A roundup of interesting (in my opinion) articles from Habr📑. This time it’s Retro IT😇. Enjoy the read🧐.
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1️⃣ Kontron Electronic IP Lite: what’s inside a portable industrial computer from the 90s
Let’s go back 30 years, when the very concept of a “laptop” didn’t exist yet, and portable computers could easily weigh dozens of kilograms. It was around that time that today’s hero was born — the portable (!) industrial computer Kontron Electronic IP Lite.
2️⃣ An interview with my mom, a bank COBOL programmer
My mom started working at one of the largest banks in the EU before I was even born, and I’ve always been fond of her profession, especially in recent years, since I became a programmer myself. I’ve been asked many times to interview her, and I finally decided to do it.
3️⃣ DECstation 5000/260 — when the internet was still young
Not for the first time, I’m turning to the history of Unix workstations — fascinating representatives of the era of transition from “minicomputers” to modern personal computers. Their star faded more than 20 years ago, cheaper PCs ultimately overtook the specialized expensive machines in performance, but we still use the fruits of those technologies to this day.
4️⃣ What it’s like to work with Netscape Composer in 2024
As a geek from the early 1990s who’s been into computers since a young age, I fondly recall the technologies of the late 1990s and early 2000s. So when an old computer fell into my hands a couple of months ago, I didn’t hesitate to install Windows 98 on it to play around with programs from my childhood.
5️⃣ A city of childhood: what happens if you keep playing SimCity 2000 25 years later
I have warm feelings not only for old computers, but also for the retro games I used to play on them. Perhaps my greatest love is SimCity 2000, the second entry in Maxis’s famous city-building simulator series. It was with this game, in the mid-90s, that my acquaintance with the series began.
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