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- An Inside Look At OS/2…And Why It Failed
- A Phone Call I’ve Remembered These 28 Long Years…
- One of the Finest iPad Apps Is No More – Thanks for the Update, Twitter
- The Tandy CoCo to Get Its Own ‘Soul of a New Machine’
- Susan Kare’s 32×32 Pixels of Steve Jobs…On My Flesh and Forever
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- Christmas Morning, 1979 — A Pivotal Moment Captured on Film
- So Long, and Thanks for All the Games
- A New Photo Panorama of The “Byte Cellar” for 2012
- Liber809 – The Motorola 6809 Gets a New Platform
- CFFA3000 for Apple II: Look Ma, No Disks!
- My First Printer. What Was Yours?
- Glowing Pixels Replace Swirls of Paint at the Smithsonian
Recent Comments
- Derek Etnyre on Found Photo: Me and My Apple QuickTake 200 Camera
- Piku on My First “Homepage” and Email “Sigs” of Olde
- Piku on Regarding Keyboards, and a New Favorite: the Leopold FC660C
- Marc Johnson on Regarding Keyboards, and a New Favorite: the Leopold FC660C
- bhtooefr on Regarding Keyboards, and a New Favorite: the Leopold FC660C
- Joe Tyson on Regarding Keyboards, and a New Favorite: the Leopold FC660C
- hans meiser on Regarding Keyboards, and a New Favorite: the Leopold FC660C
- Marc Johnson on Regarding Keyboards, and a New Favorite: the Leopold FC660C
- Regarding Keyboards, and a New Favorite: the Leopold FC660C | Byte Cellar on An Apparent Keyboard Geek Finally Learns to Type
- Karl Olinde on “Picasso” Macintosh Logo Poster
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- Seems Twitter Ticker does not run on orig iPad with 5.1.1. Shame, I like it better than Trickle. The latter will do, tho. 07:39:28 PM June 11, 2013 from Tweetbot for Mac ReplyRetweetFavorite
- So I let iTunes update my iPad 1 from 5.0.1 to 5.1.1 -- and I’m in a cyclical cannot restore scenario. I should have left well enough alone. 06:56:17 PM June 11, 2013 from Tweetbot for Mac ReplyRetweetFavorite
- RT @kirilot: @blakespot check out the website the national mall is covered in bones to raise genocide awareness 05:38:20 PM June 11, 2013 from Tweetbot for iOS ReplyRetweetFavorite
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- Is Sony trying to grab defeat out of the jaws of victory? 05:37:26 PM June 11, 2013 from Tweetbot for iOS ReplyRetweetFavorite
- @kirilot What? 05:34:15 PM June 11, 2013 from Tweetbot for iOS in reply to kirilot ReplyRetweetFavorite
- I must’ve been in the loo. So iOS 7 comes with a flashlight app? 05:12:11 PM June 11, 2013 from Tweetbot for iOS ReplyRetweetFavorite
- Correction: This is the SIXTH Apple Store coming w/ in 30 mins of home (I’m in Alexandria, VA) — not the fifth. 04:20:10 PM June 11, 2013 from Tweetbot for iOS ReplyRetweetFavorite
- Nice, a fifth Apple Store is coming to my area. (All within 30 mins (most within 15 mins) of my house.) http://t.co/WXclB78VlW 04:13:03 PM June 11, 2013 from Tweetbot for Mac ReplyRetweetFavorite
- The voice in the new Apple TV spots sounds a little bit like Ben Affleck. 03:47:43 PM June 11, 2013 from Tweetbot for Mac ReplyRetweetFavorite
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Monthly Archives: January 2012
The KryoFlux Floppy Controller: A Magnetic Media Miracle
Those of us who are driven to gather computers of decades past about us in order to forever enjoy that magical, early stage of home computing (that’s unknown to so many today) do, indeed, reap rich rewards from the effort. … Continue reading
Future Games: Ten Years from Now, Thirty Years Ago
I think a lot about video games. I’ve been playing them for about 35 years now, and I’m fortunate enough that video games — playing them and writing about them with the rest of the great crew at TouchArcade — … Continue reading
Posted in Gaming
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A Cautionary Tale for the Tandy CoCo Community [UPDATED]
[Note updates to the situation at the bottom of this post.] Back in late February I purchased a Tandy Color Computer (CoCo) 3. I’ve long felt it to be a rather interesting machine and I’d never owned a CoCo before. … Continue reading
A Look at the Sauciest Magazine I Ever Owned
One of the most exciting computers that I ever owned, and certainly one of the most significant in the history of personal computing, is the Amiga 1000, the first Amiga model release by Commodore in the fall of 1985. At … Continue reading
Posted in Amiga
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