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Just Another Day In 1972 Working At Dec On A Niche Program To Be Used On A Pdp-11 Industrial Grade Computer - Ken Thompson (sitting) and Dennis Ritchie (standing) in front of a PDP-11 in 1972.

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Crazy custom keyboards.

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iBook Clamshell G3 to G4 Mod Review

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I Bought a NeXTcube, Now What? - Krazy Ken's Tech Misadventures

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Essential Reality P5 Glove

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Here's What Happens When an 18 Year Old Buys a Mainframe. Fun story, gay hair.

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The World's first Overclocked computer

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IBM model F usb controllers are a thing. Great keyboard, you can pick them up in "for parts or repair" condition and throw one of these in for cheap.

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$2 find. Complete minus the shit shovelware that came with it.

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$1 thrift store score. Radio Shack EC-242.

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The Eternal Mainframe.

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K-Mart Yahoo Bluelight (Free Dialup Internet 2000)

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Unix at 50: How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure

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Unix recovery level: GOD.

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Before Amiga: The Story of the 16-bit Commodore 900

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Star Wars - Imperial March on Eight Floppy Drives

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Early Computer Speech Synthesis (1961)

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Grandaddy - Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground) - Programmed in Applesoft II on a 1979 Apple ][+ with 48K of RAM. Seriously.

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Installing a Gotek Floppy Emulator on the Amstrad PCW

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Building a MicroATX IBM Clone! The NuXT Turbo PC (Modern 8088 XT Clone)

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LAN Manager Product Specification, 1987 | OS/2 Museum

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Technician keeps computer made in 1959 still humming along

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Can an external PCI-Express to PCI adapter work? Sort of...

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Rare original 1976 Apple-1 operation manual up for auction

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FalconFly 3dfx Archive.

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