Collaborate Disseminate
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
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
We know [Happy Little Diodes] frequently works with logic analyzer projects. His recent wireless logic analyzer for the ZX Spectrum is one of the oddest ones we’ve seen in a …read more Continue reading The ZX Spectrum Logic Analyzer
If the Otis King slide rule in [Chris Staecker’s] latest video looks a bit familiar, you might be getting up there in age, or you might remember seeing us talk …read more Continue reading Unwinding an Unusual Slide Rule