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John Colagioia<p>Admiral Grace Hopper’s landmark lecture is found, but the NSA won’t release it <a href="https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2024/jul/10/grace-hopper-lost-lecture-found-nsa/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">muckrock.com/news/archives/202</span><span class="invisible">4/jul/10/grace-hopper-lost-lecture-found-nsa/</span></a></p><p>To access Admiral Hopper’s lecture, the NSA or an affiliated party would need to source a compatible VTR. While these machines are rare, they are not extinct, with outside organizations and collectors holding the key to unlocking this piece of history.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NSA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GraceHopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GraceHopper</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AMPEX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AMPEX</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Preservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Preservation</span></a></p>
Pyrzout :vm:<p>The NSA Is Defeated By A 1950s Tape Recorder. Can You Help Them? <a href="https://hackaday.com/2024/07/13/the-nsa-is-defeated-by-a-1950s-tape-recorder-can-you-help-them/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2024/07/13/the-ns</span><span class="invisible">a-is-defeated-by-a-1950s-tape-recorder-can-you-help-them/</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/gracehopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gracehopper</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/videotape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>videotape</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/ampex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ampex</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/nsa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nsa</span></a></p>
IT News<p>The NSA Is Defeated By A 1950s Tape Recorder. Can You Help Them? - One of the towering figures in the evolution of computer science was Grace Hopper,... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2024/07/13/the-nsa-is-defeated-by-a-1950s-tape-recorder-can-you-help-them/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2024/07/13/the-ns</span><span class="invisible">a-is-defeated-by-a-1950s-tape-recorder-can-you-help-them/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/gracehopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gracehopper</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/videotape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>videotape</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/ampex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ampex</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/nsa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nsa</span></a></p>
eiZen<p>I don't often take moon pictures, but when I do I store them on AMPEX FR-900.</p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampex#Video_processing" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampex#</span><span class="invisible">Video_processing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_Image_Recovery_Project" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_</span><span class="invisible">Orbiter_Image_Recovery_Project</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/ampex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ampex</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/moon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>moon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/LOIRP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LOIRP</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/RetroHardware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroHardware</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/VintageHardware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VintageHardware</span></a></p>
The Video Game Library 📚<p>Looking to brush up on your <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/VideoGame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VideoGame</span></a> History? 🕹️</p><p>Why not check out Richard Stanton's "A BRIEF HISTORY OF VIDEO GAMES"</p><p>From <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a> to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/VirtualReality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VirtualReality</span></a> and everything in between.</p><p>Check it out here in <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TheVideoGameLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheVideoGameLibrary</span></a>:</p><p>📚 <a href="https://www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/a-brief-history-of-video-games-from-atari-to-virtual-reality" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thevideogamelibrary.org/book/a</span><span class="invisible">-brief-history-of-video-games-from-atari-to-virtual-reality</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/VideoGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VideoGames</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaming</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GameHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GameHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/VideoGameHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VideoGameHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Book</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Activision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Activision</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Ampex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ampex</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Bally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bally</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BioWare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BioWare</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Blizzard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blizzard</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Bungie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bungie</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Capcom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capcom</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Commodore</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EA</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Fairchild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fairchild</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/KeeGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KeeGames</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Konami" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Konami</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LucasArts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LucasArts</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Magnavox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Magnavox</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Maxis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maxis</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Midway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Midway</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Namco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Namco</span></a></p>
IT News<p>Interactive Musical Art Installation Mixes Vintage, Modern, Lasers, and…Bubbles? Bubbles. - Acorn BBC Master. Apple IIe. Ampex 270 Terminal. Vetrex game console. You’d be har... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2021/08/21/interactive-musical-art-installation-mixes-vintage-modern-lasers-and-bubbles-bubbles/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2021/08/21/intera</span><span class="invisible">ctive-musical-art-installation-mixes-vintage-modern-lasers-and-bubbles-bubbles/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/analogoscilloscope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>analogoscilloscope</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/digitalaudiohacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digitalaudiohacks</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/acornbbcmaster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>acornbbcmaster</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/musicalhacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>musicalhacks</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/bbcmaster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bbcmaster</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apple</span></a>//e <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/vectrex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vectrex</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/ampex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ampex</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/laser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>laser</span></a></p>
heise online (inoffiziell)Vor 65 Jahren präsentierte Ampex den ersten praxistauglichen Videorekorder. Damals war er revolutionär – doch die Technik ist längst obsolet.​ <a href="https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Videorekorder-Ein-Bild-von-einem-Band-6011251.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Videorekorder: Ein Bild von einem Band</a>