Collaborate Disseminate
When you think of Singer, you usually think of sewing machines, although if you are a history buff, you might remember they diversified into calculators, flight simulation, and a few …read more Continue reading Not a Sewing Machine: A Multimedia Briefcase
Last time we talked about how the original PC has a limit of 640 kB for your programs and 1 MB in total. But of course those restrictions chafed. People …read more Continue reading Remembering More Memory: XMS and a Real Hack
You’d think a paper from a science team from Carnegie Mellon would be short on fun. But the team behind LegoGPT would prove you wrong. The system allows you to …read more Continue reading Welcome Your New AI (LEGO) Overlord
If you talk about Starlink, you are usually talking about the satellites that orbit the Earth carrying data to and from ground stations. Why not? Space is cool. But there’s …read more Continue reading Inside Starlink’s User Terminal
If you want read-only memory today, you might be tempted to use flash memory or, if you want old-school, maybe an EPROM. But there was a time when that wasn’t …read more Continue reading Your Own Core Rope Memory
When [Kasyan] was six years old, he saw a RADUGA computer, a Russian unit from the 1990s, and it sparked his imagination. He has one now that is a little …read more Continue reading RADUGA: The Retro Computer from Behind the Curtain
There was a time when version control was an exotic idea. Today, things like Git and a handful of other tools allow developers to easily rewind the clock or work …read more Continue reading Version Control to the Max
[Thomas Scherrer] has an odd piece of vintage test equipment in his most recent video. An AIM LCR Databridge 401. What’s a databridge? We assume it was a play on …read more Continue reading What’s an LCR Databridge?
[Project 326] is following up on his thermal microscope with a thermal telescope or, more precisely, a thermal monocular. In fact, many of the components and lenses in this project …read more Continue reading Thermal Monocular Brings the Heat at 10X
You often hear that Bill Gates once proclaimed, “640 kB is enough for anyone,” but, apparently, that’s a myth — he never said it. On the other hand, early PCs …read more Continue reading Remembering Memory: EMS, and TSRs