Explore 80s computer ethics: software piracy, hacking, and the consequences of digital actions. Featuring 'Oil's Well' game copyright issues & medical database hacking.

“On Tuesday, we dusted off the source code for early versions of MS-DOS and Word for Windows,” said Roy Levin, distinguished engineer and managing director of Microsoft Research, in a March 25 ...

It was with minimal expectations that, on August 3, 1977, Tandy Corporation teamed up with Radio Shack to release the TRS-80, one of the first personal computers available to consumer markets.

Ellen Ullman, who worked as a computer programmer in the ’70s and ’80s, on building a career within the “boy culture” of tech. By Laura Miller Aug 16, 2017 10:38 AM ...

COMAL for the Atlacatl Home Computer(very late 70s, early 80s, El Salvador, 6502, 9928/9927, SN76489, stock 48k up to 1MB, very unknown micro) used commands in Spanish ...

By today’s standards, the TRS 80 Model 100 is a scrawny little computer.No color.No hard drive.A maddeningly slow 300-baud modem.And just 4 kilobytes of memory. (For comparison, todays 8 ...

[T]he DMCA "is [not] concerned with whatever capacity [code] might have for conveying information to a human being." Rather, it applies to code "solely because of its capacity to instruct a computer." ...

Music started to be proper 'computer music' in the 1980s. Yes, there were synth wizards in the 1970s, all cloaks and solos, but the popularity of the synth exploded in the 1980s and gave us a ...