Category: Lazy Reading

The Vintage Technology Digital Archive.  barebones but contains gems.(via)

You too can play Space Travel, from 1969, created as part of inventing UNIX.

Related: there’s a bunch of space games available.

If you want to produce papers that look like classic UNIX troff-produced papers, here’s how.

XScreenSaver in the wild.

Sequels in Strategy Gaming, Part 1: Civilization II.

Why standard error exists.  Nobody uses it correctly, though.

Ken Thompson imagines Alan Turing time traveling to the present day and encountering a computer.  Oddly funny.  (via)

The Magic Art of Jan Svankmajer.

Last Call BBS.  It’s a game and a recreation of a time.  (via)

Manual for a computer built in 1945.  (via)

Music Thing Modular.  Interesting music hardware also open sourced.  (via)

The Sound of the Dialup, Pictured.  (via)

I must, must change my career in the next 14 years.  (via)

I did not know about this line of SPARC laptops or that they left the planet.

Slam-Dunking the Madeleine.  I love that this exists.

Libraries in the New Age, contrasted with HBO Max’s Great Looney Tunes Purge, with a reminder that some stuff only gets documented cause of one guy.

Strange Adventures: a film list.  Most of these films were new to me and probably will be to you.

Project Mage, building an all new Lisp environment.  (via)

Just the video, not the music, but it’s a new Cyriak animation.  (via)

Symbolics virtual LISP machine experience on video.  (via)