Featuring nine interviews with the original team!Day of the Tentacle turns 30 later this month and to celebrate the classic LucasArts point-and-click adventure the YouTuber onaretrotip has put together a 2-hr documentary featuring nine interviews with memb …

Could someone with experience and memory of the time enlighten me with regards to the popularity of 8086 CPUs in clone and DIY systems in the late 80s, particularly around 89/90?I'm asking because we had a system at the time. The things I remember for su …

Some reading for you, by Peter Salus (who has other books to his name) The Daemon, the GNU & the Penguin (at Groklaw) Dr Peter Salus’s book, the Daemon, the Gnu, and the Penguin, was a regular Groklaw feature in 2005 and 2006. It is now …

I’m currently stuck with my Festo PLC programming device. I found a later Festo software which is very interesting, but is too late to be helpful for my device. So I searched for other (early) PLCs. I recently bought a 1990s student’s book …

For best listening experience use headphones in a dark room with some alcoholic beverages of your choice :D   In this super sci-fi episode Ric and Kingy are dropped deep into the Central American jungle to chat about all these weird and quirky Predator th …

Is there a more iconic duo than the IBM PC and MS-DOS? Microsoft's Disk Operating System would be the final success that turned the company into what we know today. But here's a dirty little secret: DOS didn't start out at Microsoft. So how did Gates and A …

The IBM PC and MS-DOS, the iconic duo of the early 80s. The two are so interconnected that it's hard to mention one without the other. But in 1980 DOS wasn't IBM's first choice for their soon-to-be flagship hardware. IBM had wanted to license Gary Kildall' …