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Kevin Boone: More like Windows every day

https://kevinboone.me/morelikewindows.html

on desktop and laptop computers in the '90s, long before it became a relatively mainstream thing to do. My first Linux distribution took the form of a shoe-box-sized stack of flop
The ease of installation and use of modern desktop Linux distributions comes at a price. I review a couple of low-complexity alternatives to mainstream Linux distributions: Alpine

Frank Chimero · The Good Room

https://frankchimero.com/blog/2018/the-good-room/

instead of programs for computers. The software was merely an assistive device to help people more easily follow the program. It was technology in its best role: as a sidekick for
Personal site of designer Frank Chimero

Club 100: A Model 100 User Group

http://club100.org/

We call these Model "T" computers! Club 100, San Diego, CA Dear friends, on April 30, 2011, Rick Hanson, the Proprietor of Club100, passed away. Over the past 2 decades, Rick had
Continued Support for Tandy

66: The lock-breaking pencil | Lateral with Tom Scott

https://lateralcast.com/episodes/66/

they don't have many computers? Adam: Yeah, what did the software company want you to do as part of their promotion for $1,000? Something that no one would do. Vanessa: Give up yo
Adam Ragusea, Vanessa Hill and Stuart Ashen face questions about stationery stories, secret shapes and sporting sites.

Digital Research - Home

http://www.digitalresearch.biz/

system for personal computers and Dorothy was instrumental in bringing it to market. Their company sold and promoted the software, which gave life to a fledgling computer industry
Gary & Dorothy Kildall (Dorothy McEwen)founded Digital Research Inc. in 1974. DRI quickly became the first successful PC OS Company.

I Don't Need A Smart Phone

http://toastytech.com/about/smartphones.html

work requires a desktop computers and tactile touch typing. But thanks to these touch screen idiots, everyone insists on copying stupid tactile-less garbage - such as "smart" ther

Data Is Plural — Full Archive

https://www.data-is-plural.com/archive/

022.05.25 • Supercomputers, infrastructure permitting, European election results, Moreno and Jennings’ sociograms, and Art Garfunkel’s library. 2022.05.18 • Religion and government
The full newsletter archive of Data Is Plural.

Why everyone should learn the slide rule — Chadnet

https://wiki.chadnet.org/why-everyone-should-learn-the-slide-rule

digital calculators and computers can be deceptive and sometimes harmful. It is true that using a slide rule was onerous. Learning to use all the scales on a usefully complex rule
The greatest website on the interwebz!

Privacy Subtleties of GMail

https://www.templetons.com/brad/gmail.html

have speech-recognizing computers listen in and barge in with product offers related to your conversation? It's easy to imagine an unpleasant situation where you get invited to a

/lounge/ - Neurotypical idiots — Tinychan BBS

https://dis.tinychan.net/read/lounge/1429497540

endless ramblings about computers." H: "Haha, don't say that, I'm pretty sure there's someone out there for you." M: "I'm not trying to be mean, but I'm real f
I fucking hate all of you for making me waste my time. After graduating from university, I still was a virgin. Some of my ex-classmates I was kinda ...

Java Tester - News

https://javatester.org/news.html

on over 50% of computers with Java. Oracle does patch Java 6 but the fixes are only availalbe to companies that pay for them. July 18, 2013: It just never ends. Yet another Java b
Java Tester. News Page.

Who the hell is Marc Perkel

https://www.perkel.com/marc.htm

get into and I decided computers was it. I learned computers the hard way. Out on the streets. Hanging around with other computer nerds in the late 70s who never went to college e


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