Simplifying Gadgets and Technology, is my passion!
Wow, imagine going back to visit the abandoned building where you started work about 35 years previously, where you went in and out with lots of other people full of hopes and dreams. Amazingly, too, […]
Gopher is a point-and-click internet protocol that predates Tim Berners-Lee’s WorldWideWeb. Although the web has almost totally replaced it, Gopherspace still exists. The snag is that, just as modern web browsers are removing FTP support, […]
Ever hear of Lotus 123? It is an old spreadsheet program that dominated the early PC market, taking the crown from incumbent Visicalc. Tavis Ormandy has managed to get the old software running natively under […]
The modem world refuses to be a single, stable object of analysis. In life and in memory, it was multiple, different, conflicting networks at the same time. This complexity was written into the architecture of […]
A very interesting video showing how the build took place. What was fascinating to learn is that Retro8BITshop sells a complete kit of parts excepting the PCB and the MOS8701 chip (but that is sold […]
It just boggles my mind that back in the 1840s such design technology could build a clock so high, with four 7 m diameter clock dials, and with around 2 seconds accuracy per day. To also […]
LOL yes today’s youth won’t know what punched paper tape storage was used for. We also used it with punched cards back in the heyday of mainframe computers. Most will remember punched paper tape being […]
In January 1981, a handful of semiconductor engineers at MOS Technology in West Chester, Pa., a subsidiary of Commodore International Ltd., began designing a graphics chip and a sound chip to sell to whoever wanted […]
The news that old-school adventure game pioneers Roberta and Ken Williams are returning to gaming after 25 years with a virtual reality version of classic game Colossal Cave got me thinking about how awesome text […]
The history of computing could arguably be divided into three eras: that of mainframes, minicomputers, and microcomputers. Minicomputers provided an important bridge between the first mainframes and the ubiquitous micros of today. This is the […]
The original very low quality German VHS factory tour of MOS and Commodore has been around for years, but this version uses advanced techniques to improve the video quality, along with English commentary. It is […]
Flock was based on Chromium a good 10+ years ago. It fully integrated various social media sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, Digg, and a few more, along with RSS, and even had a […]
The blinking cursor is not just some 1970s invention of yesteryear — it oriented millions of people in the digital world. It’s why and how the words you’re reading right now were created. In an […]