Collaborate Disseminate
What does it take to get a 47-year-old printer working? [Usagi Electric] shows us it’s not too hard, even if you don’t exactly know what you’re doing. When we last …read more Continue reading [Usagi] Whips a Chain Printer Into Shape
How long does it take to steal your Bitlocker keys? Try 43 seconds, using less than $10 in hardware. Encrypting your hard drive is good security. If you’re running Windows, …read more Continue reading Beating Bitlocker in 43 seconds
Retrocomputing often involves careful restorations, rare components, and white gloves. This story involves none of those. This is the story of two people who sought to answer one of the …read more Continue reading Crusty: The Story of the Mac SE that Could
[Usagi Eletric] has his Centurion minicomputer (and a few others) running like a top. One feature that’s missing, though, is the ability to produce a hard copy. Now, a serious …read more Continue reading Bringing a Chain Printer Back to Life: The Power Supply
[Lex] over at Computing: The Details loves to make fun projects. Recently, he’s created a hardware CPU monitor that allows him to see how well his PC is parallelizing compile …read more Continue reading Mini Meters Monitor Microprocessor Maximization
Robots made of broken toy parts, stop-motion animation, and a great song to tie it all together were not on our bingo card for 2023, but the results are perfect. …read more Continue reading Oh, The Places You’ll Go With Stop Motion Animation
The Vintage Computer Festival is coming to sunny Southern California in February 2024. That’s right, bring your Commodores, your Tandys, your PDP-11s, and Altairs. The world of retrocomputing will be …read more Continue reading Vintage Computer Festival Southern California
[Curious Droid] is back with a history lesson on one of the most important inventions of the 20th century: The cavity magnetron. Forged in the fighting of World War II, …read more Continue reading The Device that Won WW2: A History of the Cavity Magnetron
Liquid crystal and Organic LED displays have revolutionized portable computing. They’re also made of glass. Which presents a problem: How do we get electrical signals from fiberglass circuit boards to …read more Continue reading Tiny Spheres Hiding in Your Display
When [Mike] fired up his PCjr webserver back in March, he probably wasn’t expecting it to go viral. 2640 hours later, here we are! Not only has his machine run …read more Continue reading PCjr WebServer hits 2500 Hours Uptime