For many years, the cloud was a realm I mostly explored at work during the day. When it came time to climb back down the beanstalk and hang up my plumber overalls and pipe wrench, I was perfectly happy to exist on traditional Linux virtual private servers or physical machines at home like my MacBook…
Category: retro
Simple BBS in a Commodore Emulator
If you roamed the Earth in the time when every household had a personal computer but only a few had ever heard of something called the Internet, then you probably remember using a modem to dial into a Bulletin Board System or BBS. At that time, unless you were among the lucky few with access…
8-Bit Computing in the 21st Century : Part 2
Let the fun begin! Now that I had a working Commodore 64, I was extremely excited to explore the programs and games from a earlier time in personal computing. I didn’t have a floppy disk drive for this Commodore, but I did have the original data cassette (or datasette) tape drive and using that I…
8-Bit Computing in the 21st Century : Part 1
One of my earliest memories of using a personal computer was hanging out at my friend Mike Wolter’s house in 1986 and playing the text adventure game Zork on his Commodore 64. I vividly remember the ritual of taking the floppy disk out of its paper envelope and inserting it carefully into the disk drive….