Computers from Swedish elections.

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Today was the Swedish election and here are some pics I took of various computers that passed by in the archive material that was rolling on the tv while showing some of the Swedish elections from the last century.

It's pretty impressive that already in the 1960s they were using computers to count some of the votes!.

The one with the blinking buttons appears to be: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360

Music produced on two Swedish computers from 1967.

Saab was the main computer company in Sweden from the 1950s up until the 1980s and around 1967 Göran Sundqvist produced some music on two computers made by Saab called D21 and D22. You can listen to the mp3s of this fantastical music here: http://www.datasaab.se/D21_D22_musik/musik.htm

The computers of the Third Reich!.

The amazing stuff you find on wikipedia, a line of four computers made during the german nazi years, check them out here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z1_(computer)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z2_(computer)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z3_(computer)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z4_(computer)

I also remember watching a Swedish tv program where they had located a computer that was used by the East German Stasi, but since the fall of the Berlin Wall nobody knows how to use it anymore since everyone is dead or 100 years old, thats what I call security through obscurity!:).

I couldn't find any wikipedia page or any page at all in google concerning the Stasi computer so I guess it must be very obscure, it was definitely not a "consumer" computer like the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KC_85

Sydney 2000 beta/complete released for N64.

CARROT comes with another N64 release within the span of a month! , this time it's the unreleased port of Sydney 2000.

Download it here: http://www.emulation64.fr/?page=news&id=354

The release contains US and EU versions of the game:).

K145VX1 - Exotic Soviet CPU on Ebay.

"RAREST USSR Soviet Russian Spider-like CPU in the Computers Networking

MADE IN USSR (Svetlana factory) in 1991 for military dataplotters and computers."

I have no idea if it actually is that rare but anything from the Soviet Union equals awesome:).

http://cgi.ebay.com/K145VX1-RAREST-USSR-Soviet-Russian-Spider-like-CPU-/180554302383?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a09e003af#ht_1087wt_1137

History of the Svetlana factory: http://www.encspb.ru/en/article.php?kod=2804001437

64drive work in progress.

Heres demonstration video of the upcoming n64 flashcart by marshallh called "64drive" and as you can see by the loading times it will be an absolute Z64/Doctor V64 killer :).

Andlabs GenesisTracker (Linux/Windows/Mac).

"I've been working for the past few months on a music tracker for the Sega Genesis sound chips for use in a sound driver I will eventually write. I'm here now with a feature-packed public beta. A lot of the functionality is present, though some things (such as New and Nearest Possible Timing) have yet to be implemented, while others have bugs. However, you can save modules and export to VGM and SMPS (though the SMPS export is the most unoptimized SMPS export ever). FM voices can be loaded in TFM and X3V format. The PSG voice format is just like that in FamiTracker. The only supported effects right now are 1xx, 2xx, and Mxx. 1xx/2xx are the same as in every other tracker (pitch slide up/down) and Mxx is a general miscellaneous (M00 is nop, M01 takes the PSG noise out of Channel 2 mode and silences both PSG3 and PSG noise), M02/M03 turns FM retrigger on/off. Timing is in XM format and DAC is always on (FM6 is always shown and will be saved but ignored during playback/export). There's more but right now I don't remember everything =P"

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