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• Jason Scott Needs Your Help

  
  Vintage Computing and Gaming — Authority: 460
  Jason Scott is a singular fellow. He’s the man behind the BBS Documentary, the upcoming Get Lamp documentary (on text adventure games), and creator of textfiles.com. He also spearheaded a recent attempt to archive all of Geocities before Yahoo took it down recently. This fellow historian, friend of VC&G, and ...
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• The Last Artgroup

  
  ASCII by Jason Scott — Authority: 564
  In the BBS Documentary, I dedicated an entire episode to the Artscene, the massive collection of groups doing ANSI artwork for bulletin board systems. I interviewed members of iCE and ACiD (and a bunch of others) and showed both the breathtaking variety of art they’d make, the political battles over the ...
  4 days ago

• Inside the Atari 800 (30th Anniversary)

  
  Vintage Computing and Gaming — Authority: 460
  Thirty years ago this fall, Atari shipped its first entries in the personal computer market, the Atari 800 and 400 computers. I’m particularly fond of the Atari 8-bit series because I grew up with an 800 as my first computer and video game machine — it was especially potent and impressive in the pre-NES [...]
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• Vintage vs. Modern PC Prices

  
  Vintage Computing and Gaming — Authority: 460
  Amongst all the heady VC&G anniversary festivities (I’ve been to five parties this week alone*), I almost forgot to tell you about a new VC&G-related article that popped up last week on Technologizer. It’s by a guy named Benj Edwards, which probably explains why I’m writing about it here. For my latest ...
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• [ Retro Scan of the Week ] 30 Years of VisiCalc

  
  Vintage Computing and Gaming — Authority: 460
  Reminds me of a Superman comic book cover. Thirty years ago this October, Personal Software unleashed VisiCalc, the world’s first spreadsheet software for personal computers, onto an unsuspecting computer populace. Invented and developed by Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston of Software Arts, VisiCalc has become ...
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• Geocities Saved!

  
  ASCII by Jason Scott — Authority: 564
  OK, so here’s the high-level report: We Saved Geocities! Obviously, this needs a truckload of qualifications, so let’s go over them immediately. First of all “We” is not just Archive Team , badass archivist motherfuckers that we are. While probably 30-40 people from around the world stopped in on the ...
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• Happy 40th Birthday to... The Internet?

  
  Plain English Computer Basics Tips and How-To Training by Worth Godwin — Authority: 98
  Well, there may be no cake, but yesterday was a day to celebrate, because this year, October 29th marks forty years since the birth of the Internet!Yes, its true -- despite the fact that many people think it first started in the mid 1990s, the Internet actually got its first start all the way back in 1969. The exact ...
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• Geocities RIP

  
  ASCII by Jason Scott — Authority: 564
  I am sure we all laughed at the end, there, when one of the members of Archive Team, slaving like the rest of us to yank data out, suggested a link to a Geocities page with a MIDI of “The Final Countdown” by Europe.  The perfect tinny music to blast out of the speakers as we watched a massive site come grinding ...
  2 weeks ago

• History Of The Computer; The Emergence Of Electronics.

  
  Computer Internet network security News — Authority: 136
  The history of the computer inevitably includes the development of electronics, we look at the explosive (!) growth of electronics in the late 1930s and early 1940s.If anything could be said in favor of war, it may be that it speeds up the development of technology. Of course much of that technology is employed in ...
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• GeoStupid

  
  ASCII by Jason Scott — Authority: 564
  You’re stupid and I hate you. I haven’t even met you, don’t even know where you are or what else you do, and I hate you. It’s 7 in the morning. I’ve been doing a lot of not sleeping lately. I’ve been doing a lot of not sleeping for months. I’ve been working on backing up hundreds of gigabytes of data ...
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• IBM PC Models

  
  Adiwebs.com — Authority: 132
  Model name Model Introduced CPU Features PC 5150 August 1981 8088 Floppy disk or cassette system XT 5160 March 1983 8088 First IBM PC to come with an internal hard drive as standard. XT/370 5160/588 October 1983 8088 5160 with XT/370 Option Kit and 3278/79 Emulation Adapter 3270 PC ...
  3 weeks ago

• Please Help Me Fund a Sabbatical

  
  ASCII by Jason Scott — Authority: 564
  All my favorite are the ideas that terrify me. Sometimes the terrifying idea is understandably terrifying – other times it’s just so many different ways of thinking about stuff that I’m lost in the possibilities. I think this is the second one. Basically, I’m reaching out to my fanbase and saying “Please ...
  3 weeks ago

• [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Sharp 286 VGA Notebook

  
  Vintage Computing and Gaming — Authority: 460
  The Sharp PC-6220 Notebook Computer [ From BYTE Magazine, October 1990 ] Discussion Topic of the Week: In your opinion, what’s the difference between a “notebook” and a “laptop” computer?
  3 weeks ago

• Flush Time

  
  Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat — Authority: 407
  Single-parity RAID is under attack. Caching is the hottest trend in storage. The end of the high-performance disk drive is imminent. What happened? Increasing areal bit density has caused disk capacity to grow much faster than disk performance . A presentation at Storage Networking World by Ronald Bianchini of ...
  3 weeks ago

• IBM Binders

  
  ASCII by Jason Scott — Authority: 564
  This week’s sent-in cool stuff came from Steve Ross, who sent me a box of IBM Binders. Sometimes (OK, fine, often) I get to indulge in acquiring material that is personally meaningful to me. In the case of IBM binders, it’s one of those connections that, honestly, I find hard to explain but it’s ...
  3 weeks ago

• Real-Time Web Summit Keynote

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 161
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  3 weeks ago

• The Atomic Level of Porn

  
  ASCII by Jason Scott — Authority: 564
  The presentation I gave at Arse Elektronika 2009 , entitled “The Atomic Level of Porn”, has been edited and uploaded by the very talented Eddie Codel , who utilized slides I sent him with a well-mic’d, well-constructed set of footage to make a superior audio-visual product. The talk is mostly an attempt to ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Dumb Disk Fallacy

  
  Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat — Authority: 407
  I am spending a few weeks examining the truths and fictions that bind our industry together. Let’s start with one of my favorite old canards: That enterprise storage must be overpriced because bare disk drives are so cheap . I have seen this straw man argument set up by so many throughout my career that it has ...
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• We Hold These (Storage) Truths…

  
  Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat Stephen Foskett, Pack Rat — Authority: 407
  I usually welcome discussion (and even argument) about the things I know best: There is always more to learn, and the best insights come through engaging those who disagree with us. But some ideas have been argued so well for so long that they deserve enshrinement. For example, although non-scientists like to argue ...
  4 weeks ago

• Outlook is Cloudy

  
  ASCII by Jason Scott — Authority: 564
  Well , well , well . So you might have missed this piece of news, but this past week, if you owned a phone branded as a T-Mobile Sidekick, which itself was based on original work of the Danger Hiptop, then your phone’s data was all lost and if you power-cycle your phone, you will lose all your contacts, photos ...
  4 weeks ago

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