Multi-factor authentication is ripe for disruption. SMS 2FA is inherently defective. Phone authenticators get stolen. Security tokens get lo... | Continue reading
The PowerBook 1400 is, and remains, my favourite laptop. It was everything the PowerBook 5300 should have been and more. It was my first l... | Continue reading
Oh, c'mon now, you're not sick of MOS Pong machines yet, are you? Of course you're not! Everybody loves Pong from the company that brought y... | Continue reading
Computers are hot. No, I mean, they're hot. They heat our house in the winter here in primarily sunny Southern California (not as much as ... | Continue reading
BeOS browser : TLS apocalypse Won't keep it off line. (How do you pronounce BeOS ?) This is a real 133MHz BeBox running otherwise s... | Continue reading
Pop quiz: what classic brand of laptop is this? I'll give you another hint. Bright-red TrackPoint and mouse button trim, classic keybo... | Continue reading
Everything portable has a battery, and every portable thing's battery dies. This is bad on earlier PalmOS devices that lack a non-volatile f... | Continue reading
It seems like everything has flash. Flash mobs, flash photography, Flash Gordon, flash memory. (Other than the past couple years, of course,... | Continue reading
I have no intention of explaining how the correspondence which I now offer to the public fell into my hands. * * * (as recorded to the ge... | Continue reading
When people think microprocessors that MOS Technology made, they think of the 6502 and its many derivatives, as one should (which are of cou... | Continue reading
Who says you can't teach an old box new tricks? We did it before and we're doing it again. Crypto Ancienne ("Cryanc") is a TLS implementat... | Continue reading
I'm testing lots of units in storage, including a whole mess of Commodore 264-series machines, mostly C16s (in both the domestic U.S. and Me... | Continue reading
Although I'd much rather use a real Power Mac, and of emulators I tend to use my own bespoke hopped-up fork of SheepShaver for the POWER9 ... | Continue reading
Floodgap has had a T1 line since I moved into this house in 2011. I'm one of those weirdos who runs my own hardware and prefers to avoid ... | Continue reading
Teletypes may have killed a lot of forests by emitting every line to hard copy instead of a screen, but there's something to be said for t... | Continue reading
I mentioned the Wordle craze, including the extant ports to the Commodore 64, in our KIMdle sorta-Wordle for the KIM-1 . But the Commodore ... | Continue reading
Wordle mania (trademark, probably, of the New York Times) continues. My wife and I, who bonded over word games and later got married because... | Continue reading
Overbite Android 0.2.6 is available, the (persistently alpha-quality) native Gopher client for Android. This is merely a maintenance upda... | Continue reading
I've been building up a few of these entries in my head as I run across things, so this will be the first of a recurring series of "prior ... | Continue reading
We're house hunting because of $JOB and $HOUR hour commute, and I just got word that the reseller I contract with for Floodgap's leased li... | Continue reading
I was not an early adopter of Palm PDAs, but my experience with handheld computers is actually rather longer; my first handheld was a Tand... | Continue reading
Tadpole has this storied history as a maker of truly unusual laptops, particularly after their 1998 merger with RDI, another company that ma... | Continue reading
I like FireWire and I still use FireWire (I've even used it to power a WiFi-to-Ethernet connector on a PowerBook G4), but this is a retroco... | Continue reading
Apple's announcement of the next version of macOS, Monterey , means my 2014 MacBook Air now gets to join my Quad G5 in the "not supported" ... | Continue reading
A fair number of computers people nowadays would refer to as vintage have USB either as an option or built-in, and USB ports crap out like... | Continue reading
An apology is owed to the classic Mac users who depend on Classilla as the only vaguely recent browser on Mac OS 9 (and 8.6). I've lately re... | Continue reading
When I first got my 133MHz BeBox (not new, sadly), it had "only" 32MB of memory and it had four more SIMM slots to fill. While Be only off... | Continue reading
One of my wife's favourite possessions from childhood is a Dick Smith Electronics (she's an Aussie, I'm a half-breed) Type-right. Much lik... | Continue reading
I can't say I'm surprised to hear that Fry's Electronics is closing their doors . Back in the distant pre-pandemic year of 2019, I went to a... | Continue reading
With the possible exception of Google, and I fully acknowledge the irony that this blog post is hosted on a Google property, everyone thinks... | Continue reading
I have great personal affinity for the Alpha Micro multiuser systems, which were the first multiuser computers I ever experienced (an AM-2... | Continue reading
This article will be part of a series -- you can read other entries Did you see what I did there? I'm proud of that title. Thank you very ... | Continue reading
I don't consider myself an obsessive collector because I'd rather use my vintage systems than simply collect for them. The majority of the s... | Continue reading
There are a number of devices that go by the name "Arithmometer," including the original one which went into production in 1851. They are... | Continue reading
This is part of a series — you can read prior entries In our last entry we were testing the Inogeni VGA2USB3 on various SunRay devices an... | Continue reading