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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The floppy disk contains the oldest version of 86-DOS thought to still exist. Although long-abandoned for far more advanced ...

On January 19, 1986, the world became aware of what is widely regarded as the first major computer virus to spread globally: Brain. While earlier experimental self-replicating programs had existed, ...

1983 and 1985: Dual CPUs and ‘the peanut’ My first tech journalism job was at Digital Review in 1983. We used top-o’-the-line, green-screen DEC Rainbow 100 computers with no hard drive, 128KB of RAM ...