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 ...

[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." ...

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 ...