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too bad Captain Obvious was at the joysticks/helm...

well their spat hath escalated quickly?

Friends don't let friends use comic sans, papyrus or it's imitators IMHO.

Fear and naivete are powerful motivators, catalyzing these early innovations. More often the realities of budget, politics, and competing priorities hampers the same creative energ…

Just don't pick Houston, things aren't so great there at the moment.

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Preview.app which owes its heritage to NextStep. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preview

I'm so blonde that I thought it was a Quantum drive... like a Quantum hard drive... man

If there wasn't a more compelling reason for higher taxes on those who can pay more should... It just goes to show that there's always someone dumb with more money than they know w…

Mimeograph aka spirit duplicator used a stencil that you could write on or type on and then use alcohol to then dissolve the raised part of the stencil and transfer it onto the pap…

All that was needed to make a Selectric into a terminal was essentially a box to take the electrical signals of hitting the keys (that triggered the correct letter on the ball to s…

A&M (later A&M Intl to sound more sophisticated) made some interesting equipment from its various divisions. Their Multigraph division long made duplicators for secretaries etc. Th…

interesting, how does this compare to something like pg_auto_failover in a two or three-node PostgreSQL setup?

IMHO, he's the David Attenborough of Computer History.

Just remove the DRM chip that’s located on the starter cartridge, mine was on with a small Phillips screw. I then used the Brither DRM chip on my Linkyo toner cartridge and it work…

Intel lost this battle years ago when leadership decided to badge engineer the shit out of their product portfolio and do stock buy-backs. In a capital intensive enterprise, Jack W…

There’s also blue colored as well. Blue Monster brand.

You're correct, just about all "new" cassette decks contain Tanashin-originated components. Even reputable brands like Panasonic (National), TEAC, Son, Aldi & AllyExpress all use t…

Does it matter what tool you use to write documentation? Confluence gets a lot of sh*t because its in the grown-up camp of tools but I know people who've got problems even with nan…

Unless some government(s) steps in and dumps a ton of money into SST development and production nothing is going to happen. The Concord showed this by shouldering the burden of res…

Boy, did Nokia elope after this with M$ft phone which was supposed to right Nokia's collective "ship". Elop joined the hallowed hall of fame of abysmal CEO's who ran their firms in…

Ignoring the primary issue Uncle Sam has with this logistics solution, be reminded why laws and or regulations exist for things... there's always someone (right or wrong) that will…

My first real interest in computing came from my Uncle showing me his DX7. It made such cool synths as well what I thought at the time was a decent piano sound especially in the ea…

I think Supercard is still going, its sorta like a souped up version of Hypercard

I have this book! I loved Hypercard and spend many hours making silly and functional programs with it. I wish that somehow it was continued and not sent out to the pasture at Clari…