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During the mid-1990s, a bitter tech war was in full swing, dividing classrooms, workplaces and friendships across the nation.

There was a copy of the predecessor "Dungeon" on a Caltech PDP-11 that someone had modified to take place in the arroyo behind JPL. My father would bring home an accoustic-coupled terminal, and I'd go ...

CD-ROM emulation on the PicoGUS emulates a Panasonic/MKE interface and drive and supports CD images in ISO or BIN/CUE stored on a USB drive plugged into the USB port on the PicoGUS. CD-ROM emulation ...

Everything fails eventually, but moving parts fail fastest of all– and optical drives seemingly more than others, at least in our experience. Even when they work, vintage drives often have trouble ...

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Perhaps it's a trick of memory, but it seems like old media formats simply evaporate once we move on to the next big thing. The recording industry sold 4.4 billion dollars worth of 8-track tapes in ...

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In the innocent days of the early 90s the future of personal computing still seemed to be wide open, with pundits making various statements regarding tis potential trajectories. To many, the internet ...