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512 Pixels
A long-running blog by Stephen Hackett about things that light up and make noise, covering Apple, computer history, spac…
A Communist Apple II
An engineering archaeology tale about a Cold War era Apple II clone, and how an old machine was tested for years without…
Amiga Juggler Animation
The story of the 1986 Amiga Juggler ray-traced animation, with the history and technique behind a famous early computer-…
Apple II History: The Apple-1
A detailed chapter on the Apple-1, from Wozniak's homebrew design and the Byte Shop order to how the board was built and…
Burning a NeXTCube (1993)
Simson Garfinkel's famous 1993 post telling how a NeXTcube was set on fire, a darkly funny piece of early Internet lore.
Computer Hobby Movement in Canada
A museum exhibit on early Canadian home-computer culture, with oral histories, BBS memories and the cyberspace art scene…
Ghosts in the ROM
Hackers at NYC Resistor dig through a 1987 Mac SE ROM dump and uncover a hidden photo of the original Macintosh team, ex…
Happy 40th Birthday, Macintosh
A tribute site that walks through every Macintosh desktop and portable Apple has made since 1984, with photos and detail…
How Compaq Cloned IBM
The Internet History Podcast tells the true story behind Halt and Catch Fire: how Compaq reverse-engineered the IBM PC B…
HP Computer Museum
An archive of classic Hewlett-Packard computing products from 1966 to 1991, including calculators, desktop computers, an…
IBM 360 Model 20 Rescue and Restoration
The story of friends who spotted an oddly worded eBay listing, then rescued and began restoring a rare IBM System 360 ma…
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If Looks Could Kill
Leonard Tramiel, son of Commodore founder Jack Tramiel, recalls demoing the PET at a trade show and a memorable run-in w…
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
An interactive chart of computer latencies, from cache hits to disk seeks and packet round trips, with a slider showing…
Olivetti Programma 101
An in-depth Inexhibit case study of the Olivetti Programma 101, the 1965 Italian desktop machine often called the first…
Sphere Computers
A deep archive of the Sphere, a forgotten 1975 Motorola 6800 personal computer, with its history, photos, scanned manual…
The Apple IIGS Megahertz Myth
Did Apple deliberately hobble the IIGS to protect the Macintosh? A retro-computing deep dive tests the legend against ha…
The Corvus Systems Museum
A museum page on Corvus Systems, the California company that brought low-cost high-speed hard disk storage to early pers…
The CPU Shack
A museum for the history of processors and CPUs and how they changed our world, covering Intel and AMD as well as lesser…
The Interim Computer Museum
A volunteer museum site preserving vintage computers, with collections, recollections and event pages for retro-computin…
The Man Who Carried Computer Science on His Shoulders
A profile of Edsger Dijkstra, the influential and often controversial computer scientist, tracing his ideas, personality…
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