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A blog exploring retro productivity software of the 8/16-bit era. No games; just work.
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🪨🛠️ New Post: "Electric Pencil on the TRS-80" This time, I examine the first word processor for home computers, Electric Pencil, which worked best if you weren't afraid to break out a soldering iron.
stonetools.ghost.io/electricpencil-trs80
#RetroComputing
#ElectricPencil
#WordProcessing
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Electric Pencil on the TRS-80
A disillusioned filmmaker turned beach bum turned a hobby project into millions by creating the first word processor for home computers. His creation was so compelling a jewelry salesman reinvented hi...
https://stonetools.ghost.io/electricpencil-trs80
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michael bosshard
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v1.0.0 has been released!
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github.com/twvd/snow/re...
add a skeleton here at some point
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Christopher Drum
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What a delightful surprise. My new blog,
@stonetoolsblog.bsky.social
, seems to mark a tipping point, earning a lengthy discussion of my full body of retro-related works in the latest
@thisweekinretro.bsky.social
I am, apparently, "Someone you should know"🙇
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youtu.be/UHYscl1Ayqg?...
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Commodore Datasette But Tiny - This Week In Retro 235
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🪨🛠️ New Post: "Electric Pencil on the TRS-80" This time, I examine the first word processor for home computers, Electric Pencil, which worked best if you weren't afraid to break out a soldering iron.
stonetools.ghost.io/electricpencil-trs80
#RetroComputing
#ElectricPencil
#WordProcessing
#TRS80
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Electric Pencil on the TRS-80
A disillusioned filmmaker turned beach bum turned a hobby project into millions by creating the first word processor for home computers. His creation was so compelling a jewelry salesman reinvented hi...
https://stonetools.ghost.io/electricpencil-trs80
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This Week in Retro
11 days ago
Jason reports fresh off the weekend of Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 20, full of classic tech, This Week in Retro viewers, and distinctive hairstyles. All this and more including your nominations for the unsung heroes of retro, coming in episode 236 this Saturday!
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🪨🛠️ New Post is Up! 2025 is the 40th birthday of the Commodore Amiga. It is *also* the 40th birthday of Deluxe Paint. Our first retrospective examines this classic hardware/software combo.
#RetroComputing
#SoftwareArchaeology
#Amiga
#DeluxePaint
#StoneTools
stonetools.ghost.io/deluxepaint-amiga/
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Deluxe Paint on the Commodore Amiga
Back when EA was cool, they packaged their software in album-style sleeves and promoted their developers like rock stars. I was a Dan Silva groupie.
https://stonetools.ghost.io/deluxepaint-amiga/
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Retro Computers
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"We're selling the one thing we count on every day."
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COMPUTER GRPAHICS
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Retro Computers
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WORD PROCESSING HAS NEVER BEEN SIMPLER
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Lenna 💛🩸
27 days ago
We were cooked the moment operating system UIs stopped shipping looking like this
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We’re live! 🪨🛠️ Stone Tools soft-launch today, with the first proper post coming later this week. If you think retro-computing means more than just games, you’re in the right place.
#RetroComputing
#ComputerHistory
#OfficeOfTheFuture
#SoftwareArchaeology
#StoneTools
stonetools.ghost.io/introducing/
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Introducing “Stone Tools”
A blog about the productivity software of the 8/16-bit era. No games, just work.
https://stonetools.ghost.io/introducing/
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