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  1. A blast from the past.

    "Charles Platt’s 1984 book Micromania (known in the USA as The Whole-Truth Home Computer Handbook) examined the current state of the art in home computers, mingling solidly factual and jargon-free explanation with sardonic exposure of industry hype and lampoons of hackers and other “creatures of the computer continuum”."

    taff.org.uk/ebooks.php?x=Micro

    #Books #Computers #ComputerHistory #History #Microcomputers

  2. A blast from the past.

    "Charles Platt’s 1984 book Micromania (known in the USA as The Whole-Truth Home Computer Handbook) examined the current state of the art in home computers, mingling solidly factual and jargon-free explanation with sardonic exposure of industry hype and lampoons of hackers and other “creatures of the computer continuum”."

    taff.org.uk/ebooks.php?x=Micro

    #Books #Computers #ComputerHistory #History #Microcomputers

  3. A blast from the past.

    "Charles Platt’s 1984 book Micromania (known in the USA as The Whole-Truth Home Computer Handbook) examined the current state of the art in home computers, mingling solidly factual and jargon-free explanation with sardonic exposure of industry hype and lampoons of hackers and other “creatures of the computer continuum”."

    taff.org.uk/ebooks.php?x=Micro

    #Books #Computers #ComputerHistory #History #Microcomputers

  4. A blast from the past.

    "Charles Platt’s 1984 book Micromania (known in the USA as The Whole-Truth Home Computer Handbook) examined the current state of the art in home computers, mingling solidly factual and jargon-free explanation with sardonic exposure of industry hype and lampoons of hackers and other “creatures of the computer continuum”."

    taff.org.uk/ebooks.php?x=Micro

    #Books #Computers #ComputerHistory #History #Microcomputers

  5. A blast from the past.

    "Charles Platt’s 1984 book Micromania (known in the USA as The Whole-Truth Home Computer Handbook) examined the current state of the art in home computers, mingling solidly factual and jargon-free explanation with sardonic exposure of industry hype and lampoons of hackers and other “creatures of the computer continuum”."

    taff.org.uk/ebooks.php?x=Micro

    #Books #Computers #ComputerHistory #History #Microcomputers

  6. No hype. No myths. Just the real story of the man behind the Apple I and Apple II. iWoz delivers every page.
    #books #ComputerHistory #BookReview
    thisgrandpablogs.com/iwoz-book

  7. No hype. No myths. Just the real story of the man behind the Apple I and Apple II. iWoz delivers every page.
    #books #ComputerHistory #BookReview
    thisgrandpablogs.com/iwoz-book

  8. No hype. No myths. Just the real story of the man behind the Apple I and Apple II. iWoz delivers every page.
    #books #ComputerHistory #BookReview
    thisgrandpablogs.com/iwoz-book

  9. No hype. No myths. Just the real story of the man behind the Apple I and Apple II. iWoz delivers every page.
    #books #ComputerHistory #BookReview
    thisgrandpablogs.com/iwoz-book

  10. No hype. No myths. Just the real story of the man behind the Apple I and Apple II. iWoz delivers every page.
    #books #ComputerHistory #BookReview
    thisgrandpablogs.com/iwoz-book

  11. 85 years of computers!

    Zuse Z3 was first presented on May 12, 1941 in Berlin, Germany. It was five years before ENIAC (1946). The Z3 was the first fully programmable computing machine in the world.

    Zuse KG became the first company worldwide producing commercial computers in 1949.

    #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #computerhistory #zuse #conradzuse

    datacenter-insider.de/85-jahre

  12. 85 years of computers!

    Zuse Z3 was first presented on May 12, 1941 in Berlin, Germany. It was five years before ENIAC (1946). The Z3 was the first fully programmable computing machine in the world.

    Zuse KG became the first company worldwide producing commercial computers in 1949.

    #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #computerhistory #zuse #conradzuse

    datacenter-insider.de/85-jahre

  13. 85 years of computers!

    Zuse Z3 was first presented on May 12, 1941 in Berlin, Germany. It was five years before ENIAC (1946). The Z3 was the first fully programmable computing machine in the world.

    Zuse KG became the first company worldwide producing commercial computers in 1949.

    #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #computerhistory #zuse #conradzuse

    datacenter-insider.de/85-jahre

  14. 85 years of computers!

    Zuse Z3 was first presented on May 12, 1941 in Berlin, Germany. It was five years before ENIAC (1946). The Z3 was the first fully programmable computing machine in the world.

    Zuse KG became the first company worldwide producing commercial computers in 1949.

    #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #computerhistory #zuse #conradzuse

    datacenter-insider.de/85-jahre

  15. 85 years of computers!

    Zuse Z3 was first presented on May 12, 1941 in Berlin, Germany. It was five years before ENIAC (1946). The Z3 was the first fully programmable computing machine in the world.

    Zuse KG became the first company worldwide producing commercial computers in 1949.

    #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #computerhistory #zuse #conradzuse

    datacenter-insider.de/85-jahre

  16. Outstanding work! Hundreds of OSes across thousands of versions made accessible in a single application: virtualosmuseum.org/

    I did something similar with my #PortaDOOM project, making hundreds of #DOOM WADs accessible across dozens of engines and versions. Making stuff accessible is hard, hard work, I can tell you and not enough work is being done in this area.

    #retrocomputing #computerhistory

  17. Outstanding work! Hundreds of OSes across thousands of versions made accessible in a single application: virtualosmuseum.org/

    I did something similar with my #PortaDOOM project, making hundreds of #DOOM WADs accessible across dozens of engines and versions. Making stuff accessible is hard, hard work, I can tell you and not enough work is being done in this area.

    #retrocomputing #computerhistory

  18. Outstanding work! Hundreds of OSes across thousands of versions made accessible in a single application: virtualosmuseum.org/

    I did something similar with my #PortaDOOM project, making hundreds of #DOOM WADs accessible across dozens of engines and versions. Making stuff accessible is hard, hard work, I can tell you and not enough work is being done in this area.

    #retrocomputing #computerhistory

  19. Outstanding work! Hundreds of OSes across thousands of versions made accessible in a single application: virtualosmuseum.org/

    I did something similar with my #PortaDOOM project, making hundreds of #DOOM WADs accessible across dozens of engines and versions. Making stuff accessible is hard, hard work, I can tell you and not enough work is being done in this area.

    #retrocomputing #computerhistory

  20. Outstanding work! Hundreds of OSes across thousands of versions made accessible in a single application: virtualosmuseum.org/

    I did something similar with my #PortaDOOM project, making hundreds of #DOOM WADs accessible across dozens of engines and versions. Making stuff accessible is hard, hard work, I can tell you and not enough work is being done in this area.

    #retrocomputing #computerhistory

  21. BASIC on micros handled FOR loops their own way. Then, after 1981, they mostly behaved better — and all because of an obscure US Government standard

    #basic #RetroComputing #emulation #ComputerHistory

    scruss.com/blog/2026/05/19/the

  22. BASIC on micros handled FOR loops their own way. Then, after 1981, they mostly behaved better — and all because of an obscure US Government standard

    #basic #RetroComputing #emulation #ComputerHistory

    scruss.com/blog/2026/05/19/the

  23. BASIC on micros handled FOR loops their own way. Then, after 1981, they mostly behaved better — and all because of an obscure US Government standard

    #basic #RetroComputing #emulation #ComputerHistory

    scruss.com/blog/2026/05/19/the

  24. BASIC on micros handled FOR loops their own way. Then, after 1981, they mostly behaved better — and all because of an obscure US Government standard

    #basic #RetroComputing #emulation #ComputerHistory

    scruss.com/blog/2026/05/19/the

  25. BASIC on micros handled FOR loops their own way. Then, after 1981, they mostly behaved better — and all because of an obscure US Government standard

    #basic #RetroComputing #emulation #ComputerHistory

    scruss.com/blog/2026/05/19/the

  26. Eliza Bot Running and ready for your retro psycological problems
    Toot me a Hello to start
    #RetoComputing #Eliza #ComputerHistory

  27. Eliza Bot Running and ready for your retro psycological problems
    Toot me a Hello to start
    #RetoComputing #Eliza #ComputerHistory

  28. Eliza Bot Running and ready for your retro psycological problems
    Toot me a Hello to start
    #RetoComputing #Eliza #ComputerHistory

  29. Eliza Bot Running and ready for your retro psycological problems
    Toot me a Hello to start
    #RetoComputing #Eliza #ComputerHistory

  30. Eliza Bot Running and ready for your retro psycological problems
    Toot me a Hello to start
    #RetoComputing #Eliza #ComputerHistory

  31. Eliza Bot Running and ready for your retro psycological problems
    Toot me a Hello to start
    #RetoComputing #Eliza #ComputerHistory

  32. Eliza Bot Running and ready for your retro psycological problems
    Toot me a Hello to start
    #RetoComputing #Eliza #ComputerHistory