Old school stuff
Anything related to historical purposes, be it software, OS, or hardware. If you got an anectdote or an old story then post it here.
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Ken Thompson tells a story
by jkl | Last Post: jkl 26-10-2025, 11:22 PM | 688 views | 0 replies
The Origins of Emacs, uncovered.
by jkl | Last Post: tabako 13-09-2025, 10:46 AM | 9,109 views | 2 replies
Old vi
by jkl | Last Post: freem 31-01-2025, 03:33 PM | 17,211 views | 10 replies
Idea for a "week of the vintage OS"
by jkl | Last Post: Dworin 26-08-2023, 06:42 AM | 25,206 views | 14 replies
CB UNIX: DevOps before it was cool
by jkl | Last Post: jkl 12-09-2022, 12:05 PM | 7,387 views | 2 replies
Your personal (programming) hero
by pranomostro | Last Post: thrakkar 29-12-2020, 12:49 AM | 29,991 views | 14 replies
The demise of old software because of Firefox
by jkl | Last Post: venam 07-12-2020, 05:19 PM | 5,591 views | 1 replies
Gopher anyone? (Pages: 1 2 )
by videocast | Last Post: ckester 15-09-2020, 10:59 PM | 77,661 views | 36 replies
Dotfiles, a big mistake
by jkl | Last Post: z3bra 14-07-2020, 07:46 AM | 17,063 views | 8 replies
Keeping machines alive
by venam | Last Post: fre d die 09-07-2020, 01:39 PM | 30,424 views | 13 replies
Goodbye, EBCDIC (for ksh)...
by jkl | Last Post: jkl 20-04-2019, 07:14 PM | 6,687 views | 0 replies
"Purple Card"
by pkal | Last Post: pkal 16-03-2019, 02:50 PM | 5,312 views | 0 replies
Ubuntu's 1971 bugs
by jkl | Last Post: acg 05-11-2018, 07:31 PM | 7,167 views | 1 replies
AT&T Research Unix version 6, setuid
by burrows | Last Post: venam 09-08-2018, 01:52 AM | 6,659 views | 1 replies
The History of Grep
by jkl | Last Post: movq 07-07-2018, 02:59 PM | 7,231 views | 1 replies
Tools, glue, scripts, and automation on Unix
by venam | Last Post: jkl 03-03-2018, 09:12 PM | 24,241 views | 7 replies
Terminals
by venam | Last Post: venam 27-10-2017, 10:52 AM | 31,806 views | 9 replies
Multics simulator 1.0 is released
by jkl | Last Post: jkl 10-07-2017, 04:31 AM | 5,471 views | 0 replies
Green On Black
by venam | Last Post: venam 12-03-2017, 04:10 AM | 11,923 views | 1 replies
Good Old Source.
by venam | Last Post: ox! 21-11-2016, 05:15 PM | 30,822 views | 9 replies
ratterplatter
by movq | Last Post: pranomostro 15-07-2016, 09:11 AM | 12,583 views | 4 replies
Your favourite command – haiku
by pranomostro | Last Post: pranomostro 26-01-2016, 02:10 PM | 31,520 views | 12 replies
links / graphics mode in tty
by pvtmert | Last Post: nrmc.dubz 02-10-2014, 03:56 PM | 12,632 views | 3 replies
mail: sendmail
by pvtmert | Last Post: pvtmert 03-08-2014, 07:15 PM | 6,680 views | 0 replies
NeXTTHREAD
by ampharos | Last Post: wanda 15-10-2013, 02:58 AM | 42,786 views | 6 replies
Changing to a lisp machine.
by Okeg | Last Post: Okeg 20-09-2013, 09:40 AM | 24,556 views | 6 replies
CADR (former lisp machine) source
by Okeg | Last Post: Okeg 20-09-2013, 09:00 AM | 22,313 views | 5 replies
USB booting on older hardware.
by Red | Last Post: ampharos 27-05-2013, 07:32 AM | 17,234 views | 3 replies