The Vintage Computer Festival Midwest is an annual celebration hosted by Chicago Classic Computing, featuring exhibits, presentations, and a vibrant community. The selection process for talks is ba…| Oldskooler Ramblings
Clip art collections from the early 1990s are today's forgotten cultural time capsules, freezing life three decades ago as digital illustrations full [...]| Vintage Computing and Gaming
[Benj's note -- I originally wrote this in 2020 and had it sitting around until now. I still think it might be useful to someone in the future, so I [...]| Vintage Computing and Gaming
In August 2022, I joined up with Ars Technica as their AI and Machine Learning Reporter. Of course, even while documenting one of the wildest cutting-edge stories in tech at the moment, my heart never strays far from the subject of this site: vintage technology and the history behind it. In between writing about AI […]| Vintage Computing and Gaming
[ Phillip Heller is a member of the Prodigy Preservation Project. Here, he writes about his progress since Part 1 in January. –Benj ] Reverse engineering Prodigy is not without challenges. Though the patent describes the communications protocol and the TBOL language well, it lacks detail of the application protocols – that is, the communications […]| Vintage Computing and Gaming
“Now computing can be fun and easy for the entire family.” The Tandy Sensation was an early attempt at a specialized Multimedia PC. In this case, Tandy came up with a 25 MHz 486SX computer with a 107 MB hard drive, built-in CD-ROM drive, stereo sound card, a voice/fax modem, SVGA color graphics, and more. […]| Vintage Computing and Gaming
In the mid-1990s, my dad gave me a Hewlett Packard HP 95LX he bought from a friend and never used. The HP 95LX (1991) is a really cool handheld PC that runs DOS from ROM. While looking for 95LX software around 1997 (according to the file dates, although it’s very possible I grabbed them earlier), […]| Vintage Computing and Gaming
Did I forget to mention that I co-hosted four episodes of the Floppy Days podcast 18 months ago? I’ve become somewhat of an expert on the IBM PC over the decades, so when Randy Kindig wanted …| Oldskooler Ramblings
The Olivetti M24 was a fantastic PC compatible that was double the speed of the IBM PC, had built-in expansion ports, a smaller footprint, and special hi-res graphics, all at a price cheaper than t…| Oldskooler Ramblings
While I’m not the #1 PCjr fan in the world — that honor goes to Mike Brutman — I consider myself in the top five. I’ve owned, used, and programmed for the PCjr for decades. …| Oldskooler Ramblings
My vote for the most subtle-yet-cruel entry in the category of brain mis-wirings is Imposter’s Syndrome. (It is also a first-world problem; apologies if this offends you.) I have it fairly ba…| Oldskooler Ramblings
