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Understanding CD-R and CD-RW (2003) [pdf]

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The Grind a Day: thousands of Apple II floppy disks archived

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Department of Defense: Software Is Never Done (2019) [pdf]

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The Parallel Port

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ASCII table and history – Or, why does Ctrl+i insert a Tab in my terminal?

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Byte Magazine 1975-1995

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The strangest computer manual ever written

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A Guide to the Terminal, Console, and Shell

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Just a bunch of idiots having fun: a photo history of the LAN party

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An Apple II Tale

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My dad's resume and skills from 1980

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The cursed computer iceberg meme (2021)

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The obsessive pleasures of mechanical-keyboard tinkerers

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“Code” 2nd Edition Now Available

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Byte Magazine: The Forth Language (1980)

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Operation Gunman – how the Soviets bugged IBM typewriters (2015)

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Enjoyed Jason Scott’s BBS documentary

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No Damned Computer Is Going to Tell Me What to Do – Story of Naval Data System

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Silicon Zoo: Tiny artwork on CPU dies

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Tonight we’re gonna log on like it's 1979

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Technical Time Travel: On Vintage Programming Books

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Personal Stories about the TRS-80

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Burroughs B 5500 Infomration Processing System (1964) [pdf]

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The Bastard Operator from Hell (1999)

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Retro collectors are uncovering hoards of old data

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Found a program I wrote in 1981 and decided to bring it back to life

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Vintage Byte Magazine Library

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The BYTE magazine covers by Robert Tinney

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Developer returns to game after 4 decades, discovers and fixes typo so it works

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Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 16

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Computers should expose their internal workings as a 6th sense

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Learn Something Old Every Day

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An Oral History of the L0pht (2018)

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Don't Piss Off Bradley, the Parts Seller Keeping Atari Machines Alive

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The Unix Magic Poster

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The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme

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Don Lancaster's Guru's Lair Home Page

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Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus

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Computer System Engineering

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Simulating the PIN cracking scene in Terminator 2

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Print this file, your printer will jam (2008)

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BEHEMOTH – Big Electronic Human-Energized Machine, Only Too Heavy

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Stories about the B5000 and people who were there (1979)

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Software Folklore – A collection of weird bug stories

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IBM Selectric Bug

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The Bastard Operator From Hell (1999)

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Oxide Computer Company: Initial boot sequence

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The Magical Excel 97 Far East Language Build Screwdriver

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A look back: The Bloomberg Keyboard (2017)

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A Romanian campus computer lab pentested the world and helped protect it (2018)

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The Embroidered Computer

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Hints for Computer System Design (1983) [pdf]

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Forrest Mims, Radio Shack, and the Notebooks That Launched a Thousand Careers

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My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

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‘We Got to Be Cool About This‘: An Oral History of the LØpht, Part 1

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A look back: The Bloomberg Keyboard (2017)

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Someone Stole My Book (and My Job) and Is Selling It on Amazon

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E-Stop and Fuel, software that keeps you awake at night

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Operation Gunman – how the Soviets bugged IBM typewriters (2015)

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Apple Krackers Guide (1985) [pdf]

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A Program from a 35 Year Old Magazine for BASIC Month and a Chat with Its Author

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Sysadmin war story: the network ate my font

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Bunnie Huang’s “Hardware Hacker” book is in print

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When You Accidentally Break Your School Network in 1995

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Things Every Hacker Once Knew

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Confessions of a Necromancer

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Game of Genomes

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The Cuneiform Tablets of 2015 [pdf]

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Patent that cost Microsoft millions gets invalidated

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Why the Sun 2 has a message “Love your country, but never trust its government”

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The Architecture of the Burroughs B-5000 (1982)

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A Piece of Apple II History Cracks Open

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Landing the Nostromo (1981)

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Plugging a 1986 Mac Plus into the Modern Web (2013)

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IRC History by Jarkko Oikarinen

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A Story About ‘Magic' (1994)

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How I Taught My Computer to Write Its Own Music

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Developer Saved Years Later by His Own Hardware

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The History of IRC

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Print this file, your printer will jam (2008)

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How I introduced a 27-year-old computer to the web

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Why I use a 20-year-old IBM Model M keyboard

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Homebrew Computer Club Reunion

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The Six Stages of Debugging (2012)

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It's Behind You: The making of the game R-Type on the ZX Spectrum

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The NSA Is Breaking Most Encryption on the Internet

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The Coming War on General Computation (2011)

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How I coded in 1985

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A 1970s Cray-1 hard drive has been imaged

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Old-skool virus writers still exist.

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Schneier on Security: Software Problems with a Breath Alcohol Detector

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Serendipity is too important to be left to chance (1996)

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The era of American computer magazines has drawn to a close

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Retro-Computing Society of Rhode Island

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A History of the TTY

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Reversing Choplifter

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When Serial Isn't RS-232, Geocaching with the Garmin GPS 95

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A Starter's guide on recovering damaged and rotten CDs

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