Collaborate Disseminate
The Compaq Portable III hails from the 386 era — in the days before the laptop form factor was what we know today. It’s got a bit of an odd …read more Continue reading Compaq Portable III is More Than Meets the Eye
We know, we know. A lot of you don’t like projects that consist of gutting a vintage computer (or anything else, for that matter) and replacing its internals with modern …read more Continue reading Compaq 286 Laptop Gets Raspberry Transfusion
A common example of the sheer amount of computing power available to almost anyone today is comparing a smartphone to the Apollo guidance computer. This classic computer was the first …read more Continue reading Installing Linux like it’s 1989
While nobody could deny that computing technology has some a long way in the last few decades, there are many out there who believe peak keyboard was sometime before the turn of the new millennium. The prefer the look, feel, and especially the sounds, of those classic keyboards to what …read more
Before computer games had all these fancy graphics, text based games were a very popular genre. Rather than move a character on the screen, you’d type out commands for your player in sentence form which the game would interpret; decades before the “cloud” language processing technology that the likes of Amazon and Google currently use to power their virtual assistants. In some ways the genre was ahead of its time, but it didn’t survive the graphical revolution for home computers. Of course, these games still have some diehard fans out there.
[Dan The Geek] is one such fan. He loves …read more
An anonymous reader writes: It may come as a surprise to many, but the 20-year-old Compaq LTE 5280 still plays a vital role in maintaining multi-million dollar McLaren F1s. Jalopnik recently visited McLaren’s Special Operations workshop where it found … Continue reading 20-Yr-Old Compaq Laptop Is Still Crucial to Maintaining McLaren’s Multi-Million Dollar Cars