Retro Computing

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Leandro Pereiratia.mat.br19 people

What do you get when you combine a base character with a buttload of diacritics?

Michael Kaplan

Personal · last shared May 2025

Tom Verbeuretomverbeure.github.io39 people

Tesla's FSD – A Useless Technology Demo

Tom Verbeure

Personal · last shared Nov 2024

MirBSDmirbsd.org22 people

New GitHub Terms of Service require removing many open-source works

MirBSD

Personal · last shared Aug 2026

Wouter van Oortmerssenstrlen.com113 people

The Lobster Programming Language

Wouter van Oortmerssen

Personal · last shared Apr 2026

Retro Computing

Life of an HTTP request, as seen by my toy web server

Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus

What every coder should know about gamma

Algorithmic symphonies from one line of code

Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters

"Computer Science" is Not Science and "Software Engineering" is Not Engineering

Your load is too heavy: Zork deep reading

Steve Wozniak Recounts His Efforts to Engineer the Apple II Floppy Disk System

The era of American computer magazines has drawn to a close

VisiCalc: Information from Its Creators, Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston

What ever happened to Wordstar?

Zip Files: History, Explanation and Implementation

Dorf Fort (2020)

2006: Dwarf Fortress

System shock: A story of a 25-year-old font coming back with a vengeance

Low-end Linux

Hacking ls -l

Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator?

mTCP: TCP/IP applications for DOS PCs

IDEs we had 30 years ago

Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that doesn’t support it

Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day

PoC or GTFO 15 [pdf]

Why I do not want to work at Google

Image Dithering: Eleven Algorithms and Source Code

Everyone seems to forget why GNOME and GNOME 3 and Unity happened

The Pentium F00F Bug (1998)

'My team will be able to program circles around everyone else' (2002)

A bootable CD image with a retro game in a single tweet

Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than

Fleng 22 (concurrent logic programming)

A Constructive Look at TempleOS

The Obsessively Complete Infocom Catalog

Code theft: Asciimo: Where have I seen this before?

Fluxus – A 3D game engine for live-coding worlds into existence

Atari Vax Mail, Memos and Status Reports: 1982-1992 (2001)

ZedRipper: A 16-core Z80 laptop

Modern mainboard for traditional T60 ThinkPad

UK telecom EE blocks archive.org

Live coding a vi for CP/M from scratch

Typography in 8 bits: System fonts

1970s mainframe RPGs we can no longer play

A collection of text mode fonts, system fonts and BIOS fonts from DOS-era PCs

The History of Video Synthesizers

What do you get when you combine a base character with a buttload of diacritics?

Tesla's FSD – A Useless Technology Demo

New GitHub Terms of Service require removing many open-source works

The Lobster Programming Language

Retro Computing

Life of an HTTP request, as seen by my toy web server

Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus

What every coder should know about gamma

Algorithmic symphonies from one line of code

Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters

"Computer Science" is Not Science and "Software Engineering" is Not Engineering

Your load is too heavy: Zork deep reading

Steve Wozniak Recounts His Efforts to Engineer the Apple II Floppy Disk System

The era of American computer magazines has drawn to a close

VisiCalc: Information from Its Creators, Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston

What ever happened to Wordstar?

Zip Files: History, Explanation and Implementation

Dorf Fort (2020)

2006: Dwarf Fortress

System shock: A story of a 25-year-old font coming back with a vengeance

Low-end Linux

Hacking ls -l

Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator?

mTCP: TCP/IP applications for DOS PCs

IDEs we had 30 years ago

Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that doesn’t support it

Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day

PoC or GTFO 15 [pdf]

Why I do not want to work at Google

Image Dithering: Eleven Algorithms and Source Code

Everyone seems to forget why GNOME and GNOME 3 and Unity happened

The Pentium F00F Bug (1998)

'My team will be able to program circles around everyone else' (2002)

A bootable CD image with a retro game in a single tweet

Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than