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Open source recreation costs a fraction of the original and may even work with Twiggy drives
The Virtual OS Museum is a huge retro-computing archive with more than 1,700 ready-to-run installations, covering everything from 1948’s Manchester Baby to classic Mac OS, early Wi...
The HP 16c Collector's Edition [HP via Adafruit] revives a mundane but well-loved tool. In 1982, the original 16c was designed specifically for programmers and engineers; after thr...
The original Apple II and II Plus computers were built with all off-the-shelf components. It wasn’t until the later models like the IIe that Apple was getting custom chips made whi...
ESP32 chips have been used for retro gaming and computing for years, but Austin McChord (Amcchord) adds to that with a Macintosh emulator ported to a couple of ESP32-P4 display dev...
Japi Base — Jan’s Pico Projects Base is a well-documented, hackable retro computer built on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (RP2350). Japi Base provides all the basic I/O of a small computer...
My first computer was a ZX Spectrum, with all of 48 kilobytes of RAM, and as long as it lasted I obsessively typed in BASIC programs to see what I could get it to do. It was powerf...
Who needs fancy menus and high definition? 240-MP will play your media files like it's 1999
COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2026の会場で、Thermaltakeはレトロ感のあるPCケース「Retro」シリーズを展示。
The history of computing at your fingertips.
В июле 2006 года сотрудники Музея истории компьютеров в Калифорнии получили необычное сообщение из Германии. Автор письма утверждал, что в одном из складских зданий города Кастроп-...
Сегодня процессор легко воспринимать как чёрный ящик: дал команду — получил результат. Но у компьютеров до эпохи микропроцессоров эта логика была буквально разложена по платам, мик...
ATAboy is designed for retro computing enthusiasts, data recovery experts, and archivists. Read and write the oldest of IDE hard drives, without the need for an “in-between” vintag...
Are Amiga 500s really harder to upgrade than the Amiga 600? A real-world look at ACA500plus, PiStorm, CF storage, RAM upgrades and modern Amiga setups in 2026.
Andrew Warkentin has spent over twenty years collecting old operating systems and getting them to run. The result is the Virtual OS Museum, a launcher and Linux VM that boots 570-o...
There really was a time when Microsoft cared about every KB
A massive compilation of historic OSes and the emulators to run them
Apple sharply raising the prices of laptops and other gear brought home that the
26 years late and no threat unless you still run a PDP-11/70 and rely on short-wave timekeeping broadcasts
Old plastic gadgets were chunky, strange, and sometimes ugly, but they had a tactile clarity modern tech keeps sanding away.
The dumbphone revival has been gathering momentum in recent years, and the newly revived Commodore brand wants in. The computing icon, best known for the machines that defined a ge...
A closer look at two Commodore classics from a recent haul, including a faulty Amiga 500 Plus and a Commodore 64 that turned out to have a few surprises left.
Video games have been around for quite a while, and it's always a good time remembering the roots of it all. Mostly because, for most of us, the golden era of gaming is behind us....
Ivan Svarkovsky’s S3-MSX-PC open-source project implements a bare-metal MSX2+ emulator running on an ESP32-S3 microcontroller and outputting 64-color VGA via a simple R-2R resistor...
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