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Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate: A Cultural History of the Punch Card
(
1992
)
(
historical
punchcard
dataprocessing
hollerith
)
(
mun.ca
)
6 points
by
splorp
3 days ago
|
1 comment
Rhapsody OS: Installing Apple's Lost x86 OS from 1998 on modern hardware
(
historical
apple
rhapsody
retro
recovery
preservstion
)
(
youtu.be
)
2 points
by
bmonkey325
4 days ago
|
discuss
The Macintosh Mouse - The Invisible Mouse
(
historical
apple
mac
lore
mouse
development
)
(
stanford.edu
)
4 points
by
bmonkey325
6 days ago
|
2 comments
Alan Turing's seminal papers head to auction
(
2025
)
(
turing
historical
auction
research
phd
)
(
livescience.com
)
5 points
by
splorp
11 days ago
|
discuss
Oral History of Andy Hertzfeld and Bill Atkinson
(
historical
hetzfeld
atkinson
booch
interview
vcf
)
(
computerhistory.org
)
1 point
by
bmonkey325
13 days ago
|
discuss
The Computer Revolution of the 80s Told by a Pioneer: Lee Felsenstein
(
historical
)
(
youtube.com
)
3 points
by
ohjeez
15 days ago
|
discuss
Robotron: 2084 Sound Wave Generator
(
historical
robotron
soundwave
generator
audio
)
(
github.io
)
7 points
by
bmonkey325
16 days ago
|
5 comments
How Eugene Jarvis created arcade masterpiece Robotron 2084
(
historical
robotron
coinop
lore
genesis
)
(
polygon.com
)
3 points
by
bmonkey325
16 days ago
|
discuss
What was the role of MS-DOS in Windows 95?
(
historical
microsoft
windows
win95
msdos
chen
)
(
microsoft.com
)
12 points
by
bmonkey325
17 days ago
|
discuss
Atari ST, Everyone's Second Favourite 16-bit Home Computer, Turns 40
(
historical
atari
atarist
68k
anniversary
)
(
timeextension.com
)
3 points
by
bmonkey325
19 days ago
|
1 comment
The Princeton INTERCAL Compiler's source code
(
historical
intercal
compiler
source
princeton
)
(
esoteric.codes
)
1 point
by
bmonkey325
19 days ago
|
1 comment
Intelligent Agent Technology: Open Sesame! (1993)
(
historical
mac
automation
machinelearning
)
(
gingerbeardman.com
)
2 points
by
gingerbeardman
21 days ago
|
discuss
30 years ago, Apple fans met the Mac clone. This is the weird, wild story
(
historical
apple
mac
clones
)
(
macworld.com
)
7 points
by
bmonkey325
22 days ago
|
4 comments
DR DOS: Revenge of CP/M
(
historical
drdos
com
)
(
homeip.net
)
11 points
by
bmonkey325
24 days ago
|
2 comments
Why the Original Macintosh Had a Screen Resolution of 512×342
(
mac
hardware
historical
graphics
)
(
512pixels.net
)
10 points
by
tommasz
24 days ago
|
7 comments
GUIdebook: Graphical User Interface Gallery
(
2006
)
(
ui
timeline
interface
gallery
screenshots
historical
)
(
guidebookgallery.org
)
4 points
by
splorp
35 days ago
|
discuss
‘It was just the perfect game’: Henk Rogers on buying Tetris and foiling the KGB
(
historical
tetris
lore
)
(
theguardian.com
)
5 points
by
bmonkey325
39 days ago
|
discuss
Understanding LucasArts' iMUSE System: A Historical and Technical Analysis
(
lucasarts
imuse
historical
music
streaming
analysis
)
(
github.com
)
1 point
by
bmonkey325
40 days ago
|
discuss
Project Reality: Making the Nintendo 64
(
historical
nintendo
n64
enginneering
narrative
)
(
steveshepard.com
)
1 point
by
bmonkey325
40 days ago
|
discuss
A brief history of fonts in Mac OS
(
2025
)
(
historical
typography
font
macos
bitmap
postscript
truetype
)
(
eclecticlight.co
)
6 points
by
splorp
41 days ago
|
discuss
Why the Apple II Didn’t Support Lowercase Letters
(
2020
)
(
historical
apple
2
typography
lowecase
wozniak
p
)
(
vintagecomputing.com
)
11 points
by
bmonkey325
41 days ago
|
discuss
For $595, you get what nobody else can give you for twice the price (1982) [pdf]
(
1982
)
(
1980s
historical
c64
introduction
advertisement
commodore
)
(
computerhistory.org
)
1 point
by
bmonkey325
41 days ago
|
discuss
16-bit Intel 8088 Chip by Charles Bukowski
(
historical
kukowski
poem
)
(
kottke.org
)
3 points
by
bmonkey325
43 days ago
|
discuss
Adventure – March 1980
(
2025
)
(
historical
atari
atari2600
game
adventure
robinett
easteregg
)
(
atariarchive.org
)
4 points
by
bmonkey325
47 days ago
|
2 comments
Classic GTA sites
(
historical
game
gta
flash
preservation
)
(
classicgtasites.com
)
1 point
by
bmonkey325
48 days ago
|
discuss
IBM Stretch: Building the World's Fastest Computer!
(
2025
)
(
historical
ibm
7030
stretch
supercomouter
transistor
video
)
(
youtu.be
)
3 points
by
bmonkey325
52 days ago
|
1 comment
Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story
(
2025
)
(
historical
c64
genesis
retrospective
engineering
)
(
ieee.org
)
4 points
by
bmonkey325
53 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
53 days ago
|
discuss
PC DOS Retro - Information and history about PC DOS and MS-DOS
(
historical
msdos
pcdos
repository
archive
)
(
gitlab.io
)
6 points
by
bmonkey325
55 days ago
|
discuss
The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective
(
historical
beos
filesystem
retrospective
deepdive
)
(
arstechnica.com
|
ia
)
9 points
by
bmonkey325
55 days ago
|
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