Collaborate Disseminate
When Ethernet was originally envisioned, it would use a common, shared medium (the ‘Ether’ part), with transmitting and collision resolution handled by the carrier sense multiple access with collision detection …read more Continue reading How DEC’s LANBridge 100 Gave Ethernet a Fighting Chance
[Oscar] at Obsolescence Guaranteed is well-known for fun replicas of the PDP-8 and PDP-11 using the Raspberry Pi (along with some other simulated vintage computers). His latest attempt is the …read more Continue reading PDP-10 Fits in Your Living Room
It’s hard enough to get your hands on a forgotten computer from yesteryear. It’s even more difficult to get accessories like RAM expansions and graphics cards, because half the time …read more Continue reading Building RAM Expansions for the DEC Rainbow 100
In retrocomputing circles, it’s often the case that the weirder and rarer the machine, the more likely it is to attract attention. And machines don’t get much weirder than the …read more Continue reading Clock Hack Gives DEC Rainbow a New Lease on Life
If you want the classic experience of working with an IBM mainframe or another classic computer like a DEC VAX, you have a few choices. You could spend a lot …read more Continue reading Your Own IBM Mainframe (or Vax, or Cray…) the Easy Way
Levy’s Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution is something like required reading for the hacker subculture, and Hackaday by extension. The first section of that book is all about early …read more Continue reading Reliving Second-Hand Nostalgia with the PDP-11
[RetroBytes] takes us on a whirlwind tour of the history of the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), its founder Ken Olsen, and during intermission builds up a working replica of the …read more Continue reading History of Digital Equipment Corp and Bonus PDP-11 Replica Build
We like retro-computing and we like open source standards that allow easy project sharing. Vintage DEC computer enthusiast [Jay Logue] combines both of these in his recent project on GitHub, where …read more Continue reading Flip-Chip KiCad Templates
A lot of technology from the not-so-distant past doesn’t resemble modern versions very much. For a case in point, look at the DEC RS08 disk drive meant to pair with …read more Continue reading Inside a DEC Hard Drive
If you were selling computers in the early 1960s you faced a few problems, chief among them was convincing people to buy the fantastically expensive machines. But you also needed to develop an engineering force to build and maintain said machines. And in a world where most of the electrical …read more
Continue reading Reproduction 1960s Computer Trainer Really Pushes Our Buttons