Two Stop Bits | Submissions from bbc.com

A digital dark age? Rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks (2025) (floppy diskettes data datarecovery cambridge) (bbc.com | ia)
6 points by splorp 10 days ago | discuss
Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows (compatible windows legacy infrastructure stability cost security preservation) (bbc.com | ia)
6 points by bmonkey325 58 days ago | 2 comments
How a 'haunted' N64 video game cartridge terrified children around the world (bbc.com | ia)
5 points by DennisOSRM 169 days ago | discuss
50 years of The Oregon Trail (historical oregontrail game simulation retrospective) (bbc.com | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 304 days ago | discuss
‘It was our rock'n'roll’ - How the ZX Spectrum became a 1980s icon (historical spectrum zx retrospective) (bbc.com | ia)
5 points by bmonkey325 332 days ago | discuss
Tetris @ 40. How the game came to the West and conquered the world (Russian) (historical tetris anniversary retrospective) (bbc.com)
3 points by bmonkey325 503 days ago | 1 comment
The people who won't give up floppy disks (floppy) (bbc.com | ia)
6 points by DaOne256 528 days ago | 2 comments
The Apple Mac was released 40 years ago: people are still using them (apple mac) (bbc.com | ia)
3 points by jgrahamc 636 days ago | 6 comments