Finding And Resurrecting Archie: The Internet’s First Search Engine (hackaday.com)
Archive.today link to the article.
Idle Windows XP and 2000 machines get infected with viruses within minutes of being exposed online — legacy OSes compromised by just connecting to the Internet (www.tomshardware.com)
The BASIC programming language turns 60 (arstechnica.com)
I was definitely a Commodore kid, and BASIC was my first language. Maybe it’s nostalgia, but I still like BASIC for hobby stuff.
Inside the Globus INK: a mechanical navigation computer for Soviet spaceflight (www.righto.com)
"Different Globus units needed to be built for different orbits. Moreover, this design only handles circular orbits, making it useless during orbit changes such as rendezvous and docking. These were such significant limitations that some cosmonauts wanted the Globus removed from the control panel, but it remained until it was...
Compiling MS-DOS 4.0 from DOS 4.0, on a PS/2! (virtuallyfun.com)
How Not To Release Historic Source Code | OS/2 Museum (www.os2museum.com)
Microsoft releases MS-DOS 4 source code on GitHub — 45 year old code now open-source (www.tomshardware.com)
After 48 years, Zilog is killing the classic standalone Z80 microprocessor chip (arstechnica.com)
Fifty Years of the Personal Computer Operating System (computerhistory.org)
Zilog Calls Time on the Venerable Z80, Discontinues the Standalone Z84C00 CPU Family (www.hackster.io)
Determined enthusiasts are building a custom 3dfx graphics card — VoodooX has 32MB RAM and DVI output (www.tomshardware.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)
Usborne 1980s Computer Books (usborne.com)
writing PalmOS software with FreePascal/Lazarus (wiki.freepascal.org)
freepascal/lazarus amiga development (blog.alb42.de)
gui program developed with lazarus/freepascal, compiled for amiga, works same way: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKGS6fcLLOE
Maximum resolution of Atari ST (www.atari-forum.com)
Because in low res some 416x274 is possible, in med res maybe can pull out 832x274 - still little less pixels than in mono.
8BitDo’s latest retro keyboard is an ode to the Commodore 64 (www.theverge.com)
Infinite Mac: Turning To The Dark Side (blog.persistent.info)
Let's talk about viruses and anti-viruses in MS-DOS! (blog.raduzaharia.com)
ZX Touch Is A £220 Portable ZX Spectrum With A 7-Inch Screen (www.timeextension.com)
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