Two Stop Bits | Stories tagged "historical"

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 | 1 comment
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