When old programmers like me (I'm 41) get together we talk about the applications from the old days. What happens to these beauties? The answer, obviously, is that their fate only matters if people ...
Napster plans to shut off old versions of its file-swapping software late Wednesday night to push a version that includes a new filter for blocking copyrighted music. Napster is funneling people to a ...
The Virtual OS Museum is a huge retro-computing archive with more than 1,700 ready-to-run installations, covering everything from 1948’s Manchester Baby to classic Mac OS, early Windows, Unix, PalmOS, ...
Helmut Schwemmer wants to use a very old version of Managing Your Money on a new PC. But the program came on floppy disks. But getting the new PC to read the floppies may be the least of your worries.
There was a time when music software felt joyfully chaotic. Each new plugin looked like a wholly distinct species, programs frequently crashed, applications often ...
An Apple collector who was selling his vintage Apple software collection on eBay received a surprise earlier this month when Apple itself bought out much of his software inventory for its software ...
Some companies — like Apple — seem to think that older versions of their software simply vanish from the world when new versions are released. Not only is that not true today, it’s never been true.
I've got some pretty old hardware and old software lying around, and I'm trying to clean some things up. I just pulled out one of my binders and went through it, and I'm pretty sure the software I've ...