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Did missing/corrupt dates in COBOL default to 1875-05-20?
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Tues Jan 28, 2025 6:46pm PST
A look back at Coherent OS, a 1980s Unix lookalike ported to PCs
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Mon Dec 23, 2024 10:15pm PST
Photo of the CEOs of Nissan, Honda and Mitsubishi is the perfect album cover
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Fri Dec 20, 2024 9:04pm PST
DOS APPEND
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Fri Dec 20, 2024 1:04am PST
Altair 8800 kits went on sale December 19, 1974
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Tues Dec 10, 2024 6:06pm PST
The Arresting Typography of the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
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Mon Dec 9, 2024 10:07pm PST
Where can one read archived Microsoft Knowledge Base articles?
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Mon Dec 2, 2024 6:40pm PST
Why is the term "card" used in "expansion card"?
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Fri Oct 4, 2024 7:57pm PST
How were 70s versions of games like Pong built without a programmable computer?
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Tues Oct 1, 2024 10:35pm PST
So It Goes: GHQ, Kurt Vonnegut's WWII Board Game
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Mon Sep 30, 2024 5:31pm PST
The $621M Legal Battle for the 'Soul of the Internet'
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Fri Sep 27, 2024 4:42pm PST
How similar were the MC6800 and MOS 6502?
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Tues Sep 24, 2024 5:50pm PST
Did Microsoft Release a "Critical Update Notification Tool"?
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Wed Sep 11, 2024 7:30pm PST
Why were there so many OSes that had the name "DOS" in them?
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Mon Sep 9, 2024 5:37pm PST
There is no clear etymology for calloc
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Tues Aug 20, 2024 5:13pm PST
What Happened to Egghead Software?
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Tues Aug 13, 2024 6:09pm PST
Why did Borland ignore the Macintosh market?
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Tues Aug 6, 2024 8:47pm PST
What purpose did the lower-right Enter key serve on original Mac 128k keyboard?
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Fri Dec 29, 2023 7:31pm PST
Generative AI Will Be a Boon for Public Domain Unless Copyright Blocks It
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Thurs Dec 14, 2023 5:44pm PST
Why did older computers and OSes use UPPER case instead of lower case?
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Tues Dec 12, 2023 7:36pm PST
Why did Steve Jobs choose Motorola 68030 for the first NeXT and not Intel 80386?
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Wed Nov 29, 2023 6:35pm PST
Was there any computer since about 1960 without interrupt support?
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Wed Nov 22, 2023 6:05pm PST
How did Atari lose money on home computers?
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Mon Nov 20, 2023 5:57pm PST
Why didn't Microsoft use a well-known algorithm like RSA for phone activation?
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Fri Nov 3, 2023 9:01pm PST
Specimen cards holds complete snapshot of last type foundries in Germany
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Wed Nov 1, 2023 5:35pm PST
Who invented file extensions in file names?
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Fri Oct 27, 2023 9:44pm PST
The Journalist and the Influencer
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Tues Oct 17, 2023 6:46pm PST
Did Apple advise customers to lift up and then drop their computers?
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Fri Oct 13, 2023 4:47pm PST
Andrew Plotkin: Microsoft consumes Activision; and a plea
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Fri Oct 6, 2023 8:54pm PST
Why did the Motorola 68000 processor family fall out of use in PCs?
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Fri Oct 6, 2023 8:38pm PST
Why was BASIC's INT() a floor, and not a truncate?
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Fri Sep 22, 2023 6:28pm PST
Survey: State of HTML 2023
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Wed Jul 12, 2023 8:24pm PST
Dt: Duct tape for your Unix pipes
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Thurs Jun 8, 2023 9:07pm PST
Interactions Impacts Coincidences in First Golden Age of Computer Architecture [pdf]
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Thurs Jun 8, 2023 9:01pm PST
John Mashey offers tidbits on Unix and C early history
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Mon Jun 5, 2023 10:11pm PST
What goes into making an OS to be Unix compliant certified? (Mac OS X)
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Fri Jun 2, 2023 9:27pm PST
Technical Debt Is Over-Used
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