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New Taschen book on the history of the computer

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Steve Roberts: Computing Across America

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The Zombie Comeback of Analog Computing

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Learning BASIC Like It's 1983 (2018)

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Apple, Atari, and Commodore, Explore a deluxe home vintage computer den

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1991: A server-side web framework written in Forth

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What we can learn from vintage computing

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Vintage Apple advertisements

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Who invented the thumb drive?

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My secret life as an 11-year-old BBS sysop

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The Rise of Discmaster

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What happened to Tandy computers

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Not as famous as they should be (2021)

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How the Consumer Computer Is Consuming Computing

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Soviet Computer Software and Applications in the 1980's [pdf]

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A Look Back at the USSR Computer Industry

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Usborne computer and coding books from the 1980s

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The Home Computer Generation

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Tron changed cinema, predicted the future of tech

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Vintage computer ads

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The Birth of Rusty N Edie's BBS

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Christmas shopping the IBM way: computerized gift selection in 1962

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He Created the Oregon Trail

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The Insane Innovation of TI Calculator Hobbyists

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Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did (2012)

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Familia Toledo: The most inexpensive computer USD $99.00

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Nokia 9000 Communicator was launched 25 years ago

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Why Japan Didn’t Create the iPod (2008)

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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How You Wound Up Playing ‘The Oregon Trail’ in Computer Class (2016)

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Mighty MK-52: The Spaceworthy Soviet-era Calculator

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We will win the war for general-purpose computing

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The home computer as a cultural object is physically vanishing (2007)

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The Evolution of Forth

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Apple users group meeting with Steve Wozniak (1978) [audio]

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1991's PC technology was unbelievable (2011)

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Pravetz Computers

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Cemetery of Soviet Computers

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What would happen if computers never got any faster?

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The long lost manual for the Zuse Z4 has been found

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Discovery: User Manual of the Zuse Z4

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Why the Apple II Didn’t Support Lowercase Letters

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The Galaksija computer was a craze in 1980s Yugoslavia

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The History of Usenet and FidoNet

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BBC Computer Literacy Project 1980 – 1989

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The Analog Computer Museum

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Soviet Calculators History (1998)

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A half century ago, better transistors revolutionized computer power supplies

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Texas Instruments’ Speak and Spell

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Russia’s Retro Lenin Museum Still Runs on Decades-Old Apple II Computers

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On Reading Issues of Wired from 1993 to 1995 (2016)

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OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world (2018)

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Pay a visit to Cambridge’s computer museum

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I Miss Microsoft Encarta

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The Last Working Olivetti Mainframe Sits In a Tuscan High School

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Levels of code in Forth programming (2002)

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Codecademy vs. the BBC Micro

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41 Years Ago, There Were BBS Instead of the Internet

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Unseen images of Colossus code breaking computer

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Learning BASIC Like It's 1983

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Tide-Predicting Machine No. 2

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15 Years of SparkFun

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BBC releases its computer history archive

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The forgotten 80s home robot trend

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OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world

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Blender’s Prehistory – Traces on Commodore Amiga (1987-1991)

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The Quest for a Universal Translator for Old, Obsolete Computer Files

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Old Calculator Web Museum

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Not Your Father’s Analog Computer

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Identifying the “Early IBM Computer” in a Twitter Photo

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“There Is No Reason for Any Individual to Have a Computer in Their Home”

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The IBM PC, Part 1 (2012)

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Mediagenic (or, the Patent from Hell)

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1981 Radio Shack computer catalog (2015)

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On Reading Issues of Wired from 1993 to 1995

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German WW2 code machine found on eBay

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Konrad Zuse and the digital revolution he started 75 years ago

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Let Chris Crawford teach you to program Atari's 8-bit computers [video]

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Computer Museum bids farewell to Babbage engine

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MicroPython on the BBC micro:bit

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I was given some old BBS session logs and I scanned them

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Computers are People, Too: Disney documentary about computer art in 1982

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Zusie – My Relay Computer

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Xerox Alto Source Code

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The making of Elite

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Real-life Tron on an Apple II GS

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2000, the Year Formerly Known as the Future

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Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did

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The Demon Machine

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Today's real life is yesterday's science fiction.

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Just give me a simple CPU and some I/O ports

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The First App Store

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Hard disk LEDs and noisy machines

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For a moment there, Lotus Notes appeared to do everything a company needed

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Usborne 1980s Computer Books

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100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born

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Konrad Zuse (1994)

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Lore Harp McGovern built a microcomputer empire from her suburban home

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When will computer hardware match the human brain? (1998)

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Personal computing paves the way for personal library science

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My secret life as an 11-year-old BBS sysop (2022)

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Emoji History: The Missing Years

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Von Neumann's First Computer Program (1970)

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Stop Using Discord

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Don Estridge: A misfit who built the IBM PC

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Soviet Calculator History (1998)

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Jacek Karpińśki, the computer genius the communists couldn't stand (2017)

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Andy Warhol's lost Amiga art found

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Archiving "The Famous Computer Cafe"

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Olivetti Programma 101: At the Origins of the Personal Computer

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What we can learn from vintage computing

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