For nearly a century, RadioShack was the “neighborhood technology store” where America went for everything from vacuum tubes to the...
History
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...
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...
