Stockholms Spelmuseum (“Games Museum”)
Stockholms Spelmuseum is well worth the visit. It doesn’t look like much from the outside, but the staff is friendly, knows their stuff and has … Read more
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Retro IT
Retro is a culturally outdated or aged style, trend, mode, or fashion, from the overall postmodern past, that has since that time become functionally or superficially the norm once again. The use of “retro” style iconography and imagery interjected into post-modern art, advertising, mass media, etc. It generally implies a vintage of at least 15 or 20 years.
reboot.defsol.com
So I guess there’s something going on here after all: reboot.defsol.com I guess, in some ways, it’s related to this post: FrontDoor announcement in FidoNews … Read more
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Zortech C++ 3.1 for OS/2
The Zortech C/C++ compiler was truly awesome when it first appeared, and it got better. When it was released for the OS/2 operating system, it … Read more
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Nokia 3110
A lovely “brick” from Nokia. Not too heavy, but fairly big and bulky. It still works! Surprisingly, today’s smartphones are approaching the weight and bulk … Read more
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Commodore 64 (VIC-64)
One of the many reasons Commodore 64 (C64/C=64/CBM-64/VIC-64) became the most sold personal computer model of all time was not due to its fantastic programming … Read more
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NiKom BBS for the Amiga
“Nikom is a BBS-program that uses modems (or telnet together with the appropriate software, such as telnet.device) to allow “boards” or “meeting rooms” where people … Read more
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RemoteAccess BBS
RemoteAccess BBS-software and its last official website. RemoteAccess, or RA, as it was also called, was created by Andrew Milner and Phil Mackay in 1989. … Read more
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HP Surestore DLT1
A doorstop that was launched in November 2000 by HP. You could squeeze in a massive 80GB on one DLT1 tape at a rocketing speed … Read more
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Casio SF-8350 Digital Diary
The Casio SF-8350 Digital Diary is an “all-in-one” gadget from 1993. A whopping 64 Kb of RAM and double batteries (so that one could be … Read more
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