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Computers
In the 1950s, computers were, for the most part, ponderous machines. But one machine offered a glimpse of the future....
Even if you didn’t own a TRS-80, the widespread footprint of Radio Shack in malls meant that if you are...
For anyone new to the world of ham radio, one of the things that takes a little getting used to...
A computing platform is never really dead unless people stop developing new software for it. By that measure, the Commodore...
Hacks that bring a vintage flair to modern electronics never get old, and delivers with his Project Clean Slate inspired by vintage...
Rich DeMuro will be taking over for Leo Laporte on broadcast stations, including KFI AM 640, across the nation. Demuro's...
To call a vintage computing enthusiast would be an understatement. Who else would add the ability to control and address multiple VGA monitors...
A lot of people had a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I. This was a “home computer” built into a keyboard...
https://hollandshielding.com/Windows-RF-calculator offers a free of charge RF toolbox with many interesting RF calculators and analysers can be downloaded, offering the...
The Health Care Amateur Radio Club (HCARC) is a multi-disciplinary membership group of amateur operators that work and or volunteer...
The proliferation of software-defined radio (SDR) technology has been a godsend for RF hobbyists. SDR-based receivers and transmitters have gotten...
TikTok promises to keep its U.S. users’ data safe and sound are not satisfying at least one member of the...
It’s fair to say that right now is probably the worst possible time you could choose to design a new...
An ARDC grant will help make GNU Radio easier to use on Windows and improve the graphical user interface GNU Radio Companion GNU Radio,...
It’s true that this TRS-80 Model 4P “luggable” was in better shape than many of the vintage machines that pass...
In any given field there are epoch-defining moments, those events after which nothing was quite the same as it had...
Pioneering Xerox PARC computer researcher David Boggs has died at 71, The New York Times has reported. He was best known for...
We’ve gotten used to the GPIO-available functions of Raspberry Pi computers remaining largely the same over the years, which is...
Packet Radio Pioneer Brian Rogers, N1URO, of Unionville, Connecticut, died on January 4. An ARRL member, he was 58. Rogers...
We’ve seen a few interesting magnetic core memories on these fine pages over the years, but we don’t recall seeing...
IT WAS sometime in 1990. I was standing in front of the central library of the University of Dhaka, holding...
If you had the misfortune of running a Microsoft Exchange server this past week, then you don’t need me to tell...
The WSJT development group has released an updated version of WSJT-X — version 2.5.4 — which it’s calling a “bug fix.” The primary fix...
Company is set to kill support for its classic smartphones running on its own operating system on January 4 -...
