#computer-history — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #computer-history, aggregated by home.social.
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Eliza Bot Running and ready for your retro psycological problems
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"Now, you've gotta remember this was the 1990s. This was before the Always On Internet that we imagine today.
"The Internet was something that you had to sign into, use briefly, and then disconnect so that your mom could make phone calls."
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"Now, you've gotta remember this was the 1990s. This was before the Always On Internet that we imagine today.
"The Internet was something that you had to sign into, use briefly, and then disconnect so that your mom could make phone calls."
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Das Computer-Museum Hamburg ist umgezogen – jetzt im Geomatikum /Eimsbüttel.
https://mprove.de/chrono?q=53.56918,9.97412&z=16.95&r=-93&d=0&s=1&i=1 -
Das Computer-Museum Hamburg ist umgezogen – jetzt im Geomatikum /Eimsbüttel.
https://mprove.de/chrono?q=53.56918,9.97412&z=16.95&r=-93&d=0&s=1&i=1 -
Eliza Bot Running and ready for your retro psycological problems
Toot me a Hello to start
#RetoComputing #Eliza #ComputerHistory -
Eliza Bot Running and ready for your retro psycological problems
Toot me a Hello to start
#RetoComputing #Eliza #ComputerHistory -
Eliza Bot Running and ready for your retro psycological problems
Toot me a Hello to start
#RetoComputing #Eliza #ComputerHistory -
The Bit79 was a Famicom clone that took the “Family Computer” Name Seriously
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/07/06/__trashed-14/
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The Bit79 was a Famicom clone that took the “Family Computer” Name Seriously
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/07/06/__trashed-14/
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Eliza Bot Running and ready for your retro psycological problems
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#RetoComputing #Eliza #ComputerHistory -
Eliza Bot Running and ready for your retro psycological problems
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#RetoComputing #Eliza #ComputerHistory -
Two books were formative for me in my early teens: Hackers by Steven Levy and The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder. I remember enjoying the latter a great deal, but Hackers was the one that had the bigger impact at the time in terms of scope.
I just finished the audiobook reading of Soul a moment ago and I have to say that it has been utterly transfixing. My perspective is so different now perhaps 40 years later.
And wow is that book prescient!
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Two books were formative for me in my early teens: Hackers by Steven Levy and The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder. I remember enjoying the latter a great deal, but Hackers was the one that had the bigger impact at the time in terms of scope.
I just finished the audiobook reading of Soul a moment ago and I have to say that it has been utterly transfixing. My perspective is so different now perhaps 40 years later.
And wow is that book prescient!
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Eliza Bot Running and ready for your retro psycological problems
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#RetoComputing #Eliza #ComputerHistory -
SuSE Linux 5.3 has been tested on an 86Box virtual machine with Slot 1 [1997]
#SuSE #SuSELinux #TechNews #TechUpdates #Computers #Laptops #Retrocomputing #ComputerHistory #Linux #OldLinux #SuSELinux5_3
https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/suse-linux-5-3-on-86box-with-slot-1-1997/
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SuSE Linux 5.3 has been tested on an 86Box virtual machine with Slot 1 [1997]
#SuSE #SuSELinux #TechNews #TechUpdates #Computers #Laptops #Retrocomputing #ComputerHistory #Linux #OldLinux #SuSELinux5_3
https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/suse-linux-5-3-on-86box-with-slot-1-1997/
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Eliza Bot Running and ready for your retro psycological problems
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#RetoComputing #Eliza #ComputerHistory -
Eliza Bot Running and ready for your retro psycological problems
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#RetoComputing #Eliza #ComputerHistory -
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: Jailbreaking isn't theft (25 Jun 2026)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/25/thieve-different/
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Eliza Bot Running and ready for your retro psycological problems
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Kent Pitman #tech Historic Document Release, screwlisp's new CLIM #Lisp #zine, #mathematics and #climate w/ Ramin Honary
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WHY do we do what we do?
Have we lost the WHY?
Watch 10 min Ted Nelson (2018) via https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/nelson.html?q=ieee#fcontainer
uTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i67rQdHuO-8 -
Today is Konrad Zuse’s birthday, a lesser known computer pioneer (unless you live in East Germany). If you’re ever in the Dresden area, the Zuse Computer Museum in Hoyerswerda is really neat. #ComputerHistory #KonradZuse #Deutschland #Travel
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Today is Konrad Zuse’s birthday, a lesser known computer pioneer (unless you live in East Germany). If you’re ever in the Dresden area, the Zuse Computer Museum in Hoyerswerda is really neat. #ComputerHistory #KonradZuse #Deutschland #Travel
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Eliza Bot Running and ready for your retro psycological problems
Toot me a Hello to start
#RetoComputing #Eliza #ComputerHistory -
Eliza Bot Running and ready for your retro psycological problems
Toot me a Hello to start
#RetoComputing #Eliza #ComputerHistory -
TIL that »The Mother of All Demos« has an <strike>elder</strike> little sister. Doug #Engelbart and team have performed a taped NLS/Augment demo on Oct 1, 1969 as well!
I put the 3 segments on my log at https://mprove.de/visionreality/index.html?q=Engelbart#log -
TIL that »The Mother of All Demos« has an elder sister. Doug #Engelbart and team have performed a NLS/Augment demo on Oct 1, 1969 already!
I put the 3 segments on my log at https://mprove.de/visionreality/index.html?q=Engelbart#log -
Eliza Bot Running and ready for your retro psycological problems
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#RetoComputing #Eliza #ComputerHistory -
@zrzz @xvw My timeline of editors:
<1980: variety of editors on IBM mainframes and DEC mini-computers (and I guess that punching cards counts as an editor 🫣).
1980: vi on Unix v7 on a PDP-11/70 and subsequently on BSD Unix on Vax 11/780 and a few new desktop Unix workstations; what a revelation!
1984: Emacs (**finally**) on BSD Unix on a Vax 11/780; Emacs was built without IT department permission by a friend and he often gave it very strange names to avoid detection by IT (due to the "eight megabytes and constantly swapping" 😉). Wrote my first elisp custom code!
mid 1980s through to mid 1990s: Emacs and vi on Sun workstations and then on Linux (since 0.99pl12) on PCs.
1996 to mid 2000s: dabbled with variety of Java editors such as Eclipse but always came back to Emacs.
mid 2000s to now: no more dabbling, sticking to Emacs mostly with vi(m) for some tasks and both obviously on Linux.
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Eliza Bot Running and ready for your retro psycological problems
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#RetoComputing #Eliza #ComputerHistory -
Red Hat 1.1 Mother's Day + 0.1 on 86Box with Socket 8 [1995]
#RedHat #TechNews #TechUpdates #Retrocomputing #XFree86 #Computers #ComputerHistory #RedHat1 #RedHat1_1
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We have tested Debian 1.1.4 on 86Box with Socket 7 (Dual Voltage) [1996]!
#Debian #Linux #Retrocomputing #DebianBuzz #Computers #Laptops #TechNews #TechUpdates #ComputerHistory
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Reading Steve Jobs in Exile — The Untold Story of NeXT and the Remaking of an American Visionary by Geoffrey Cain.
Just started chapter 25, which begins in August 1996. Apple CEO Gil Amelio is struggling with what to do with Copland, their latest OS in development.
Found a bit of an anachronism:
“But without a modern OS, Apple users were left stuck in the dark ages, facing the spinning beach ball of death every time an application froze.“
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#Tech #Computer #RetroTech #Retro #RetroTechnology #RetroComputers #VintageComputer #RetroComputing #Magazine #VintageAd #VintageTech #ComputerHistory #RetroHardware #VintageHardware #OldSchoolHardware #ComputerHardwareHistory #ClassicHardware #RetroComputingHardware #LegacyHardware #HardwareThrowback
