Tag: retro
Vanishing Culture: Punch Card Knitting | Internet Archive Blogs
Enviado por FabioPunch cards are a fascinating binary data storage format that aren’t just history—they’re still used by knitting machines today! Thanks to the Internet Archive and other collections, we still... 14/02/25 | hace 8 días | blog.archive.org
How Motorola helped almost BANKRUPT Apple!
Enviado por FabioMotorola en una época fabricó clones de Macs y casi funde a Apple en el proceso! 08/02/25 | hace 14 días | www.youtube.com
35 Amazing Photochroms of Rome in the 1890s
Enviado por FabioIn the 1890s, Rome was still adjusting to its role as the capital of the newly unified Kingdom of Italy, a transition that had begun with th... 05/02/25 | hace 17 días | www.vintag.es
Space Hifi
Enviado por FabioThis is the Revox Evolution from 1992, with a GUI.\r\n 02/02/25 | hace 19 días | www.youtube.com
Reviving a Dead Audio Format: The Return of ZZM
Enviado por FabioLong-time readers will know that my first video game love was the text-mode video game slash creation studio ZZT. One feature of this game is the ability to ... 29/01/25 | hace 24 días | nicole.express
How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM
Enviado por FabioHow do you fit a dictionary in 64kb RAM? Unix engineers solved it with clever data structures and compression tricks. Here\'s the fascinating story behind it. 25/01/25 | hace 28 días | blog.codingconfessions.com
Windows 2: Final Fantasy of operating systems
Enviado por FabioIt is common knowledge that Final Fantasy could have been the "final" game for the studio, the first and the last in the series. It is far less known that Windows 2, released around the same time,... 03/01/25 | hace 50 días | www.ninakalinina.com
SvarDOS: DR-DOS reborn as an open source OS
Enviado por FabioA #DOScember surprise: fits on a single floppy, but has a network-capable package manager 02/01/25 | hace 51 días | www.theregister.com
Have a Helping of 8-bit Holiday Cheer! (2024 Edition) - Byte Cellar
Enviado por Fabio‘Tis the season, and that means it’s time to push out the thirteenth annual Byte Cellar vintage computer Holiday demo roundup so everyone can feel that warm, fuzzy, pixellated holiday glow (which... 23/12/24 | hace 60 días | bytecellar.com
A quick look at OS/2's builtin virtualization
Enviado por FabioA while ago, someone on the fediverse mentioned "OS/2's virtualization features" to me. I don't remember who it was, sorry. I had the chance to take a look at this today. ... 19/12/24 | hace 65 días | www.uninformativ.de
My new POWER Indigo 2
Enviado por FabioThis is a Silicon Graphics workstation from 1995. Specifically, it is an \'Teal\' Indigo 2 (as opposed to a \'Purple\' Indigo 2, which came later). Ordinarily that\'s rare enough - these things were... 25/11/24 | hace 88 días | thejpster.org.uk
Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems?
Enviado por FabioCuriosamente el setup del Windows 95 pasaba primero por MS DOS, luego Windows 3.1 y al final recién Windows 95, tres sistemas operativos para instalar uno solo, delirio de la época 22/11/24 | hace 92 días | devblogs.microsoft.com