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AM/FM / TX Magazine / Radio Today - the eighties London pirate radio site edit / delete
"For three years in the eighties, TX Magazine catalogued the growth of London's pirate radio stations and the fight for a free radio alternative to the bland pop and chatter of the BBC and Independent Local Radio." Radio Jackie et al.
Museum of Plugs and Sockets: home page edit / delete
Exactly what it says on the tin. Nicely-presented collection.
to connector electronics history plug retrotech socket ... on 07 March 2015
Inside Spacewar! — A Software Archeological Approach edit / delete
Extremely comprehensive study of the Spacewar code. I might describe this as a software graphological analysis rather than an archeological one, since one of the most interesting parts is the examination of different programmers' styles...
to ag0700 games history mit pdp1 programming retrocomputing source spacewar ... on 05 March 2015
An excellent Javascript emulation of several versions of Spacewar. Very nicely done.
to ag0700 emulation games history javascript pdp1 spacewar ... on 05 March 2015
Some history of the game.
"This page contains various information about the computer language Pascal as stated by the ISO 7185, the original Pascal language designed by Niklaus Wirth at ETH in Zurich, and any implementations of that language." There's lots of description of Delphi and other derivations elsewhere, but this is very comprehensive on ISO PASCAL, including the history of its compilers.
to compiler history iso language-design pascal retrocomputing software ... on 05 March 2015
Algol W - Everything2.com edit / delete
Excellent description of the language from a former user. (There is at least one reasonably-modern implementation, AWE.)
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LSX Unix Restoration page edit / delete
"For a very long time, the smallest Unix system for the PDP-11 compatible machines - LSX, adapted from Unix V6 by Dr. Heinz Lycklama - was feared lost because it was never officially released outside of Bell Labs and nobody bothered to keep it for posterity." Now they have.
to history lsx os pdp11 retrocomputing unix ... on 05 March 2015
dspinellis/unix-history-repo edit / delete
A merged Git repo containing the source history of Unix from the earliest C versions up to present-day BSD. Very neat!
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Dr James B. Calvert edit / delete
A site about... everything. I think I got here via the comprehensive section on railway signalling, then got sucked into the tutorial on ancient Greek and the history of the telegraph.
to greek history latin linguistics maths physics railways science telegraph ... on 18 January 2015
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tasty by Adam Sampson.