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A Commodore Story cool
Amusing anecdotes by Bil Herd revolving around the development of the Commodore 128 and particularly its 80-column video chip, the 8563:
To fix the remaining tearing we put 330 ohm pullups on the outputs
and adjusted the power supply to 5.3 volts. This is the equivalent of
letting Tim-the-Tool-Man-Taylor soup up your blender with a chainsaw motor
but it worked. The side effect w ... |
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10 Years of Atari/Atari Games VaxMail
Jed Margolis got his hands on something precious: a decade of internal mail from the now-defunct Atari Games corporation, makers of some of the more beloved arcade games in history and one of the more amazing stories in computer history. Buried among these large collections of e-mails from the Atari Corp. VAX are discussions of programming, trivia, jokes, and some real insights into th ... |
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About HP: History and Facts - 1930s
(Added 2003-11-12, 848 hits, more)
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Acorn Computers
Wikipedia featured article.
(Added 2007-05-27, 2332 hits, more)
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Apple Computer The Early Days A Personal Perspective
by Paul Laughton
(Added 2003-11-12, 790 hits, more)
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Atari-History  translate
Chronology, companies, people, products, and more.
(Added 2006-09-02, 1125 hits, more)
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atarihistory.de
A comprehensive Atari history page. Glossary, owners, timetable, gallery, game systems, computers, coin-op, handhelds, documentation, patents, and video clips.
(Added 2006-09-02, 768 hits, more)
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Computer Industry History
extensive link collection; most links are dead now, though, so you have to make liberal use of web.archive.org
(Added 2003-11-12, 869 hits, more)
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Documenting DIGITAL
The DIGITAL Computing timeline, a Compaq/DIGITAL comparison, the story of the PDP-1, and a DIGITAL trivia quiz.
(Added 2006-09-03, 673 hits, more)
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L'Aventure Apple  translate
Le site francophone sur l'histoire d'Apple.
Chronology, ads, biographies, information on hardware and software, and more.
[Do not be fooled by the the "not updated anymore" disclaimer; this site is definitely worth reading.]
(Added 2012-10-08, 992 hits, more)
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Landsnail.com
List of books covering the history of Apple Computer as well as brief Apple II command references.
(Added 2007-10-10, 656 hits, more)
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Microsoft Museum Timeline
uses Flash
(Added 2003-11-12, 1105 hits, more)
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On the Edge
The spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore. Book on the history of Commodore by Brian Bagnall.
(Added 2007-01-16, 711 hits, more)
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Pre-C64 History of Jack Tramiel and Commodore Computer, The
By Locutus.
(Added 2006-09-02, 782 hits, more)
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Sir Clive Vs The BBC (Edge Online)
On the BBC drama "Micro Men", the story of the Acorn/Sinclair rivalry. (Watch it!)
(Added 2012-10-08, 2935 hits, more)
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