Two Stop Bits | Stories tagged "historical"

Adventure – March 1980 (2025) (historical atari atari2600 game adventure robinett easteregg) (atariarchive.org | ia)
4 points by bmonkey325 135 days ago | 2 comments
Classic GTA sites (historical game gta flash preservation) (classicgtasites.com | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 136 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 140 days ago | 1 comment
Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story (2025) (historical c64 genesis retrospective engineering) (ieee.org | ia)
4 points by bmonkey325 141 days ago | discuss
808 lines of BBC BASIC and a dream: Arm architecture turns 40 (2025) (bbc cpu historical arm architecture) (theregister.com | ia)
7 points by splorp 141 days ago | discuss
PC DOS Retro - Information and history about PC DOS and MS-DOS (historical msdos pcdos repository archive) (gitlab.io | ia)
6 points by bmonkey325 143 days ago | discuss
The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective (historical beos filesystem retrospective deepdive) (arstechnica.com | ia)
9 points by bmonkey325 143 days ago | 1 comment
Apple's sillyballs (1988) (historical apple c sillyballs demo) (devnonsense.com | ia)
7 points by bmonkey325 143 days ago | discuss
Mind-blowing graphical tricks in classic games (historical education game classics programming) (youtu.be)
1 point by bmonkey325 144 days ago | discuss
The lost secrets of webOS (2014) (historical webos lg palm hp) (theverge.com | ia)
5 points by bmonkey325 144 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 148 days ago | discuss
Time Traveler : Sega's Holographic Arcade Game Was Pretty Strange (historical sega holographic game) (kotaku.com | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 151 days ago | 1 comment
How Nintendo Bled Atari Games to Death (historical atari nintendo tengen legal) (mit.edu | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 154 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 159 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 162 days ago | 4 comments
Building the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM (historical ibm mainframe system360 360) (ieee.org | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 162 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 163 days ago | discuss
A chat with Gary Carlston of Brøderbund (historical game broderbund gary carlston interview publishing) (spillhistorie.no | ia)
7 points by bmonkey325 165 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 168 days ago | discuss
The Soul of an Old Machine (historical mini book datageneral west retrospective mv80000) (substack.com | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 168 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 177 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 179 days ago | 1 comment
ESDI Adventures (2025) (historical esdi mass storage pc seagate) (os2museum.com | ia)
3 points by bmonkey325 182 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 183 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 185 days ago | discuss
Amiga 600: The Amiga no one wanted (2025) (historical amiga amiga600) (homeip.net | ia)
5 points by bmonkey325 185 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 186 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 186 days ago | discuss
How Commodore Invented the Mass Market Computer (2025) (historical commodore cbm c64 vic20 pet) (every.to | ia)
2 points by bmonkey325 189 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 189 days ago | discuss
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