Collaborate Disseminate
[Ctrl-Alt-Rees] bought something strange on an auction site: a Japanese Cefucom-21 from 1983. No? Didn’t ring a bell for us either. The legend on the front boldly proclaims: “CCI Multipurpose …read more Continue reading Strange English Teaching Computer Might Have Been Big in Japan
Ah, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. A popular computer in Britain and beyond, but now rather thin on the ground. If you can’t find one, fear not, for now—you can apparently …read more Continue reading Building A ZX Spectrum Using Only New Parts
Today, if you want a computer for a particular task, you go shopping. But in the early days of computing, exotic applications needed custom computers. What’s more is that with …read more Continue reading This Vintage Computing Device is No Baby Food
According to Smithsonian Magazine, a salvage company in London was cleaning out a property and found an odd-looking computer device. No one knew what it was, and they couldn’t find …read more Continue reading One Man’s Trash is… a Rare $60,000 Historical Computer
Here at Hackaday, we love living in a future with miniaturized versions of our favorite retrocomputers. [James Lewis] has given us another with his fully functional Apple IIe from the …read more Continue reading Mini Apple IIe Now Fully Functional
Among Hackaday’s readership are likely to be many gadget enthusiasts who live for the latest electronics and who have obsessively followed gadget trends for most of their lives. You possess …read more Continue reading The Golden Age Of Gadget Catalogs
These days, you have a certain expectation for computer keys on a keyboard. Of course, there are variations and proponents of different mechanisms and noise levels. However, back in the …read more Continue reading Inside the PET Keyboard
There are two ways to recover data from an obsolete storage medium. One way is to pull out all the tools in the hacker’s kit — with logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, …read more Continue reading PCMCIA Flash Card Gives Up Its Secrets Thanks to Retro Gear
Last week, we noted an attempt to fix a hardware problem with software, which backfired pretty dramatically for Ford when they tried to counter the tendency for driveshafts to fall …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: July 16, 2023
If you’ve ever wanted to watch someone bring CP/M up on a new system and you have a couple of hours to spare, check out the recorded live stream of …read more Continue reading CP/M Porting in a Few Hours