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Computer history, restoring vintage computers, IC reverse engineering, and whatever
Steve Jobs, the Xerox Alto, and computer typography
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Steve Jobs gave an inspirational commencement address at Stanford in 2005. He described how his decision to drop out of college unexpectedl...
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The Xerox Alto, Smalltalk, and rewriting a running GUI
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Be sure to read the comment from Alan Kay at the bottom of the article! We succeeded in running the Smalltalk-76 language on our vintag...
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Inside the vintage Xerox Alto's display, a tiny lightbulb keeps it working
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In this Alto restoration episode, we repaired a second CRT display, exercising our TV repair skills and discovering a tiny mysterious lightb...
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Examining a vintage RAM chip, I find a counterfeit with an entirely different die inside
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A die photo of a vintage 64-bit TTL RAM chip came up on Twitter recently, but the more I examined the photo the more puzzled I became. The c...
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