Category: History

  • Ghost in the Machine

    Ghost in the Machine: Jimi Hendrix, originally uploaded by iri5. Here is a great flickr photo set I came across this morning. Anyone remember cassettes? :-)

  • MP3’s from a bygone era…

    If you love(d) 78 rpm records, you owe it to yourself to check out Cliff Bolling’s website. Here he is continually digitizing and adding tunes from the first half of the last century in mp3 format complete with  scratches, hisses, pops and all. It’s absolutely wonderful :-). He uses an old Garrard Model RC 121…

  • Reptiles and other such beasts….

    Brad over at bradfortner.com has a great article where he delves into the logic (or lack of) behind companies arguing IP with their own costumers. All I have to say is this, if the said company could write a decent driver, I would have had a little sympathy for them. But lets face it, Creative…

  • Computer History Museum on YouTube

    If you like to see some of the most prolific Engineers and Scientists of our time talk about how we got to where we are in computers, head over to the Computer History Museum Channel on You Tube. Oh, and if you’re ever in Northern California somewhere, take a side trip to Mountain View and visit the…

  • Whhaaat Your Apple I has a USB port?

    This is just such a gem I couldn’t help, but put it up. Head over to Briel Computers and have a look. Fully functional Apple I, KIM-1 and Altair PC cases. Man this just took me back in time. Note that Replica I is actually an “upgraded” APPLE I. Their version has USB and serial…