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918 BBS List

918 BBS List The prehistory of online communication in Tulsa. Before high-speed internet, before dial-up internet, there were modems and bulletin board services (BBSes), and you'd dial into someone else's computer to exchange files, play games, and chat. The era...

Posted by Michael Bates on January 8, 2025 10:10 AM

Long gone, DEC is still powering the world of computing | Ars Technica

Long gone, DEC is still powering the world of computing | Ars Technica "In 1977, DEC introduced the VAX, a new line of minicomputers that featured a 32-bit instruction set architecture and virtual memory. Its operating system, VMS, was a...

Posted by Michael Bates on October 6, 2023 7:28 PM

BASIC Computer Games - Wikipedia

BASIC Computer Games - Wikipedia I have memories of typing computer programs printed in a magazine (Byte, Creative Computing) into our TRS-80 Model I, with the cassette drive for storage. The favorite was the Star Trek text-based game, where you...

Posted by Michael Bates on March 6, 2023 8:25 AM

10 Awesome MS-DOS Games You Can Play in Your Browser | Mental Floss

10 Awesome MS-DOS Games You Can Play in Your Browser | Mental Floss Including the original version of "Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?" Thanks, archive.org!...

Posted by Michael Bates on September 22, 2015 11:20 PM

Byte Magazine, March 1977, Star Trek game in BASIC

Byte Magazine, March 1977, Star Trek game in BASIC I remember sitting at my family's TRS-80 Model 1 and carefully typing in every line of this 399-line program by David Price of Midlothian, Virginia. You had to travel through the...

Posted by Michael Bates on September 26, 2014 5:41 PM

Doug Engelbart 1968 Demo

Doug Engelbart 1968 Demo The "mother of all demos" -- Engelbart and team demonstrated word processing, shared-screen collaboration, hypertext, dynamic linking -- and introduced the world to the computer mouse. Via Technology Review article, Doug Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution....

Posted by Michael Bates on July 23, 2013 3:46 PM