Two Stop Bits | Stories tagged "microsoft"

Altair at 50: Remembering the first Personal Computer (micro altair mits microsoft basic roberts wozniak) (goto10retro.com)
5 points by bmonkey325 10 days ago | discuss
The first machine that ran DOS (and without the 640kB barrier) (cpu seattle computer 8086 bus msdos paterson microsoft) (dosmandrivel.blogspot.com)
3 points by bmonkey325 15 days ago | discuss
Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and the Code That Started Microsoft (2025) (gates paulallen altair basic microsoft computing software) (thenewstack.io)
3 points by bmonkey325 15 days ago | discuss
Microsoft's Win 95 startup sound immortalized in the Library of Congress (2025) (historical microsoft win95 startup sound) (tomshardware.com | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 31 days ago | 1 comment
I'm manually transcribing the AltairBASIC source, ten lines a day starting today (altair microsoft gates) (ycombinator.com | ia)
3 points by qingcharles 35 days ago | discuss
Technical analyses of Free-X’s “Bert & Ernie” XBOX Dashboard font exploit (2003) (historical microsoft xbox font exploit homebrew) (sega-dc.de | ia)
4 points by Lammy 52 days ago | 1 comment
Burger King sells Windows 7 Whoppers as Microsoft begins Guru training (2009) (historical burgerking microsoft windows7 launch promotion weird) (appleinsider.com | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 61 days ago | discuss
Could DOS Have Been a Scaled-Down Version of Xenix? (2025) (msdos cpm xenix ibmpc 8086 microsoft unix) (substack.com)
1 point by bmonkey325 72 days ago | discuss
National Museum of American History : Microsoft Windows NT OS/2 Design Workbook (collecting smithsonian microsoft windowsnt design book photo) (si.edu)
1 point by bmonkey325 75 days ago | 1 comment
Windows NT [History, Components, Subsystems, Design, FS, Net, API] [pdf] (1999) (historical windows microsoft nt os) (ucsc.edu)
1 point by bmonkey325 76 days ago | discuss
How Paul Allen and Bill Gates landed on the idea for Microsoft (2025) (historical microsoft allen gates genesis origin) (fortune.com)
1 point by bmonkey325 96 days ago | discuss
The time Bill Gates claimed he worked for $2/hour (altair basic microsoft) (homeip.net)
5 points by dfarquhar 98 days ago | 2 comments
A Rich Neighbor Named Xerox (apple mac xerox parc microsoft windows genesis) (folklore.org)
3 points by bmonkey325 99 days ago | 1 comment
Max 10 Beautifully Designed 1980's Sony Computers That Never Quite Delivered (1980s historical sony design review msx microsoft) (substack.com | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 100 days ago | 2 comments
The Microsoft KnowledgeBase Archive (microsoft kb help archive) (huntertur.net)
5 points by Lammy 114 days ago | 2 comments
Windows 95 and a Bizarre Case of Font Drag and Drop (microsoft win95 font bug shell feature documentation) (marnetto.net)
2 points by bmonkey325 120 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 126 days ago | 3 comments
How the OS/2 flop went on to shape modern software (historical os2 ibm microsoft speculative review) (theregister.com)
1 point by bmonkey325 127 days ago | discuss
Windows 2: Final Fantasy of operating systems (windows microsoft gui) (ninakalinina.com | ia)
9 points by amoroso 132 days ago | 12 comments
Happy New Year! (jingle bean with Windows XP critical error sound) (microsoft jinglebells windowxp critical error sound music) (youtube.com)
2 points by bmonkey325 132 days ago | discuss
Windows 95 and Early 80386 CPUs (microsoft windows win95 intel 386 bug disassembly) (pcjs.org)
4 points by Lammy 135 days ago | 1 comment
Hardware Security Exploit Research - XBOX 360 (xbox xbox360 microsoft security exploit research) (github.com | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 144 days ago | discuss
Visual Basic 6 rebuilt in C# – complete with form designer and IDE in browser (microsoft visual basic vb6 csharp ide) (ycombinator.com | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 183 days ago | discuss
How Ed Roberts created the personal computer industry—and then walked away (gates altair edroberts pc stevewozniak microsoft basic) (every.to | ia)
6 points by bmonkey325 194 days ago | 5 comments
Microsoft LISP (lisp mulisp microsoft msdos) (edm2.com | ia)
4 points by bmonkey325 220 days ago | discuss
Microsoft backs down over rivals' Vista access (2006) (microsoft vista security api) (archive.org | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 288 days ago | 1 comment
Original XBOX scene history (historical microsoft xbox hacking scene) (consolemods.org | ia)
7 points by Lammy 307 days ago | 2 comments
How I put 256MB of RAM in the original Xbox (Video) (historical xbox mod upgrading microsoft narrative) (youtu.be)
6 points by bmonkey325 311 days ago | discuss
PDP-11/70 Panel Research - Introduction (microsoft pdp11 misspiggy living computer museum) (retrocmp.com | ia)
3 points by bmonkey325 315 days ago | 2 comments
The History of DR DOS (historical drdos msdos digitalresearch microsoft) (abortretry.fail | ia)
7 points by bmonkey325 331 days ago | discuss
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