by William Winter | Apr 15, 2026 | 1980s, Console/Handheld, Gaming
When I think back to my original Nintendo Game Boy, I don’t just remember a piece of gaming hardware. I remember a specific time in my life, a season, a university campus, and a particular version of myself. The Machine I was at the University of Arizona...
by William Winter | Apr 8, 2026 | 1980s, 2020s, Apple 2, Retro Computing
Here is a story about how I learned to code at age 13. How most of us learned. I was 13 in 1980. Back then, at home, our family had an Apple II Plus, but not a lot of software – especially we had very few games to play. But pretty much every computer had BASIC...
by William Winter | Mar 30, 2026 | 1980s, 2020s, Apple 2, Retro Computing
Over the years I’ve worked in the business software industry, I’ve had the pleasure of working on and off with a particular friend I’ve known since high school in the 1980s. One day, just a little while back, while working together in a meeting with engineering and...