#retrotech

When I was a fan of the ongoing Linux podcast, the Linux Action Show. Their live stream used to

1981 was the same year the PC first appeared. If you owned a "home computer" it was likely made by Apple, Commodore, Atari, or Tandy. Personal computers on the business side were most often CP/M

I'm building this index for myself as much as anything. Basically, the goal is to index all (or at least most) of my posts here on Hive. When I'm done, it should be a lot easier to at least find my own

PC World was probably the most widely available PC Magazine throughout the 1990s and 2000s. The May 2005 issue includes:

English With my best wishes to enjoy this excellent week and with much encouragement. I hope you are in the best possible way. Some time ago, I had told you in the Outlast post, that it was a very enjoyable

Front page of the July 7-13 1983 issue of Popular Computing Weekly Popular Computing Weekly was, as the name suggests, a weekly publication covering computers. It was published in the U.K. is a sort of

The Sinclair ZX81 and Spectrum were extremely popular computers in the U.K. during the 1980s and even early 1990s. However, while there were variations of those machines released in the U.S. by Timex,

Easy Home Computer was one of many early 1980s computer magazines. This would seem to be a relatively obscure one. The premiere issue from June 1983 features the brand new (at the time) Commodore 64 on

Popular Computing Weekly is a magazine that was published weekly in the U.K. Weekly! I am not aware of any computer magazines being published that often in the U.S. at that time. That would have been pretty

A summary for those that haven't been keeping up with this series: I found a number of 5.25" disks at a thrift store a number of years ago. I finally got around to acquiring a 5.25" disk drive

In the U.S. in the 1980s, the computer wars tended to center around the Apple II, Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit as well as the TI-99/4A, VIC-20 and TRS-80 earlier in the decade. In the U.K. and other parts

Ahoy!'s AmigaUser is a spinoff of Ahoy! which was originally a magazine for Commodore 8-bit users. AmigaUser of course covers the Amiga. AmigaUser only lasted a couple of years. The August 1988 issue includes:

Source of image Netscape Composer is a WYSIWYG HTML editor initially developed by Netscape Communications Corporation in 1997, and packaged as part of the Netscape Communicator, Netscape 6 and Netscape

Source of image I was working with a blog post template, but I went into the html code to fix a few things that I didn't like the way they looked. At that moment I felt a nostalgia remembering how I became

The TRS-80 was one of the first home computers available and therefore had some of the earliest computer publications dedicated to it. 80-US is one of those. The January 1979 issue includes: Going First

While out patrolling my neighborhood...really just taking a walk after dinner, I spotted something interesting by the curb. There were what appeared to be several rack mounted servers (well, they weren't

I remember buying this with my Columbia House video club membership. Anyone remember those? Look how glossy that box cover is. It's still in great shape which leads me to wonder how many times I actually