Posts Tagged ‘Retroriffic’

Windows 3.1 In DOSBox On Nokia N810

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Ok. This is just plain sick/kewl/nerd to the extreme. This is a screenshot of Windows 3.1 running in DOSBox on a Nokia N810 Internet Tablet. No, this is not me. I’m honestly not this cool, though I may try to do it some day. There were a couple of interesting bits in the comments on [...]

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Apple’s Wicked PowerBook G3 “Pismo”

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Possibly the single best pre-widescreen lappy ever made, Mac or PC, was Apple’s PowerBook G3, codenamed Pismo. Apple introduced it in early 2000 to instant praise and adulation. It came with a 400 or 500MHz PowerPC G3 CPU, two PC-100 SO-DIMM slots for up to 1GB RAM (Apple only rated it for 512MBs), a 6 [...]

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The History of Panic’s Audion

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I admit it. I’m a retro nerd, big time. I love old gear and software. I happen to love the look of Mac OS 8/9 and truly miss it. I wish I could apply the look to my MacBook Pro without installing potentially system corrupting software. I’d really like to see Apple just integrate it [...]

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Steve Jobs Introduces The Macintosh

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It’s 1984-rrific, folks! This sweet little YouTube video was posted back in 2006 but only just now came into my radar. Take a gander at Steve Job in a bowtie, enthusiastically introducing the Macintosh which made Apple a real household name. Interestingly enough, the stage back then was as black as it is today. The [...]

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