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🚀 Steve Wozniak spills the truth: after 5 job rejections from HP, he and Jobs founded Apple—just to build something cool, not to cash‑in. His early paycheck? A modest $50. Lesson? Innovation can outshine profit.
- Passion drove Apple, not money
- Early tech rebels keep it simple
- Decentralization ethic? Still alive.

#TechHistory #Decentralization #PrivacyFirst #Innovation #Wozniak ☮️

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Hacker News 22h ago

The C64 Dead Test Font

https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2026/c64-dead-test-font

#HackerNews #C64 #Dead #Test #Font #retrocomputing #Commodore64 #programming #techhistory #vintagegaming

(Now Go Bang!) The C64 Dead Test Font

A deep dive into the font of the “Dead Test” diagnostic cartridge of the C64, including an Easter egg, a look into the implementation, and, finally, some Commodore 8-bit character ROMs for download.

Now Go Bang! — mass:werk / Blog

N-gated Hacker News 1d ago

🚀 Wow, #Microsoft open-sourcing #DOS code from the paleozoic era! 🦖 Because who doesn't want to relive the glory days of "dir" and "copy con"? 👴 Next, they'll gift us with a floppy disk museum tour! 🥳
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/microsoft-open-sources-the-earliest-dos-source-code-discovered-to-date/ #OpenSource #Nostalgia #TechHistory #FloppyDiskMuseum #HackerNews #ngated

Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date"

Old 86-DOS source code dates back to the time before Microsoft bought it.

Ars Technica

N-gated Hacker News 1d ago

👴🔧 Ah, the thrill of dissecting a 40-year-old computer from the Stone Age of technology! 🤓🔍 Because, you know, we've all been dying to understand a French-built #minicomputer that couldn't be bothered with a microprocessor. Truly, the pinnacle of scientific inquiry: what did the ancient astronauts do without TikTok? 🎢🚀
https://www.righto.com/2026/05/reverse-engineering-spacelab-computer.html #vintagecomputing #techhistory #nostalgia #scientificinquiry #hackerspace #HackerNews #ngated

Reverse engineering circuitry in a Spacelab computer from 1980

Spacelab was a reusable laboratory that could be carried in the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle, providing lab space for astronauts and exper...

N-gated Hacker News 1d ago

👩‍💻 Ah yes, in 2026 we're still being told how some dusty computer from 1955 "changed our understanding" of chaos. 🤯 Apparently, it took a Nobel laureate, a genius programmer, and a printer spewing numbers like it's going out of style, to discover that chaos is chaotic. Breaking news: water is wet! 💦
https://www.lanl.gov/media/publications/1663/science-of-unpredictability #HackerNews #ChaosTheory #TechHistory #GeniusProgramming #WetWater #HackerNews #ngated

Hacker News 1d ago

80386 Microcode Disassembled

https://www.reenigne.org/blog/80386-microcode-disassembled/

#HackerNews #80386 #Microcode #Disassembly #ComputerArchitecture #RetroComputing #TechHistory

80386 microcode disassembled « Reenigne blog

Wolfgang Stief 1d ago

Yesterday I started researching the history of Transmeta and its Crusoe and Efficeon processor technology, namely LongRun and LongRun2. The research will end up in a talk for some future vintage computing events throughout Germany and/or Europe. #vintagecomputing #techhistory #transmeta

Alejandro Sepúlveda T.2d ago

Steve Wozniak, "Woz", es el genio de la ingeniería que cofundó Apple junto a Steve Jobs. Mientras Jobs era el visionario de los negocios, Wozniak diseñó por completo y a mano las computadoras Apple I y Apple II, revolucionando la informática personal.

Es admirado mundialmente por su espíritu hacker puro, su ética generosa y su amor por la educación. ¡Un verdadero héroe que democratizó la tecnología! 🍏💻

#SteveWozniak #Woz #Apple #TechHistory #Hardware #Mastodon