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SeenNotHeard

joined 4/13/20, 10:21 PM has 816 karma

• Neuromancer is in production

  by SeenNotHeard on 7/1/25, 9:54 PM, with 0 comments

• I tried to hire a North Korean scammer [video]

  by SeenNotHeard on 7/1/25, 7:25 PM, with 0 comments

• The Plot of the Phantom, a text adventure that took 40 years to finish

  by SeenNotHeard on 6/27/25, 5:50 PM, with 45 comments

• Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux

  by SeenNotHeard on 6/24/25, 6:26 PM, with 0 comments

• What UI first distinguished radio and check buttons with circles and squares?

  by SeenNotHeard on 6/24/25, 5:48 PM, with 0 comments

• The initial version of the /etc./magic file used by the file(1) command

  by SeenNotHeard on 6/3/25, 4:10 PM, with 15 comments

• A graphical listing of all icons shipped in Win 3.1 PROGMAN.EXE and MORICONS.DLL

  by SeenNotHeard on 5/7/25, 5:26 PM, with 1 comments

• C64 User Logs into BBS After 39 Years with His Original SX-64

  by SeenNotHeard on 4/11/25, 9:24 PM, with 1 comments

• Did John Lennon think he was Jesus?

  by SeenNotHeard on 3/25/25, 7:01 PM, with 1 comments

• Did missing/corrupt dates in COBOL default to 1875-05-20?

  by SeenNotHeard on 2/16/25, 11:56 PM, with 499 comments

• A look back at Coherent OS, a 1980s Unix lookalike ported to PCs

  by SeenNotHeard on 1/28/25, 6:46 PM, with 0 comments

• Photo of the CEOs of Nissan, Honda and Mitsubishi is the perfect album cover

  by SeenNotHeard on 12/23/24, 10:15 PM, with 0 comments

• DOS APPEND

  by SeenNotHeard on 12/20/24, 9:04 PM, with 56 comments

• Altair 8800 kits went on sale December 19, 1974

  by SeenNotHeard on 12/20/24, 1:04 AM, with 1 comments

• The Arresting Typography of the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

  by SeenNotHeard on 12/10/24, 6:06 PM, with 0 comments

• Where can one read archived Microsoft Knowledge Base articles?

  by SeenNotHeard on 12/9/24, 10:07 PM, with 0 comments

• Why is the term "card" used in "expansion card"?

  by SeenNotHeard on 12/2/24, 6:40 PM, with 0 comments

• How were 70s versions of games like Pong built without a programmable computer?

  by SeenNotHeard on 10/4/24, 7:57 PM, with 122 comments

• So It Goes: GHQ, Kurt Vonnegut's WWII Board Game

  by SeenNotHeard on 10/1/24, 10:35 PM, with 0 comments

• The $621M Legal Battle for the 'Soul of the Internet'

  by SeenNotHeard on 9/30/24, 5:31 PM, with 0 comments

• How similar were the MC6800 and MOS 6502?

  by SeenNotHeard on 9/27/24, 4:42 PM, with 2 comments

• Did Microsoft Release a "Critical Update Notification Tool"?

  by SeenNotHeard on 9/24/24, 5:50 PM, with 2 comments

• Why were there so many OSes that had the name "DOS" in them?

  by SeenNotHeard on 9/11/24, 7:30 PM, with 1 comments

• There is no clear etymology for calloc

  by SeenNotHeard on 9/9/24, 5:37 PM, with 0 comments

• What Happened to Egghead Software?

  by SeenNotHeard on 8/20/24, 5:13 PM, with 1 comments

• Why did Borland ignore the Macintosh market?

  by SeenNotHeard on 8/13/24, 6:09 PM, with 164 comments

• What purpose did the lower-right Enter key serve on original Mac 128k keyboard?

  by SeenNotHeard on 8/6/24, 8:47 PM, with 60 comments

• Generative AI Will Be a Boon for Public Domain Unless Copyright Blocks It

  by SeenNotHeard on 12/29/23, 7:31 PM, with 5 comments

• Why did older computers and OSes use UPPER case instead of lower case?

  by SeenNotHeard on 12/14/23, 5:44 PM, with 149 comments