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Andy Warhol's lost Amiga art found
August 6 is Andy Warhol's birthday, so let's look back at his pioneering digital art
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Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982
A generation of technology workers grew up using it
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Athlon 64: How AMD turned the tables on Intel
Better 32-bit performance was worth trading some 64-bit performance to get
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The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300
And a surviving example of one surfaced in December 2024.
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Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989
The killer app for the 486 didn't come out until a year or so later
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Amiga 1000: Ten years ahead of its time
This computer was so good and so far out there, we didn't know what we had.
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Amiga 600: From the Amiga No One Wanted to Retro Favorite
Maybe putting the designer of the IBM PCjr in charge of this wasn't the best idea
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What came after the 486?
Changing from part numbers had benefits for Intel, but it took time
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286 vs. 386SX
The 386sx wasn't much of an upgrade from the 286, but was popular for a time. Let's take a look at the 286 vs 386sx, and what the SX offered.
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What Happened to Abit Motherboards
Capacitor plague and bad accounting practices were a lethal one-two punch