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The Forgotten Knowledge Trapped On Floppy Disks

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Fri Oct 10 22:23:49 2025

Latest reply by Ant on Tue Oct 14 02:30:42 2025
Interesting timing issues on 1970s-vintage IBM mainframes

By James Dow Allen on Mon Oct 6 17:34:13 2025

Latest reply by Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Tue Oct 14 02:14:53 2025
Anecdote about about NCR/Elliott/ICL 4130

By Bob Eager on Mon Oct 13 19:47:11 2025

Latest reply by Bob Eager on Mon Oct 13 19:47:11 2025
Re: mainframes vs minis again, Switching On A VAX

By John Levine on Sun Oct 12 18:08:39 2025

Latest reply by Rich Alderson on Mon Oct 13 16:59:52 2025
How Old Is X?

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Thu Oct 9 22:28:30 2025

Latest reply by Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Mon Oct 13 07:07:10 2025
Steve Jobs unveiled the NeXT Computer on this day in 1988

By Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Mon Oct 13 00:36:51 2025

Latest reply by Niklas Karlsson on Mon Oct 13 05:42:59 2025
Re: Switching On A VAX

By Scott Lurndal on Mon Oct 6 14:27:26 2025

Latest reply by Johnny Billquist on Sun Oct 12 00:08:59 2025
How would you fix this alignment bug?

By James Dow Allen on Sat Oct 11 17:47:07 2025

Latest reply by Lawrence D?Oliveiro on Sat Oct 11 19:50:48 2025
Video and pictures from the Archive of Retro Computing 2025

By RobertB on Sat Aug 30 06:40:29 2025

Latest reply by Magnus on Thu Oct 9 21:24:09 2025
Bay Area Maker Faire 2025 - Sept. 26-28

By RobertB on Sat Sep 20 16:51:03 2025

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Next FCUG meeting - Sunday, Sept. 21, 2025

By RobertB on Sat Sep 20 16:43:58 2025

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Next SCCAN meeting - Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025

By RobertB on Fri Sep 19 04:49:40 2025

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Re: Floppies

By Kerr-Mudd, John on Tue Sep 16 13:53:10 2025

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei on Wed Sep 17 22:18:28 2025
Present at the Creation (Re: The "Standards" Game)

By Lars Poulsen on Mon Aug 25 23:03:28 2025

Latest reply by Lars Poulsen on Sun Sep 14 21:52:51 2025
Re: Unix on x86, Hmmm ... Downloaded Xenix - But It's *41* Floppies Wor

By Nuno Silva on Sat Sep 6 11:17:53 2025

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei on Wed Sep 10 19:29:51 2025
Re: slow computers, Hmmm ... Downloaded Xenix - But It's *41* Floppies

By John Levine on Sat Sep 6 17:38:51 2025

Latest reply by Peter Flass on Mon Sep 8 08:10:29 2025
Re: Unix on x86, Hmmm ... Downloaded Xenix - But It's *41* Floppies Wo

By Alexander Schreiber on Thu Aug 28 00:40:27 2025

Latest reply by Peter Flass on Sat Sep 6 05:15:01 2025
Re: Unix on x86, Hmmm ... Downloaded Xenix - But It's *41* Floppies W

By Charlie Gibbs on Thu Sep 4 13:28:56 2025

Latest reply by Charlie Gibbs on Thu Sep 4 13:28:56 2025
Re: VAX (was: Why I've Dropped In)

By Lars Poulsen on Thu Jul 31 03:17:28 2025

Latest reply by Anton Ertl on Tue Sep 2 06:34:13 2025
Wetherell

By Stefan Ram on Sun Aug 31 11:54:40 2025

Latest reply by Al Kossow on Sun Aug 31 12:17:22 2025
V Operating System

By Anthony on Tue Aug 19 02:57:43 2025

Latest reply by Scott Lurndal on Tue Aug 26 06:34:01 2025
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By Peter Flass on Tue Aug 26 05:58:47 2025

Latest reply by Peter Flass on Tue Aug 26 05:58:47 2025
Fear Of Forking, Revisited

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei on Fri Aug 22 18:17:22 2025

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei on Fri Aug 22 18:17:22 2025
Early History Of C

By Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Sat Jul 26 15:43:10 2025

Latest reply by Jakob Bohm on Mon Aug 18 04:41:18 2025
Re: 32 vs 64 bits, was VAX

By John Levine on Tue Aug 5 04:17:54 2025

Latest reply by Anton Ertl on Wed Aug 13 17:32:28 2025
I32LP64 vs. ILP64 (was: VAX)

By Anton Ertl on Wed Aug 6 21:28:45 2025

Latest reply by Anton Ertl on Wed Aug 6 21:28:45 2025
netnews "Reply" in Thunderbird (was: Re: VAX)

By Nuno Silva on Thu Jul 31 23:25:40 2025

Latest reply by Peter Flass on Fri Aug 1 01:46:30 2025
Next FCUG meeting - Sunday, August 3, 2025

By RobertB on Wed Jul 30 08:30:29 2025

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Re: Pictures and video from PaCommEx 2025

By RobertB on Sat Jul 26 11:19:28 2025

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Old Computer Challenge

By anthk on Wed Jul 16 17:12:14 2025

Latest reply by Jason Howe on Fri Jul 25 04:38:40 2025
Re: The Rise And Fall Of Unix

By Bob Eager on Wed Jul 9 18:21:13 2025

Latest reply by Kerr-Mudd, John on Fri Jul 25 02:50:32 2025
Re: LPX: The PC's Missing Link (YT video)

By Adrian Caspersz on Wed Jul 23 20:18:34 2025

Latest reply by Adrian Caspersz on Thu Jul 24 15:26:23 2025
list of meds

By geodandw on Wed Jul 23 04:11:26 2025

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Re: Windows rant

By Beej Jorgensen on Wed Jul 16 02:54:23 2025

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Re: Character sets

By Lars Poulsen on Mon Jul 14 06:24:25 2025

Latest reply by Lars Poulsen on Mon Jul 14 06:30:47 2025
Next SCCAN meeting - Saturday, July 12, 2025

By RobertB on Thu Jul 10 09:45:40 2025

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