Computers

Here is a collection of links to information on the history of the PC sound and PC sound cards. LGR – Evolution of PC Audio – As Told by Secret of Monkey Island Evolution of PC Graphics and Sound as told by The Secret of Monkey Island Before sound cards Before Soundcards were common place, →

Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open source[12] web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements current and anticipated web standards. Firefox web browser turned 20 years old just few days ago. Frederic Lardinois / →

In the innocent days of the early 90s the future of personal computing still seemed to be wide open. To many, the internet and especially the World Wide Web didn’t seem to be of any major significance yet. The the Hot New Thing in the world of PCs was multimedia. CD-ROM was introductroduced in 1985, →

The PC floppy disk drive is a type of disk drive that reads and writes data to and from a floppy disk, which was a common data storage medium from the 1970s to the early 2000s. Floppy disks were so common in late 20th-century culture that many electronic and software programs continue to use save →

The Hacker Test was an old test of how much of a ‘hacker’ (as in ‘nerd’, not ‘cracker’) you are. Since it came out in 1990, almost all of the questions are obsolete. That makes it a really neat historical document of what people considered cool at the time. Hacker Test History https://github.com/hwayne/hacker-test-history →

HTML is not a programming language. As its name indicates (Hypertext Markup Language), it’s a markup language used for creating and structuring content on the web. This funny project wanted to turn HTML to a programming language: HTML, The Programming Language https://html-lang.org/ HTML, the programming language, is a practical, turing-complete[1], stack-based programming language based on →

Happy birthday to Basic, possibly the most important programming language of all time! The Easy-to-use language that drove Apple, TRS-80, IBM, and Commodore PCs debuted in 1964. The BASIC programming language turns 60 article says: “Sixty years ago, on May 1, 1964, at 4 am in the morning, a quiet revolution in computing began at →

Digitalization and software have made our lives easier and made our operations many times more efficient over the past decades. Data centers consume two to three percent of the planet’s total electricity usage now. It has considerable CO2 footprint. Various ICT solutions are responsible for 4–10 percent of annual electricity consumption and 3–5 percent of →

This picture from Supertietokone, joka toimi myös sohvana article shows the classic Cray supercomputer from the 1970s and 1980s, which was specially designed – as Cray computers have always been. It does not a traditional computer, but as a strange seat. And you can really sit on one of those if you get access to →

40 years since Sinclair QL was released. And what a weird machine it was. I did not own one, but a friend had one. How Sinclair’s QL computer outshined Apple’s Macintosh against all odds https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/16/ql_legacy_at_40/?fbclid=IwAR25KCqGpu82VR-PVy_z_TMatwxHLKu58XMT0fw7VnQ8Zgqas_IaBqOkXMA Compatible hardware and peripherals are still on sale, four decades after its launch. Two weeks before Apple launched the Macintosh, →