Rediscovering Turbo Pascal(journal.paoloamoroso.com)

44 points by AlexeyBrin 2 years ago | 7 comments

20 Years of YC / HN(vickiboykis.com)

149 points by mooreds 1 year ago | 36 comments

Bootstrapping GCC in RISC-V: Milestone: MesCC builds TinyCC and fun C errors(ekaitz.elenq.tech)

68 points by pabs3 3 years ago | 15 comments

They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pascal 7(kevinboone.me)

90 points by AlexeyBrin 2 years ago | 58 comments

20.5 Years of XP and Agile (2020)(henrikwarne.com)

49 points by ingve 2 years ago | 78 comments

4 Years of Ludicon(ludicon.com)

16 points by ibobev 13 days ago | 3 comments

Ignacio Castaño's blog post reflecting on four years of running Ludicon, his independent software company.

Borland Turbo Basic(dosdays.co.uk)

92 points by sssilver 21 days ago | 50 comments

DOS Days page on the history of Borland's Turbo BASIC, a BASIC compiler for MS-DOS that started as BASIC/Z by Bob Zale and later became PowerBASIC.

Turbo Haskell(comonad.com)

188 points by pjmlp 25 days ago | 48 comments

Edward Kmett blog post on The Comonad.Reader titled Turbo Haskell, covering a Haskell compiler for the JVM: borrowing libraries, evaluation and concurrency, SIMD, and tail calls.

The April Fools joke that might have got me fired(oldvcr.blogspot.com)

461 points by goldenskye 1 year ago | 226 comments

A blog post on Old Vintage Computing Research recounting an April Fools prank the author played at his first university database programming job.

How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop(unterminated.com)

551 points by tfvlrue 2 years ago | 257 comments

A personal blog post describing how the author transferred files off a 1994 Apple PowerBook Duo 280c laptop.

I love software rendering(jamesfmackenzie.com)

337 points by speckx 10 days ago | 212 comments

A personal blog post by James Mackenzie about his love of software-rendered 3D graphics in classic MS-DOS and PC games like Quake.

Digital Audio on the ZX Spectrum's 1-Bit Beeper(bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com)

54 points by ibobev 28 days ago | 15 comments

A Bumbershoot Software blog post explaining how to play high-quality digital audio through the ZX Spectrum's 1-bit beeper, concluding a series on the platform.