1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (33+ words) You want Retro? We did, when we started our retrocomputing challenge. [Peter] decided that transistors weren't retro enough, and sent us this lovely homebrew relay computer, complete with 16- bit CPU,......

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (39+ words) Apple hardware has always been proprietary, sometimes to an extreme. But that's not to say that it's impossible to make something that does the same job, which is what [DosFox1] appears to have done w......

1+ week, 59+ min ago   (34+ words) The earliest all-electronic computers used vacuum tubes, and most of us will know about machines such as ENIAC or Colossus. Vast machines that required the budget of a country at war to build, andfill......

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (43+ words) The Year of the Linux Desktop hasn't been on its way for quite as long as nuclear fusion plants, but somehow it seems to recede into the horizon at just about the same rate. Every year, it's another y......

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (36+ words) The computer business in 1984 was a bizarre mix of hobby-level companies, a few small companies that had made it big, and a lot of big companies starting to take notice of personal computers. Plenty o......

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (38+ words) If you were interested in computers in the early 1970s, you struggled to get time on real computers since owning your own was all but impossible. In the middle of the decade, though, you could get a f......

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (37+ words) It's technically true that any piece of software can be reproduced in hardware, although modern software's size and complexity generally makes this a non-starter. But if we go far enough back in time,......

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (235+ words) Hackaday These days there are emulators for all the great consoles of yesteryear, as well as old retrocomputers and arcade machines and so much else to boot Now, though, a particularly popular MP3 player has an emulator of its own—by…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (36+ words) The AM29000 series of processors were AMD's entry into the world of super-fast next-generation silicon of the late 1980s. It was a time when ARM was still a niche architecture in a British educational......

3+ week, 23+ hour ago   (34+ words) [caption id="attachment_1139877" align="alignright" width="400"] Using the special pens to remove the wax coating on the template. (Credit: Old Typerwriters and Calculators, YouTube)[/caption] Docume......