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Lost Computer Tales

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Forgotten tales about old computers

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@shanselmanApr 28
The earliest DOS source code was found on printer paper in Tim Paterson's garage so we've open sourced it on 86-DOS 1.00’s 45th anniversary! This is next-level software archaeology for study, preservation, and plain ol’ curiosity. Go dig in and learn how it was recovered! #DOS #RetroComputing opensource.microsoft.com/blo…
Continuing the story of early DOS development | Microsoft Open Source Blog

Continuing the story of early DOS development | Microsoft Open Source Blog

In 2018 we (re)-open-sourced MS‑DOS 1.25 and 2.11 and in 2024 we were able to make the source for MS‑DOS 4.0 available to the public. Today, on 86-DOS 1.00’s 45th anniversary, we’re continuing that...

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Junichi Matsuda
@mactechlabMar 17
マウスの歴史を一冊にまとめたいわゆるマウスの本「マウスは世界を変えた〜エンゲルバートからMacintoshへ（仮題）」を執筆中です。ものになるかは未定ですがすでに１００頁は越えたのでなんとか形にしたいと考えています😊 写真は表紙に使うビジュアル案です！ #mactechlab
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Web Design Museum
@WebDesignMuseum24 Nov 2025
On November 24, 1995, The IETF organization published the RFC 1866 specification for HTML 2.0. HTML 2.0 supported forms, tables, graphics, and a number of new tags, such as !DOCTYPE, head, body, etc. #WebDesignHistory
The HTML 2.0 specification in 1995

ALT The HTML 2.0 specification in 1995

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@hackaday14 Oct 2025
BASICODE: A Bit Like Java, But From The 1980s hackaday.com/2025/10/14/basi…
BASICODE: A Bit Like Java, But From The 1980s

BASICODE: A Bit Like Java, But From The 1980s

Those of us ancient enough to remember the time, or even having grown up during the heyday of the 8-bit home computer, may recall the pain of trying to make your latest creation work on another bra…

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TNMOC@tnmoc14 Oct 2025
It is with sadness that we announce the passing of Professor Simon Lavington,.A pioneer in computing & devoted historian. We were honoured to award Professor Lavington the 2024 Honorary Fellowship. Our thoughts & condolences are with his family. His impact is immeasurable.
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AppleMacintoshUser@macintoshfriend11 Oct 2025
National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. Day 1 of the Macintosh Fixathon #Acorn #cheesewedges #TNMOC #Macintosh #Macintosh #ClassicMacintosh #BletchleyPark #computers
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Layers was AT&T’s proprietary windowing system, shipped with the UNIX PC (PC 7300), predating the widespread adoption of X11. Layers acted like a graphical multiplexer—a distant ancestor of tmux or screen—but ran directly on a bitmap display with rudimentary window management.
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Liam@z2rMC1 Oct 2025
Found some more Windows XP Prototype designs. Love it!
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@hackaday22 Sep 2025
First Transistor Computer Reborn hackaday.com/2025/09/21/firs…
First Transistor Computer Reborn

First Transistor Computer Reborn

Ok, we’ll admit it. If you asked us what the first transistorized computer was, we would have guessed it was the TC from the University of Manchester. After all, Dr. Wilkes and company were a…

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@hackaday21 Apr 2025
Remembering UCSD p-System, the Pascal Virtual Machine hackaday.com/2025/04/21/reme…
Remembering UCSD P-System, The Pascal Virtual Machine

Remembering UCSD P-System, The Pascal Virtual Machine

Long before the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) was said to take the world by storm, the p-System  (pseudo-system, or virtual machine) developed at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) provide…

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Apple Muzeum Polska@applemuzeumpl7 Dec 2024
Walkmac, prototype (1986) This is one of the few preserved and operating prototypes of a Mac portable computer in the world, built by Colby Systems. They had a modular structure, a removable floppy disk drive and an HDD, which were all placed in special metal cassettes.
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Apple Muzeum Polska@applemuzeumpl30 Nov 2024
Apple Network Server 500.
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#マイコン博物館 マイコン体験コーナーのMZ-80Bが好調に稼働しています。 MZ系の達人である @LTM100 様にメンテナンス修理をいただきました。 SB-5510とSB-5520のBASICが動きます。 SHARP純正プリンタも稼働しますので、グラフィックキャラクタを含むプログラムリストも印刷できます ご活用願います。
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@eevblog31 Oct 2024
Feeling pretty smug walking past all those luddites on the streets, rocking the absolute latest in portable computer technology.
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William T. Degnan@billdeg23 Oct 2024
DEC PDP-5 at the Maryland Technology Museum
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@hackaday22 Sep 2024
Where Did the Japanese Computers Go? hackaday.com/2024/09/22/wher…
Where Did The Japanese Computers Go?

Where Did The Japanese Computers Go?

If you are a retrocomputer person, at least in North America and Europe, you probably only have a hazy idea of what computers were in the Japanese market at the time we were all buying MSDOS-based …

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There’s No Lower Spec Linux Machine Than This One hackaday.com/2024/09/21/ther…
There’s No Lower Spec Linux Machine Than This One

There’s No Lower Spec Linux Machine Than This One

It’s not uncommon for a new distro version to come out, and a grudging admission that maybe a faster laptop is on the cards. Perhaps after seeing this project though, you’ll never again…

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The GUI was invented by Xerox PARC in the 1970s, right? Or was there a GUI earlier than that...? Al Williams makes the case for Volscan as an early example of a graphical user interface. hackaday.com/2023/03/09/the-…
The First Gui? Volscan Controls The Air

The First Gui? Volscan Controls The Air

In the 1950s,  computers were, for the most part, ponderous machines. But one machine offered a glimpse of the future. The Volscan was probably the first real air traffic computer designed to handl…

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TNMOC@tnmoc25 Aug 2024
#Volunteering at #TNMOC isn't all about hands-on #Engineering 🔧 #Volunteer Jerry has been studying a #Soviet #Computer called the "KIEV" and writing an emulator (IMG 1)! This runs a program (IMG 2) which squares numbers and derives the square roots of the results.
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The First Mass Produced DRAM of the Soviet Union hackaday.com/2024/08/21/the-…

The First Mass Produced DRAM Of The Soviet Union

Although the benefits of semiconductor technology were undeniable during the second half the 20th century, there was a clear divide between the two sides of the Iron Curtain. Whilst the First World…

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