Archivist Al Kossow of Bitsavers, who led the technical recovery, described the process as "easy" as such efforts go. The tape, he explained, had "a pretty ...

The Rhizome Microgrants 2025-26 program has been funded by small donations from our community. Octant-funded projects were required to support an "open internet" by developing free/open-source ...

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IBM was a big player in the early days of personal computing. In 1981, IBM introduced the "PC," followed by the PC-XT in 1983 ...

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Google (GOOG) (GOOGL) is working to lessen Nvidia's (NVDA) advantage with its CUDA software platform, with some help from ...