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808 lines of BBC BASIC and a dream: Arm architecture turns 40 (2025) (bbc cpu historical arm architecture) (theregister.com)
6 points by splorp 22 days ago | discuss
Still browsing like it's 1999: Fresh tools that keep vintage Macs online (2025) (retrocomputing mac software browser) (theregister.com | ia)
5 points by splorp 35 days ago | discuss
Museum digs up Digital Equipment Corporation's dusty digital equipment (2025) (historical dec pdp exhibition uk) (theregister.com | ia)
4 points by splorp 49 days ago | discuss
How a good business deal made us underestimate BASIC (historical basic language programming commodore) (theregister.com)
6 points by splorp 126 days ago | discuss
How the OS/2 flop went on to shape modern software (historical os2 ibm microsoft speculative review) (theregister.com)
1 point by bmonkey325 136 days ago | discuss
SvarDOS: DR-DOS is reborn as an open source operating system (svardos drdos open source) (theregister.com | ia)
8 points by bmonkey325 143 days ago | discuss
Want to feel old? Excel just entered its 40th year (excel spreadsheet gui anniversary) (theregister.com | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 210 days ago | discuss
A working Turing Machine hits Lego Ideas (lego turing mechanical computation algorithm concept) (theregister.com | ia)
5 points by splorp 220 days ago | discuss
WordStar 7 (the last version released for DOS) has been rereleased for free (theregister.com | ia)
7 points by ann3nova 288 days ago | discuss
What did turbonerds do before the internet? a load of BBS (historical origins nostalgia bbs dialup modems telecom) (theregister.com | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 291 days ago | discuss
50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution (cpm digitalresearch os) (theregister.com | ia)
7 points by amoroso 292 days ago | discuss
Psion: the last computer Secrets of the Sony we never had (historical psion pda symbian mobile) (theregister.com | ia)
7 points by bmonkey325 332 days ago | 2 comments
Bored students can now enjoy Sonic 2 on TI-84 Plus CE calculators (game sonic ti84 porting hardware z80) (theregister.com)
3 points by bmonkey325 360 days ago | 1 comment
The many derivatives of the CP/M operating system (cpm flexos concurrentdos drdos msdos) (theregister.com | ia)
4 points by bmonkey325 367 days ago | discuss
Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is, literally, something else (raspberrypi riscos arm) (theregister.com | ia)
8 points by bmonkey325 384 days ago | 1 comment
The eight-bit Z80 is dead. Long live the 16-bit Z80! (cpu hobbyist z80 discontinuation 16bit successors zilog retro) (theregister.com | ia)
9 points by bmonkey325 389 days ago | discuss
PiStorm turbocharges vintage Amigas with the Raspberry Pi (amiga raspberrypi) (theregister.com | ia)
2 points by bmonkey325 454 days ago | discuss
The New ROM Antics – building the ZX Spectrum 128 (spectrum sinclair development) (theregister.com | ia)
8 points by nickt 487 days ago | 1 comment
ZX Spectrum Next Issue 2 ships out, chip shortages be damned (spectrum) (theregister.com | ia)
4 points by jgrahamc 487 days ago | 1 comment
40 years since Elite became the most fun you could have with 22 kilobytes (elite bbc) (theregister.com | ia)
5 points by jgrahamc 489 days ago | 1 comment
How Sinclair's QL computer outshined Apple's Macintosh against all odds (sinclair) (theregister.com | ia)
9 points by amoroso 491 days ago | 1 comment
Atari 400 makes a comeback in miniature form (atari) (theregister.com | ia)
7 points by jgrahamc 491 days ago | 7 comments
The Stonehenge of PC design, Xerox Alto, appeared 50 years ago (xerox alto gui small talk parc) (theregister.com | ia)
12 points by bmonkey325 535 days ago | 4 comments
Revival of Medley/Interlisp (lisp) (theregister.com | ia)
6 points by amoroso 545 days ago | 1 comment