Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. In this episode, Thomas Betts chats with ...

It's not every day that you stumble on a website powered by hardware that pre-dates the dial-up modem era of the internet, but that's exactly what's happening over at Brutmans Lab. It's a site ...

Microsoft has open-sourced another bit of computing history this week: The company teamed up with IBM to release the source code of 1988’s MS-DOS 4.00, a version better known for its unpopularity, ...

You can now play classic DOS games on your Mac in your browser, thanks to the online service DOS_deck. Here's how to use it. At the dawn of the personal computer era ...

That screenshot seems to be MS-DOS 5.0 or later. How many end users had hard drives when 4.0 was released? Click to expand... We had a 20MB hard drive in a PC-XT clone made by Sanyo which was running ...

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to EdTech and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. Given all the options for computing in the modern day — tablets, laptops and ...

Tony Smith puns it up, with “Kudos to QDOS”: On 27 July 1981, Microsoft gave the name MS-DOS to the…operating system it acquired on that day from Seattle Computer Products (SCP). … The company had ...

It was the dawn of the personal computer age, a time when Apple IIs, Tandy TRS-80s, Commodore PETs, the Atari 400 and 800, and others had made significant inroads into schools and people’s homes. But ...

Welcome to This Old Tech, a new column devoted to vintage gadgets, electronics, computers, and video games. By “vintage,” I mean things that are generally at least 10 to 20 years old or otherwise ...

Forty years ago this month, I started my first job in the PC industry. When I signed on, I thought I’d be writing a manual for a popular Apple II word processing program. Instead, I wrote one of the ...