We usually think of a hydraulic system as fully self-contained, with a hydraulic pump, tubing, and actuators filled with a...
History
Opinion The oldest functional off-Earth space hardware? Well, that is a great question for those into pub quizzes, aka bar trivia....
These days, not only are oscilloscopes very common, but even a cheap instrument today would have been the envy of...
To commemorate the centenary of this historic contact made by Goyder and Bell, Mill Hill School will be hosting working...
For some time now, Apple has developed a reputation for manufacturing computers and phones that are not particularly repairable or...
The Geochron World Time Indicator is a clock that doubles as a live map of where the sun is shining...
Despite the rise of ARM processors in more and more computers from embedded systems to daily driver PCs, the x86...
In the 2020s we’re used to software being readily accessible, and often free, whether as-in-beer or as-in-speech. This situation is...
Bits of material levitating against gravity, a stream of water deflected by invisible means, sparks of light appearing out of...
In a world of digital monotony, the Avo DA14 digital multimeter, with its vintage J Nixie tube charm, is a...
It’s been said that the best way to stifle creativity by researchers is to demand that they produce immediately marketable...
If you picked today in your hackerspace’s sweepstake on when Winamp would pull their code repository, congratulations! You’re a winner!...
The dulcet tones of a modem handshake may be a thing of the distant past for most of us, but...
Continuing the series on floppy copy protection, examines Electronic Arts’ Interlock system. This was used from 1984 to 1987 for...
Physicist John Archibald Wheeler made groundbreaking contributions to physics, and has a fantastic writeup about the man. He was undeniably...
After previously working out a suitable approach to create a period-correct paper tape reader for his tube-based, MC14500B processor-inspired computer,...
The Braun TS2 radio was a state-of-the art tube set in 1956. Today it still looks great, but unsurprisingly, the...
July 1981 cover of CompuServe’s magazine. Long before the advent of the Internet and the World Wide Web, there were...
The October edition of RadCom includes an article about the very first two-way radio communication between the UK and New...
Watch out, Gen X-ers — there’s a nostalgia overload heading your way, courtesy of this over-the-air TV simulator. And it...
was digging around their old MAC hard drives, revisiting some abandoned shareware games they wrote over three decades ago, and...
When you think of Sony, you probably think of a technology company that’s been around forever. However, as points out,...
The x86 CPU landscape of the 1980s and 1990s was competitive in a way that probably seems rather alien to...
Through all the generations of computing devices from the era of the teleprinter to the present day, there’s one interface...
Surrounded by the green grass tranquility of Hot Springs State Park, a temporary ham radio antenna reached into the sky....
