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IBM Stretch: Building the World's Fastest Computer!
(
2025
)
(
historical
ibm
7030
stretch
supercomouter
transistor
video
)
(
youtu.be
)
3 points
by
bmonkey325
72 days ago
|
1 comment
Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story
(
2025
)
(
historical
c64
genesis
retrospective
engineering
)
(
ieee.org
|
ia
)
4 points
by
bmonkey325
73 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
73 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
75 days ago
|
discuss
The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective
(
historical
beos
filesystem
retrospective
deepdive
)
(
arstechnica.com
|
ia
)
9 points
by
bmonkey325
75 days ago
|
1 comment
Apple's sillyballs
(
1988
)
(
historical
apple
c
sillyballs
demo
)
(
devnonsense.com
)
7 points
by
bmonkey325
75 days ago
|
discuss
Mind-blowing graphical tricks in classic games
(
historical
education
game
classics
programming
)
(
youtu.be
)
1 point
by
bmonkey325
76 days ago
|
discuss
The lost secrets of webOS
(
2014
)
(
historical
webos
lg
palm
hp
)
(
theverge.com
|
ia
)
5 points
by
bmonkey325
76 days ago
|
1 comment
A look back at Mozilla from source code release to Netscape 6 PR1 (1998–2000)
(
historical
netscape
mozilla
screenshots
)
(
mozillazine.org
|
ia
)
4 points
by
Lammy
80 days ago
|
discuss
Time Traveler : Sega's Holographic Arcade Game Was Pretty Strange
(
historical
sega
holographic
game
)
(
kotaku.com
|
ia
)
1 point
by
bmonkey325
83 days ago
|
1 comment
How Nintendo Bled Atari Games to Death
(
historical
atari
nintendo
tengen
legal
)
(
mit.edu
)
1 point
by
bmonkey325
86 days ago
|
1 comment
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
91 days ago
|
1 comment
Q&A with: Game designer Steve Meretzky (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)
(
game
historical
retro
)
(
spillhistorie.no
|
ia
)
4 points
by
Retrogamingpap
94 days ago
|
4 comments
Building the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM
(
historical
ibm
mainframe
system360
360
)
(
ieee.org
|
ia
)
1 point
by
bmonkey325
94 days ago
|
discuss
Remembering John Conway's FRACTRAN, a ridiculous, yet surprisingly deep language
(
2020
)
(
historical
conway
fractran
programming
)
(
raganwald.com
|
ia
)
1 point
by
bmonkey325
95 days ago
|
discuss
A chat with Gary Carlston of Brøderbund
(
historical
game
broderbund
gary
carlston
interview
publishing
)
(
spillhistorie.no
|
ia
)
7 points
by
bmonkey325
97 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
100 days ago
|
discuss
The Soul of an Old Machine
(
historical
mini
book
datageneral
west
retrospective
mv80000
)
(
substack.com
|
ia
)
1 point
by
bmonkey325
100 days ago
|
discuss
The earliest versions of the very first c compiler known to exist in the wild
(
historical
c
compiler
source
unix
lore
ritchie
)
(
github.com
|
ia
)
5 points
by
bmonkey325
109 days ago
|
1 comment
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
111 days ago
|
1 comment
ESDI Adventures
(
2025
)
(
historical
esdi
mass
storage
pc
seagate
)
(
os2museum.com
|
ia
)
3 points
by
bmonkey325
114 days ago
|
1 comment
What I Saw at the Evolution of Plan 9
(
historical
plan9
belllabs
unix
os
geoffcollyer
)
(
adi.onl
|
ia
)
5 points
by
splorp
115 days ago
|
4 comments
Dragon 64 versions of the Microsoft 16K BASIC Interpreter for the Motorola 6809
(
2022
)
(
historical
dragonbasic
motorola
6809
basic
interpreter
source
)
(
github.com
|
ia
)
1 point
by
bmonkey325
117 days ago
|
discuss
Amiga 600: The Amiga no one wanted
(
2025
)
(
historical
amiga
amiga600
)
(
homeip.net
|
ia
)
5 points
by
bmonkey325
117 days ago
|
discuss
Dan Bricklin, VisiCalc and APL - podcast interview
(
2025
)
(
historical
dan
bricklin
interview
podcast
apl
visicalc
)
(
arraycast.com
|
ia
)
4 points
by
bmonkey325
118 days ago
|
discuss
My teen years: Porting Small-C to transputer and developing my operating system
(
2025
)
(
historical
transputer
compiler
narrative
operatingystem
)
(
nanochess.org
|
ia
)
1 point
by
bmonkey325
118 days ago
|
discuss
How Commodore Invented the Mass Market Computer
(
2025
)
(
historical
commodore
cbm
c64
vic20
pet
)
(
every.to
|
ia
)
2 points
by
bmonkey325
121 days ago
|
discuss
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
121 days ago
|
discuss
A technical history of Acorn Computers
(
historical
acorn
repository
archive
)
(
mcmordie.co.uk
)
4 points
by
bmonkey325
123 days ago
|
discuss
Novas are forever - Data general historical archive
(
historical
datageneral
mv
nova
eclipse
eagle
)
(
novasareforever.org
)
5 points
by
bmonkey325
124 days ago
|
discuss
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