Software History

Software [is our] Heritage Software is fragile unlike words carved in stone it can be deleted or get corrupted Software is the key to access information and a fundamental part of human heritage Software Heritage preserves software source code for present and future generations We are building the universal software archive We collect and preserve software in source code […]

Microsoft officially shipped Windows CE 6.0 today. The latest release of Microsoft's embedded OS brings a number of improvements, including improved performance, better multitasking, and better integration with Visual Studio. Most interesting of all, however: With this release Microsoft has upped the ante on its

The iPAQ was a Pocket PC and personal digital assistant, first unveiled by Compaq in April 2000; the name was borrowed from Compaqs earlier iPAQ Desktop Personal Computers.The iPAQ was a Pocket PC ...

A collection of announcement letters, data sheets, product documentation, white papers, and other resources for Enterprise COBOL for z/OS.

Various virtulization fun, including games & productivity!

Bob Tabor (LearnVisualStudio.NET) delivers this 9+ hour series on Windows Phone 8.1 Development for Absolute Beginners! This series covers: Windows Phone UI with XAML layout and eventsNavigation

BASIC-DOS: A PCjs Retro-Programming Project

QNX is a compact Unix-like real-time operating system that was originally designed for the IBM PC and later used in embedded devices. The versions here are for IBM PC compatibles.

QNX is a small and fast Unix-like real time operating system that was originally designed specifically for the IBM PC.

WinWorld is an online museum dedicated to providing free and open access to one of the largest archives of abandonware software and information on the web.

Professors John Kemeny and Tom Kurtz along with a band of Dartmouth undergraduates invent the Basic computer language.

Today we reinstated youtube-dl, a popular project on GitHub, after we received additional information about the project that enabled us to reverse a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown.

It was just about one year ago that a powerful explosion triggered a multitude of chemical reactions which caused a mutation in the primordial ooze that resulted in the birth of The Verge. It has...

A glance back at a time before Chartbeat.

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