ComputerMuseum NAMIP

Musée de l'#informatique unique en Belgique ! Aux sources du #numérique, des machines qui comptent.

[ComputerMuseum NAMIP @ComputerMuseumB]

La fête des 10 ans du musée approche rapidement: ce samedi 24/10 🤩🎊🎈Voici une video teaser du programme ⬇️

https://t.co/wCRYIsz9AE

Merci @tarodius pour la réalisation

[ComputerMuseum NAMIP @ComputerMuseumB]

Ce samedi 24 octobre démo de la machine Enigma lors de la journée de fêtes des 10 ans du musée 🎉

Aussi plein d'autres activités: rétrogaming, cosplay, démo machines à cartes perforées, visite des réserves...

Ne ratez pas cette journée unique ! 🤩

[SidecarTridge @sidecartridge]

In 1990 Andreas Kromke (the author of KAOS TOS, the heavily modified and performance-tuned TOS for the ST range) looked at TOS and said: one program at a time? No, thanks. Mag!X was born, later MagiC: a real multitasking OS for the Atari ST, with several GEM apps running side by side in their own windows, and still happy with software written for TOS.

It was a commercial product for years. Then Kromke did something few authors do: he opened the complete sources under the GPLv3. And this year he shipped MagiC 6.30 for Atari computers. In 2026. On a 68000. Respect.

Normally MagiC boots from disk: TOS starts first, then a loader pulls the kernel into RAM. We thought that was a waste of perfectly good RAM, so we built the MagiC ROM Builder. It turns MagiC 6.30 into a 256 KB ROM image that boots in place of TOS, plus the boot floppy or hard disk files for its desktop. Everything happens in your browser, nothing to install.

Flash it with the SidecarTridge TOS Emulator on an STE or Mega STE, or on an ST or Mega ST with the 256KB Decoder. No TOS needed, around 240 KB more free RAM, and it boots straight into a multitasking desktop.

Build your ROM:
https://t.co/LxQfFjONrA

MagiC sources by Andreas Kromke:
https://t.co/OEcKVIOToY

[ComputerMuseum NAMIP @ComputerMuseumB]

@idkidkidkidgaf @gadwoh @MuseumCommodore Cutter back in the days, not sure we have one at the museum

[ComputerMuseum NAMIP @ComputerMuseumB]

@atensnut 2 numbers x 10 digits is 200. Equal probability as other number so divide by 10 so 20

[Strace @straceX]

Why did playing the original Quake (1996) over the internet feel like swimming in glue until QuakeWorld arrived?

Because Quake sent your movement inputs to the server and waited for the response before showing your character move. On dial-up, that could mean hundreds of milliseconds of delay.

John Carmack rewrote the netcode so your client could simulate your movement immediately (Client-Side Prediction) and correct it when authoritative updates arrived from the server.

That basic architecture still powers many modern multiplayer shooters, nearly 30 years later.

[Maximiliano Firtman @firt]

Great tribute to Margaret Hamilton (RIP) by @midudev

https://t.co/jYwZteLmvn

[ComputerMuseum NAMIP @ComputerMuseumB]

😢 Décès de Margaret Hamilton conceptrice du logiciel de vol des missions Apollo et fondatrice de l'ingénierie du logiciel. Tous les informaticiens sont orphelins ce soir 😢

[Rêves d'Espace @RevesdEspace]

🕯️ Margaret Hamilton, pionnière de l'informatique surtout connue pour son travail au MIT où elle a dirigé le développement du logiciel de vol pour les missions Apollo vers la Lune, est décédée à 90 ans le 30 septembre.
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[ComputerMuseum NAMIP @ComputerMuseumB]

@theSiliconSiren @NASA @NASAJohnson @MIT ❤️ Margaret Hamilton (and all visible and hidden women in computing) ❤️

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

I have very few heroes... but Margaret Hamilton is one of them.

https://t.co/n0YuobTwWs

[Daily Science @dailyscience2]

[Prix Nobel 🥇] #rediff Le Belge Francis Halzen reçoit le prix Nobel de physique 2026 ! Il est récompensé pour sa contribution décisive à l'observatoire de neutrinos IceCube et à la découverte des neutrinos de haute énergie d’origine astrophysique.
https://t.co/FiOC4ilQ9S

[Mr. Macintosh @ClassicII_MrMac]

Steve Jobs passed away 15 years ago today, on October 5th, 2011.

This is what Apple's website looked like on that day.

Where were you when you heard the news, and how did you react? Looking back, did you think Apple would ever become what it is today?

[ComputerMuseum NAMIP @ComputerMuseumB]

Ulysse 31 débutait il y a 45 ans ! On découvrait aussi Shirka l'ordinateur/IA 🤖 de l'Odysseus dont le nom vient de Circée, la magicienne 🪄qui transforme les compagnons d'Ulysse en porcs dans l'oeuvre originale 🐷

[Colonel Farès @Le_ColonelFares]

« Ainsi commençait pour Ulysse, Thémis, Télémaque et Nono la plus fantastique des odyssées dans des univers inconnus, contrôlés par des dieux hostiles, perdus dans l'étrange cosmos de l'Olympe. » 🔥

🎂 samedi 3 octobre 1981, première diffusion du mythique Ulysse 31 sur FR3

[Korben @Korben]

https://t.co/CgXXlNiSok - Expérimentez le web comme en 1996 https://t.co/nRnut9nWmp

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

Some software disappears simply because nobody thought to save it. Old games and programs can vanish even when they once made headlines, leaving only scattered disks and memories behind. 💾

Journalist Josh Renaud recounts the effort to recover obscure software and preserve it through the Internet Archive. 🖥️

📚 Renaud’s "Recovering Lost Software" appears in the pages of VANISHING CULTURE from the Internet Archive.

📖 Download & read, FREE:
https://t.co/jTjbldei7r

#BookTwitter

[Stéphane Bortzmeyer @bortzmeyer]

Fiche de lecture : From Markup to Markdown (Jim Hall)

Des gens croient que la seule façon d'écrire est d'utiliser un logiciel de traitement de textes graphique. Mais il existe une autre méthode, ancienne mais toujours valable, les langages de marquage.

https://t.co/yUZKQyOGpK

[ComputerMuseum NAMIP @ComputerMuseumB]

@exQUIZitely Frequently running in our interactive space in French translation 😎 #retrogaming

[adafruit industries @adafruit]

Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2?

https://t.co/CBsWKTKjiQ

[Association for Computing Machinery @TheOfficialACM]

Happy Birthday to Seymour Cray, “father of the supercomputer,” who was born #OTD in 1925.

In 1964, Cray designed the CDC 6600, widely regarded as the first successful supercomputer. It was the fastest computer in the world, capable of executing about 3 million instructions per second, roughly three times faster than the previous record holder. Cray achieved this through an innovative architecture that used multiple processing units working in parallel, along with densely packed circuitry and advanced cooling.

Cray's approach to high-performance computing helped establish the architectural ideas and design principles that continue to shape supercomputers today, which power scientific research, engineering, weather modeling, and other computationally demanding applications.

#PioneerPOV #ACM #Pioneer #ComputerScience #ComputingHistory