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Retrograde Station edit / delete

A large collection of early PC "booter" games, mostly converted to be hard-disk installable. Useful if you're after period-appropriate software for an XT or AT. (Although this hostname appears to be pointing at a different site today, for some reason...)

to cga games ibm mda msdos pc retrocomputing software ... on 13 September 2015

8088 MPH: CGA in 1024 Colors - a New Mode: the Illustrated Guide edit / delete

Detailed explanation of how 8088 MPH's 1024-colour mode works, with lots of images.

to 8088mph cga composite demoscene graphics ibm retrocomputing video ... on 13 September 2015

Michigan Terminal System Archive edit / delete

"This is a Web site to collect, save, and share information about the Michigan Terminal System (MTS), the computer time-sharing operating system, and the organizations and people that developed and ran it." As used at Newcastle and Cylon-occupied Caprica^W^WSimon Fraser University. With lots of documentation and disk images for Hercules.

to emulation ibm mts os retrocomputing timesharing ... on 18 January 2015

Sergey's Projects - Malinov Family Web Presence edit / delete

Build your own XT from scratch -- designs for a backplane, processor board, various peripherals (including an unusually fancy graphics card), and so on.

to electronics homebrew ibm pc retrocomputing xt ... on 26 July 2014

MVS/380 - 31-bit MVS - 25 years in the making edit / delete

The last public domain version of the MVS operating system only supported a 24-bit address space, which is a pain if you want to run modern software. This is a novel solution using Hercules: they've invented a new backwards-compatible 31-bit architecture ("S/380") which the older OS can easily be ported to! Very neat.

to emulation hercules ibm mainframe mvs retrocomputing s370 s380 ... on 26 July 2014

IBM 51xx PC Family Computers edit / delete

Manuals and repair information for IBM 51xx machines. I ought to get my AT up and running again at some point, now I've found all the bits of it. (One of the classiccmp posters has one that's been upgraded enough to run Linux, which is kind of neat...) -- As of 2015 I've now done this, and this site was very helpful!

to at electronics etext ibm pc repair retrocomputing xt ... on 16 June 2014

IBM 7090/7094 Page edit / delete

Includes CTSS, the precursor of Multics and therefore the grandfather of Unix. And it's surprisingly Unixy in some ways...

to 7090 ctss emulation ibm retrocomputing unix ... on 05 February 2014

mit :: whirlwind :: Redmond Project Whirlwind A Case History In Contemporary Technology 1975 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive edit / delete

The history of Project Whirlwind, with some interesting technical details.

to history ibm mit retrocomputing retrotech sage whirlwind ... on 07 June 2013

Computing at Chilton: 1961-2003 edit / delete

Comprehensive history of computing at Rutherford Appleton Labs (and Harwell before that). Includes some interesting stuff on the PERQ, and lots of photos.

to history ibm perq ral research retrocomputing supercomputing ... on 07 June 2013

Jason edit / delete

Graphical frontend for Hercules. Fun!

to emulation hercules ibm retrocomputing software ... on 30 March 2013