fixes many problems the model 1 had. It doesn't have the optical appeal the Holborn had which appeared a few months earlier, but a lot more Asters were made than Holborns. There is another larger computer museum in Zwolle, that also has both an Aster and a holborn, the Bonami computer museum. It has many more computers and much more floorspace than this museum, and also has both the Aster, and the Holborn, but so much more! you should also visit Bonami.
Fun to see my 5,25 bay crt in the background at 18:08 :) yes its the One featured on LGR.
That Aesthedes console is possibly the dopest thing I've ever seen ... !!!
I was the first person to use an Aesthedes in the ceramic industry. We used the system to create finished film work for decals that could require over 30 variations of shapes for one design. The designs could easily require over 8 colours for the single design. At the beginning this was only linework but later using a raster based system to create halftone graphics the two were combined with all the transformations created on the Aesthedes, being performed on the raster images via a Silicon Graphics computer, combining the two together. Later the same process was done using Barco software. Creator for the colour separations and Strike for the vector and transformations. So the system combined OS9 (Aesthedes), VMS (Vax) and SGI (Silicon Graphics) operating systems to talk to each other. The Aesthedes was, with restricted ownership software used to create artwork for banknotes. The cost for just the Aesthedes was about £100,00 with support costing approx £26,000 per year.
right around my corner... awesome place!
That Aesthedes machine is amazing, as was that Vector CRT-with-memory screen, yet 'silly' WinRoute hit hard on the nostalgia too, forgot all about that !
That was soooo cool ! Thanks for this awesome video ❤️
Thank you! it was awesome to watch! happy museum day!
lol, same music as the "This week in retro" podcast!
Visited last week for the first time and got the grand tour from Bart. Great place with a bonkers collection and great people.
That Aesthedes is badass. I’ve never even heard of that. Thanks for showing it!
Awesome! Really need to go there again. A lot has changed.
That TekTronix screen is amazing.
Hi, thanks so much. That was amazing.
Gods, this video gave me strong, strong nostalgia 🥲
these sponsor transitions as smooth as LTT
Always great to see bart and the museam on the channel again
Thanks for the video, really nice.
Really liked this. Unexpected and interesting to see older (tech) ways of doing things which ran parallel to what i knew about at the time.
What a fantastic museum! I shoul go there as a Dutchman.
Hello,
What a nice video!
And the Asthedes retro computer, I know this device through my father, he has worked in the graphic industry all his life, and has had to deal with this computer in his working life, I always found it a fascinating device as a child, with those 3 screens, all the backlit touch keys, that kind of black magnifying glass you used to draw on that white center surface... I can still see it all as a little kid...
maybe a small tip, the Asthedes I'm talking about was used at a large printing company (which has since passed into another company), the printing company where the Asthedes was used for years has been the SDU in The Hague, later after a fuss (1995) the entire printing company was moved to Haarlem, where the company is still located after many fussies, nowadays the company is called Idemia.
Before my father retired about 3 years ago he told me that Asthedes computer was still in use occasionally, and sometimes needed for some complicated graphic designs, maybe still...?
So probably there is also a complete Asthedes 2 collecting dust somewhere... you can of course contact the above-mentioned printing company in Haarlem, perhaps for additional information, parts or for such a black sign magnifying glass, who knows...
Anyway, good luck with the Asthedes further!
Been watching your videos for years now! But never subscribed for some reason, just saw you on retro electro workshop! Loved it, great to see the growing community much more in the lime light… and on the day of my 1st daughter Chloe’s birth.. coincidence.. I think not.. future nostalgia nerd in the making! All the best, keep up the amazing g content!
NIce one, I enjoyed that, thanks.
OK, that dial-up setup REALLY brought me back... 😂😭😁
6:12 OMG That is an amazing machine. So complicated and power hungry.
Cool. I know of several video game museums and arcades here in the Netherlands, but not about this one and helmond is like 50 km from here. I will soon visit this place. Thanks
I had the pleasure of working on an Aesthedes at Holmes & Marchant in Marlow for around 5 years. It took a long time to get to grips with it but once we did it was ground breaking. In terms of devloping new business it had massive PR appeal as very few people had one and kew how to make it sing, presentations on it were like a performance. In the end we had 2 and we said it looks like the USS Enterprise flight deck to encourage clients to come and see it, and they did. Performance after performance. I would love to have a go on the Aesthedes again, once it's properly up and running.
I was exactly there a couple months ago..!! How amazing to see it finally working!
This museum is incredible.. I have memories of all those old setups, nt4 and really old redhat, Windows 95 etc
Time to plan a visit, just found out I live about 1,5 hour drive from the Museum.
Great video, thanks for sharing
Seeing that redhat desktop was... Oh, the memories!
Everone: UPDATE YOUR OS !!11!!!1
Dutch computer museum: no...
I very much want to visit this place. Sadly travel of any kind doesn't seem to be in my future. I'd be like a kid in a candy store playing around especially with the 90's computer stuff.
Was there last year, great place, guy is really good at telling the stories about the hardware. That Aesthedes is indeed the centerpiece of the whole thing.
Amazing! Thanks man😊
Amazing looking place!
Would love to visit that museum 👍
Man, I can't wait to visit this place one day.