Vintage Computing Resources

This page will feature some helpful links to vintage/retro computing resources such as discussion forums, software archives, documentation and other sites following a retrocomputing theme. These links are operational as of September 2018.

Forums

https://68kmla.org/forums/ - Mostly 68K based Macintosh discussion
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/forum.php - Discussion on many types of early computers
https://www.vogons.org/index.php - Focus on DOS and early Windows gaming
http://forums.irixnet.org/index.php - For Silicon Graphics and IRIX discussion
https://www.thinkclassic.org/ - Forum for vintage Macintosh systems
http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/ - Forum for NeXT hardware/software

Documents

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ - Bitsavers PDF archive, covers almost everything
https://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/computing/ - Higher Intellect computing texts

Facebook Groups

Public FTP

ftp://ftp.atlas.altexxa.net - Public archive of some DOS/Win/SGI/Amiga/Apple/Mac files (part of ALTEXXANET)
ftp://ftp.irixnet.org - Software for Silicon Graphics systems

Software Archives

https://preterhuman.net/software/ - The Higher Intellect Software Archive
http://macintoshgarden.org/ - Big collection of Mac software, seems mostly for 68K
https://www.macintoshrepository.org/ - Large categorized Mac software archive (68K/PPC)
http://themacarchive.net/ - 68K Mac software archive, also run by preterhuman.net
http://www.vintageapple.org/macdrivers/ - old Mac drivers
https://preterhuman.net/drivers/ - old Mac and PC drivers
http://myoldmac.net/software/ - 68K Mac freeware and shareware
https://winworldpc.com - Large collection of operating systems and general software
http://www.retroarchive.org/ - DOS era software, also with misc information
http://www.bitsavers.org/bits/ - Bitsavers software archive (covers almost everything)

General Sites

http://altexxanet.org - Retro website which should work in browsers as old as Netscape 2.x
http://www.oocities.org - A partial mirror of GeoCities
https://gifcities.org/ - Mirror of animated GIFs from GeoCities
https://wiki.retrocomp.net/index.php/RetroNet - RetroNet aims to provide the 90s ISP experience
https://retrosearch.net - Search engine specifically for retro computing (see RetroSearch)
http://theoldnet.com - Proxy to view websites on vintage computers

Mailing Lists

http://www.classiccmp.org/lists.html - ClassicCmp mailing lists for vintage computing enthusiasts
http://mailman.chivanet.org/listinfo/retronet - RetroNet mailing list for the RetroNet project

Vintage Computing Museums

http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/index.html - Dave's Old Computers
http://www.ricks-graphics.co.uk/area99/index.htm - Area99 (TI99 stuff)
https://museum.preterhuman.net/ - Higher Intellect Technology Museum
http://www.thebattles.net/jimsjunk.html - Jim's Junk, mostly Wang stuff
http://www.sinasohn.com/clascomp/ - Uncle Roger's Classic Computers
http://oldcomputers.net/ - Steve's Computer Collection
http://www.vintage-computer.com/ - Erik S. Klein's Vintage Computer Collection

Video Channels

How-To Articles / Guides

Beginners Guide to the Vintage Macintosh