Tagged “retro-computing”
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EyeOS
A game where you find your lost friend by snooping through their Apple II-inspired computer, opening files and programs…
First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival
Full audio from a rare 1979 Creative Computing LP of hobbyist computers playing music, with liner notes on each system f…
Floppinux
A walkthrough for building a tiny embedded Linux that boots from a single 1.44 MB floppy disk, a retro-computing challen…
floppy.cafe
A cozy retro site of lost and sacred texts on talking directly to a 3.5-inch floppy drive: MFM encoding, signal pinouts,…
Fossilware
A community archive of the hardware, software, games, and music many of us grew up with, built on human memory instead o…
Free Software for DOS
Reviews and links to more than 1000 freeware and shareware DOS programs, a time capsule and handy catalogue for retro co…
GUIdebook
A gallery preserving screenshots, icons, sounds and timelines from legacy operating systems and graphical interfaces, fr…
History of Microchess
Peter Jennings tells how Microchess for the KIM-1 became the first game program sold for home computers, from six months…
Hohokam's Desktop
A deliberately silly retro-desktop personal site collecting the owner's 3D printing, retro computing, console restoratio…
How to Copy a File from a 30-Year-Old Laptop
A fun retro-computing adventure about getting one file off a three-decade-old laptop with no modern ports, using improvi…
HP Computer Museum
An archive of classic Hewlett-Packard computing products from 1966 to 1991, including calculators, desktop computers, an…
HyperCard Simulator
Runs classic HyperCard stacks right in the browser, so you can import old stacks and click through the playful multimedi…
HyperCard Simulator - Coffee Stack
A small classic-style HyperCard stack running in the browser as a PWA, a nostalgic taste of Mac-era interactive cards 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…
IBM 360 Model 20 Rescue and Restoration
A volunteer project documenting the recovery and restoration of a 1960s IBM System/360 Model 20 mainframe, with machine…
Infinite Mac
Boot a classic Mac running Mac OS 9 right in your browser, preloaded with period software and games to click around in l…
Infinite Mac
A classic Mac OS 8.1 machine emulated right in the browser, preloaded with period software, games and utilities you can…
Infinite Mac: System 7
A classic Macintosh running System 7.5 right in the browser, preloaded with period software and games so you can boot it…
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Inside the first issue of Macworld
Scott Knaster flips through the first issue of Macworld from 1984, showing scanned pages, vintage ads and the early Mac…
Intel 80386, a Revolutionary CPU
A deep illustrated look at the Intel 80386, the chip that cemented the x86 line, covering its design, features and its r…
InvisibleUp
A friendly internet ghost's site of articles, doodles and projects, with retro-computing and game-hacking writeups and h…
IRATA.ONLINE
A retro-computing community running a live PLATO service, the 1970s educational network, that you can connect to with a…
Kid Pix - The Early Years
Craig Hickman tells the story of creating Kid Pix, the beloved children's painting program, from a rough prototype for h…
Kjetil's Information Center
Two decades of retro-computing projects and homemade emulators, with write-ups on hardware repairs and hobby programming…
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