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IRA VELINSKY, INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER OF THE COMMODORE 64

Dave Farquhar Retro Computing November 14, 2024November 1, 2024 0 Comment

Ira Lewis Velinsky was the industrial designer for Commodore and later Atari in
the 1980s. He was responsible for the curvy “Porsche PET” cases, as well as the
Commodore 64 breadbin design. Sadly, Ira Velinsky died November 14, 2000 of a
heart attack while returning home from Comdex in Las Vegas. He was only 46.

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VORTEX86: REVENGE OF THE RISE MP6 FROM THE 1990S

Dave Farquhar Retro Computing November 13, 2024November 1, 2024 0 Comment

The Vortex86 is a system on a chip or system on module that is starting to gain
popularity in retro computing circles. It powers the ITX Llama and Tiny Llama
retro revival projects. I’ve seen it described as a Pentium Pro-like CPU that
can run DOS and Windows software at the kinds of speeds we would have expected
in the late 1990s. So what is this system on a chip, and where did it come from?
I found out.

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WHAT HAPPENED TO 3COM?

Dave Farquhar Retro Computing November 12, 2024November 12, 2024 0 Comment

3Com was a high flying maker of network cards and other network equipment. And
then they disappeared with a whimper on November 11, 2009. What happened to
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MICROSOFT WINDOWS FIRST ANNOUNCED NOV 10, 1983

Dave Farquhar Retro Computing November 11, 2024November 1, 2024 1 Comment

It was November 10th, 1983 that Microsoft first announced Microsoft Windows, a
graphical environment for IBM PC and compatible computers. It arrived late and
without all of the promised features, so it was very much like future Windows
versions like Windows Vista and Windows 8 in that regard.


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COMPUTE MAGAZINE, 1979-1994

Dave Farquhar Retro Computing November 8, 2024October 27, 2024 1 Comment

Approximately 45 years ago, one of my favorite computer magazines of all time,
Compute!, was Born. Its first issue was dated Fall 1979, was printed in October,
and reached reader’s hands in late October or early November.

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WHAT HAPPENED TO TRANSMETA, THE LAST BIG DOTCOM IPO

Dave Farquhar Retro Computing November 7, 2024October 26, 2024 1 Comment

Transmeta was the last big IPO of the dotcom era, launching Nov 7, 2000. Its
$273 million IPO was the last successful tech IPO until the Google IPO in 2004.
Transmeta didn’t completely fit in to the dotcom era, because they were a
hardware company. But they were still a technology company, and if their plans
had gone well, they would have sold their product to dotcoms, but it didn’t work
out that way for them. In this blog post we explore what happened to Transmeta.

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ASUS SP97-V MOTHERBOARD AND SIS 5598 CHIPSET

Dave Farquhar Retro Computing November 6, 2024October 25, 2024 1 Comment

I saw some discussion about the Asus SP97-V motherboard recently. This happens
to be one of my favorite socket 7 motherboards, and I used it in a good number
of builds in 1997 and 1998. Initially, I was nervous about this board and the
SIS 5598 chipset, but in the long run, it didn’t give me any problems. I share
the opinion that it is a very underrated board.

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THE MCI WORLDCOM MERGER, BANKRUPTCY, AND SCANDAL

Dave Farquhar Retro Computing November 5, 2024October 25, 2024 1 Comment

On November 4th, 1997, MCI and Worldcom merged in a deal worth $37 billion. This
was an attempt by two large telecommunications companies to to combine and rival
AT&T, but instead turned into one of the biggest scandals and bankruptcies of
its era.

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THE FIRST COMPAQ COMPUTER

Dave Farquhar Retro Computing November 4, 2024November 4, 2024 1 Comment

The first Compaq computer was its eponymous Compaq Portable, announced November
4, 1982. It was a suitcase-sized clone of the original IBM Personal Computer,
with an Intel 8088 CPU running at 4.77 MHz running Microsoft MS-DOS. It was
hardly the first non-IBM computer to run MS-DOS, but it was the first legal IBM
PC clone with a high degree of compatibility.

Compaq shipped the first unit about four months later, in March 1983. It
originally cost $2995 for a single-drive unit. A dual-drive unit, which was much
more useful, cost $3,590.

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COMMODORE COULD HAVE OWNED AOL

Dave Farquhar Retro Computing November 1, 2024October 18, 2024 4 Comments

30 years ago today, on November 1, 1994, AOL pulled the plug on Quantum Link.
Quantum Link was a Commodore-oriented online service that was the direct
ancestor of AOL. That makes today as good of a time as any to explore a
tantalizing historical missed opportunity. Commodore could have owned AOL, a
company that at its peak had a $200 billion valuation. Commodore, meanwhile,
famously never reached its stated goal of $1 billion in annual sales.

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