Collaborate Disseminate
Until the early 2000s, the computer processors available on the market were essentially all single-core chips. There were some niche layouts that used multiple processors on the same board for …read more Continue reading The ’80s Multi-Processor System That Never Was
Although Moore’s Law has slowed at bit as chip makers reach the physical limits of transistor size, researchers are having to look to other things other than cramming more transistors …read more Continue reading Startup Claims it Can Boost CPU Performance by 2-100X
At some point, the 3.6 V of a single lithium ion battery just won’t do, and you’ll absolutely want to stack LiIon cells in series. When you need high power, …read more Continue reading Ultimate Power: Lithium-Ion Batteries In Series
You might have seen old display panels, from 3″ to 10″, with 40-pin FFC connectors where every pin seems to be used for some data signal. We call these displays …read more Continue reading Displays We Love Hacking: Parallel RGB
Building a modern computer is something plenty of us have done, and with various tools available to ensure that essentially the only thing required of the end user is to …read more Continue reading Crafting Ribbon Cables for Retro Hardware
[Tom Verbeure] recently found himself lamenting the need to take screen grabs from an Advantest R3273 spectrum analyzer with a phone camera, as the older gear requires you to either …read more Continue reading Building a Fake Printer to Grab Screenshots Off the Parallel Port
If you ever think about it, computers are exceedingly stupid. Even the most powerful CPU can’t do very much. However, it can do what it does very rapidly and repeatably. …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: Walk, Chew Gum
The Tandy 1000, among other contemporary computers and consoles of the 1980s, used the Texas Instruments SN76489 for its sound and musical output. This venerable sound chip can now be …read more Continue reading TNDLPT Brings Tandy Sound To Any DOS Computer
At some point, you simply run out of processing power. Admittedly, that point keeps getting further and further away, but you can still get there. If you run out of CPU time, the answer might be to add more CPUs. However, sometimes there are other bottlenecks like memory or disk …read more
Dance and house music exploded in a big way at the end of the 1980s. Typically the product of well-equipped studios with samplers and mixers worth thousands of dollars, it was difficult for the home gamer to get involved. That was, until the advent of the glorious Amiga, as [cTrix] …read more