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Finding And Resurrecting Archie: The Internet’s First Search Engine ( hackaday.com )

Archive.today link to the article.

Idle Windows XP and 2000 machines get infected with viruses within minutes of being exposed online — legacy OSes compromised by just connecting to the Internet ( www.tomshardware.com )

The Niveus Denali: 2005's Coolest Home Theater PC ( www.youtube.com )

Alternative Invidious Link

BASIC for the Masses ( lemmy.sdf.org )

You are a BASIC bitch, so type-in and share your BASIC listings here. Any and all BASIC dialects are welcome.

Apple MIDI interface Demo - 1987 ( youtu.be )

8-Bit Homebrew Processor ( www.youtube.com )

So, this isn't exactly retrocomputing and it looks like it's from four years ago, but I just found it and thought that many here may find it interesting....

The BASIC programming language turns 60 ( arstechnica.com )

I was definitely a Commodore kid, and BASIC was my first language. Maybe it's nostalgia, but I still like BASIC for hobby stuff.

Trying to get DOS 6.22 on an SD Card, to then run via an ISA IDE to SD Adapter on my Commodore PC-10 III, but It doesn't wanna boot. What am I doing wrong? ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )

I have been following the exact steps as outlined in this tutorial video, with no oddities happening along the way:...

Inside the Globus INK: a mechanical navigation computer for Soviet spaceflight ( www.righto.com )

"Different Globus units needed to be built for different orbits. Moreover, this design only handles circular orbits, making it useless during orbit changes such as rendezvous and docking. These were such significant limitations that some cosmonauts wanted the Globus removed from the control panel, but it remained until it was...

Microsoft releases MS-DOS 4 source code on GitHub — 45 year old code now open-source ( www.tomshardware.com )

Compiling MS-DOS 4.0 from DOS 4.0, on a PS/2! ( virtuallyfun.com )

C64 Round Up: April/May 2024 - 13 Games, Pixel Art, News & More! ( www.youtube.com )

How Not To Release Historic Source Code | OS/2 Museum ( www.os2museum.com )

After 48 years, Zilog is killing the classic standalone Z80 microprocessor chip ( arstechnica.com )

Fifty Years of the Personal Computer Operating System ( computerhistory.org )

Zilog Calls Time on the Venerable Z80, Discontinues the Standalone Z84C00 CPU Family ( www.hackster.io )

writing PalmOS software with FreePascal/Lazarus ( wiki.freepascal.org )

Determined enthusiasts are building a custom 3dfx graphics card — VoodooX has 32MB RAM and DVI output ( www.tomshardware.com )

I ported THOUSANDS of apps to Windows 95 ( youtu.be )

The Superior Lemmy Experience ( files.catbox.moe )

Recently picket up this old Thinkpad T30 for 2 bucks at a local flea market. Its a bit scratched up and the battery is more or less dead but everything else is working fine. Its Pentium 4M, 1gb of ram and 40gb hdd might be a bit overkill for win2k but its really amazing. Running Firefox 13 and a webone proxy to deal with ssl...

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