Two Stop Bits | splorp's submissions

Fonts Before Mac (1983) (historical font typography bitmap susankare mac) (tinkerdifferent.com)
8 points by splorp 3 days ago | 1 comment
Building My Own Paper Tape Punch (2025) (papertape peripheral diy hardware storage hangingchads) (unimplementedtrap.com)
4 points by splorp 19 days ago | discuss
Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate: A Cultural History of the Punch Card (1992) (historical punchcard dataprocessing hollerith) (mun.ca)
7 points by splorp 26 days ago | 1 comment
Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers (2025) (bittorrent torrent protocol network peertopeer filesharing) (kianbradley.com | ia)
1 point by splorp 26 days ago | discuss
Alan Turing's seminal papers head to auction (2025) (turing historical auction research phd) (livescience.com)
5 points by splorp 34 days ago | discuss
Oral History of Bas Ording (2017) (ui apple aqua interface design interview) (computerhistory.org | ia)
2 points by splorp 41 days ago | 1 comment
ResourceForks.com — browse resource forks online (2023) (mac macos resource fork data extraction resedit) (resourceforks.com)
6 points by splorp 43 days ago | discuss
1-bit rainbow (retrocomputing parts hardware vintage apple mac) (1bitrainbow.com | ia)
3 points by splorp 45 days ago | discuss
Soups on the Newton (newton soup objects programming data storage) (canicula.com)
7 points by splorp 47 days ago | discuss
Joshintosh Merges Vintage Mac and Powerful PC (2025) (mac pc case hardware recycle maker unsettling) (makezine.com)
5 points by splorp 48 days ago | discuss
Lo8: Resurrecting 8-track as a data storage medium (2013) (hardware tape cartridge data storage peripheral) (cassettepunk.com)
6 points by splorp 52 days ago | 4 comments
CRT-based dialogs: Theory and design (1990) (crt displays dialogs dialogues interfaces jonathanlevine) (rit.edu)
4 points by splorp 56 days ago | 1 comment
GUIdebook: Graphical User Interface Gallery (2006) (ui timeline interface gallery screenshots historical) (guidebookgallery.org)
4 points by splorp 57 days ago | discuss
Font memories of old Macs (2025) (fonts mac macos bitmap geneva imagewriter wysiwyg) (leancrew.com | ia)
2 points by splorp 59 days ago | discuss
Apple II Scroll Block Demo (2025) (appleii demo animation lores graphics) (deater.net)
8 points by splorp 61 days ago | discuss
A brief history of fonts in Mac OS (2025) (historical typography font macos bitmap postscript truetype) (eclecticlight.co | ia)
6 points by splorp 64 days ago | discuss
808 lines of BBC BASIC and a dream: Arm architecture turns 40 (2025) (bbc cpu historical arm architecture) (theregister.com)
7 points by splorp 76 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 89 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 102 days ago | discuss
Glider for Apple II (2025) (apple appleii game software 6502) (colino.net | ia)
5 points by splorp 113 days ago | discuss
What I Saw at the Evolution of Plan 9 (historical plan9 belllabs unix os geoffcollyer) (adi.onl | ia)
5 points by splorp 118 days ago | 4 comments
Time formatting and storage bugs (bug error realtime time date rtc software overflow) (wikipedia.org | ia)
2 points by splorp 122 days ago | 3 comments
It’s MacOS. On An Unmodified Wii! (2022) (macos macos9 hackintosh nintendo wii) (hackaday.com)
9 points by splorp 151 days ago | discuss
Getting the Newton MessagePad 2000 and 2100 to work in 2025 (2025) (apple newton messagepad pda patch retrocomputing) (tow.com)
8 points by splorp 153 days ago | 4 comments
How Apple’s ‘1984’ Super Bowl commercial changed advertising forever (2025) (advertisement mac apple marketing bigbrother 1984 television) (cnn.com)
4 points by splorp 159 days ago | 2 comments
Saving One Screen At A Time (2025) (historical screensaver burn monitor crt software) (tedium.co)
2 points by splorp 160 days ago | discuss
What happened to Packard Bell? (2025) (historical packardbell computer marketing branding pc) (homeip.net)
7 points by splorp 160 days ago | 1 comment
Web browser port of Pitfall! (2025) (game pitfall atari typescript port platformer) (meatfighter.com | ia)
3 points by splorp 172 days ago | 3 comments
Open Dylan: An object-functional language created by Apple for the Newton (2024) (programming language newton oop) (opendylan.org | ia)
8 points by splorp 176 days ago | 1 comment
DoomPDF: A port that runs inside a PDF file (game doom port pdf acrobat) (github.com | ia)
3 points by splorp 180 days ago | discuss
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