History of Computer Hardware

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Oral History of Benny Lau and Lee Lau (invidious.projectsegfau.lt)
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The PalmPilot Returns, This Time In Your Browser (hackaday.com)
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The IBM RT PC (open.substack.com)
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The story of the 1991 HP DOS Palmtop (lunduke.substack.com)
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MICRO™ (micro.applearchives.com)
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Manchester Baby Simulator (www.davidsharp.com)
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This is Sony - 1989 Analog HDTV 1080i HDVS Video Demonstration Disc (www.youtube.com)
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I do not need to mention the impact it had on the PC as well as on consoles.

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The IBM Research innovations powering IBM z16 (research.ibm.com)
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Windows 3.1 Turns 30: Here’s How It Made Windows Essential (www.howtogeek.com)
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With 3.1 the beginning of computer sales as we know it basically started. In that time IBM had basically full market control.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story (spectrum.ieee.org)
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Ontario's Computer: The Burroughs ICON (jasoneckert.github.io)
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On this day in 1975, Microsoft was founded in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (lemmy.ml)
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Original Logo

Original Logo.

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Apple was founded 46 years ago, on April 1, 1976 (guides.loc.gov)
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An oral history of 3dfx (2014) (www.youtube.com)
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Intel 80286 (en.wikipedia.org)
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Kensington Microware's System Saver (computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)
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Strategic Simulations Inc (computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)
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Micro-Craft Dimension 68000 (computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)
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Altos Computer Systems (computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)
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Lotus 1-2-3 ad (computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)
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Siliconpr0n - High Resolution Hardware Chip Maps Collection (siliconpr0n.org)
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Basically a website dedicated to collect and show DIE shots. I think it belongs in here because DIE shots are expensive and having a solid collection can help people understand and research hardware.

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A History of Raspberry Pi Single-Board Computers (www.hackster.io)
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A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time (arstechnica.com)
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HP debuts 8-processor Windows NT server (1997) (www.cnet.com)
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Pockit: A tiny, powerful, modular computer (2022 demo introduction) (www.youtube.com)
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Looks promising, alternatives to R-PI that are modular are always a good thing.

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