Although the term ‘Iron Curtain’ from the Cold War brings to mind something like the Berlin Wall and its forbidding...
History
In the mid 1970s there were a spate of movies depicting the romance and lifestyle of truck drivers in the...
It’s a bit of an understatement that at release Windows Vista rather fell flat. Much of the problem was due...
We miss the old Heathkit. You could build equipment that rivaled or even surpassed commercial devices. The cost was usually...
Have you ever wanted to see the computers behind the first (and for now only) man-made objects to leave the...
Not so long ago, most computer users didn’t own their own machines. Instead, they shared time on mainframes or servers,...
The internet has aged to the point where it is easy to fall into a rabbit hole, reminiscing about websites...
The Space Race, that high-tech Cold War competition to see which global superpower could conquer the cosmos first, was such...
The Fort Myers Amateur Radio Club (FMARC) will be honoring Army Air Force members that trained at Buckingham Army Airfield...
The Fort Myers Amateur Radio Club has announced the return of “Hamwaves of History,” a live commemorative amateur radio event...
In the 1970s CPUs still had wildly different approaches to basic features, with the Intel 8086 being one of them....
If you follow electronics history, few names were as ubiquitous as RCA, the Radio Corporation of America. Yet in modern...
For nearly a century, RadioShack was the “neighborhood technology store” where America went for everything from vacuum tubes to the...
We have probably all been there: digging through boxes full of old boards for projects and related parts. Often it’s...
The Lizard Wireless Station in Cornwall opened on 1 January 1901 and was able to communicate with ships up to...
powers up a thrust meter from an Apollo lunar module. This bit of kit passed inspection on September 25, 1969....
UNIX version 4 is quite special on account of being the first UNIX to be written in C instead of...
On a quiet shoreline in Southern Maryland, a simple sentence made history — and the world hasn’t stopped talking since....
Thirty-seven years after the devastating Lockerbie bombing, the extraordinary efforts of amateur radio enthusiasts who provided a crucial communication lifeline...
In the global game of nuclear brinksmanship, secrets are the coin of the realm. This was especially true during the...
It is well known that pictographic languages that use Hanzi, like Mandarin, are difficult to work with for computer input...
Special event station AU2JCB will be paying homage to the Indian scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose November 28 through December 15...
Repairing vintage computers is bread-and-butter for many of us around here. The machines themselves tend to be fairly fixable, assuming...
It has been 88 years since Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappeared over the South Pacific. But until now the...
Collective human consciousness is full of imagined or mythical dream-like utopias, hidden away behind mountains, across or under oceans, hidden...
