@JennyFluff I just found another TNG After Dark Edition. This CD version has a slightly newer version than your floppy disks, with After Dark control panel v3.06.
https://archive.org/details/star-trek-the-next-generation-screensaver
@sardaukar @JennyFluff Uhh, wow. I just found a StarTrek TOS version of AfterDark on eBay and couldn't resist. It also was pretty cheap. I will dump & share this as soon as it arrives.
@drj I found another book by the same author, Rolf-Dieter Klein, online from roughly the same time (actually, 1981, this time), in which he describes printing on a "Centronix Drucker 702". Centronics 702 is a real printer, and ancient enough that it even came in an uppercase-only version (luckily, only as an option), but I don't yet have any printout samples or ROM dumps of it.
@JennyFluff You are aware of my folder on the Internet Archive? I might have a few of these flux streams, too. 
https://archive.org/details/@dfxthomas
Floppy Disk preservation is so important!
@drj It's not an exact match, but this Adler DRH-80 seems to have some of these curvy features, suggesting that a common designer might have been behind them, or ideas might have been swapped between the designers. And Adler, too, was based in Bayern.
https://archive.org/details/ta_drh80_bedienungsanleitung/page/n7/mode/2up
Thank you, @JennyFluff !
This is really cool! You did an amazing job preserving these disks! Everything installed flawlessly on my virtual WfW 3.11. Appears to be a special "Star Trek" version of AfterDark 3.01. However, there are a several bad sectors on one of the disks' FAT, but these do not interfere with the setup process.
I finally made the effort and completed my collection of classic After Dark screensavers. I found suitable versions for DOS, Windows 3.0, 3.1 and WfW 3.11.
The toasters are still flying in 2025!
13 years ago this week, HP ended its use of the Compaq name, bringing an end to a storied PC brand that had once led the industry. This blog post looks back at the HP-Compaq merger and what went wrong. #retrocomputing https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-ill-fated-hp-compaq-merger/
@drj Hey, some printouts in the same book are printed using a different printer, whose font may have been designed with ASCII-1963 in mind:
What an unusually neat dot matrix font. Look at the beautiful curves on lowercase 'l', 'i', 'n', and 'e'! 
Rendezvous mit der Schreibmaschine: Gabriele | 64'er Magazin
https://www.64er-magazin.de/8506/triumph_adler.html
#c64 #retrocomputing #64er
Für knappe 1000 Mark ist die Triumph-Adler Gabriele 8008 L eine der billigsten Typenradschreibmaschinen mit eingebautem Commodore-Interface.
This is XFCE with the standard Adwaita theme and Win98SE icons. A nice, Windows2000-ish working environment without much ricing.. the Win98 icons alone make for such a clean simplicity IMHO. 
It's always a joy to work with this VM.. I'm mostly using it for network maintenance wherever I need it.
Twenty eight years ago today, Apple announced the formation of a separate Newton subsidiary “… to pursue its business and create the marketing and operating strategies it needs to succeed.”
That didn’t exactly go as planned, did it?
In 1988 BYTE magazine published a second special issue on Lisp.
By that time two major standards were emerging, Common Lisp and Scheme, which the coverage reflects. The resource guide is a snapshot of the Lisp market back then.
The HEART OF NEON Blu-ray Kickstarter is LIVE!
Go get yours now: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dokk/the-heart-of-neon-blu-ray
ABBS was a popular #BBS server #software for #Commodore #Amiga which allowed you to host your own BBS. Development stopped and It was abandoned in 2000, but has now been revived. This is the first new release, now available for download.
A lovely review of desktop icons from the 1990s and before:
I now have a flux image of a "hyper fascinator" serial mouse.
Isn't that hyper fascinating?
#retroComputing #softwareArchiving
