Ghost HDD imaging history … Wikipedia ignores versions below 3

Most of you know „Norton Ghost“, even more often known as „Symantec Ghost“. But it wasn’t published by Symantec first. Binary Research started to sell Version 1.0 (1.1) in 1996, followed by Version 2.0 (2.07) and Version 3.0 (3.1) – latest minor version in brackets. The first 2 versions runs even with an IBM XT […]

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Remarkable site and blog: The 'Computer History Museum'

I just want to point out that there is a site and blog you must visit: The „Computer History Museum“ logo: The blog is still actualized regularly, and points out many historical facts beside of other more ore less computer related facts but also opinions. The site itself does NOT only shows vintage computer technology, […]

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Two interesting pages about the Olivetti M20 – one of the few computer which have a Z8000 and can run CP/M-8000

Full with additional links and infos, more than just a vintage computer museum entry: http://retrocomputing.altervista.org/m20/m20.html http://www.retrocomputing.tk/olivettim20.html To get an impression from what I’m talking – here’s an image from an M20 machine, running CP/M-8000: The machine was selled in 1982 with PCOS (that’s an operating system with cryptic commands, even more cryptic than CP/M was)… […]

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