while watching _CBS Sunday Morning_ yesterday, i was reminded of the demise of one of the internet's precursors, and certainly the technology responsible for...
I actually found a way to get rid of planned obsolescence....built in errors. Keep in mind I have a windows 3.1 pc which is completely functional as a result...
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i didn't necessarily start this group in order to showcase old computers as fetish objects (the working theory is that they can still be useful and we should...
Not sure if I mentioned this or not...but, for those of you on LJ or browse it, here is a neat community: http://community.livejournal.com/vintagecomputer/ ...
Hi, My point is apparently being misconstrued.... This process is a fix for a malicous code that seems to exploit planned obsolescence....which makes planned...
all-- things have been busy lately (work and an upcoming move), but i've got a few projects in the works that i'm planning on posting here over the summer. in...
all-- ... highlight GUIdebook, a really slickly designed site cataloguing the history of the graphical user interface. expected fare like early windows and...
all-- I've got a few projects lined up now that I'm in my new house, so I thought I'd report on them as they come to fruition. The first one is *really* easy:...
[Passed along without comment from BoingBoing:] Title: Ghost town dial-up BBSes still online There are a few ghost-town dial-up BBSes [bulletin board systems] ...
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... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/columbusconsortium/cal archive records Friday December 15, 2006 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ... at the end of every year, we will move...
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[from BoingBoing:] Video of retro Commodore programs Kim Moser has lovingly captured a bunch of old Commodore PET and C-64 demos from the late 1970s and early...
[from "unwired" listserv (http://www.unwired.cc/). addresses parallel computing solution for navajo technical college.] San Diego Supercomputer Experts Help ...
For those of you interested in instructional technology issues, especially related to bootstrapping, see this quick photo-story, scraped from the digg news...
[http://news.com.com/Fun+and+profit+with+obsolete+computers/2100-1041_3-6175961.html?tag=nefd.top] this emerging economy has many points-of-entry......
[this is a neat community event happening in berkely, culled from boingboing:] This weekend, MAKE: and the Alameda County Computer Resource Center (ACCRC) in...
Sweet. My oldest worker is a IBM XT with a color monitor. Still runs just fine. Buried in the attic is a TI-99. Not sure the condition, though. - Pelzig...
My dad threw out our silver Ti99/4A, along with the adventure cartridge & speech synthesizer along with all the other tapes and cartridges.. I ended up buying...
I think mine is a silver model. I never got any of the accessories for it since, honestly, I was far more interested in my Atari 2600. Since it has been up in...
Obvious but very practical, with links to several software options to convert that old 286/apple IIe into a firewall, file server, torrent box, etc. ...
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