Collaborate Disseminate
Few processors have found themselves in so many different devices as the venerable Z80. While it isn’t powerful by modern standards, you can still use devices like this Cidco MailStation …read more Continue reading Internet Appliance to Portable Terminal
One of the joys of the UK’s Electromagnetic Field hacker camp lies in the junk table, where trash turns to treasure in the blink of an eye. This year I …read more Continue reading The Amstrad E-m@iler, The Right Product With The Wrong Business Model
This week saw an impressive pair of takedowns pulled off by law enforcement agencies around the world. The first was the 911 S5 botnet, Which the FBI is calling “likely …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Operation Endgame, Appliance Carnage, and Router Genocide
Hackaday readers fit into two broad categories: those who experienced the wild and woolly early days of the Internet, and those who are jealous that they missed it. And it’s …read more Continue reading Web Server Like It’s 1998 with This Restored Internet Appliance
We think of the Internet extending to small devices as a modern trend, but it actually is a good example of how everything makes a circle. Today, we want the …read more Continue reading The Internet Without the Computer: 1990s Style
In 2020 there is nothing novel or exciting about an online device. Even the most capable models are designed to be unobrusive pucks and smart speakers; their function lies in what they do rather than in how they look. In 2005, an Internet connected device was a rare curiosity, a …read more
You’re likely familiar with the old tale about how Steve Jobs was ousted from Apple and started his own company, NeXT. Apple then bought NeXT and their technologies and brought Jobs back as CEO once again. However, Jobs’ path wasn’t unique, and the history of computing since then could’ve gone …read more