Category: Lazy Reading

I never knew until now why a Centronics port was a Centronics port.

Magnetic tape, always the victim.

breakdancing medieval marginalia.  There’s more.

MuffinTerm, a terminal application specifically for BBS use.

The Vintage Technology Digital Archive.  barebones but contains gems.(via)

You too can play Space Travel, from 1969, created as part of inventing UNIX.

Related: there’s a bunch of space games available.

If you want to produce papers that look like classic UNIX troff-produced papers, here’s how.

XScreenSaver in the wild.

Sequels in Strategy Gaming, Part 1: Civilization II.

Why standard error exists.  Nobody uses it correctly, though.

Ken Thompson imagines Alan Turing time traveling to the present day and encountering a computer.  Oddly funny.  (via)

The Magic Art of Jan Svankmajer.

Last Call BBS.  It’s a game and a recreation of a time.  (via)

Manual for a computer built in 1945.  (via)

Music Thing Modular.  Interesting music hardware also open sourced.  (via)

The Sound of the Dialup, Pictured.  (via)

I must, must change my career in the next 14 years.  (via)

I did not know about this line of SPARC laptops or that they left the planet.

Slam-Dunking the Madeleine.  I love that this exists.