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RetroNov 4

Lisp’s parentheses stuck after Steve Russell made a paper’s notation executable

RetroNov 4

Lorem ipsum borrows Cicero’s pain, but its printing origin still has gaps

A lost Indiana Jones VGA ad survives with Lucasfilm spelled wrong

RetroNov 4

Mac fonts went global because Steve Jobs rejected the commuter stops

RetroNov 4

Bill Atkinson improved on Xerox windows without knowing their limit

RetroNov 4

make began with programmers debugging fixes they had forgotten to compile

RetroNov 4

A PET command decoded MICROSOFT from bytes hidden after the sine table

Neo Geo Freak’s 10,000 Japanese pages now have an English way in

This browser Office editor saves the parts you changed

OpenRCT2 lets friends build the same RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 park

OpenVDDK reads VMware disks through the library slot migration tools already use

RetroNov 4

Donald Davies called them packets so the network’s pieces wouldn’t become your message

Hacks & BuildsNov 4

A home computer design puts its processor across 20 programmable logic chips

RetroNov 4

A GIF royalty announcement helped create PNG in about two months

RetroNov 4

IBM’s disk-drive pioneer first caught its attention with a test-grading machine

RetroNov 4

Finger’s 1977 status reports told coworkers where you sat and when you last typed

RetroNov 4

A Roland owner dumped the early TR-707 firmware nobody could find

The Colony packed a roaming 3D world onto one Mac floppy; ScummVM is testing it

A Sega programmer’s floppies saved the Tails game that needed four years of art

Sega Master System vs. NES: 4x the RAM (8 KB to 2 KB) and 8x the video RAM

Skykeep puts iCloud’s apps on Linux, with a local library that works offline

RetroNov 4

SQL started as SEQUEL, then a trademark issue took the vowels

RetroNov 4

Steve Jobs brought Mick Jagger a Macintosh; Jade found the fun in MacPaint

SNES vs. PlayStation: 128 KB of RAM against 2 MB, and cartridges against CDs