| 1. | | IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) |
| 397 points by SeenNotHeard 22 days ago | past | 240 comments |
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| 2. | | San Francisco streets with confusingly similar names (j-nelson.net) |
| 29 points by SeenNotHeard 27 days ago | past | 47 comments |
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| 3. | | Was Windows 1.0's lack of overlapping windows a legal or a technical matter? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 105 points by SeenNotHeard 84 days ago | past | 82 comments |
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| 4. | | Origin of the rule that swap size should be 2x of the physical memory (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 66 points by SeenNotHeard 3 months ago | past | 76 comments |
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| 5. | | How were large Unix installations managed in the 80s/90s? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 7 points by SeenNotHeard 6 months ago | past | 5 comments |
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| 6. | | A surprise with how '#!' handles its program argument in practice (utcc.utoronto.ca) |
| 116 points by SeenNotHeard 6 months ago | past | 107 comments |
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| 7. | | The old church where one trillion webpages are being saved (cnn.com) |
| 3 points by SeenNotHeard 6 months ago | past | 1 comment |
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| 8. | | There's No Rust on This Ironclad Kernel: An OS Written in Ada (hackaday.com) |
| 8 points by SeenNotHeard 6 months ago | past |
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| 9. | | Who was "Paul's Method" named after (a.k.a. the MOS 6502 RTS trick)? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 2 points by SeenNotHeard 7 months ago | past |
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| 10. | | Why Unix requires mount points (utcc.utoronto.ca) |
| 2 points by SeenNotHeard 7 months ago | past |
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| 11. | | Univ. of Minnesota seeks photos to archive national parks signs before removal (sites.google.com) |
| 7 points by SeenNotHeard 10 months ago | past | 2 comments |
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| 12. | | Neuromancer is in production (bsky.app) |
| 4 points by SeenNotHeard 11 months ago | past |
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| 13. | | I tried to hire a North Korean scammer [video] (youtube.com) |
| 1 point by SeenNotHeard 11 months ago | past |
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| 14. | | The Plot of the Phantom, a text adventure that took 40 years to finish (scottandrew.com) |
| 191 points by SeenNotHeard 11 months ago | past | 45 comments |
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| 15. | | Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux (arstechnica.com) |
| 7 points by SeenNotHeard 11 months ago | past |
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| 16. | | What UI first distinguished radio and check buttons with circles and squares? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 3 points by SeenNotHeard 11 months ago | past |
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| 17. | | The initial version of the /etc./magic file used by the file(1) command (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 35 points by SeenNotHeard 11 months ago | past | 15 comments |
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| 18. | | A graphical listing of all icons shipped in Win 3.1 PROGMAN.EXE and MORICONS.DLL (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) |
| 3 points by SeenNotHeard on May 7, 2025 | past | 1 comment |
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| 19. | | C64 User Logs into BBS After 39 Years with His Original SX-64 (theoasisbbs.com) |
| 12 points by SeenNotHeard on April 11, 2025 | past | 1 comment |
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| 20. | | Did John Lennon think he was Jesus? (ian-leslie.com) |
| 1 point by SeenNotHeard on March 25, 2025 | past | 1 comment |
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| 21. | | 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 |
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| 22. | | A look back at Coherent OS, a 1980s Unix lookalike ported to PCs (itsfoss.com) |
| 2 points by SeenNotHeard on Jan 28, 2025 | past |
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| 23. | | 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 |
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| 24. | | DOS APPEND (os2museum.com) |
| 119 points by SeenNotHeard on Dec 20, 2024 | past | 56 comments |
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| 25. | | Altair 8800 kits went on sale December 19, 1974 (dfarq.homeip.net) |
| 3 points by SeenNotHeard on Dec 20, 2024 | past | 1 comment |
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| 26. | | The Arresting Typography of the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps (kottke.org) |
| 1 point by SeenNotHeard on Dec 10, 2024 | past |
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| 27. | | Where can one read archived Microsoft Knowledge Base articles? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 3 points by SeenNotHeard on Dec 9, 2024 | past |
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| 28. | | Why is the term "card" used in "expansion card"? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) |
| 2 points by SeenNotHeard on Dec 2, 2024 | past |
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| 29. | | 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 |
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| 30. | | So It Goes: GHQ, Kurt Vonnegut's WWII Board Game (spacebiff.com) |
| 2 points by SeenNotHeard on Oct 1, 2024 | past |
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