Two Stop Bits | Stories tagged "historical"

The first ransomware dropped 35 years ago on floppies sharing 'AIDS Information' (historical floppy virus cybersecurity ransomware) (tomshardware.com | ia)
3 points by bmonkey325 239 days ago | discuss
How a good business deal made us underestimate BASIC (historical basic language programming commodore) (theregister.com)
6 points by splorp 245 days ago | discuss
Railroad Tycoon II (historical rrtc2 railroad simulation narrative genesis) (filfre.net | ia)
3 points by bmonkey325 247 days ago | 3 comments
Macintosh TV (1993) (historical mac tv apple television 68030) (mattjfuller.com | ia)
5 points by bmonkey325 248 days ago | 2 comments
How Prince of Persia Defeated Apple Il's Memory Limitations (historical appleii narrative prince of persia) (youtu.be)
2 points by bmonkey325 253 days ago | 2 comments
Steve Jobs Hosts Macintosh Software Dating Game with Bill Gates – 1983 [video] (gates historical mac steve jobs introduction) (youtube.com)
1 point by bmonkey325 254 days ago | discuss
How the OS/2 flop went on to shape modern software (historical os2 ibm microsoft speculative review) (theregister.com)
1 point by bmonkey325 255 days ago | discuss
Alexey and Henk, the friends who took Tetris out of the Soviet Union (historical tetris interview retrospective) (elpais.com | ia)
2 points by bmonkey325 255 days ago | 1 comment
Video Game development throughout the 80s(video) (1980s historical game development narrative) (youtu.be)
1 point by bmonkey325 258 days ago | 1 comment
Ultima Underworld Retrospective – Forging a New Era [video] (historical ultima underworld retrospective video) (youtu.be)
1 point by bmonkey325 259 days ago | discuss
History of the FOCAL programming language (historical focal narrative language) (softwarepreservation.org | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 259 days ago | discuss
John Friel my father, internet pioneer and creator of QModem, has died (historical qmodem bbs obituary memorium) (ycombinator.com)
7 points by bmonkey325 261 days ago | 1 comment
Intel's $475 million error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug (historical intel pentium fdiv bug oops) (righto.com | ia)
3 points by bmonkey325 263 days ago | discuss
15 tech luminaries we lost in 2024 (historical pioneer) (computerworld.com | ia)
3 points by amoroso 263 days ago | 2 comments
A design flaw in the Windows 3D Pipes screen saver pointed out by a customer (historical windows screensaver opengl flaw teapot utah) (microsoft.com | ia)
3 points by bmonkey325 263 days ago | 3 comments
The IBM PalmTop PC110 : History and developments (historical ibm palmtop pc110 retrospective) (basterfield.com | ia)
5 points by bmonkey325 265 days ago | 3 comments
Historic Computing: Emulating 1980s Computing Graphics (historical emulation telidon graphics workshop presentation uvic) (telidonart.ca | ia)
4 points by splorp 268 days ago | 1 comment
The Infocom Cabinet (1981-1987) ( archive.org) (historical archive infocom scans) (archive.org)
3 points by bmonkey325 269 days ago | discuss
DVST Graphic Terminals (historical dvst graphics terminal) (vintagetek.org | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 270 days ago | discuss
Why Did Early CD-ROM Drives Rely on Awkward Plastic Caddies? (historical cdrom caddy) (hackaday.com)
9 points by bmonkey325 270 days ago | 4 comments
50 years of The Oregon Trail (historical oregontrail game simulation retrospective) (bbc.com | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 270 days ago | discuss
DOS Append (historical msdos command append) (os2museum.com | ia)
4 points by bmonkey325 272 days ago | 2 comments
A quick look at OS/2's builtin virtualization (historical os2 virtualization review) (uninformativ.de)
1 point by bmonkey325 274 days ago | discuss
SPACEWAR – Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums (1972) (historical spacewar mit pdp1 steve russell) (wheels.org | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 274 days ago | discuss
Atari ST in daily use since 1985 [video] (historical atari atarist daily driver) (youtube.com | ia)
11 points by bmonkey325 274 days ago | 2 comments
Too Much Fun finally tells the C64’s legacy (historical game c64 legacy retrospective narrative) (polygon.com | ia)
3 points by bmonkey325 275 days ago | discuss
Story of the unreleased original "Bolo" for the BBC Micro (historical bolo apple bbc interview) (idesine.com | ia)
5 points by barbeque 275 days ago | discuss
Running NetBSD on IBM ThinkPad 380Z (historical netbsd thinkpad ibm tutorial installation 380z) (luke8086.dev | ia)
5 points by bmonkey325 275 days ago | discuss
Old Gold - the drives we used to love and hate (historical harddisk harddrive hdd ide pata ata mfm) (redhill.net.au | ia)
4 points by nickt 276 days ago | 10 comments
Tektronix 4100 / 4200 Series Graphic Terminals (aka Unicorn) (historical tektronix graphics terminals genesis) (vintagetek.org | ia)
3 points by bmonkey325 276 days ago | discuss
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