#ibm-pc on Hacker News

2 stories tagged ibm-pc, newest first.

Screenshot of aresluna.org: A story of a Figma bug that wasn't a bug at all (2021)

A story of a Figma bug that wasn't a bug at all (2021)(aresluna.org)

60 points by jllyhill 4 days ago | 5 comments

Marcin Wichary's archived 2021 Twitter thread explaining how a Figma Shift+numpad bug on Windows traces back to IBM PC keyboard Num Lock design decisions.

figma num-lock keyboards ibm-pc

Screenshot of boginjr.com: Booting from a vinyl record (2020)

Booting from a vinyl record (2020)(boginjr.com)

338 points by yesturi 9 months ago | 113 comments

A blog post describing how the author made a PC boot from a vinyl record played on a record player, as an alternative to disks, network, or USB.

vinyl-record bootloader retrocomputing ibm-pc