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1.How were large Unix installations managed in the 80s/90s? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
7 points by SeenNotHeard 3 months ago | past | 5 comments
2.A surprise with how '#!' handles its program argument in practice (utcc.utoronto.ca)
116 points by SeenNotHeard 3 months ago | past | 107 comments
3.The old church where one trillion webpages are being saved (cnn.com)
3 points by SeenNotHeard 3 months ago | past | 1 comment
4.There's No Rust on This Ironclad Kernel: An OS Written in Ada (hackaday.com)
8 points by SeenNotHeard 3 months ago | past
5.Who was "Paul's Method" named after (a.k.a. the MOS 6502 RTS trick)? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
2 points by SeenNotHeard 3 months ago | past
6.Why Unix requires mount points (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2 points by SeenNotHeard 3 months ago | past
7.Univ. of Minnesota seeks photos to archive national parks signs before removal (sites.google.com)
7 points by SeenNotHeard 6 months ago | past | 2 comments
8.Neuromancer is in production (bsky.app)
4 points by SeenNotHeard 7 months ago | past
9.I tried to hire a North Korean scammer [video] (youtube.com)
1 point by SeenNotHeard 7 months ago | past
10.The Plot of the Phantom, a text adventure that took 40 years to finish (scottandrew.com)
191 points by SeenNotHeard 7 months ago | past | 45 comments
11.Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux (arstechnica.com)
7 points by SeenNotHeard 7 months ago | past
12.What UI first distinguished radio and check buttons with circles and squares? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
3 points by SeenNotHeard 7 months ago | past
13.The initial version of the /etc./magic file used by the file(1) command (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
35 points by SeenNotHeard 8 months ago | past | 15 comments
14.A graphical listing of all icons shipped in Win 3.1 PROGMAN.EXE and MORICONS.DLL (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
3 points by SeenNotHeard 9 months ago | past | 1 comment
15.C64 User Logs into BBS After 39 Years with His Original SX-64 (theoasisbbs.com)
12 points by SeenNotHeard 10 months ago | past | 1 comment
16.Did John Lennon think he was Jesus? (ian-leslie.com)
1 point by SeenNotHeard 11 months ago | past | 1 comment
17.Did missing/corrupt dates in COBOL default to 1875-05-20? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
277 points by SeenNotHeard on Feb 16, 2025 | past | 499 comments
18.A look back at Coherent OS, a 1980s Unix lookalike ported to PCs (itsfoss.com)
2 points by SeenNotHeard on Jan 28, 2025 | past
19.Photo of the CEOs of Nissan, Honda and Mitsubishi is the perfect album cover (typo.social)
2 points by SeenNotHeard on Dec 23, 2024 | past
20.DOS APPEND (os2museum.com)
119 points by SeenNotHeard on Dec 20, 2024 | past | 56 comments
21.Altair 8800 kits went on sale December 19, 1974 (homeip.net)
3 points by SeenNotHeard on Dec 20, 2024 | past | 1 comment
22.The Arresting Typography of the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps (kottke.org)
1 point by SeenNotHeard on Dec 10, 2024 | past
23.Where can one read archived Microsoft Knowledge Base articles? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
3 points by SeenNotHeard on Dec 9, 2024 | past
24.Why is the term "card" used in "expansion card"? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
2 points by SeenNotHeard on Dec 2, 2024 | past
25.How were 70s versions of games like Pong built without a programmable computer? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
240 points by SeenNotHeard on Oct 4, 2024 | past | 122 comments
26.So It Goes: GHQ, Kurt Vonnegut's WWII Board Game (spacebiff.com)
2 points by SeenNotHeard on Oct 1, 2024 | past
27.The $621M Legal Battle for the 'Soul of the Internet' (rollingstone.com)
7 points by SeenNotHeard on Sept 30, 2024 | past
28.How similar were the MC6800 and MOS 6502? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
10 points by SeenNotHeard on Sept 27, 2024 | past | 2 comments
29.Did Microsoft Release a "Critical Update Notification Tool"? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
1 point by SeenNotHeard on Sept 24, 2024 | past | 2 comments
30.Why were there so many OSes that had the name "DOS" in them? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
3 points by SeenNotHeard on Sept 11, 2024 | past | 1 comment

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