Collaborate Disseminate
Although Ethernet is generally considered to be a settled matter, its history was anything but peaceful, with its standardization process (under Project 802) leaving its traces to this very day. …read more Continue reading Ethernet History: Why Do We Have Different Frame Types?
As Neuralink works towards getting its brain-computer interface technology approved for general use, it now has two human patients who have received the experimental implant. The second patient, [Alex], received …read more Continue reading Second Human Neuralink Brain Implant Recipient Uses It For CAD and Videogaming
Although the benefits of semiconductor technology were undeniable during the second half the 20th century, there was a clear divide between the two sides of the Iron Curtain. Whilst the …read more Continue reading The First Mass Produced DRAM of the Soviet Union
Following the trend of re-releasing every single game console as some kind of modern re-imagining or merely an ARM-SBC-with-emulator slapped into a nice looking enclosure, we now got the announcement …read more Continue reading Atari Announces the Atari 7800+ Nostalgia Console
In a double-blast from the past, [Ian Failes]’ 2018 interview with [Phil Tippett] and others who worked on Jurassic Park is a great look at how the dinosaurs in this 1993 …read more Continue reading How Jurassic Park’s Dinosaur Input Device Bridged the Stop-Motion and CGI Worlds
When the Raspberry Pi 5 SBC was released last year, it came in 4 and 8 GB RAM variants, which currently retail from around $80 USD and €90 for the …read more Continue reading Cost-Optimized Raspberry Pi 5 Released With 2 GB RAM and D0 Stepping
Recently the Christie’s auction house released the list of items that would be going up for sale as part of the first lot of Living Computer Museum items, under the …read more Continue reading Historical Microsoft and Apple Artifacts Among First Christie’s Auction of Living Computers Museum
Over at the [Usagi Electric] farm, [David Lovett]’s custom 1-bit, vacuum tube-based computer (UEVTC for short) has been coming along well the past years, matching and exceeding the Motorola MC14500B …read more Continue reading Building a Paper Tape Reader To Read Bytes
On an x86 system the BIOS is the first part of the system to become active along with the basic CPU core(s) functionality, or so things used to be until …read more Continue reading Reverse-Engineering the AMD Secure Processor Inside the CPU
Although the designation ‘Air Force One’ is now commonly known to refer to the airplane used by the President of the United States, it wasn’t until Eisenhower that the US …read more Continue reading The First Air Force One and How it Was Nearly Lost Forever