How Not To Release Historic Source Code | OS/2 Museum (www.os2museum.com)
END-OF-LIFE FOR Z80 CPU AND PERIPHERALS ANNOUNCED (hackaday.com)
What this effectively means is that after just under 48 years since its launch in 1976, the Zilog Z80 will no longer be available for sale as discrete components, which is likely to primarily impact hobbyists and people who are trying to keep retro systems going. This does not mean that it’s the end of the road for Z80,...
HamsterCMS - administer your website even in DOS (lemmy.sdf.org)
Everyone remembers the “cult of the home pages” in the 90s and early 00s, for about thirty years there was a fashion for them. later it all disappeared somewhere, the Internet shut down, people went to social networks, where the same memes and videos circulate in circles. there is nothing new. I did a little research and...
After 48 years, Zilog is killing the classic standalone Z80 microprocessor chip (arstechnica.com)
Fifty Years of the Personal Computer Operating System (computerhistory.org)
Does anyone here still use old computers?
Examples: Commodore, Amiga, Atari, Apple, IBM....
Zilog Calls Time on the Venerable Z80, Discontinues the Standalone Z84C00 CPU Family (www.hackster.io)
writing PalmOS software with FreePascal/Lazarus (wiki.freepascal.org)
Determined enthusiasts are building a custom 3dfx graphics card — VoodooX has 32MB RAM and DVI output (www.tomshardware.com)
A Galaxy of Possibilities – Xerox Star & Daybreak (blisscast.wordpress.com)
Let’s have a look at the very first commercial computer with a graphical user interface, called Xerox Star, which was the successor of the Xerox Alto! What did its marvelous GUI look like? Was it ground-breaking and easy to use as we’d expect? Or, perhaps, was it too ahead of its time? Well then, let’s find out!...
I ported THOUSANDS of apps to Windows 95 (youtu.be)
The Superior Lemmy Experience (files.catbox.moe)
Recently picket up this old Thinkpad T30 for 2 bucks at a local flea market. Its a bit scratched up and the battery is more or less dead but everything else is working fine. Its Pentium 4M, 1gb of ram and 40gb hdd might be a bit overkill for win2k but its really amazing. Running Firefox 13 and a webone proxy to deal with ssl...
Dell Called It "The Showstopper" - The Dell XPS M2010, a last hurrah of the luggable PC. (www.youtube.com)
ChinnyVision - Ep 545 - 40 Years Of The Amstrad CPC (www.youtube.com)
PUMPKINOS: A MODERN REIMPLEMENTATION OF PALMOS FOR TODAY’S PLATFORMS (hackaday.com)
I’ve not tried this but it looks interesting!
A brief history of keyboard encoding (kbd.news)
8BitDo’s latest retro keyboard is an ode to the Commodore 64 (www.theverge.com)
Usborne 1980s Computer Books (usborne.com)
Whats the best Universally usable CRT Monitor for computers all trough the 80s and 90s?
With my little Computer Collection ever growing, I think its time to get myself an actual Monitor to use these Machines. So im wondering, what Monitor has most if not all Connection Types and modes of operation to be compatible with most/ if not all Computer from the 80s till the 90s?...
Poorly Classified Data: How the internet became searchable (www.youtube.com)
In case you missed it: 3D-printed Mac Plus (youtu.be)
Kevin Noki - a german maker - recreates a mac plus with use of 3d printing. Calls it a brewintosh. Very impressive work.
[Solved] Seeking a name, from the mists of the past
In the Silicon Valley / San Jose / Bay area, there was a BBS that had a hierarchical message board, Replies were ordered under posts or other replies. In the 80’s this was an unusual feature of a bulletin system. The BBS was named for a character from some story. It was a hard to pronounce word/name starting with the letter...