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Procomm Plus: What happened to the program and its authors
(
bbs
msdos
terminal
)
(
homeip.net
)
1 point
by
dfarquhar
12 hours ago
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discuss
The first 3dfx card announced 29 years ago, Orchid Righteous 3D
(
3dfx
pc
graphics
gaming
hardware
video
)
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homeip.net
)
7 points
by
dfarquhar
8 days ago
|
1 comment
Amiga 600: The Amiga no one wanted
(
2025
)
(
amiga
amiga600
historical
)
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homeip.net
)
5 points
by
bmonkey325
12 days ago
|
discuss
The dotcom era reached its peak 25 years ago today
(
2000
2000s
startup
internet
)
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homeip.net
)
6 points
by
dfarquhar
18 days ago
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discuss
Deja News: What we used before Reddit or Stack Overflow
(
usenet
goldenage
archive
1990s
)
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homeip.net
)
6 points
by
dfarquhar
44 days ago
|
2 comments
The time Bill Gates claimed he worked for $2/hour
(
altair
basic
microsoft
)
(
homeip.net
)
5 points
by
dfarquhar
52 days ago
|
2 comments
What happened to Packard Bell?
(
2025
)
(
packardbell
computer
marketing
branding
pc
history
)
(
homeip.net
)
7 points
by
splorp
53 days ago
|
1 comment
Why Intel stopped making motherboards
(
intel
motherboard
chips
oem
)
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homeip.net
|
ia
)
5 points
by
dfarquhar
63 days ago
|
discuss
Microsoft Bob turns 30 today. It was terrible and I'm sorry I mentioned it.
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billgates
bob
microsoft
windows
x86
)
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homeip.net
|
ia
)
7 points
by
dfarquhar
80 days ago
|
3 comments
What happened to Abit motherboards
(
x86
pc
motherboard
diy
)
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homeip.net
|
ia
)
8 points
by
dfarquhar
88 days ago
|
1 comment
The $5000 GIF royalty fiasco of 1994
(
gif
compuserve
unisys
graphics
www
)
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homeip.net
|
ia
)
8 points
by
dfarquhar
94 days ago
|
2 comments
Altair 8800 kits first went on sale 50 years ago today
(
altair
altair8800
8080
70s
kit
)
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homeip.net
|
ia
)
8 points
by
dfarquhar
99 days ago
|
discuss
How a Commodore engineer trolled Jack Tramiel with an action figure
(
commodore
pet
tramiel
)
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homeip.net
|
ia
)
11 points
by
dfarquhar
105 days ago
|
1 comment
IBM 75GXP: The death star that blew up IBM's hard drive business
(
ibm
ide
hitachi
)
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homeip.net
|
ia
)
6 points
by
dfarquhar
112 days ago
|
1 comment
Commodore could have owned AOL. In 1985. Really.
(
aol
commodore
commodore64
)
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homeip.net
|
ia
)
6 points
by
dfarquhar
147 days ago
|
1 comment
PBS aired a TV show about hacking in 1990 about an incident from 1987
(
1987
1990s
unix
hacking
hackers
hacker
)
(
homeip.net
)
5 points
by
dfarquhar
176 days ago
|
discuss
80 micro: A look back at the widely read magazine for TRS-80 owners
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trs80
tandy
)
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homeip.net
|
ia
)
4 points
by
dfarquhar
189 days ago
|
discuss
Osborne Computer's bankruptcy and the Osborne Effect: Talking too soon
(
cpm
z80
retrocomputing
portable
luggable
)
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homeip.net
|
ia
)
5 points
by
dfarquhar
196 days ago
|
discuss
Working with Andy Warhol: Jeff Bruette’s recollections
(
amiga
commodore
art
)
(
homeip.net
|
ia
)
3 points
by
n3ffo
225 days ago
|
discuss
Andy Warhol's lost Amiga art from 1985 resurfaces
(
amiga
commodore
graphics
gui
art
disk
68000
)
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homeip.net
|
ia
)
8 points
by
dfarquhar
235 days ago
|
6 comments
Amiga 1000: Ten years ahead of its time
(
amiga
commodore
)
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homeip.net
|
ia
)
4 points
by
n3ffo
248 days ago
|
discuss
Did buying the Amiga cause Escom's bamkruptcy?
(
amiga
1990s
acquisition
bankruptcy
)
(
homeip.net
|
ia
)
9 points
by
n3ffo
256 days ago
|
3 comments
Intel's Pentium Pro: Was it their best or their worst CPU of the 90s?
(
intel
32bit
wintel
winnt
supercomputers
)
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homeip.net
|
ia
)
9 points
by
dfarquhar
275 days ago
|
7 comments
The biggest CRT display ever made: Sony's PVM-4300
(
crt
sony
trinitron
)
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homeip.net
|
ia
)
10 points
by
dfarquhar
282 days ago
|
5 comments
Apple II launched on this day, June 10, 1977
(
apple
apple2
appleii
6502
1970s
)
(
homeip.net
)
8 points
by
dfarquhar
291 days ago
|
6 comments
UMC made the fastest, most efficient, and best 486. Why was it illegal?
(
486
umc
intel
1990s
)
(
homeip.net
)
16 points
by
dfarquhar
296 days ago
|
discuss
Why a SID chip can go bad just sitting on a shelf
(
c64
c128
commodore
sid
)
(
homeip.net
)
11 points
by
dfarquhar
301 days ago
|
discuss
How bad timing doomed the Vectrex and 124-year-old Milton Bradley
(
consoles
vectrex
videogames
cartridge
vector
crt
)
(
homeip.net
|
ia
)
7 points
by
dfarquhar
312 days ago
|
discuss
How many IBM PCs sold in the 1980s and why the disparity
(
1980s
ibmpc
msdos
pc
5150
5160
)
(
homeip.net
|
ia
)
11 points
by
dfarquhar
319 days ago
|
4 comments
Fast Hack'em: Popular C64 disk copier/nibbler and what its creators did next
(
c64
c128
copy
copyright
diskcopy
nibbler
protection
)
(
homeip.net
|
ia
)
6 points
by
dfarquhar
323 days ago
|
discuss
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