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Abort Retry Fail attempts to cover the history of the computing industry. Click to read Abort Retry Fail, by Bradford Morgan White, a Substack publication.

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2026 7

  1. Zenith Data Systems, Part I
  2. Matrox
  3. Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems
  4. Hitachi Ltd, Part II
  5. Hitachi Ltd, Part I
  6. The Most Important Micros
  7. A Brief History of Sega Enterprises

2025 28

  1. The Olivetti Company
  2. The Osborne Computer Corporation
  3. The History of Xerox
  4. SRI & ARC
  5. The QNX Operating System
  6. Upgrading a Macintosh Classic II
  7. The Story of Creative Technology
  8. Cirrus Logic
  9. The History of Windows XP
  10. The History of Acer
  11. Tandy Corporation, Part 4
  12. Tandy Corporation, Part 3
  13. The Tandy Corporation, Part 2
  14. The Tandy Corporation, Part 1
  15. The History of R2E and the Micral
  16. Intel: Stumbling in the Spotlight
  17. Intel: Winning and Losing
  18. Chipzilla eats an Apple
  19. Intel and the New Millennium
  20. Chipzilla Extends its Domination
  21. Intel: a Bug and a Pro
  22. Intel Inside
  23. Intel Setting the Stage
  24. Intel the CPU company
  25. Chipzilla Devours the Desktop
  26. The Birth of Chipzilla
  27. The History of S.u.S.E.
  28. Work at the Mill

2024 46

  1. eMachines T6528
  2. The British Micro Behemoth
  3. The Extremely Unprofitable Transmeta
  4. Housekeeping 20241208
  5. Fairchild Semiconductor
  6. Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory
  7. The History of Motorola
  8. The Sperry Rand Corporation
  9. Nippon Electric Company
  10. The Internet Gopher from Minnesota
  11. A Brief History of Cyrix
  12. Remington Rand
  13. Peripheral Component Interconnect
  14. Balance of Power
  15. Unboxing New Old Stock MS-DOS 5
  16. Compaq Computer Corporation, Part III
  17. Compaq Computer Corporation, Part II
  18. Compaq Computer Corporation, Part I
  19. New Old Stock IBM OS/2 Warp 3.0
  20. The History of Windows 2000
  21. Housekeeping for 20240701
  22. New Old Stock OS/2 version 2
  23. The GEM of Digital Research
  24. The Story of Napster
  25. Of Psion and Symbian
  26. The History of DR DOS
  27. A Short History of CP/M-86
  28. Control Program for Microcomputers
  29. Unboxing New Old Stock PC-DOS 6.1
  30. The LaserDisc
  31. Unboxing New Old Stock PC-DOS 5
  32. The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics
  33. The Rapid Rise of eMachines
  34. The History of Novell
  35. Housekeeping for 20240309
  36. inMOS and the Transputer
  37. The Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation
  38. The Q1
  39. The Mark Williams Company
  40. The Floppy Disk
  41. The Berkeley Software Distribution
  42. The ENIAC
  43. The History of Debian, Part 2
  44. The History of Debian, Part 1
  45. The Itanic Saga
  46. Housekeeping for 20240102

2023 44

  1. The History of Windows Millennium
  2. The History of Caldera, Part 2
  3. The History of Caldera, Part 1
  4. The History of XENIX
  5. The History of the IBM 5100
  6. The History of GM-NAA I/O and SHARE
  7. The History of Commodore, Part 4
  8. The History of Commodore, Part 3
  9. The History of Commodore, Part 2
  10. The History of Commodore, Part 1
  11. The History of Slackware
  12. The History of Microsoft Encarta
  13. The History of Lotus
  14. The History of OS/2
  15. The History of Windows NT 4
  16. Unboxing New Old Stock Windows 3.11
  17. The History of Windows 98
  18. The History of Red Hat
  19. The Birth of Windows Gaming
  20. The History of Windows 95
  21. The History of Windows NT 3.1
  22. The History of Windows 3
  23. The History of Windows 2.0
  24. The History of Windows 1.0
  25. The History of Linux Mandrake
  26. Dude, you're gettin' a Dell
  27. The other fruit company, Apricot
  28. The Rise and Fall of Ashton-Tate
  29. Life on Chiron
  30. Clicking Through Ages
  31. Works: An Office in a Single Application
  32. The Last Word in Integrated Logic
  33. The Modern Memex
  34. Unboxing, new old stock, MS-DOS 4.01
  35. The other Apple RISC machines
  36. The History of VisiCalc
  37. Civilization II
  38. A Short History of Berkeley RISC
  39. The History of LZ compression
  40. So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous
  41. SimEarth: The Living Planet
  42. The Network is the Computer
  43. History of BASIC, Part 3
  44. History of BASIC, Part 2

2022 18

  1. History of BASIC, Part 1
  2. The History of WordStar
  3. NEC V20 vs 8088-2
  4. The History of Acorn
  5. Comparing Intel 8088 CPUs
  6. Microsoft Flight Simulator
  7. 'Be' is nice. End of story.
  8. The IBM RT PC
  9. The path to Linux
  10. Disk Operating Systems
  11. We no longer call them microcomputers
  12. SimCity
  13. Civilization
  14. A Classic Reborn
  15. KDE3 on Slackware 15
  16. Better Products Often Fail
  17. Run a 1990s PC on your M1
  18. The Coming Crisis in Home Computers