Two Stop Bits | dfarquhar's submissions

Jay Miner, Amiga and Atari designer, died 31 years ago today (1994) (homeip.net)
9 points by dfarquhar 7 days ago | 2 comments
Bill Gates' Internet Tidal Wave Memo, 30 years ago today (microsoft internet internetexplorer windowsnt windows95 browser) (homeip.net)
8 points by dfarquhar 32 days ago | 4 comments
Atari ST turns 40 today (1985) (68k atari gem atarist tramiel) (homeip.net | ia)
14 points by dfarquhar 80 days ago | 11 comments
Procomm Plus: What happened to the program and its authors (bbs msdos terminal) (homeip.net | ia)
7 points by dfarquhar 91 days ago | 5 comments
The first 3dfx card announced 29 years ago, Orchid Righteous 3D (game 3dfx pc graphics hardware video) (homeip.net | ia)
7 points by dfarquhar 99 days ago | 1 comment
The dotcom era reached its peak 25 years ago today (2000 2000s startup internet) (homeip.net)
6 points by dfarquhar 109 days ago | discuss
Deja News: What we used before Reddit or Stack Overflow (usenet goldenage archive 1990s) (homeip.net)
6 points by dfarquhar 135 days ago | 2 comments
The time Bill Gates claimed he worked for $2/hour (altair basic microsoft) (homeip.net)
5 points by dfarquhar 143 days ago | 2 comments
Why Intel stopped making motherboards (chip intel motherboard oem) (homeip.net | ia)
5 points by dfarquhar 154 days ago | discuss
Microsoft Bob turns 30 today. It was terrible and I'm sorry I mentioned it. (gates bob microsoft windows x86) (homeip.net | ia)
7 points by dfarquhar 171 days ago | 3 comments
What happened to Abit motherboards (x86 pc motherboard diy) (homeip.net | ia)
8 points by dfarquhar 179 days ago | 1 comment
The $5000 GIF royalty fiasco of 1994 (gif compuserve unisys graphics www) (homeip.net | ia)
8 points by dfarquhar 185 days ago | 2 comments
Altair 8800 kits first went on sale 50 years ago today (altair 1970s 8080 kit) (homeip.net | ia)
8 points by dfarquhar 190 days ago | discuss
How a Commodore engineer trolled Jack Tramiel with an action figure (commodore pet tramiel) (homeip.net | ia)
11 points by dfarquhar 196 days ago | 1 comment
IBM 75GXP: The death star that blew up IBM's hard drive business (ibm ide hitachi) (homeip.net | ia)
6 points by dfarquhar 202 days ago | 1 comment
Commodore could have owned AOL. In 1985. Really. (c64 aol commodore) (homeip.net | ia)
6 points by dfarquhar 238 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 267 days ago | discuss
80 micro: A look back at the widely read magazine for TRS-80 owners (trs80 tandy) (homeip.net | ia)
4 points by dfarquhar 280 days ago | discuss
Osborne Computer's bankruptcy and the Osborne Effect: Talking too soon (cpm z80 retrocomputing portable luggable) (homeip.net | ia)
5 points by dfarquhar 287 days ago | discuss
Andy Warhol's lost Amiga art from 1985 resurfaces (68k amiga commodore graphics gui art disk) (homeip.net | ia)
8 points by dfarquhar 326 days ago | 6 comments
Intel's Pentium Pro: Was it their best or their worst CPU of the 90s? (intel 32bit wintel winnt supercomputers) (homeip.net | ia)
9 points by dfarquhar 366 days ago | 7 comments
The biggest CRT display ever made: Sony's PVM-4300 (crt sony trinitron) (homeip.net | ia)
10 points by dfarquhar 373 days ago | 5 comments
Apple II launched on this day, June 10, 1977 (appleii apple 6502 1970s) (homeip.net)
8 points by dfarquhar 382 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 387 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 392 days ago | discuss
How bad timing doomed the Vectrex and 124-year-old Milton Bradley (game console vectrex cartridge vector crt) (homeip.net | ia)
7 points by dfarquhar 403 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 410 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 414 days ago | discuss
A recollection of how Nintendo invaded my small town middle school in 1987 (console nintendo) (homeip.net | ia)
7 points by dfarquhar 417 days ago | 1 comment
Why so many people skipped right over MS-DOS 4 in 1988 (clone 1980s msdos microsoft ibm ibmpc) (homeip.net)
8 points by dfarquhar 424 days ago | 1 comment
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