#retrocomputing
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Pick: A Living Fossil of Computer History
The piece presents the Pick operating system as a kind of "living fossil" — a technology that has survived into the present from an early era of computing.
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The 1998 World Atlas on Windows 11: A Time Machine from the Thrift Store
A developer poured a surprising amount of effort into reviving an educational CD-ROM from the Windows 95 era that his son had found in a thrift store. The result was a compatibility layer with an automated build and a release on GitHub.