In 1982, desktop computers were coming into their own, and no clear leaders had emerged. But everyone knew they wanted...
History
William Continelli W2XOY (SK) was in lower Manhattan for business on September 11, 2001. He recorded his account of trying...
Ed. Note: Details in this article were culled from the November 2001 QST article, “9/11/01: ‘This is Not a Test’...
People have lived in space stations for decades now, but something is wrong with them. Where are the big rotating...
happens to have a rather special machine in his possession. It’s a rare IBM PC prototype or concept machine from...
If you didn’t live through it, it is hard to understand how excited the general public was about the race...
On the morning of 10 January 1946, at a scrubby Army post near the New Jersey shore called Camp Evans,...
You’ve almost certainly heard of the Xerox Alto, the machine that pioneered the desktop-mouse-keyboard interface and inspired Steve Jobs to...
took on an interesting challenge. The BBC, apparently, produced a game console known as the BBC Bridge Companion that connected...
A teenaged Florida girl listening to her ham radio probably heard Amelia Earhart's final desperate Mayday call after the legendary...
In the early 1990s, Don’t Copy That Floppy was an anti-piracy campaign that attempted to connect with computer-savvy youth through...
Watching ’s build of a handheld 486-based gaming computer, we got to thinking about retro computers and the eternal questions...
How old is the seven-segment display? Surely it is a product of the 1970s. After all, calculators started showing up,...
has an interesting article about Alan Turing’s nearly-forgotten speech encryption device. Codenamed Delilah, it was in many ways an early form...
What counts as portable is somewhat a matter of opinion, especially over the years. has a portable spy radio of...
If you are an American of a certain age, you know the Soviet Union launched the first satellite, Sputnik, beating...
With so many online messaging services to choose from it’s almost as though the daddy of them all, email, has...
The Hindenburg disaster recently marked its 89th anniversary, and marked the event with a video that dispels many of the...
When most people think about vacuum tubes, they picture big glass bottles glowing inside antique radios or early computers. History...
Morse code was invented by American inventor Samuel Morse and his assistant Alfred Vail during the period of 1837–1844. This...
Although the term ‘Iron Curtain’ from the Cold War brings to mind something like the Berlin Wall and its forbidding...
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...
