Two Stop Bits | Stories tagged "historical"

The Computer Revolution of the 80s Told by a Pioneer: Lee Felsenstein (historical) (youtube.com | ia)
3 points by ohjeez 151 days ago | discuss
Robotron: 2084 Sound Wave Generator (historical robotron soundwave generator audio) (github.io | ia)
7 points by bmonkey325 152 days ago | 5 comments
How Eugene Jarvis created arcade masterpiece Robotron 2084 (historical robotron coinop lore genesis) (polygon.com | ia)
3 points by bmonkey325 152 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 152 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 154 days ago | 1 comment
The Princeton INTERCAL Compiler's source code (historical intercal compiler source princeton) (esoteric.codes | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 155 days ago | 1 comment
Intelligent Agent Technology: Open Sesame! (1993) (historical mac automation machinelearning) (gingerbeardman.com | ia)
2 points by gingerbeardman 157 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 158 days ago | 4 comments
DR DOS: Revenge of CP/M (historical drdos com) (homeip.net | ia)
11 points by bmonkey325 160 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 160 days ago | 7 comments
GUIdebook: Graphical User Interface Gallery (2006) (ui timeline interface gallery screenshots historical) (guidebookgallery.org | ia)
4 points by splorp 170 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 175 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 175 days ago | discuss
Project Reality: Making the Nintendo 64 (historical nintendo n64 enginneering narrative) (steveshepard.com | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 175 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 177 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 177 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 177 days ago | discuss
16-bit Intel 8088 Chip by Charles Bukowski (historical kukowski poem) (kottke.org | ia)
3 points by bmonkey325 178 days ago | discuss
Adventure – March 1980 (2025) (historical atari atari2600 game adventure robinett easteregg) (atariarchive.org | ia)
4 points by bmonkey325 183 days ago | 2 comments
Classic GTA sites (historical game gta flash preservation) (classicgtasites.com | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 184 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 187 days ago | 1 comment
Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story (2025) (historical c64 genesis retrospective engineering) (ieee.org | ia)
4 points by bmonkey325 188 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 189 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 191 days ago | discuss
The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective (historical beos filesystem retrospective deepdive) (arstechnica.com | ia)
9 points by bmonkey325 191 days ago | 1 comment
Apple's sillyballs (1988) (historical apple c sillyballs demo) (devnonsense.com | ia)
7 points by bmonkey325 191 days ago | discuss
Mind-blowing graphical tricks in classic games (historical education game classics programming) (youtu.be)
1 point by bmonkey325 192 days ago | discuss
The lost secrets of webOS (2014) (historical webos lg palm hp) (theverge.com | ia)
5 points by bmonkey325 192 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 196 days ago | discuss
Time Traveler : Sega's Holographic Arcade Game Was Pretty Strange (historical sega holographic game) (kotaku.com | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 198 days ago | 1 comment
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