The geniuses at Squirrel Monkey are back with a new video that imagines what a popular technology of today would be like if it had been created decades ago. This time, they show how an Amazon Alexa of 1988 would work. They do a perfect job of recreating the experience of using computers in the 1980s.
If Alexa (Amazon Echo) existed in 1988…
Famed DOS-era word processor WordStar 7 made available for modern machines
Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer is one of the many aficionados of WordStar, a DOS word processor beloved of a certain generation of author. Sawyer… READ THE REST
Old Crap is a great new site about retrocomputers
Old Crap is my new favorite retrocomputing website. There's no padded-out reminiscing or Wikipedia-rewriting, just well-photographed teardowns and an archive of interesting technical documentation. "Best photos and technical documentation of… READ THE REST
The wild west of DOS graphical user interfaces before Windows overwhelmed all of them
The Best 22 DOS GUIs That I've Found (So Far) is a handsome and evidently growing collection of third-party graphical user interfaces you could use before Microsoft prioritized Windows, bolted… READ THE REST
How $20 is going to keep my old computer running like a dream
TL;DR: Upgrade to Windows 10 Pro for $19.97 (reg. $199). My 2014 Dell has been chugging along for a cool decade, but I'm not ready to give it up yet, mostly because new… READ THE REST
I'm going to fill this discount 1TB cloud storage with cat pictures and nobody can stop me
TL;DR: A 1TB Koofr Cloud Storage Lifetime Subscription is now $119.99 with code KOOFR40. Google tells me my drive is almost full. Those free 15GB go fast if you're using it for anything… READ THE REST
3 things you can do with a $240 MacBook (that you probably wouldn't with an expensive computer)
TL;DR: Get a computer you can take anywhere when you get a MacBook Air refurb for $239.99 (reg. $999). I already have a computer, but I want another. Here's why: if I rely… READ THE REST
