Two Stop Bits | Stories tagged "historical"

CP/M Creator Gary Kildall’s Memoirs Released as Free Download (historical kildall cpm memoirs download) (ieee.org | ia)
13 points by bmonkey325 61 days ago | 4 comments
Fonts Before Mac (1983) (historical font typography bitmap susankare mac) (tinkerdifferent.com | ia)
9 points by splorp 68 days ago | 1 comment
The Sumerian Game: The ancestor of modern city builders (1964) (historical) (spillhistorie.no | ia)
3 points by RGP 69 days ago | discuss
The Tandy Corporation, Part 2 (historical tandy) (abortretry.fail | ia)
3 points by bmonkey325 70 days ago | discuss
The Tandy Corporation, Part 1 (historical tandy) (abortretry.fail | ia)
3 points by bmonkey325 70 days ago | discuss
Introduction to the DCJ11 - PDP‑11 on a chip (historical djc11 tutorial pdp11 soc) (5volts.ch | ia)
4 points by bmonkey325 86 days ago | discuss
The Man Who Beat IBM (historical ibm compaq origin compatibles) (every.to | ia)
2 points by bmonkey325 87 days ago | discuss
Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate: A Cultural History of the Punch Card (1992) (historical punchcard dataprocessing hollerith) (mun.ca | ia)
7 points by splorp 91 days ago | 1 comment
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 92 days ago | discuss
The Macintosh Mouse - The Invisible Mouse (historical apple mac lore mouse development) (stanford.edu | ia)
4 points by bmonkey325 94 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 99 days ago | discuss
Oral History of Andy Hertzfeld and Bill Atkinson (historical hetzfeld atkinson booch interview vcf) (computerhistory.org | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 101 days ago | discuss
The Computer Revolution of the 80s Told by a Pioneer: Lee Felsenstein (historical) (youtube.com | ia)
3 points by ohjeez 103 days ago | discuss
Robotron: 2084 Sound Wave Generator (historical robotron soundwave generator audio) (github.io | ia)
7 points by bmonkey325 104 days ago | 5 comments
How Eugene Jarvis created arcade masterpiece Robotron 2084 (historical robotron coinop lore genesis) (polygon.com | ia)
3 points by bmonkey325 104 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 105 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 107 days ago | 1 comment
The Princeton INTERCAL Compiler's source code (historical intercal compiler source princeton) (esoteric.codes | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 107 days ago | 1 comment
Intelligent Agent Technology: Open Sesame! (1993) (historical mac automation machinelearning) (gingerbeardman.com | ia)
2 points by gingerbeardman 109 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 110 days ago | 4 comments
DR DOS: Revenge of CP/M (historical drdos com) (homeip.net | ia)
11 points by bmonkey325 112 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 112 days ago | 7 comments
GUIdebook: Graphical User Interface Gallery (2006) (ui timeline interface gallery screenshots historical) (guidebookgallery.org | ia)
4 points by splorp 123 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 127 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 128 days ago | discuss
Project Reality: Making the Nintendo 64 (historical nintendo n64 enginneering narrative) (steveshepard.com | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 128 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 129 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 129 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 129 days ago | discuss
16-bit Intel 8088 Chip by Charles Bukowski (historical kukowski poem) (kottke.org | ia)
3 points by bmonkey325 131 days ago | discuss
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