Two Stop Bits | Stories tagged "historical"

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 70 days ago | discuss
The Macintosh Mouse - The Invisible Mouse (historical apple mac lore mouse development) (stanford.edu | ia)
4 points by bmonkey325 71 days ago | 2 comments
Alan Turing's seminal papers head to auction (2025) (turing historical auction research phd) (livescience.com | ia)
5 points by splorp 76 days ago | discuss
Oral History of Andy Hertzfeld and Bill Atkinson (historical hetzfeld atkinson booch interview vcf) (computerhistory.org | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 78 days ago | discuss
The Computer Revolution of the 80s Told by a Pioneer: Lee Felsenstein (historical) (youtube.com | ia)
3 points by ohjeez 80 days ago | discuss
Robotron: 2084 Sound Wave Generator (historical robotron soundwave generator audio) (github.io | ia)
7 points by bmonkey325 81 days ago | 5 comments
How Eugene Jarvis created arcade masterpiece Robotron 2084 (historical robotron coinop lore genesis) (polygon.com)
3 points by bmonkey325 81 days ago | discuss
What was the role of MS-DOS in Windows 95? (historical microsoft windows win95 msdos chen) (microsoft.com | ia)
14 points by bmonkey325 82 days ago | discuss
Atari ST, Everyone's Second Favourite 16-bit Home Computer, Turns 40 (historical atari atarist 68k anniversary) (timeextension.com | ia)
3 points by bmonkey325 84 days ago | 1 comment
The Princeton INTERCAL Compiler's source code (historical intercal compiler source princeton) (esoteric.codes | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 85 days ago | 1 comment
Intelligent Agent Technology: Open Sesame! (1993) (historical mac automation machinelearning) (gingerbeardman.com | ia)
2 points by gingerbeardman 86 days ago | discuss
30 years ago, Apple fans met the Mac clone. This is the weird, wild story (historical apple mac clones) (macworld.com | ia)
7 points by bmonkey325 88 days ago | 4 comments
DR DOS: Revenge of CP/M (historical drdos com) (homeip.net)
11 points by bmonkey325 90 days ago | 2 comments
Why the Original Macintosh Had a Screen Resolution of 512×342 (mac hardware historical graphics) (512pixels.net | ia)
10 points by tommasz 90 days ago | 7 comments
GUIdebook: Graphical User Interface Gallery (2006) (ui timeline interface gallery screenshots historical) (guidebookgallery.org | ia)
4 points by splorp 100 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 105 days ago | discuss
Understanding LucasArts' iMUSE System: A Historical and Technical Analysis (lucasarts imuse historical music streaming analysis) (github.com | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 105 days ago | discuss
Project Reality: Making the Nintendo 64 (historical nintendo n64 enginneering narrative) (steveshepard.com | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 105 days ago | discuss
A brief history of fonts in Mac OS (2025) (historical typography font macos bitmap postscript truetype) (eclecticlight.co | ia)
6 points by splorp 106 days ago | discuss
Why the Apple II Didn’t Support Lowercase Letters (2020) (historical apple 2 typography lowecase wozniak p) (vintagecomputing.com | ia)
11 points by bmonkey325 106 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 | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 107 days ago | discuss
16-bit Intel 8088 Chip by Charles Bukowski (historical kukowski poem) (kottke.org | ia)
3 points by bmonkey325 108 days ago | discuss
Adventure – March 1980 (2025) (historical atari atari2600 game adventure robinett easteregg) (atariarchive.org)
4 points by bmonkey325 112 days ago | 2 comments
Classic GTA sites (historical game gta flash preservation) (classicgtasites.com | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 113 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 117 days ago | 1 comment
Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story (2025) (historical c64 genesis retrospective engineering) (ieee.org | ia)
4 points by bmonkey325 118 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 118 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 120 days ago | discuss
The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective (historical beos filesystem retrospective deepdive) (arstechnica.com | ia)
9 points by bmonkey325 120 days ago | 1 comment
Apple's sillyballs (1988) (historical apple c sillyballs demo) (devnonsense.com | ia)
7 points by bmonkey325 120 days ago | discuss
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