On the podcast, and I were talking about the new generation of smartphones which are, at least in terms of...
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The early history of colour TV had several false starts, of which perhaps one of the most interesting might-have-beens was...
Not so long ago, most computer users didn’t own their own machines. Instead, they shared time on mainframes or servers,...
Repairing vintage computers is bread-and-butter for many of us around here. The machines themselves tend to be fairly fixable, assuming...
Although now mostly known as a company who cornered the market on graphing calculators while only updating them once a...
Ok, we’ll admit it. If you asked us what the first transistorized computer was, we would have guessed it was...
There’s always some debate around what style of architecture is best for certain computing applications, with some on the RISC...
A laptop is one of the greatest tools at the disposal of a hacker. They come in all manner of...
If you are interested in retrocomputers, you might be like us and old enough to remember the old systems and...
We’re all used to emulating older computers here, and we’ve seen plenty of projects that take a cheap microcontroller and...
In 1983, the Lisa was supposed to be a barnburner. Apple’s brand-new computer had a cutting edge GUI, a mouse,...
Portability has been a goal of a sizable section of the computing world for many decades now. While the obvious...
For home computer users, the end of the 1980s was the era of 16-bit computers. The challenge facing manufacturers of...
The 8-bit home computers of yore that we all know and love, without exception as far as we are aware,...
One of the things that we love about the modern era of computing is the increasing ease by which you...
For those of us who lived through the early 8-bit computing revolution — the tail end, in our case —...
While most of us now remember Radio Shack as a store that tried to force us to buy batteries and...
Voyager 1, the most distant human-made object from Earth, is sending back a repetitive jumble of 1s and 0s that...
I recently dropped in on one of the Vintage Computer Festival events, and it made me think about why people...
It’s true that this TRS-80 Model 4P “luggable” was in better shape than many of the vintage machines that pass...
