Category: History
Category: History
Radio Shack’s First PC: 45 Years of TRS-80
Posted on August 3, 2022 in Computers, History
45 years ago, Radio Shack released the TRS-80 Micro Computer System, a 1977 personal computer that launched an era of low-cost PCs along with computers from Apple and Commodore. Here’s what was special about it.
Category: History
“Atari Was Very, Very Hard” Nolan Bushnell on Atari, 50 Years Later
Posted on June 27, 2022 in Computers, History
It’s been 50 years since Nolan Bushnell co-founded Atari, which brought video games to the mainstream. To celebrate, we asked Bushnell what he learned during the early years—and what we’ve lost sight of since then.
Source: “Atari Was Very, Very Hard” Nolan Bushnell on Atari, 50 Years Later
Category: History
Wendin-DOS : The forgotten multi-tasking, multi-user DOS clone from the 1980s.
Posted on May 25, 2022 in Computers, History
Produced by a small team, and lost to the sands of time… until now.
Source: Wendin-DOS : The forgotten multi-tasking, multi-user DOS clone from the 1980s.
Category: History
Achtung! How Wolfenstein 3D Shocked the World, 30 Years Later
Posted on May 6, 2022 in Computers, Gaming, History
Thirty years ago today, id Software released Wolfenstein 3D, a thrilling first-person shooter game set during World War II. It broke new ground for action-based PC games and continued a string of growing successes for id Software. With help from John Carmack, John Romero, and Tom Hall, we’ll take a look at what made it special.
Source: Achtung! How Wolfenstein 3D Shocked the World, 30 Years Later
Category: History
Category: History
Egyptian pharaoh’s mummified body gives up its secrets after 3,500 years
Posted on December 28, 2021 in History, Interesting
Amenhotep I ‘unwrapped’ digitally by Cairo scientists, revealing details from his grave jewellery to his teeth
Source: Egyptian pharaoh’s mummified body gives up its secrets after 3,500 years
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How the FBI Discovered a Real-Life Indiana Jones in, of All Places, Rural Indiana
Posted on October 27, 2021 in History, Interesting
A 90-year-old amateur archaeologist who claimed to have detonated the first atomic bomb was also one of the most prolific grave robbers in modern American history.
Source: How the FBI Discovered a Real-Life Indiana Jones in, of All Places, Rural Indiana