There’s a Value Village thrift store in Shrewsbury that’s being displaced because the plaza it’s in–the same place I used to go to buy Commodore gear–is going to be demolished to make way for a Wal-Mart Supercenter. Whether Shrewsbury needs a Wal-Mart Supercenter when there’s one six miles away is another question for another day. [...]
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Value Village and Affton could be very good for one another
Posted by Dave Farquhar on April 23, 2013
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/04/value-village-and-affton-could-be-very-good-for-one-another/
Don’t read too much into the PC sales drop just yet
If you’ve been paying any attention at all, you probably know that new PC sales are in the toilet–out of the five biggest vendors, the only one whose sales managed to hold steady in Q1 2013 was Lenovo, while the other four saw a sales decline. So now Slashdot linked to a ZDNet piece stating [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on April 17, 2013
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/04/dont-read-too-much-into-the-pc-sales-drop-just-yet/
Commodore was more than a stock scam
From time to time, I see the phrase “Commodore stock scam” or something similar come up in my search engine logs. Commodore, in case you don’t know, was a high-flying computer company in the 1980s that was literally making computers as quickly as they could sell them while Apple struggled for its survival, and was [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on March 15, 2013
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/03/commodore-was-more-than-a-stock-scam/
Happy 35th birthday, Atari 2600
The venerable Atari 2600 turned 35 this past weekend. People of a certain age remember it as the device that ushered in home video games. I know I spent a lot of afternoons after school playing blocky, chirpy video games on them in the early 1980s.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on October 15, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/10/happy-35th-birthday-atari-2600/
The Byte digital archive
Here’s a treasure trove for retro computing enthusiasts: Archive.org has a collection of digitized issues of Byte magazine available online, free. Numerous archives of vintage computer magazines exist, many of which are of questionable legality so I’ll refrain from saying anything specific about that.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on September 23, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/09/the-byte-digital-archive/
Amiga on x86
Re-implementing Amiga OS on cheap, commodity x86 hardware always made sense, so I’m not surprised that someone is doing it. Mostly I’m surprised that it took me this long to find it. Am I interested? You bet. I’m sure I can find some PC hardware to run it on. I certainly don’t see myself using [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on June 28, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/06/amiga-on-x86/
Microsoft just priced its Windows 8-based tablets out of the market
Microsoft just priced its Windows 8-based tablets out of the market. Extremetech reports that they expect Windows 8-based tablets to sell for $600-$900. I think Microsoft is forgetting its history.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on June 14, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/06/microsoft-just-priced-its-windows-8-based-tablets-out-of-the-market/