retro

The Gospel of Tux v1.0

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This has been floating around the Internet for some time now, but I’ve just recently heard of it. I laughed so hard I just had to re-post it here.

NeXTSTEP is cool

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And it's the UNIX that eventually became macOS and iOS.

The famous Pentium FDIV bug

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I can't think of the Pentium without thinking of this bug ;-)

Anatomy of an AS/400

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The AS/400 was perhaps the most stable and useful system of the early 1990s. Many companies ran their financials (at minimum) on this platform.

IBM hard drive from 1981

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And it makes a wicked coffee table too!

The Nostradamus of UNIX

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Seriously, this book predicted how UNIX would evolve to a tee.

History of game consoles

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This post is all about the game consoles we know and love....and their CPUs!

Roughing it on vacation

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In Muskoka with an old PowerBook, like a luddite.

Linux thin clients

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Older and unusual hardware has a second life as a thin client with Linux!

Computer evolution

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Do theories of evolution apply to computers? Well....