If you used the internet at home a couple of decades or more ago, you’ll know the characteristic sound of...
Computers
When you first get your hands on an old piece of equipment, regardless of whether it’s an old PC or...
In 1983, the Lisa was supposed to be a barnburner. Apple’s brand-new computer had a cutting edge GUI, a mouse,...
The MOS Technology 6502 is a microprocessor which casts a long shadow over the world of computing. Many of you...
Film maker wrote in to let us know about his recent documentary: Before Macintosh: The Apple Lisa. The documentary covers...
Radio Shack, despite being gone for a number of years, is still in our cultural consciousness. But Tandy, the company...
Some time ago, Linus Torvalds made a throwaway comment that sent ripples through the Linux world. Was it perhaps time...
In the 1980s, there was a truly staggering amount of choice for a consumer looking to purchase a home computer....
Hamword has completed three years serving hams a daily word game that is similar to the popular Wordle guessing game....
When a man wearing an Atari T-shirt tells you he’s buying Commodore it sounds like the plot for an improbable...
On the podcast, and I were talking about the continuing saga of the libogc debacle. has been interviewing some of...
Microsoft’s latest Phi4 LLM has 14 billion parameters that require about 11 GB of storage. Can you run it on...
For immediate release – May 22, 2025: We continue to receive reports from RAC members of phishing attempts by someone...
Once upon a time, typing “www” at the start of a URL was as automatic as breathing. And yet, these...
The 1970s saw a veritable goldrush to corner the home computer market, with Tandy’s Z80-powered TRS-80 probably one of the...
Sebastian Delmont (KI2D) is the 2025 recipient of the Amateur Radio Software Award for his efforts developing Ham2K Portable Logger....
The Vectrex console from the early 1980s holds a special place in retrocomputing lore thanks to its vector display —...
Surely by now you’ve at least heard of RTL-SDR — a software project that let’s cheap TV tuner dongles work...
Over the history of the Web, we have seen several major shifts in browsing software. If you’re old enough to...
Over the decades there have been many denominations coined to classify computer systems, usually when they got used in different...
Despite a general lack of real-world experience, many teenagers are overly confident in their opinions, often to the point of...
There have been several attempts to make an unencumbered version of Windows. ReactOS is perhaps the best-known, although you could...
If you’re familiar with Java here in 2025, the programming language you know is a world away from what Sun...
FR4 is FR4, right? For a lot of PCB designs, the answer is yes — the particular characteristics of the...
In an ideal world, devoid of pesky details like contact resistance and manufacturing imperfections, you would be able to double...
