all--

a few recent items of old-tech interest scraped from the interwebs:

> i've put this URL in our links section (archives folder), but let me
highlight GUIdebook, a really slickly designed site cataloguing the
history of the graphical user interface. expected fare like early
windows and mac, but also gems like acorn, amiga, BEOS, GEOS, and even
microsoft bob. spend an hour or three checking it out...very
nostalgia-inducing.

> sometimes we must let go of our machines, and that's okay.
lifehacker recently posted about the "recycling for charities" program
primarily for small wireless devices (cell phones, PDAs, digicam,
etc.), but there's also a lot of other useful info in the comments
section:
http://lifehacker.com/software/recyling/donate-your-wireless-device-to-charity-1\
89257.php

> even though it's not exactly retro, i've been following the MIT
"laptop for every child" (aka $100 laptop) travails for some time
now--WIRED has a story in this month's issue about how it's nearly
ready to come to fruition... a fascinating story:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.08/laptop.html

--iLLiaC