Collaborate Disseminate
Today, if you want to send a message to a distant location, you’ll probably send an e-mail or a text message. But it hasn’t always been that easy. Military commanders, …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Air Mail for the Birds
These days, paying for TV programming is a fact of life. You pay your cable company or some streaming service and the only question is do you want Apple TV …read more Continue reading Retro Gadgets: Pay TV in the 1960s
Historians have discovered what may be the world’s first decimal point, in an ancient manuscript written 150 years before its next known appearance. There have been many ways to split integers, but this little dot has proven uniquely powerful.Continue … Continue reading The invention of the decimal dot that changed mathematics forever
While current diagnostic definitions of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are relatively new, the general condition has been identified by clinicians under a variety of names for centuries. Recent genetic studies have revealed the conditi… Continue reading ADHD linked to evolutionary success in ancient humans
Two of the first-ever desktop computers have been found in storage boxes at Kingston University in London. A milestone in human achievement, the Q1 microprocessor computer was released more than half a century ago, and only one other is known to exist…. Continue reading Priceless barn find: World’s first microcomputers discovered by cleaners
A 280-million-year-old fossil from the Italian Alps is pretty much just black paint in the lizard-shaped grooves of a rock. So say researchers who examined the specimen and laid to rest questions that have long puzzled paleontologists.Continue ReadingC… Continue reading Famous lizard fossil exposed as a forgery
The early days of home computing were quite a jungle of different standards and convoluted solutions to make one piece of hardware work on as many different platforms as possible. …read more Continue reading How Intel Gave Us The PCI Bus While Burying VESA’s VL-Bus
Defending an area against incoming missiles is a difficult task. Missiles are incredibly fast and present a small target. Assuming you know they’re coming, you have to be able to …read more Continue reading Sprint: The Mach 10 Magic Missile That Wasn’t Magic Enough
In the year 79 CE, a massive cloud of volcanic ash rained down on the Roman city of Herculaneum after an eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Along with the city of …read more Continue reading Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize Awarded And 2024’s New Challenge
As I walked into the huge high bay that was to be my part-time office for the next couple of years, I was greeted by all manner of abandoned equipment …read more Continue reading Arctic Adventures with a Data General Nova II — The Equipment