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Welcome to the Higher Intellect Vintage Wiki! We focus on vintage/retro computing subjects such as computer company history, product archives, how-to/troubleshooting guides, and much more. Most of our content is dated between 1980-2005 as we function more as an older information archive. We also operate the Higher Intellect Documents Wiki which covers other aspects of the preterhuman.net texts archive as well as computing topics not included in this wiki ("underground" documents, law related, etc). Please see the available primary article categories below for an idea of what you'll find in our wiki, or check out the Vintage Computer Wiki page for in-depth sorting options. If you have any questions or comments, please contact admin[at]preterhuman.net.

Vintage Computing Areas

Amiga
Articles specific to Amiga systems and software.
Apple Computer
Covers Apple/Macintosh systems and related topics from the 1990s and earlier.
Compaq
Articles related to Compaq hardware and software.
General Computing
Covers all computing topics with a focus on vintage computing from the 1990s and earlier.
Hotline Communications
Everything we could find about the Hotline protocol which was most popular in the late 1990s.
IBM
Articles about IBM hardware and software.
Internet
Various articles about 1990s and earlier Internet, covering numerous protocols including WWW.
Microsoft
Articles about Microsoft, generally prior to 2000.
NeXT
Articles and information about NeXT Computer hardware and the NeXTStep/OpenStep software.
Silicon Graphics
Specs, guides, documentation and general information about SGI computers and the IRIX operating system.
Sun Microsystems
Covers hardware/software from Sun Microsystems, mostly SPARC era or earlier.
Toshiba
Articles related to Toshiba computer systems and components.

Additional Categories

Digital libraries
Category for articles discussing online digital libraries such as the Higher Intellect project.

People
Information related to specific people such as biographies or interviews.

Essays
Use this category to find user submitted essays. This category will include both user created submissions as well as content from other authors.

Carracho
For all pages related to the Carracho Client/Server/Tracker software for Macintosh.

KDX
For all pages related to the KDX Client/Server/Tracker software originally created by Haxial.

Apple -- (Apple Developer Notes, Apple Service Source, Apple Newton, Apple Marketing, Apple Press Releases, Macintosh System Software)
For articles related to Apple Computer products.

Computing -- (Books, How-To, News, Programming, Troubleshooting)
This category will contain all computing related articles including those matching other specific categories.

Misc -- (Piracy, TV and Radio, Places and Events)
This is for misc wiki articles which don't necessarily fall into one of the previous categories.

Government
Any articles related to world governments. These will focus on pre-2000 era documents.

Telephony -- (BBS)
Any topics related to telephony including cellular and general telcom.

Software -- (Games, Operating Systems, Reviews)
Articles for software titles, generally from the 80s and 90s.

Networking
Articles related to physical network devices (routers, switches, hubs) or networking software technology.

Additional Sorting

Browse content by year (where applicable): 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002

What To Expect

There is no anonymous wiki editing permitted, and user accounts are only created should the request pass our validation checks. All wiki edits/uploads are subject to moderation pending review by an administrator (within 24 hours in most cases).

Acceptable Use

Publishing works for multi-user collaboration.
Uploading public domain content.
Publishing archived content where the original website has been lost to time.
Linking to other articles offsite where the content directly benefits our wiki page.
Publishing unique content from members of the vintage computing community.