The Misfit Who Built the IBM PC (every.to)
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Let’s continue our marvelous trip into GUI Wonderland, where we’ll learn 80s computing alongside our trusty Apple Lisa, the first personal computer with a GUI!...
A couple posts ago I asked if anyone knew of an archive of old tiled wallpapers. There really weren’t any that were curated or easily accessible, so I started one. So far there are over 12k tiles!...
Not so much a post, but more of a request. Is there a proper archive somewhere of 90s tiled wallpapers for older distros? Think like, old CDE style stuff.
Another template on the theme of MS DOS...
Archive.today link to the article.
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So, this isn't exactly retrocomputing and it looks like it's from four years ago, but I just found it and thought that many here may find it interesting....
I was definitely a Commodore kid, and BASIC was my first language. Maybe it’s nostalgia, but I still like BASIC for hobby stuff.
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/2435866...
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