A Little More Web Kipple
It looks like ChatGPT’s new browser is identifying itself as a bog standard Chrome instance. That should make it both hard to block and hard to track.
"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/141.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"And now for something really rather fab to start your day off with – ICT 1301 resurrection project! Their goal is to restore the UK’s oldest 2nd Generation Electronic Stored Program Computer to functioning order.
They also have a lovely set of digitised technical manuals up to view!
Fab!
Raymond Chen at ‘The Old New Thing’ has a lovely tale about what could be Microsoft’s worst selling product ever – OS/2 for the Mach 20.
Raymond Chen, The Old New Thing.
According to that person’s memory (which given the amount time that has elapsed, means that we should basically be saying “according to legend” at this point), a total of eleven copies of “OS/2 for Mach 20” were ever sold, and eight of them were returned.
I’ve seen a few expansion cards as part of choosing images for ‘Retro Computer Adverts‘, but the Mach 10| 20 is not one I’ve yet stumbled across. And as for ads for ‘OS/2 for Mach 20’? Not a sausage!
It’s now been a month since I first (quietly) launched ‘Retro Computer Adverts | Your daily dose of retro computing adverts!‘ and, so far, it’s remained a fun little project.
Continue reading “Retro Computer Adverts – End of Month One”
Period Sites in Period Browsers has just thrown up another interesting little oddity – very early server stats from HM Treasury’s web server.
Continue reading “HM Treasury Web Server Statistics (1994 – 1997)”And so it came to pass that QEMU – a dependancy for ‘Period Sites in Period Browsers‘ – moved from version 9.0 to 10.0.
So this lunchtime Period Sites in Period Browsers (PSPB) threw up an interesting bit of history – a brief overview of Netscape Navigator users circa 1996.
After running my Pimoroni NVMe bases for over a year without enclosures, I figured it was time to stop pushing my luck. Enter the Pimoroni ‘NVMe Base Case for Raspberry Pi 5’.
Whilst trying to track down the cost of memory for a PDP-11 I stumbled across The PDP-11 FAQ and it’s rather excellent collection of early 70s PDP-11 price lists. It’s a fun little list, rammed through of interesting little nuggets – today it’s hard to imaging it but in 1972 a line printer would have set you back at least 12,000 USD. That’s almost 92,000 USD in 2025 prices!
Continue reading “The cost of a PDP-11 circa 1971”
