Collaborate Disseminate
“Don’t fix it if it ain’t broke”. That’s what we guess [Frans Bos] has been thinking for the past few decades, as he kept using his Atari ST to run …read more Continue reading Atari ST Still Manages Campground Reservations After 36 Years
Part of the reason that retrocomputers are still so popular despite their obsolescence is that it’s possible to understand the entire inner workings of a computer like this, from the …read more Continue reading FPGA Retrocomputer: Return To Moncky
If you shop, you can get a pretty nice laptop for around $595. Maybe not the top of the line, but still pretty nice with multiple cores, a large hard …read more Continue reading Love Letter to Commodore 64 Ads Takes Us Down Memory Lane
How long has it been since a computer could boast about the fact that it contained 2,500 transistors? Probably close to half a century now, at a guess. So in …read more Continue reading Thousands of Discrete MOSFETs Make Up This Compact CPU-Less Computer
When we talk about a retrocomputer, it’s our normal practice to start with the hardware. But with [KnivD]’s ELLO 1A while the hardware is interesting enough it’s not the stand-out …read more Continue reading Ello is A Tiny Computer With A C — Interpreter?
For many of us the passing of the floppy disk is unlamented, but there remains a corps of experimenters for whom the classic removable storage format still holds some fascination. …read more Continue reading An Arduino With A Floppy Drive
It might be fair to suspect that most people who are considered digital natives have very little to no clue about what is actually going on inside their smartphones, tablets, and computers. To be fair, it is not easy to understand how modern CPUs work but this was different at …read more
Continue reading 4-bit Retrocomputer Emulator Gets Custom PCB
We see more computers built from logic gates than you might expect. However, most of them are really more demonstration computers and can’t do much of what you’d consider essential today. No so with [Alastair Hewitt’s] Novasaur. Although built using 34 TLL chips (and a few memory and analog chips, …read more
We see a lot of discrete-logic computer builds these days, and we love them all. But after a while, they kind of all blend in with each other. So what’s the discrete logic aficionado to do if they want to stand out from the pack? Perhaps this CPU-less computer with …read more
Continue reading A CPU-Less Computer with a Single NOR-Gate ALU
[Mitsuru Yamada] states that one of the goals for this 6502 computer build was to make it strong enough to survive real-world usage. In that regard alone we’d call this a success; the die-cast aluminum enclosures used a little blast from the past and lend a nice retro industrial look …read more
Continue reading Another Kind of “Bare Metal”: 6502 Computer Powers RPN Calculator