Digital Preservation at Cambridge: Floppy Disks, Forgotten Systems and Fragile Knowledge: Insights from the Retro Computing Community. “As part of the Future Nostalgia project, a series of interviews were conducted with members of the retro computing community. These conversations highlighted not only the deeply technical expertise of the interviewees, but also personal stories and experiences […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/10/floppy-disks-forgotten-systems-and-fragile-knowledge-insights-from-the-retro-computing-community-digital-preservation-at-cambridge/

A friend of mine who is new to Linux, really wanted to get his windows program EAC (Exact Audio Copy) running on Linux Mint.

With a relative amount of ease I got him setup with Crossover, and installed EAC onto it. Runs perfectly, especially considering its a 32bit app. Finds the DVD drive, pulls in the album artwork & metadata, and rips cds.

I just enjoyed the challenge. :-)

#EAC #VintageSoftware #Crossover #Wine ##LinuxMint #WindowsOnLinux

Boing Boing: Play with a web replica of the Apple Lisa’s GUI. “Lisa GUI is a web-based model of the Apple Lisa’s graphical user interface. Predating the original Macintosh by a year, it introduced so much that we associate with it, from the high-resolution 1-bit aesthetic to user-interface standards that persist to this day. Andrew Yaros, owner of a real Lisa 2/10, created the replica.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/14/boing-boing-play-with-a-web-replica-of-the-apple-lisas-gui/

Hackaday: ELIZA Reanimated. “The last time we checked in with the ELIZA archeology project, they had unearthed the earliest known copy of the code for the infamous computer psychiatrist written in MAD-SLIP. After a lot of work, that version is now running again, and there were a number of interesting surprises.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/22/hackaday-eliza-reanimated/

WordPress: Dropping security updates for WordPress versions 4.1 through 4.6. “As of July 2025, the WordPress Security Team will no longer provide security updates for WordPress versions 4.1 through 4.6. These versions were first released nine or more years ago and over 99% of WordPress installations run a more recent version. The chances this will affect your site, or sites, is very small.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/21/wordpress-dropping-security-updates-for-wordpress-versions-4-1-through-4-6/

Debugging Lotus 1-2-3 by fax

https://blog.jgc.org/2025/03/debugging-lotus-1-2-3-by-fax.html

#HackerNews #Debugging #Lotus #1-2-3 #DebuggingTech #VintageSoftware #FaxTechnology

New-to-me, from Get Info: Macintosh Magazine Media: 1 million files. “I am proud to announce that my Macintosh Magazine Media project has surpassed my self-imposed goal of 1 million files, an achievement that fills me with both immense satisfaction and slight bewilderment. If you’ve never heard of it before: it’s an archive of vintage media containing mostly Macintosh files sourced from […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/31/macintosh-magazine-media-1-million-files-get-info/

Ars Technica: You can now download the source code that sparked the AI boom. “On Thursday, Google and the Computer History Museum (CHM) jointly released the source code for AlexNet, the convolutional neural network (CNN) that many credit with transforming the AI field in 2012 by proving that ‘deep learning’ could achieve things conventional AI techniques could not.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/25/ars-technica-you-can-now-download-the-source-code-that-sparked-the-ai-boom/