Collaborate Disseminate
Last week, I stumbled on a marvelous book: “Giant Brains; or, Machines That Think” by Edmund Callis Berkeley. What’s really fun about it is the way it sounds like it …read more Continue reading Giant Brains, Or Machines That Think
We may be a bit biased, but the storage media of yesteryear has so much more personality than that of today. Yes, it’s a blessing to have terabyte SD cards …read more Continue reading Homebrew Reader Brings Paper Tape Programs Back to Life
In the course of a career, you may run up against projects that get cancelled, especially those that are interesting, but deemed unprofitable in the eyes of the corporate overlords. …read more Continue reading Shipping Your Illicit Software on Launch Hardware
Right off the bat, we’ll stipulate that what [Adrian] is doing in the video below isn’t actual hot air solder leveling. But we thought the results of his card-edge connector …read more Continue reading Restoring a Vintage CGA Card with Homebrew HASL
The EDUC-8, a DIY minicomputer design that came out in “Electronics Australia” magazine, was almost the world’s first in August 1974. And it would have been tied for the world’s …read more Continue reading The World’s First DIY Minicomputer Was Almost Australian
To say that Tandy’s TRS-80 Model 100 was an influential piece of computer hardware would be something of an understatement. While there’s some debate over which computer can historically be …read more Continue reading Baldur’s Gate III Comes to the TRS-80 Model 100
Developer [frntc] has recently come up with a smaller and less expensive way to not only replace the SID chip in your Commodore 64 but to also make it a …read more Continue reading A C64 SID Replacement With Built-in Games
Intel has had a deathgrip on the PC world since the standardization around the software and hardware available on IBM boxes in the 90s. And if you think you’re free …read more Continue reading Making Intel Mad, Retrocomputing Edition
[sdz] of Vogons forum brings us an unexpected device for the 21st century – a 3dfx Voodoo 4 card in MXM format, equipped with 64MB of RAM. This isn’t just …read more Continue reading An MXM Take On The 3dfx Voodoo
We’ve read a number of histories of the IBM PC and lived through that time, too. But we enjoyed [Gareth Edwards’] perspective in a post entitled The Misfit who Built …read more Continue reading The IBM PC: Brainchild of a Misfit