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RetroNov 4

MacPaint’s Downloadable Source Shows How Bill Atkinson Hid the Flicker

RetroNov 4

Unix mail alerts still carry a dog’s obituary in the biff manual

RetroNov 4

WetSock gets its 1990s weather icon working again by replacing a dead feed

RetroNov 4

Commodore 128 doubled the C64’s main RAM and added a CPU for another library

RetroNov 4

Ctrl+Alt+Delete saved IBM's engineers from rebooting PCs with a screwdriver

RetroNov 2

Apple replaced Lisa’s “Do It” button after a tester read it as “Dolt”

RetroNov 2

An 80-minute data CD has the sector capacity of 600 PC/AT floppy disks

RetroNov 2

Ted Nelson named hypertext in 1965. His links were supposed to work both ways.

RetroNov 2

The first Zune held six first-generation iPods’ worth of music, five years later

RetroNov 2

Apple’s random-clicking Mac tester kept choosing Quit, so the apps learned to stop it

RetroNov 2

PDF began by unwinding printer code, and Adobe's own salespeople didn't get the point

RetroNov 2

A Windows 95 Compatibility Call Ended With Instructions for a DOS Boot Disk

RetroNov 2

The early internet's host list was a text file you downloaded from SRI

RetroNov 2

QR code corners use a pattern Denso's engineers struggled to find in ordinary print

RetroNov 2

Sony’s First Portable CD Player Needed a Six-C-Battery Case

RetroNov 2

Six Windows 98-era boot disks bring back the problem of finding the CD drive

RetroNov 2

Commodore 64 vs. ZX Spectrum: 64K of RAM against 16K or 48K

RetroNov 2

A moderation bot posted 200 times by mistake and helped give Usenet “spam” its name

RetroNov 2

The Mac’s Command symbol came from a Swedish sign after Steve Jobs objected to Apple logos

RetroNov 2

The Super NES had 64 times the NES’s work RAM, but Mode 7 made the tracks turn

RetroNov 2

Windows 2000’s Giant Stage Laptop Revealed a Patrick Stewart Stand-In

RetroNov 2

Apollo Stored Its Flight Program in Wires Threaded Through Magnetic Rings

RetroNov 2

A Zip 100 Held Roughly 70 Floppies, but Couldn’t Read a Single One

RetroNov 2

MoMA preserves 176 emoji built from twelve-by-twelve pixel grids