It has been 88 years since Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappeared over the South Pacific. But until now the...
History
Collective human consciousness is full of imagined or mythical dream-like utopias, hidden away behind mountains, across or under oceans, hidden...
Ok, we’ll admit it. If you asked us what the first transistorized computer was, we would have guessed it was...
Finding, collecting, and restoring vintage tech is the rewarding pastime of many a Hackaday reader. Working with old-school gear can...
At 5:20 PM on November 9, 1965, the Tuesday rush hour was in full bloom outside the studios of WABC...
It is a common occurrence in old movies: Our hero checks in at a hotel in some exotic locale, and...
In 1969 the UK launched Skynet-1A, a military communications satellite placed in orbit above the east coast of Africa in order to...
Over on his blog our hacker restores a Prompt 80, which was a development system for the 8-bit Intel 8080...
If you are interested in retrocomputers, you might be like us and old enough to remember the old systems and...
comes up with some unusual gear. In his latest teardown and repair video, he has a vintage 1943 Danish oscilloscope, ...
On September 19, 2025, a Remembrance Ceremony is being held in Cobourg, Ontario for Fern Blodgett Sunde – the first...
Aside from a few stand-out programs — looking at you, Star Trek — by the late 1960s, TV had already...
Open any consumer electronics catalog from around the 1980s to the early 2000s and you are overwhelmed by a smörgåsbord...
Let’s kick off this article with some nuggets of knowledge and tidbits of trivia. Have you ever heard the term...
The MOS Technology 6502 is a microprocessor which casts a long shadow over the world of computing. Many of you...
The switch from analog telephone exchanges to a purely digital network meant a revolution in just about any way imaginable....
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...
In the 1980s, there was a truly staggering amount of choice for a consumer looking to purchase a home computer....
I often ask people: What’s the most important thing you need to have a successful fishing trip? I get a...
It’s a day Wes Boyd still remembers, 40 years later. “I happened to have one of my kids look up...
Some hacks are so great that when you die you receive the rare honor of both an obituary in the...
The 1970s saw a veritable goldrush to corner the home computer market, with Tandy’s Z80-powered TRS-80 probably one of the...
ARDC has awarded a second grant to the Internet Archive's Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications. The grant will...
If we asked you to name Alexander Graham Bell’s greatest invention, you would doubtless say “the telephone”; it’s probably the...
