Jay Miner Archives - The Silicon Underground David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Fri, 20 Jun 2025 23:53:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://kerosin.digital/rss-chimp16321610 Coleco Gemini: An Atari 2600 clone from 1983 https://dfarq.homeip.net/coleco-gemini-atari-2600-clone-1983/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=coleco-gemini-atari-2600-clone-1983 https://dfarq.homeip.net/coleco-gemini-atari-2600-clone-1983/#comments Mon, 31 Jul 2017 11:00:54 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=14246 I spotted it on page 597 of the 1983 Sears Christmas catalog. “Two big names play the same games,” the headline boasted. Next to the venerable Atari 2600, Sears presented the Coleco Gemini video game system, an Atari 2600 clone.

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]]> https://dfarq.homeip.net/coleco-gemini-atari-2600-clone-1983/feed/ 1 14246 Happy 35th birthday, Atari 2600 https://dfarq.homeip.net/happy-35th-birthday-atari-2600/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=happy-35th-birthday-atari-2600 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:58:51 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=5979 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

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]]> 5979 The decline and fall of system administration https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-decline-and-fall-of-system-administration/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-decline-and-fall-of-system-administration https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-decline-and-fall-of-system-administration/#comments Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:15:02 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=3144 Infoworld’s Paul Venizia stirred up a controversy, asking what happened to sysadmins who can fix things, as opposed to just rebuilding machines any time something went wrong. The definition changed, mostly. At least that’s what I think. When I started

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