Porting Modern Windows Applications To Windows 95

Windows 95 was an amazing operating system that would forever transform the world of home computing, setting the standard for user interaction on a desktop and quite possibly was the OS which had t…

The BBC Micro, Lovingly Simulated In VR

The BBC Micro was many peoples’ first exposure to home computing, and thanks to [Dominic Pajak], you can fire up this beloved hardware in WebXR. Is it an emulator? Yes, but it’s also mu…

Exploring The Bendix G-15’s Typewriter

The Bendix Corporation’s Bendix G-15 was introduced in 1956 as an affordable system for industrial and scientific markets. As with any computer system, a range of peripheral devices for input…

Wozamp Turns Apple II Into Music Player

Besides obvious technological advancements, early computers built by Apple differed in a major way from their modern analogs. Rather than relying on planned obsolescence as a business model, comput…

PumpkinOS: A Modern Reimplementation Of PalmOS For Today’s Platforms

In a world where the personal digital assistant (PDA) has become yet another retro computing system, it’s always nice when experiencing the software for such platforms can be done in a way th…

The Rise And Fall Of Silicon Graphics

Maybe best known as the company which brought a splash of color to corporate and scientific computing with its Indigo range of computer systems, Silicon Graphics Inc. (later SGI) burst onto the mar…

Zeitreise nach Paderborn: Retro Computer Festival im Heinz-Nixdorf-Forum

Das dritte Retro Computer Festival im weltgrößten Computermuseum bietet beliebte Schätzchen, aber auch exotische Exemplare. Der Eintritt ist frei.

GitHub - migueletto/PumpkinOS: PumpkinOS is a re-implementation of PalmOS.

PumpkinOS is a re-implementation of PalmOS. Contribute to migueletto/PumpkinOS development by creating an account on GitHub.

ColecoVision Cart Rises From Ashes

We felt bad for [Mark] of Mark Fixes Stuff. Apparently, his house burned down and took virtually everything, including his retrocomputer collection. He did manage to pull out a few things from the …

The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics

or How a Rebellious Youth Briefly Conquered the World

3M’s Floppy Disks: A Story Of Success And The Birth Of Imation

3M, or as it was officially called until 2002, the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company is one of those odd-duck companies where if you ask what products they manufacture the answer is pretty…

The Apple They Should Have Made, But Didn’t

Whenever there is a large manufacturer of a popular product in the tech space, they always attract tales of near-mythical prototypes which would have changed everything on the spot had they just no…

Reportage • "L'ordinateur et votre avenir" • (1978)

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3D Printing Computer Space

The first computer game available as a commercial arcade cabinet is unsurprisingly, a rare sight here in 2024. Nolan Bushnel and Ted Dabney’s 1971 Computer Space was a flowing fiberglass cabi…

Retrotechtacular: The IBM 7070

If you think of IBM mainframe computers, you most likely are thinking of the iconic S/360 or the slightly newer S/370. But what about the 7070 from 1958? It had transistors! It didn’t, howeve…

The Intel 8088 And 8086 Processor’s Instruction Prefetch Circuitry

Cache prefetching is what allows processors to have data and/or instructions ready for use in a fast local cache rather than having to wait for a fetch request to trickle through to system RAM and …

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Retrotechtacular: TOPS Runs The 1970s British Railroad

How do you make the trains run on time? British Rail adopted TOPS, a computer system born of IBM’s SAGE defense project, along with work from Standford and Southern Pacific Railroad. Before T…

From 0 to 1 MB in DOS

A tour on how DOS was able to use most of the 1 MB address space of the 8086