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Chevy's 1987 MS-DOS 'Build And Price' Program Was Totally Rad If you go to pretty much any car company’s website in 2020, you’ll find a “build-and-price” page where you can pick colors and options for any model, see how specs look and get an MSRP. That’s been around for ages, but you might not have seen an older example of a digital car configurator than this incredible “Chevtech Disk Drive” MS-DOS program from the... READ MORE |
 UncleBrad 07/13/2020 |
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Delphi Turns 25! [ The Delphi language is proof positive that all the best things are not necessarily household names. Not only was Borland's Delphi OOP language (ObjectPascal) superior to every compiled, client-executable solution out there from vendors like Microsoft and PowerBuilder, its IDE was years ahead of its time. To this day, I compare all the languages I run into to this groundbreaker.... READ MORE |
UncleBrad 02/17/2020 |
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The Hack That Saved Apollo 14 How on Earth do you patch the software on a computer orbiting the Moon? Very carefully. ... READ MORE |
UncleBrad 02/03/2020 |
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The Geocities Archive [I started professionally developing Web applications back in 1996, where MIDI music, dancing babies, unicorns, insane colors and animated gifs kicked off what has now become a very different (and sometimes very dark) place to "surf" with your morning coffee. ]Geocities was one of the first places your average person could make a website for free. The Geocities Gallery aims to... READ MORE |
UncleBrad 02/03/2020 |
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UFO On a Stick [Does this remind anyone else of the The Gods Must Be Crazy? ]Stargazers have already mistaken SpaceX’s Starlink satellites for alien spacecraft. Now, CEO Elon Musk says the devices used to connect to the micro-sats will look like UFOs, too.The Starlink Terminal will look like “a thin, flat, round UFO on a stick,” Musk tweeted on Tuesday, noting that u... READ MORE |
UncleBrad 01/09/2020 |
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