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A Dick Smith VZ200 without the Dick Smith (but with a serial port)

UPS finally refunded the overcharged tariff

MkLinux and the pimped-out Apple Workgroup Server 9150

John C. Dvorak has died

Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD

Bobby Prince has died

Building a serial and VGA "everything console"

Ahoy, DECmate II! the little PDP-8 that could

The Tomy Tutor and the state of 1983 home computers

Testing MacOS on the Apple Network Server 2.0 ROMs

Mini-review: David Pogue's Apple: The First 50 Years

6o6 v1.1: Faster 6502-on-6502 virtualization for a C64/Apple II Apple-1 emulator

Refurb weekend double header: Alpha Micro AM-1000E and AM-1200

Hedley Davis has died

Hideki Sato has died

The Scriptovision Super Micro Script video titler is almost a home computer

Hands-on with two Apple Network Server prototype ROMs

Stewart Cheifet has died

A Christmas 2007 video present from Old VCR with Jack Tramiel et al

The Texas Instruments CC-40 invades Gopherspace (plus TI-74 BASICALC)

Oblast: a better Blasto game for the Commodore 64

Rebecca Heineman has died

When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts

They call it Mister Pibb (again)

The Apple Network Server MacOS ROMs have resurfaced

Back to the Southern Hemisphere Commodore 128DCR

The end of AOL dialup

Refurb weekend: Silicon Graphics Indigo² IMPACT 10000

Microsoft makes 6502 BASIC open source

Reverse-engineering Roadsearch Plus, or, roadgeeking with an 8-bit CPU

A real PowerBook: the Macintosh Application Environment on a PA-RISC laptop

So I saw this headline

Refurb weekend: Gremlin Blasto arcade board

See Jane 128 by Arktronics run (featuring Magic Desk, 3-Plus-1 and the Thomson MO5)

There's not much point in buying Commodore

RIP Bill Atkinson

Harpoom: of course the Apple Network Server can be hacked into running Doom

prior-art-dept.: The hierarchical hypermedia world of Hyper-G

What went wrong with wireless USB

A few retrobits updates on Floodgap

Let's give PRO/VENIX a barely adequate, pre-C89 TCP/IP stack (featuring Slirp-CK)

COMPUTE!'s Gazette revived for July 2025

MacLynx beta 6: back to the Power Mac

The April Fools joke that might have got me fired

More pro for the DEC Professional 380 (featuring PRO/VENIX)

The "35-cent" Commodore 64 softmodem

Refurb weekend: Atari Stacy

A mostly merry Southern Hemisphere Commodore Christmas

Composite and hard reset mods for the Tandyvision One

The Hall SC-VGA-2 video processor, the Atari ST and NeXTSTEP: more tales of the unscreenshotable

One-parting some Commodore 64 utilities for fun and profit

The unreleased Commodore HHC-4's secret identity