Retro1 is the home of compilations relevant to retro-computing hobbyists. Above all else, Retro1 has been created to coalesce a community of innovative practitioners, hobbyists and enthusiasts – in hopes of creating a space where the knowledge can be passed to a new generation who can learn from these historically significant efforts.
Conserving significant technologies of the past is important for many reasons. First, it helps us understand how we got to where we are today. By preserving old technologies, we can learn about the history of human innovation and how it has shaped our world. Second, it helps us appreciate the value of what we have today. By seeing how people in the past solved problems with limited resources, we can better understand and appreciate the technologies we have today. Finally, it helps us prepare for the future. By studying old technologies, we can learn from past mistakes and build on past successes to create new and better technologies.
Some subject areas are sufficiently broad or content-heavy that they may warrant their own sub-sites.
Whatever your purpose – it is hoped that you find any of this content useful.
Site Organization
Retro1.org is comprised of communities of interest. The current communities and sample topics shared are:
- CDC (Control Data Corporation)
- dtCyber (the Desktop Cyber mainframe simulator)
- NOS/BE Operating System
- NOS2 Operating System
- IBM (International Business Machines)
- HERCULES (Desktop mainframe simulator)
- IBM 1130 (Simulator, Hardware and Software)
- VM/370 R6 Community Edition
- PLATO (Programmed Learning And Teaching Operation)
- CYBIS (present-day PLATO implementation)
- Operation and Use
- The TUTOR Language
Community content is generally available at codex.retro1.org and is open to all enthusiasts and hobbyists. If you wish to provide content for others, you’re welcome to reach out to us, describe the contribution you would like to make and the best means of contacting you.
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