Some more of the computing industry's greatest mistakes [Part 2: The 16-bit era]
Some more of the computing industry's greatest mistakes
https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/29/where_computing_went_wrong_feature_part_2/
As the hardware got more capable, the messes got more expensive
Where the computer industry went wrong – the early hits [Part 1 - Commodore, Sinclair, Acorn]
Where the computer industry went wrong
https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/28/where_computing_went_wrong_feature_part_1/
A personal collection of the memorable missteps and fumbles
Rare Private Tour of Seattle's long-closed Living Computer Museum [Dave's Garage]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OohnXELGQ74
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MS-DOS has been Open-Sourced! We Build and Run it!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR6F0EdyulA
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silicon transistors — long awaited by the electronics industry — are finally out of the laboratory and on the market (1954)
"The Orange Micro card is a Wintel compatible computer in your Macintosh" (1997)
How did the world before BIOS, compilers and OS look like?
I really don't understand how complex programs like compilers and browsers have come to an existence.
From little what I know about 8086, it resembles a digital abacus in a way that we can set, push and do all the fancy magic with registers and store them in memories using buttons.
For the like of me, I cannot figure out how an OS was created out of thin air? Do they keep pushing, adding and popping registers back in the day to create OS or compiler? What about the TTY? Was there no such thing as booting? What about file systems? Partitions? How did any of that even work in the first place?
30 years after: A Retrospective into Intel's infamous Pentium FDIV Bug
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA3Hnvh859w
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A Trove of Apple Promo Videos from the '80s and '90s
A Trove of Apple Promo Videos from the '80s and '90s - Byte Cellar
https://bytecellar.com/2011/04/13/a-trove-of-apple-promo-videos-from-the-80s-and-90s/
For a few years now I’ve been sitting on two DVDs full of Apple promotional videos that someone put together and auctioned on eBay. Happily, most of the content was new to me. The videos promote various Apple systems, primarily … Continue reading →
Pages by Pages - Wrestle WordPerfect. Futz with FrameMaker, Or simply use Pages
Pages by Pages
https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/pages-by-pages
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