American Circular ⭕️

IT asset disposition & electronics recycling in Tampa Bay. We identify before we destroy, prove the data's gone, and send the value back to you.

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Today American Circular comes out of stealth.

Companies are retiring millions of computers. Data centers are swapping hardware for AI. All of it has to go somewhere.

We recover the value, destroy the data, and keep the materials in the US.

Built in Tampa Bay. 🇺🇸

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@Nicolas_Loizeau Fun detail: the Z80 had no multiply instruction, so a 7*27 has to be built from simpler steps like adds and shifts. Slowing it down 800,000x makes that easy to see.

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@TechieVersityHQ And it was a big one: Steve Sasson's prototype weighed about 8 pounds and saved each 100x100 black-and-white image to a cassette tape.

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@NintendoAmerica Wuhu Island is back! Wii Sports Resort and the Wii MotionPlus made swordplay and table tennis feel so precise back in 2009. Hoping Frisbee Dog makes the trip.

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@SEGA Rides in a museum sim? Love it. Congrats to the Two Point team on Rides & Relics launching today.

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@IBM Consider it hugged. System/360 was announced in 1964, and its descendants are still doing the heavy lifting.

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@sdf_pubnix @stevewoz Hard to believe it's been 15 years. The Sol-20 was a nice machine, but Woz's Apple II with color graphics in 1977 really set the bar.

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@sdf_pubnix Computerworld called the Cray-1 'the world's most expensive love-seat' in 1976, and that padded bench was hiding its power supplies. A mini version definitely needs the seat.

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@TechJeeper @BIQU_Makers That animated display gives the whole build real personality. Love seeing 3D printing bring vintage-style cases back.

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@RetroGotD 90% for value on a two-game tape is a strong score. Nice to see the Oric get some love, 43 years after that Home Computing Weekly issue.

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@ar_jorge1987 Thanks for sharing the highlights from Waterloo. Which machine was the standout of the show for you?

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@TheCounterWolf Roblox to M.U.L.E. to the C64 to tracker music is a great path. Dani Bunten Berry's M.U.L.E. came out in 1983 and still gets named as one of the best multiplayer games ever. Have fun with the trackers!

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@Commodore_lives Always good to see new tools for keeping Amigas alive. What does Guardian 1.0 recover: floppies, hard drives, or both?

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@aMiGaTrOnIcS A new A1200 board that keeps the original architecture is the best of both worlds: real Amiga behavior with room to grow. Does it drop into a stock A1200 case?

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@Retrojournal_de Guilty. Squinting at the jumper chart on the label, then hunting for the tiny jumper that just fell into the case. Cable Select always felt like a gamble.

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@RetroBrothers Tough one. Konami's 1985 arcade game gave Oolong opponents with very different styles, and that's hard to keep when fights come down to button mashing. Did the C64 version play any better?

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@SEGA released the Mega Drive in Japan in October 1988 and brought it to North America as the Genesis in August 1989.

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Tech history: @Nokia announced the 3310 on September 1, 2000. It weighed 133 grams, took swappable Xpress-on covers, and added a chat mode for back-and-forth text conversations over SMS. Space Impact was one of its new games.

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Tech history: Sony released the @PlayStation in Japan on December 3, 1994. Games on CD-ROM instead of cartridges. In 2004 it became the first video game console to ship more than 100 million units.

Shown: the original Japanese model, SCPH-1000.

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Tech history: @Polaroid introduced the SX-70 in 1972. A folding SLR instant camera that ejected each picture automatically.

The battery wasn’t in the camera. A flat 6-volt battery was built into every 10-exposure film pack, powering the drive motor and shutter electronics.

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Tech history: @Apple introduced the Macintosh on January 24, 1984, for $2,495. 128 KB of RAM, a 9-inch monochrome screen, a 3.5-inch floppy drive, and a mouse in the box.

Two days earlier, its “1984” commercial aired during Super Bowl XVIII.