Tag: retro
The Windows That Never Was
Enviado por FabioWindows 96 promised to build on the success of Windows 95, yet it never materialized as originally intended. 21/06/25 | hace 1 días | timemachiner.io
Unknown and Unobtainable – Mystery Chips | The CPU Shack Museum
Enviado por FabioThere are always interesting surprises when collecting CPUs, and anything really. There are those chips that are unicorns, or white whales, spoke of, maybe even documented but never (or almost never)... 20/06/25 | hace 2 días | www.cpushack.com
Bell Labs’ Bellmac-32 paved the way for today’s smartphone chips
Enviado por FabioIn the late 1970s, a time when 8-bit processors were state of the art and CMOS was the underdog of semiconductor technology, engineers at AT&T’s Bell Labs took a bold leap into the future. They made... 10/06/25 | hace 12 días | spectrum.ieee.org
Windows 7: A 2025 perspective (rose-tinted or not)
Enviado por FabioShort review of Windows 7 with 2025 perspective, including setup and installation, system updates and associated tweaks, security posture with up-to-date browser, standard user and EMET, available... 10/06/25 | hace 12 días | www.dedoimedo.com
How Sony’s Forgotten Computers Helped Shape the PlayStation
Enviado por FabioThe UNIX machine that pushed Sony into unexpected territory 04/06/25 | hace 17 días | obsoletesony.substack.com
The flip phone web: browsing with the original Opera Mini
Enviado por FabioOpera Mini was first released in 2005 as a web browser for mobile phones, with the ability to load full websites by sending most of the work to an external server. It was a massive hit, but it started... 01/06/25 | hace 21 días | www.spacebar.news
Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers
Enviado por FabioAs technology marches on, some people get trapped using decades-old software and devices. Here's a look inside the strange, stubborn world of obsolete Windows machines. 26/05/25 | hace 26 días | www.bbc.co.uk
Vtech’s “The Equalizer” Laptop
Enviado por FabioThe Background The year is 1998. I’ve been using my trusty 1995 Acer Aspire for three years. My dad had recently just picked up a CTX Minitower from Best Buy, and my interest in computers was… 24/05/25 | hace 29 días | vtechequalizer.wordpress.com
A Geographically Distributed Retro LAN with pfSense and FreshTomato | The Pipetogrep Blog
Enviado por FabioBuilding a safe and secure retro LAN spanning multiple states 12/05/25 | hace 40 días | blog.pipetogrep.org
The Art of Dithering and Retro Shading for the Web - The Blog of Maxime Heckel
Enviado por FabioA detailed walkthrough of the inner workings of dithering and other shading techniques to give a retro look and feel to your WebGL and React Three Fiber work. 06/04/25 | hace 76 días | blog.maximeheckel.com
Fixing this vintage Mac was easy...until it wasn\'t
Enviado por FabioIt\'s a good thing I like the SE/30 as much as I do, considering what this one put me through. 04/04/25 | hace 78 días | www.youtube.com
Downtown Doug Brown » Apple’s long-lost hidden recovery partition from 1994 has been found
Enviado por Fabioallá en el tiempo una serie de Macs tuvo una partición para recuperar el sistema operativo si algo fallaba, quedó perdida en el tiempo hasta ahora que uno loco encontró un disco rígido original... 19/03/25 | hace 95 días | www.downtowndougbrown.com